• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Guys, work on improving Linux phone instead. Google is taking Android away from you and it just isn’t worth arguing with them about it. Let them hang themselves. Build a better alternative.

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      23 days ago

      Platform is not the issue, apps are. Even on a Linux phone you will have to run android apps and you will have to install them from somewhere. And for most apps Play Store is the only place where apps are uploaded.

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          23 days ago

          Ok, you go and tell all the companies to stop using apps.

          My car charger? Controlled with an app.

          Location of car chargers? In an app.

          My bike GPS? Controlled with an app.

          My gym entry? An app.

          Climbing wall? An app.

          You tell all those companies to stop using apps and add control panels to everything, go back to paper maps and RFID entry cards. I’m sure they will do it if you explain to them that there are dozens of users that don’t want to register with Google. Dozens!

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            23 days ago

            it sounds like you chose to patronize places that force you to use an app – there are alternatives that don’t require apps.

            they’re sometimes inconvenient AF, but convenience is literally the reason why we’re brining climate change down upon us and how the epstein class has so much control over us.

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              23 days ago

              I guess you’re right. I will buy a gasoline car so I don’t have to use apps to charge it and I will drive to a gym in a different town couple times a week so I don’t have to use an app to enter it. This will sure help climate change.

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                23 days ago

                Are you suggesting there are no charging stations out there that can be used without an app? I have been driving electric for 13 years and know you are absolutely full of shit. Sit down.

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                  23 days ago

                  Have you been driving electric in Spain? Or do you think EV infrastructure is the same in the whole world? Ignorant clown.

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      24 days ago

      You wish it’d be that easy. Building a phone isn’t the difficult part; building an ecosystem around is a huge task.

      Where I live, you are almost forced to own either an Android or an iPhone, otherwise it’s tough luck getting banking, secure net identification, way to interact with the government agencies, bus or train tickets, etc.

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        24 days ago

        That’s not a tech problem, that’s a regulation problem. If I am required to have something to use a service, private or public provided, that service needs to provide what I need to use it. I’m not buying my bank an interface to me. I’m not buying my employer a way to log in. I’m not paying for someone else’s problems.