I hope that the new OEM includes a phone that people can actually afford.
Seefra 1
As always, I got the username wrong…
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Nice, now the techbros can finally achieve their lifelong dream of paving all the forests and selling tickets for the tree museums.
After that they can plant trees on Mars.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Google Photos app uploaded all my locally saved pictures completely against my will91·7 days agoa Fairphone 5 with Android installed. So obviously, this means I can’t escape Googles clutches
If you have a Fairphone then you can escape Google, Fairphones are one of the few phones that support third party ROMs. If they weren’t so expensive I would buy one myself.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forwardEnglish23·9 days agoBecause not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.
Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don’t wanna risk it.
It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it’s going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.
With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.
For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn’t get any attention besides the average “my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer”. Tech companies know this so they exploit the user’s ignorance.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026English2·10 days agoUnfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.
I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026English4·10 days agoI did my research before buying my current phone, but turned out all phones that could run lineage OS were too expensive, not a single affordable phone was supported. (With the exception of really super old discontinued models that are too slow to even open a webpage and battery past it’s useful life)
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026English2·10 days agoTried, but at least in Europe the only cheap pixels I could find were old unsupported ones where the batteries where probably either dead or dying.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next yearEnglish3·10 days agoFor real, when this thing rolls out, I’m going to stop updating and try to still use my foss apps for as long as they still work, once my phone eventually becomes useless I’m not going to spend 400 on an expensive phone just so I can run custom roms. I will have to just get used to not having a computer in my pocket all the time again.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026English51·10 days agoWhat? Graphene OS only runs on Google Pixel devices.
Even ROMs with wider hardware support like Lineage OS only run on expensive devices too (Or very old discontinued ones that you can’t find anywhere and have no firmware or kernel updates).
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026English62·10 days agoYou know that not everyone can shell out 400 Euros on a phone, right?
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%English357·15 days agoThis energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth.
And how do you suppose to do that?
Beam the power from space like they do in Mirai Shounen Conan? Or space shuttles with batteries? Or a giant cable that somehow doesn’t break?
It’s not possible.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users VisitEnglish25·17 days agoSure THIS will protect the children!
/s
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to StarlinkEnglish3·17 days agoI’m not defending satellites, I’m saying fiber is much superior at all the things I mentioned above.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn LoopholeEnglish1·17 days agoOfc they can, but they don’t need to, they just seize the server and jail the operator.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn LoopholeEnglish491·17 days agoUntil the go government starts blocking entry nodes, then there will be a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.
Also, this doesn’t affect only people under 18, any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to StarlinkEnglish5·17 days agoUnreliable, high latency, slow bandwidth and data caps?
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to StarlinkEnglish5·17 days agoDon’t worry, the way things are going the star link satellites are going to shoot themselves. Unfortunately together with everything else in the low orbit.
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to StalkersEnglish8·18 days agoBest way to detect that?
For airtags there’s airguard and similar apps, but more advanced locators? Maybe a SDR to analyse traffic?
Seefra 1@lemmy.zipto World News@lemmy.world•Trump and Putin share a car after they arrive in Alaska for talks on the Ukraine warEnglish5·20 days agoKnowing how paranoid Putin is, I’m almost sure this is a body double
“Mice do not have a special appetite for cheese, and will eat it only for lack of better options; they actually favor sweet, sugary foods. The myth may have come from the fact that before the advent of refrigeration, cheese was usually stored outside and was therefore an easy food for mice to reach.”
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