schwim

joined 7 months ago
[–] schwim@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"Imagine browsing without trackers following you everywhere or your phone’s performance lagging because of ads. That's the kind of freedom GrapheneOS promises."

It's hard to take the sales pitch seriously after such disingenuous statements such as this. The OS itself doesn't serve ads, but rather the apps you install and the web pages you visit. As well, as soon as you browse the web or install one of your most loved popular apps, you're being tracked. For the average user, the one that wants to use the same apps on the gOS OS that they do on stock android, they will be faced with basically the same ads and the same tracking.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The graphene install docs is in your language and will walk you through the install process. Their support page points you to discord, telegram, matrix support channels as well.

https://grapheneos.org/install/

https://grapheneos.org/contact#community

As a general rule anyone that asks for a non-proprietary thing that will do everything their proprietary thing does without alternative solutions allowed is so far from the reality of non-proprietary software in a proprietary world that they can not be made happy so I'll leave the support of that to others.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Like anything else, can be, depending on your needs.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't mean this flippantly but suicide is ok. The hard part in my mind is if you ou leave behind people that would be fucked up in your absence. That's the part I struggle with.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not Voyager's fault, Lemmy has always promoted dead and abandoned communties as "trending". The grouping is useless and can always be safely ignored.

On desktop, I use an ad blocker to hide the div.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

Why wasn't "not go" an option?

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I think the whole reason those people exist is because critical self-reflection is beyond their capabilities. They are fueled primarily by ignorant hatred.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] schwim@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why don't you do a comparison to decide for yourself rather than nameless people giving you their often prejudiced opinion?

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 39 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Sadly, the cult followers aren't intelligent enough to know what they're promoting. You could put his face on any slogan and they'd wear it, stick it on their truck or hang it from their house.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 39 points 3 months ago

It's reddit, you get what you get. That's why the majority of us stopped using it.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago

Media companies are owned by billionaires. They're protecting their investments. The "News" has operated this way for decades.

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