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I'm just waiting for the moment Valve also decides to enter the mobile market :)
Google is paving the ground for Linuxphones.
It's so blatantly obvious how evil they've become that it makes striving for alternatives a necessity.
I have been looking at getting a flip phone and ditching this "Smart phone" bullshit altogether, I still might. I'm sick of this rug pull bullshit and no one can convince me they aren't just going to try again.
My daughter switched to a Nokia flip phone and has been enjoying it. So even some gen z are over the bullshit.
We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer.
Translation: if they want scamware, it better be from Google Play, where Google gets a 30% cut. On top of the cut they got for the phishing link in Google Ads.
And if anything thinks I'm being hyperbolic, go on Google Play and search for pretty much anything. Or turn off your adblocker.
Helped a disabled pensioner recently with her phone that kept plaging loud obnoxious ads at her even while locked.
She had 4 different "virus scanners" that were all fake adware.
I have an app on F-Droid. Nothing special, basically something I wrote for myself. I was thinking about putting it on Play Store so I can share it with friends that don't use F-Droid but with those new requirement I'm 100% not doing that. Fuck Google.
I don't believe it. We need actual options Vs Android.
I'm still slowly moving towards a Linux phone. That I can install whatever on, of course.
Maybe even eInk screen. Just that currently there's nothing with eSIM as well.
Two steps forward, one step back
...is the easiest way to get a controversial change through.
Decide what you want to do, suggest something way more absurd, the go "oh we listened and we are only going to do [the original thing we wanted to in the first place]"
OP is either deluded or in bad faith.
This WILL go through, just slightly later to try to make less noise.
Linux phones are the only choice left.
are they actually being rid of the "give us your id and pay to be certified to install" nonsense
Yea no, just don't change things. Things are good as they are without them trying to encroach further on our ownership of our devices.
Good news! But it doesn't change the fact that Google tried to do this in the first place.
Eh, I'm probably gonna ditch that smartphone thing anyways, at least for a while. Android becoming a closed-off garden was the last straw and I was kinda looking forward trying to go without a phone to test if I can adapt. I started leaving the house without my phone more and more and I kinda like it.
Sure, it's fun and convenient to have the Internet in my pocket. Heck, it's even required in some cases, but this digital mess we are currently in is too much for me. I remember how I was looking forward having one back then; I was really looking forward having acces to the Interney wherever I was, but nowadays I kinda miss being less conected from all the bullshit especially when outside.
I guess I could get a linuxphone one day if I miss having a phone (if I somehow manage to completely remove the smartphone from my life in the first place).
