Yep, got one arriving today

Makes me want a Graphene OS phone more than ever. Fuck Google

Also, no It’s not about the security vulnerability, devs already said they can work around this issue. It’s more because Google doesn’t deserve anyone’s data, much less mine.

Doesn’t matter (to me at least), fuck a $1500 phpne

Of course it’s a scam. But its also a money grab and a power grab. Google is completely gone from “do no evil” to “heil Trump”

What’s worse, is that I do self hosting and almost all self host apps are open source on the android side, so now I may loose several of those apps if they don’t want to sign or are banned by Google.

Looks like they want more control and to give more datapoints to feds… Time for Linux on my smartphone

I mean, you’ll be able to upgrade the usb port later, but I get your issue.

My $350 G-Shock Rangeman is better as a smart watch as my battery lasts a month of heavy use. If I want to dress up, I wear my $25 Casio F-91W silver band always gets the complements for being a nice and classic watch.

So, hear me out, but what if we all go back to feature phones? Smart phones are convenient, but do the pro’s weigh more than the cons at this point? I am also including mental health into this btw.

I remember a couple of months ago it was reported here that Google was making Android closed-source and I commented that this will be the end of custom rom’s and this was received by the community poorly as many stated that they would still be releasing the code but not their AOSP apps (or something like that) but I already see the writing on the wall. Google doesn’t want to be open-source, they where in the past because that gave them free coders to fix their shit and make them more profitable, but now they just want our data and the open-source community is against that, so they are closing doors to the community in order to be able to truly make money with people’s information. Wouldn’t surprise me if the next Pixel in the works is going with a similar approach as the iPhone and only allow for an eSim as well.

Does it even matter at this point? Any phone that costs more than $1000 is too much regardless.

Haven’t read the article, but unlockable bootloaders are on the rise.

Not sure what is going on with your setup, but Signal should work with any internet connection.

Well, with RCS everyone already has a baked in app that supports the protocol, but still doesn’t do anything better other the alternatives (I mean other apps, not sms).

I’m slowly moving all my friends and family over to Signal

No

I would recommend a Samsung S24, its pretty well built and closest to an iphone as far ecosystems are concerned. There are better android phones, out there but I would start slow if shes never had android before.

Doesn’t seem to work on the samsung keyboard. Any keyboard alternatives?

You skipped the step where you need to first aquire a pixel phone

Buzzkill is your friend if you want to solve this today

They are broken because Google broke them by changing the api and not giving devs access to it

Fuck subscriptions

1. It’s not open source.
2. I don’t think they would openly say that

Mostly to put data trackers and harvest your data to sell it, and it wasn’t an advertising company, it was an analytics company called Branch

You can help, that’s how open source works

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher

Yeah, no thanks.

That reminds me, is there a way to completely remove Google assistant and Gemini from a samsung phone?

Samsung implemented auto blocker a few updates ago, but now has enabled it by default on all their phones, and you need to know where to look to dissable it.

So any other app store that isn’t the samsung app store and Google play store wouldn’t work with this enabled, which is why they are in this lawsuit as well.

Epic filed a second lawsuit against Google (and Samsung) one week ago, arguing the companies were already attempting to sidestep this upcoming injunction by adding additional friction for third-party app stores. Since that case is now officially related to this one, Judge Donato will be hearing it as well.

Tri Force

Hate meta, but I’d still prefer WhatsApp over sms any day

Downloading it now! Thanks random internet stranger

On the same boat. People flat out refuse to use signal and just keep using sms… 🤬

Interesting, I’ll try looking into this but in case someone has a script they can share and save me some Lemmy hours, that would be sweet

What I wish I had is a way to silence multiple notifications when someone is texting you a bunch of times in a very short time (aka "blowing up my phone). One notification is enough – maybe two max, and I’ll check it when I get a chance.

They might… when they setup a way to harvest more data from us in the process

Meh, I prefer my current AI assistant, my fingers typing on duckduckgo

Well, that will make it easy to uninstall apps.

All my homies download from fdroid

Check this script out…

https://taskernet.com/shares/?user=AS35m8m4TdMnacHZuBjVzNsgOWmfX6bfOBtFlsWyFrBcGgt%2BogpxvfIDlWRixrC5mr%2BVK2ZF5yPdmrv85VI%3D&id=Profile%3AFix+Accord+AA#

It’s doing a bunch more than just enabling AA, but you might extract that part of the logic for your outcome.

One thing to try is to disable AA all together and enable it using tasker and an nfc tag.

The thing is if you degoogled for privacy, then I would say stop paying with any and all card as these are heavily tracked by anybody and everybody. Instead, opt for paying cash

What phone do you have? The S23 Untra has that built in.

Yeah, got asked this yesterday, promptly said “Fuck no!”