you guys have thoughts?

it also proxies the video and blocks trackers iirc, giving you some form of anonymity from Google

Aren’t most of the data the NSA collects from third parties like Google and Apple who already sell that data? can’t anybody theoretically buy that data if its being sold? much like the mobile US carrier’s were doing

what’s so “new” about this concern? I’d probably be able to afford a house if I had a dollar for every article I saw on Tesla’s wrecking or nearly wrecking because of FSD.

problem is most people do. anybody remember watch dogs?

brother I’m American and I didn’t even know you could buy waffle maker machines until a few months ago, I thought they were all frozen

greg just fucking cooked

wtf I thought this was the onion, I had to read where this came from like three times.

wtf…

I’ve been on fedora for quite awhile, what makes tumbleweed better or unique? might try it sometime

bruh

as a linux user I am embarrassed they didn’t know

without software, what is hardware? same vice versa, you need good software and hardware to match for a good user experience.

stock android’s software is extremely shit, bloated, and slow. but I guess that goes for every out of the box os these days ¯_(ツ)_/¯

wdym condescension? sorry if I’m being rude that isn’t my intention

while I agree, signal is also on Linux and is a more polished alternative

nothing lesser about grapheneos or lineageos at all.

iirc there are problems with trying to use some mainstream apps on these operating systems. When I say lesser I don’t mean to demean them, I mean they’re the lesser used and not really known about alternative and thus not really supported unless you can live your life in f-droid which if so, kudos to you, you’re livin’ the dream.

but im all ears if you have a usable alternative for a foss phone.

https://postmarketos.org/

like I said I wish I lived where you lived

yeah, again, just like Chromium technically speaking.

Let’s use the lesser, Foss version of Google’s product so they can continue to have a monopoly, so then later they can force you to install a proprietary blob or account apps or services need.

Fanboys are not the same as people flaunting wealth.

while they are not the same, a lot of people who use either Apple or Samsung are both, and will constantly fight against right to repair when they don’t know what they’re even talking about, for very stupid reasons, and constantly fight against open standards that are just better, like using type-c for their products, etc etc. these people buy iPhones for the image of wealth, I agree, but these same people also argue about its apps and ecosystem’s and argue that rich, trillion dollar companies are fine and pose no threat, because it is completely fine to be a monopoly and choke hold the industry. they defend their status symbol in every opportunity they get, and often times I’ve seen them make it personal, probably because its personal for them.

sometimes I see these same people who buy Apple as a show of “wealth,” get into those political arguments when they just have no idea what they’re talking about, because for some reason they want to defend the status symbol Apple or Samsing is even if it kills people and the planet.

That’s just my observation over the years.

Foss ftw baby

its most definitely the lesser, but there are still many people who would suck off Samsung and Google if they had the opportunity to.

trust me I’ve met them