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[–] 16 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

It's very "meh..." with the added benefit of several (non-google) apps not working (/s). I choose to live with this inconvenience, but it still bothers me that my smartphone is significantly less useful in my daily life.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    You always have a choice. You can ditch your morals entirely, give up, be subservient to the capitalists and give your identity over fully to the system like the good little consumer slave you are and enjoy your normie life looking at your normie phone and toss us all out as tinfoil-hatted weirdos who almost convinced you to make your life worse for the sake of self-sufficiency, independence and privacy.

    No one in the real world will ever know, care, or judge you. Only you will know that you gave up, that every location you exist in is known about by someone behind a monitor being overseen by fascists. Every day! You can live with that, right? That's a small thing to give up in the grand scheme of things, isn't it? At least Youtube loaded today, right? It's all worth it, lol.

    Just remember to type "thanks" in google keyboard whenever you want them to know you appreciate them. They log it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh yes I forgot that pointing out the flaws in privacy-related things, so people who are interested in switching know what they're potentially getting in to, is a big NoNo here...all hail the perfect FOSS which can do no wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Don't feel pressured by me. If you feel pressured yourself, it may be a form of projected guilt.

    If you don't find privacy and security important enough to give up your connectivity or usability, that's perfectly fine. I don't have to live with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The purity tests are so exhausting

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  • [+] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    They’re the ones foisting their requirements on others. Somebody shares what they do, and the purists come storming in with their righteous condescension. Nobody asked for that negativity.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In this case, your assessment is fair - user is harsh, name-calls, and does talk down to the person they were responding to/the reader. I got lost in the chain.

    Regardless, accusations of purity testing come up more than enough online for my liking and it isn't always in response to righteous condescension, as you aptly described the user's behavior in this example.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Having not used default Android for many years now, what makes GrapheneOS worse (aside from a few apps not working - which isn't an issue I've had, fortunately)?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    GrapheneOS is not worse than other custom ROMs, never said it was. it's a mediocre experience best described with a "meh..." and a shrug.

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