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Enshitification

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This post makes me want to check out graphene OS when I get my new phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're gonna love it. I switched about 6 months ago, and it has been nothing but fantastic for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorta feels like stepping back in time like 15 years with a phone that doesnt track you all day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Feels so powerful to straight up deny all network connectivity to any app, at any time. 👨‍🍳🤌

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (31 children)

Install WhatsApp

That's when you lost me. Either teach your boomer relatives to use Signal, Matrix, or, at the very least, Telegram. Otherwise, let them reach to you via Facebook which you open only in web browser in containerized tab.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Otherwise, let them reach to you via Facebook which you open only in web browser in containerized tab.

I just hire a rando guy from a different country to become me on Facebook. Then I have them email screenshots to a different email. A separate person gets those emails and prints them out. They mail it to a PO box, which gets picked up by a whole different person. The handoff happens at 615pm at the subway on Broadway Ave.

I open the handoff. It's pictures of my niece celebrating her 6th birthday. I give the guy a thumbs up. He takes that thumbs up, translates it back to paper and reverses the whole process.

It takes 6 weeks for me to respond. But that's the price of security.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

If your friends and family are willing to use those apps over WhatsApp than they love you in a way I don't really believe is possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I think you understimate boomer relatives intelligence =) Some simply can't be taught.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Alright fine, you've convinced me. I'll give LineageOS a try.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Literally me with Calyx OS

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