I still have my Nexus 7 and use it daily as an eReader.

There are phosh based phones and over time more people will hopefully switch to them, use them, and work on making them better. Phosh-based phones are currently are not as usable as something like GOS, but with Google challenging itself to become more and more enshitified in the interest in marginal tiny profit gains (even if it destroys their brand over the long term) nerds needs to band together prepare for an alternative. Part of this is going to be advocating for Apps that work in Linux mobile Phosh environments and just refusing to use containerized apks and part of it is going to be people doing what they can to support native linux phone apps that work well in Phosh.

Bruh, wtf are we gonna next year once it's fully locked down?

That's also why they tend to have cellular modems that have poor support for US frequencies.

Where is the st. iGNUcius of phones ?

Oh, lol, sorry. My bad.

While you're not wrong there for the best part: Safari does allow extensions, and has done for a few years now. Functionally, I've not noticed much of a difference between Safari and IronFox on my GOS phone.

Yeah, GOS updates itself. I quite often wake up to a notification asking me to restart my phone.

Oof, now that is some stinging truth right there.

At least I had my moment to dream about it yesterday.

When did you last see a queue for a new phone?

Oh, I totally agree, dude! I was thinking the same idea for a while too

• Camera problem – You have the best camera on your device, but sometimes people don't even set the best settings lol. Plus, you've taken tons of photos with your phone camera that you never look at, so what's the point? A small camera is a great idea or polaroid.

• Mp3 - I don't have use Spotify or some streaming music platfrom. Because I listen to specific random songs that's not alwasys available on Spotify etc. So I just download my songs with yt-dlp on mp3 files!

• Portable DVD player - I personally just download my videos (youtubers or movies) and then watch on my phone.

Wait, really??

Reads really nice! Sadly iam not rooted anymore. I got too annoyed about the update procedure of a rooted phone in the last years.

holy crap this is so true. i miss twrp

Holy crap that dude aged like milk in 3 years time

It works exactly that way. The reason other manufacturers follow suit when Apple does something stupid or anti-consumer is because people buy Apple regardless. When Samsung, as a corporation, see that their main competitor has cut costs by taking out features, and it's still leading the market, there is absolutely no reason for them to not eventually do the same.

Everyone who's replied to me so far conveniently talks about what they can do today while ignoring that my comment is about how we got here over the past two decades. Yes, it's true that people don't really queue for phones anymore, and it's true that we don't have other options now. But when we did have the options, people still preferred eating up the crap one with gusto, and usually for very shallow reasons. If you're one of the few who didn't, then you have no reason to feel called out by my comment.

Regulation like in the EU still requires people to vote politically for representatives that take these things into consideration, which again, clearly isn't something that happens in the US. No "bigger power" is going to simply come out of nowhere to protect the consumers' interests if the consumers themselves don't give a shit about their own rights in the first place.

I understand that it's a sad and tough reality to accept, but no amount of screaming at corpos on Lemmy or Reddit is going to undo the damage. And installing GrapheneOS on a Pixel is not the moral flex people here think it is.

Nice! I haven't used ROMs in a looong time so that tracks. Last time was CyanogenMod