yeah, maybe, it will just keep staying under the radar and at some point someone will have to spend some cash to keep the lights on.

no, it won’t, nor will xitter of facebook. it’s delusional to think multi-billion-dollar-platforms backed by big money, the content industry and several clandestine consortiums will cease operation because a single digit percentage of users decided that some hobbyist internet platforms held together by tape and a hail marry are the future. we’ll be lucky if places like this are still around in a few years.

just wait 5 years, the fediverse will either be dead or swallowed up by meta. the only two things it has to go for it is the decentralized nature and the absence of open advertisements.

pretty nice stuff, too bad one has to by a certain phone sold by google to take advantage of it.

thank you for reading AND counting them.

add another 100 or wait for a sale and you can go home with an SE. new pixels are within the same price ranges as iphones, depending the configuration.

well, no. the video is not so much about “apple bad” but about cherrypicking and leaving out inconvenient points on both sides to make the message of the video work. no one here (but you) brought that kind of sentiment up.

i have nothing against him and i’m glad snowden did, what he did, but just because he was “in the loop” over a decade ago does not make a recommendation today a big selling point unless for some reason he still has access to the newest nsa tech from his russian exile.

“nearly anonymous on custom ROMs” - you really believe that, don’t you?

that’s great! now tell me how i can install grapheneos on the samsung device i just got because i don’t want to spend more than 200 bucks on a phone?

ps.: don’t bother. the app of my bank is not supported. and it’s a major european one.

i’ve read the transcript and it’s a superficial, biased video about how grapheneos is better than ios because … well, because they say so, leaving out all the inconvenient stuff.

so i just browsed through the transcript. the first segment is a political topic about how apple is censoring the appstore on request of the chinese central government from a few years ago and how bad it is, conveniently ignoring that google runs a dedicated, ccp-friendly version of google - https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634827587/google-testing-a-censored-search-engine-just-for-china / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China

it continues to say that android is not google and can be used without google and that there are alternative appstores and that apple does not have this - conveniently ignoring that there are altstores for jailbroken iphones for around 15 years now, that in the EU sidloading is a must-have feature in the near future (or maybe it’s already there with ios17, i haven’t checked yet), also enabling altstores without jailbreaks. it’s also very common to have the “eternal test flight” to offer apps that are for whatever reason not on the appstore to get installed with a one-link-tip.

continuing, the video goes on about how on android one can just log out of google and not use gapps, even uninstall ist, conveniently ignoring the gigabytes of undeletable bloatware from vendors that keep going on to collect your data. “install graphene os”, like the pixel is the sole android device in existence.

following is an excerpt about how apple defines tracking and that it still has tracking capabilities, even if you disable app tracking, conveniently ignoring that there are several apps like protonvpn that prevents tracking in general. there is also a focus on iapps, pretending that one HAS to use the calender, not mentioning more privacy friendly alternatives. at least encrypted icloud is mentioned, but privacy relay isn’t, also no word about built-in mail aliases.

near the end we get the old “YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN ANDROID VERSION”-routine, once more shilling graphene without mentioning that one has to buy an iphone price tagged pixel to install it, not going down that installing a rom is way out of the skillset of karen mcnormie who just got the newest samsung thrown at her by her carrier for signing up another two year extension of her contract. finally, there is a mention of ios opening up in the eu.

TLDR; it’s yet another video trying to sell grapheneos, ignoring that most devices cannot even flash it and basically that a rom maintained by a single guy in india who claims it’s very privacy respecting is better than getting an iphone.

edit: some typos.

yeah, i’m hearing about that for like 10, 11 years now. “android is le based, if you install the rom flavor of the month - let’s just hope you don’t need a banking app, heh”.

oh, so it’s one of those videos that tell us, that the underlying project is not bad at all, but like 98% of all installations are riddled with invasive or outright privacy hostile software because it get’s GOOGLED before shipping unless i install a rom that’s not compatible with most devices and that i have to throw money at google to buy a pixel to escape the botnet i just paid for to check in?

i wonder what it will take until apple is sueing the living shit out of pegasus?

go back to /g/ you tr00n

modern (bt) devices usually have a built in battery that can be recharged via cable (or use the cable to connect the device to it’s computer), so that issue is off the table, at least for better devices.

yeah, a bluetooth one and it’s great.

at this point most iphone users are very much used to reicive images within imessage and have already forgotten that mms existed or are too young to actually ever had to deal with it, so to them it’s just yet another picture.

you need to go outside, my friend - enjoy the sun, touch some grass!