Yeah so I don’t see what the issue is. If they gave me stock android from 8 years ago I would still be happy to use it, and most basic users probably wouldn’t even know the difference. There are very few features released in the past few years that I couldn’t live without. Probably the only notable one I can think of is notification history. Other than that it has been all downhill, like removing the ability to easily record calls, which iphone can do no problem. As it is now I have to use a differnt phoen a a bunch of hacks to get it to work. It’s my device, let me assume the risk. Nanny bullshit.

I’ve never developed on Android, but would it be hard to port most apps to AOSP at this point if the developer wanted to?

It’s the hardware, and it feels like mobile in particular is intentionally designed to not be modular. I suspect that is by design to keep it under control of the big companies.

Honestly if there was an alternate and functional phone/OS/app store that early adopters who are a little technical can embrace, it would be the #1 platform in under 5 years. People in the know are chomping at the bit to get away from these big monopolzed platforms, and once it gains steam and polish, people will flock to it.

The only thing stopping a mass exodus is that there is no single version of Linux that is just dominating. I know that defeats the purpose of Linux, but that is what the dumb masses (such as myself) want. We want easy, and we don’t want to be special. If I have a problem I want a thousand others with the same problem, not my own little unique problem that I have to take hours away from my day to fix.

Same. At most I got 15 years left and I doubt I will ever see this changing in my lifetime.

It really doesn’t matter if facial recognition is enabled or not today, it can always be done later on. This is a huge invasion of privacy.

This is how a functioning capitalist system should work. Companies competing against each other for the benefit of the consumer.

For us dummies that are just getting started, and most of us are only doing it now because gaming has kept us on Windows, it would be nice if there were a Linux distribution that was singlularly focused on gaming.

No shit

The only safe phone is a phone with a strong password thats in a powered down state. Otherwise there are tools to gain full access.

I refuse to get solar on my house until I can store the energy myself, hopefully this will be available for that soon.

There will never be a way to know if it was written by AI but performed by a human, so I will just keep buying used CDs.

typershark if you can find it.

Can’t, need the Marketplace, unfortunately.

I’m a simple man. Ok is ok enough.

Warren Buffet is ok in my book.