306 sats \ 3 replies \ @purpurato 19 Jun 2023 \ on: Why I Hate Apple tech
You may not be tech savvy but you surely developed other very useful skills in your trade: in particular spotting BS.
I remember in my old Samsung phone I had a bunch of apps I couldn't uninstall and there were many processes and data sharing on the background that I never allowed and couldn't even stop, I always felt the machine didn't really belong to me, it was given to me on lease and Google was the real owner. I understand your dislike for Apple.
The switch to graphene was my latest, a few years back I changed to Linux and that was around the same time I got into bitcoin. Now I feel all those things are related, it's about freedom of choice and being able to decide based on one's own best interest.
I've never understood why Samsung builds of android are so popular. They have all the lock-down of Apple but with much shittier apps. Stock Android may be increasingly losing it's openness, but at least the apps work.
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I think they are popular because the hardware is (or was) good and it is (or was) easy to install LineageOS on it. I think I never used an Android device without changing the OS from day one, and Samsung was great in terms of quality and battery life and made it easy to root and change the OS.
Once I bought a cheap Xiaomi phone of seemingly good quality. I had to wait 2-3 weeks before installing LineageOS on it, worst experience ever (plus I had to use Windows for that). The RAM was good, battery life also, but the screen on Samsung devices are like on Apple devices, whereas screens of Xiaomi were bad.
I have read Sony also makes it easy to install OSes on their phones, plus they have a headphone jack.
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Exactly. I guess many of us are on the same path. You are just a few years ahead!
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