Lemmyng

“Plz oh plz, don’t attack our tuff and mighty tech corporations! Plz don’t attack dem I might get a boner and dat would be vewwy bad! Oh plz don’t attack dem, Mr. Scawwy Iran, I might cum! I might cum so fucking hard!”

I agree with you 100%. Ever since Google made the switch to their crapware Tensor modem, the Pixels have been going downhill starting with the Pixel 5, I guess with the exception of the Pixel 8 series, which I’m rocking right now.

Heck, I’d argue that Pixels in general are better cameras than they are phones. My beloved Pixel 4 XL succumbed to that swollen battery issue, and my Pixel 6 Pro couldn’t keep a consistent cell connection if my life depended on it (and I think in one case it very well could have).

The day GrapheneOS reveals the Motorola phone from its partnership is the day I will jump ship from Google Pixel, camera quality be damned. Y’know, provided Motorola uses a Qualcomm chip and not Tensor or gasp Exynos!

Something something GrapheneOS, LineageOS, SailfishOS, Jolla Phone, Pinephone Pro.

As if their consoderation of adopting AI into their dev stack wasn’t enough.

Anyone have any recommendations for distros like Fedora that don’t have systemd and won’t consider using AI, but do support KDE?

I bought a $20 Onn 4k TV box from Walmart, degoogled it, replaced the stock launcher with FLauncher and eventually LTVLauncher. So I guess DeGoogled Google TV (AndroidTV OS).

Can somebody say PROPOGANDA?!

I’d use Android Auto + Sandboxed Google Play more if Android Auto allowed NewPipe, OsmAnd and other FOSS apps to be added to the dashboard.

B-bu-buh-buht muh cloud computing, and S3 buckets, and no need for physical, and non-ownership!

This is exactly why I started moving my shit off Proton Drive and into my external hard drive. Yes, the Proton Suite is private and secure, but I want to own my shit.

Also why I’m moving my shit off Bitwarden and onto KeepPass.

Backups are key, Lemmyngs!

Also likely: they just took the investment money and ran, the fucking robber barrons they are.

You da freaking GOAT! Thank you for introducing me to this!

You’d be better off buying a non-smart Samsung commercial TV from eBay and getting a $20 Onn 4K TV Box from Walmart. The latter can be Degoogled and sideloaded with Stremio, Cloudstream, or your streaming app of choice to make it the ultimate privacy-respecting media center.

Doesn’t have to be a hardware backdoor. Router manufacturers can easily push software updates that contain said “backdoor” for the low, low price of licking Trump’s backdoor.

Oohh, Bazzite?

It’s already on BlueSky. As soon as that techsis CEO bitch let fascists onto the platform, and even before that with throwing trans people under the bus, PooSky was already enshittified.

Ding ding ding! Don’t even need to enable Play Services in most cases.

Hi, yes, it’s me, I’m one of those bunch of folks who would willingly switch off Google’s Tensor crap modem to ideally a Motorola phone with a Qualcomm modem that can run Graphene.

What makes you say Degoogled Android might go extinct? Projects like LineageOS and GrapheneOS are still going strong. /e/OS, murenaOS, VollaOS and other similar phones have been coming out of the woodwork recently. I think DeGoogled Android is just getting started.

That is, unless, you mean Google is working hard to close down AOSP so the downstream DeGoogled projects don’t function anymore? Then yeah, I sadly have to agree.

Windows should be taken outside and shot.

Ftftfy

https://itsfoss.com/systemd-free-distros/

I think this is more like allowing for Switch 1 Docked mode experience in Handheld mode as opposed to applying the native upgrades from the Switch 2.