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    6 days ago

    Kinda depressing that all of big-tech seems to have given up “innovating” (finding applications for publicly-funded research), and have become rent-seeking dinosaurs.

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    7 days ago

    This article is a thinly veiled ad paired with fearmongering to get gullible users to buy the shit phones they sell (or not, some people have been on “waitlists” for 5+ years after providing a full payment).

    Granted, their phones are fully open, but have next to no apps.

    Personally I’ll stick with Android 12, rooted, and see what the future brings.

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      That would mean less money, at least in the short term, but also in the long term as it grants the user the autonomy of optionality, the power to choose some of Google’s edicts. Really it’s about the power to shape the choices of the users in the future. Take their power away. And in the future this will be conducive to leverage this power against the user for more money.

      I asked the AI about it, in case anyone is curious https://chatgpt.com/share/68454a70-5cd8-8005-8075-3579244f0ce4

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    6 days ago

    Not bothered if necessary Il patch every apk before installing it, one more stupid American move that will ultimately give the entire market to the Chinese.

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    7 days ago

    The restrictions on apk access over the past 10 years have already been an annoying pita. Many of the best power user apks have had to gut themselves over their original functionality, all while obtaining root access over your owned devices has become harder or next to impossible.

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      7 days ago

      Let them keep those. I hereby declare that if I don’t own the thing, I ain’t buying it. So no root, no $$$.

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        7 days ago

        Yeah, but I still really like my micro SD card slot and pen on my note 20 ultra. Dunno what I’ll do when I have to replace it.

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          7 days ago

          The pen is the only reason I have stuck with Samsung. If they made a Pixel with a smart pen that I could put GrapheneOS on I’d buy it in a second.

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            7 days ago

            Yeah. Id pick up a redmi 10+ pro if it had a pen and sacrifice away the SD card slot. Id at least have a huge battery and awesome cooling.

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                6 days ago

                I meant redmagic 10 pro plus. My bad.

                As for the samsungs:

                Because it’s priced higher than it should be, it has a slightly lower performance chip, a much lower capacity battery, and older battery tech that will degrade faster and charges slower. The best redmagic out specs the samsungs in every way but picture quality and does it for $500 less.

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                  Sure, but the Redmagic doesn’t have things the Samsung does - one of which seems to be a dealbreaker for you, the built in stylus.

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      7 days ago

      Maybe you should curb your enthusiasm a bit. have you seen what it take to unlock the bootloader from most manufacturers? you might even need your grandma’s birth certificate before you’re allowed to do so in the future

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        7 days ago

        Certainly depends on where you live.

        Unlocking a Samsung phone is trivial here.

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        6 days ago

        Depends on the manufacturer. Ideally, they’re forced to allow choice, but until that happens, we can at least prefer phones that don’t lock you in.

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        I am aware, but what choices do we have? I for one stopped using banking apps in my Android phone, not a big deal, we didn’t have banking apps there pre 2007 right?

        I know not everyone can do it, but we can fight back in our own ways.

        And voting with your wallet should be an obvious statement at this point.

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    There is exactly one app I use that is available only on play store - my bank.

    I don’t really need the app.

    They have a website.

    I have a few phones, just got one that now has grapheneOS.

    I’ve been using it for a few weeks to see how it works before I switch over anything to use it as my main. it has a lot of very interesting privacy/security features to test out.

    Either way, I don’t get anything from the play store anymore.

    It’s F(L)OSS or a website.

    As god intended.

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    Are they talking about the changes that were made that allow a dev to prevent their app from launching if it fails a Play integrity check?

    If so I don’t see that as a big deal since it is up to the dev to use it. OSS devs that want to distribute their app via apk download won’t enable it, and anyone distributing cracked apks will just disable that along with whatever other changes they are making.

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      Some apps only require ‘basic’ play integrity verification, but now check to see if they’re installed via the Play Store. They refuse to run if they’re installed via an alternative source.

      This has been a problem for GrapheneOS, since some apps filter themselves out of the Play Store search if you don’t pass strong play integrity, despite the fact that they don’t require it. Luckily Graphene now had a bypass for this.

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    7 days ago

    Eh, if you are still on a Gservices Version of Android you are lost anyway

    So I just urge y’all to step back and watch at this clownshow.