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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Soo, anyone ELI5. If Android is basically Linux, how hard would it be - given drivers are not an issue - so just make a Linux phone and mass produce it? You probably don't have that many apps, but it will be possible to call and/or use messaging apps.
AOKP gang rise
Iam still sad not having titanium backup with root on my current phone :(
I'm gonna carry around my steam deck and add a USB camera module, a GPS module, and add some meshtastic radios modules, and I'm gonna daily drive it as the ultimate all-in-one device, and Mr. Google Pichai can't stop me! xD
I’ll break my sons phone the day that he comes phone with a data harvested machine.
It's happening, I'm finally getting nostalgic from tech memes. The days on xda forums and IRC. Thankfully IRC is still alive. Xda seems to be dying to telegram and Google's enshittification
Its all fun and games when your bork a custom rom, force flash a stock rom and delete your EFS directory (the one with the IMEI)
Ah good times, now that phone is just my OBS controller.
Reminds me of old cell-phone service options. Free hours, rollover and prepay/pay-as-you-go/contractless etc.
Not sure how pricing/value actually compares, but it does seem like if you want a phone now for emergencies you're going to get fleeced (also required data package). Unless maybe you buy a flip-phone or something. A fiber provider in my area even still charges $40 for a land-line (no idea if it's VoIP).
you don't have TrackPhone being sold at Walmart where you are?
In my country all you say is kinds the norm... wtf is up with telcos in wherever are you from?
wtf is up with telcos in wherever are you from?
Oh you know, they are given free reign because 🇺🇸
Internet pricing/speed isn't great either.
My country has some of the best internet in the world now that I think of it... just didn't realize none of that was that common elsewere, here you can go to a corner store, as in they sell groceries, and buy a sim card for 1usd, then activate it, and put money on it with cash at that same grocery store, or pay fully online, not so long ago, you didn't even needed an ID to activate those.
iOS jailbreaking used to be incredible too.
I guess it might still be for those who slipped into the “window” to do it, but I have no clue what Cydia looks like these days.
Cydia is practically dead, replaced by Sileo or Zebra, and most tweaks are paid now.
I miss when people did stuff for a hobby or for fun. Literally everything wants your money these days it seems.
And if you oay, it's not private.
It's not like everything (or rather every dev) necessarily wants your money. We're forced to monetize even our hobbies in an attempt to live a worthwhile life. It's a cancerous system infecting everything and everyone.
To develop great FOSS software without the need of monetization is an enormous privilege.
Doesn't help that Apple wants €100/year + a supported Mac (average €100/year for the hw upgrade treadmill)
No, you’re absolutely right.
I am more angry at the system than at the hobbyists. I apologize for coming off like that.
I had matching Nexus 5 and Nexus 7, I was in modding heaven. God I miss my Nexus 7...
I had a nexus 7. Great little device. Sad that Google is fucking shit up. It’s what they do best sadly
I am in dire need of a true Linux Phone
the oligarchy is already set, we won't get a grassroots competitor to apple/google at this point without shenanigans. android is open but the entire ecosystem around it is closed.
all sorts of bureaucracy and interaction with corporations and governments are now requiring squeamish proprietary apps that will not work at the mere hint of something they arbitrarily (or maliciously?) dislike.