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!”

Tbh I have an ipod classic and I don’t use it as much as I would like even having a good set of cans because the wire becomes annoying to me after short time so I’m actually going to mod it to add Bluetooth

I wonder why?

Looks at price tag…

Yep, that’s why

Correct, however rooting and installing lineageos for…? It will probably not let you play Nintendo games from their cloud. Might be cool as a emulator gamepad, but there’s plenty of great options out there for less now.

Let’s see why that might be…

• not waterproof (or resistant in any way to water)
• ugly crease in miffle of screen.
• uber sensitive “glass”
• fragile mechanical hinge
• stupidly expensive price tag
• inferior cameras when compared to slabs

And the render bug. I offten have to force close and reopen ff to view anything on it

Not sure if Im already getting too old, or just sick of a bunch of shit, but I just wish we had more phones with budget spects, budget price, sustainable and private.

Expensive phones just don’t attract me like the used to.

Yep, then a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard

Wierd, this is what I see

It’s not a launcher tho