Why would a FOSS program, barely able to pay for developers and/or infrastructure give away money for marketing?
It’s highly unlikely that the extra users will result in enough donations to even recoup the funds or significant volunteered development.
How the fuck is a floppy the last physical incarnation of saving a file? HDDs and SSDs are not made out ether.
If you mean save media you commonly interact with, USB thumb drives still exist. Considering computers becoming much more commonplace in their era they probably have been actually used by more people than floppies.
I agree that Play integrity is a huge problem and a way for Google to maintain control of Android.
However a Linux phone wouldn’t solve that at least in the beginning.
The devs who don’t allow apps to run on devices that do not pass Play integrity are unlikely to make a Linux phone app.
That does not make sense. Even in the worse scenarios Android would be more open than Apple and there would be Android options unaffected by this. Not many and not the most mainstream, though certainly more so than non-Android Linux phones.
But compared to a picking a non-Android Linux phone it makes even less sense. Unfortunately it’s true.
Unfortunatel, even here on Lemmy, that is a not techier/fossier than the mainstream, a lot of people say they will switch to… IOS.
Doubtful, phone vendors already had access to binary blobs to run Linux (Android) on them.
It’s no surprise Valve who is buying those SOCs is also provided with them.
There are android phones outside Google’s garden that will remain outside it’s walls. Apple’s walled garden vs Google’s future wall garden is a false dilemma.
I think I misread a statement about existing users not having their settings changed possibly on an update?
For individuals using JetBrains IDEs with commercial licenses, free trials, free community licenses, or EAP builds who do not explicitly consent to the new data collection model – nothing changes.
Am I missing something? Non-paid versions also have to opt-in, no?
Delusional apple fanboy.
I don’t need a my phone to be a ‘flagship’. I am not an influencer. I also wonder what loads are you running on a phone that you meet performance issues.
You can get an android with microSD and 3.5mm jack for 250€.
You can still run all the software you want. Adblockers, torrent clients, emulators, even… browsers! There will still be new android phones that won’t suffer those limitations. They will also be cheaper than iphones.
Don’t get me wrong android is in a bad trajectory, it’s true that’s Google has been enshitificating as much as it can get away with. It’s still light years ahead of iOS.
If anybody cares for privacy or control of their devices, saving Android, even in alternative versions/vendors, is a much more viable option than switching to iPhone.
Developer ID verification will be part of Google Play and won’t be present in GrapheneOS
Straight from the horse’s mouth. The rest of the post is a good reminder that GrapheneOS are morons.
But why would you lie about this?
Because one walled garden does not exist yet. Because it’s possible to get around the proposed walled garden. Because there are android manufacturers that ship phones that are not going to be affected by this.
But no lets just promote the whole iOS and Android are 100% the same (not Apple and Google, those are the same) and give up on fighting those changes.
But if you break the law after on 2026 you don’t get any excuse for not having time to adapt to the new circumstances.
DRM is not free, somebody is getting paid to provide that DRM and they certainly don’t go unpaid if it doesn’t work.
You can just escape the spaces with a \ .
Why would it be more difficult to maintain and update a complex system?
They don’t have to accept outsider contributions on their mainline nor employ less people to work on it.
You don’t get to redefine open source. It’s always been about giving the source code to whoever you give the software.
Making it publicly available is an acceptable alternative to fulfill that obligation.
Well I had the displeasure of having to use a candybar style phone my mother was using cause it was ‘easier’ for her.
But in my case, I disagree with the base premise of this post. The biggest anxiety and distraction caused by my phone is via phone calls. Asynchronous communications like sms and email are much better for me.
Does that work on the Mars colony as well?
It’s fiction.
You can find actual discrimination based on genetics or wealth or class into the present and past of the real world.