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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
There's so much bullshit with smartphones now that make them a pain to use, I'm honestly considering at this point to just get a flipphone and buy separate devices for the things it can do. Get a camera, MP3 player, and portable DVD player and live life the way people did 20 years ago.
Oh, I totally agree, dude! I was thinking the same idea for a while too
Camera problem – You have the best camera on your device, but sometimes people don't even set the best settings lol. Plus, you've taken tons of photos with your phone camera that you never look at, so what's the point? A small camera is a great idea or polaroid.
Mp3 - I don't have use Spotify or some streaming music platfrom. Because I listen to specific random songs that's not alwasys available on Spotify etc. So I just download my songs with yt-dlp on mp3 files!
Portable DVD player - I personally just download my videos (youtubers or movies) and then watch on my phone.
I've started to get more selective of my photos and even began printing them, sometimes gifting to friends. Now I actually end up looking at them more often.
Oh hey that's cool! Do you print them like in those machine in shops or at home?
I do it via online shops that let me get them from a nearby physical store - it's pretty neat that I can even select the paper size.
I tried printing once on photo paper on my mom's printer, but colors were very off, despite configuring everything for maximum quality.
holy crap this is so true. i miss twrp
This is cruel, now I feel like some kind of criminal. Who knew that the most dangerous criminal is an ordinary consumer who wants freedom...
Holy crap that dude aged like milk in 3 years time
There are phosh based phones and over time more people will hopefully switch to them, use them, and work on making them better. Phosh-based phones are currently are not as usable as something like GOS, but with Google challenging itself to become more and more enshitified in the interest in marginal tiny profit gains (even if it destroys their brand over the long term) nerds needs to band together prepare for an alternative. Part of this is going to be advocating for Apps that work in Linux mobile Phosh environments and just refusing to use containerized apks and part of it is going to be people doing what they can to support native linux phone apps that work well in Phosh.
For those wondering what happened, the Android Open Source Project (ASOP) launched in 2007, but started decoupling major parts of the project from the main in 2012 instead forcing them to update through Google Play store and over time restricting access to the codebase before just this year deciding to shut down the ASOP.
In their defence, they've also made lots of changes to make android compatible with more devices and to make third party stores work better, but they've just as often made changes that intentionally harmed development of alternative android-based OS.
To add to this, the only redeeming quality of Android is that the Google Play Store developer account currently only costs a $25 one time fee, meanwhile the Apple App Store costs $99 per year. Google also seems a bit more permissive with its apps. You can still use an adblocker extension when you download firefox, even torrent clients are there. Apple doesn't really allow alternative browsers, every browser is just Safari reskinned, no extensions, absolutely zero usable torrent clients whatsoever. And, there aren't really any Tor browsers on iOS (probably because of the same reason why iOS browsers have no extensions), those that do exist seem very badly built, not officially made by the Tor Project, and some even require you to pay for it (which make sense given the $99 yearly fee).
But you know, its capitalism and the current pricing could soon change... 👀
(Edited phrasing for claification)
Capitalism is never going away unless people build a system to redistribute wealth and so far they're doing the opposite lately.
I mean that the pricing of the dev account could soon change because of the fact that we live under a capitalist society, not saying that capitalism is itself is going away.
While you're not wrong there for the best part: Safari does allow extensions, and has done for a few years now. Functionally, I've not noticed much of a difference between Safari and IronFox on my GOS phone.
Wait what ? Side loading blocked
Well it was a good run, time to look into custom roms…
Bootloader is blocked so no custom roms. You will take whatever shit they are slinging and like it.
Wait, really??
Bruh, wtf are we gonna next year once it's fully locked down? 😡
Where is the st. iGNUcius of phones ?
so will linux foundation drop android using linux kernel?