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Did we win? Google to continue to allow side loading (liliputing.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 82 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

Can someone please come out with a phone that's an actual computer and help stop this nonsense?

Phones cost a lot of money at this point and I'm completely sick of them being some locked down, surveillance ridden pile of crap. A reasonably built one would be able to replace a laptop at this point if it weren't for these artificial constraints imposed by the stupid fucking suits running things.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Battery life is limited by cell modem drivers being closed source and having to be reverse engineered.

    I have been looking into an alternate hybrid radio device using Reticulum. Though with that comes a new less convenient user experience for a lot of apps.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure they meant a smartphone with a desktop OS installed on it (eg Linux phones), not just "phone that looks kinda like a laptop but still uses Android"

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    dude. you can just install a custom rom.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    As long as your phone model is supported by any custom mod. I have checked compatibility for almost all smartphones I owned, some 7 or 8 through the years.

    Not a single one of them was ever supported by a custom mod.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    but you did not check custom rom aupport before you bought tgem, cause did not want freedom and moddability. its on you.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I consider price and technical specifications. I don't have 200€ to spend on a phone. Most phones I bought were less than 100€ new. What I care about a phone is that it supports two SIM cards.

    With such constraints, choice is quite limited unfortunately.

    Is it worth having a free device? Indeed. Is it worth spending 4 times the price just for that? Not to me.

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