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Anon degoogles his Samsung (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I hate phones so much.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I love phones, just hate the companies running it.

Same with most tech, the tech isn't evil, its just how its being used, and who's steering its future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Thanks to the companies you cannot love the phones without accepting the company's every whim. So I don't love phones.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly I wish we just had dumb phones and went back to Palm Pilots. But there's so much stuff that makes a phone mandatory nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Nobody, nothing stopping you from buying a dumb phone and a dumb tablet. You can do it right now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The current state of phones is WILD. Two bad options yet most everyone (including me) still use them. I actually like to use it as evidence that most people would be fine if plopped in front of Ubuntu or Debian+Gnome/KDE

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's why my current phone is a Pixel running GrapheneOS. I still hate Android, but at least I don't have to run Play services on my main profile. I do run it on a separate profile though for a couple services that need it.

I really just want Linux with decent support for phone features (MMS/calls/data on any carrier, with full wake from sleep reliability), decent battery life, and decent audio quality. Unfortunately, PinePhone doesn't seem to handle those things properly (maybe it does MMS now?), so I stick w/ my GrapheneOS phone, which at least cuts out most of the crap from Android.