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Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just want to say that Call of duty Black Ops II was pretty fucking accurate up to this point.

  • We have drone strikes.
  • Personalised face ads.
  • worldwide conflicts
  • a fight for rare earth minerals

But I guess Treyarch was too optimistic about having a women as a POTUS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Don't forget warfare using quadcopter drones, albeit without the machine gun.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

I hate everything about this title.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This is what makes me excited for Linux phones to finally become viable. Every major phone manufacturer is making their UX worse and expanding their hidden spyware for the sake of profits.

Graphene os is great but you can only install it on a Pixel. But they give extended support for older devices which is nice. HOWEVER, people are making Linux builds for even older devices, including the iphone 6. Getting a new phone after 7 years might not be necessary in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I can't wait to get a Linux phone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

7 years? Most folks here get one every 2

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

It used to be that phone technology improved relatively quickly, and a 2 year old phone was significantly worse than the latest and greatest. Now, not so much. I use a Pixel 6 Pro running Graphene OS, and I don't feel like I'm missing out on the latest tech. The camera is great, certainly more than good enough for me, and the phone is responsive and does everything I need it to do, and it's 3+ generations old. I see no need to spend $1000+ on a new phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

And that’s their choice to. But some people are sick of planned obsolescence and wish to use their phones for as long as the hardware doesn’t give.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's hard, without UEFI for arm

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Yet more discrimination against faceless people

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Ah, more ads. Exactly what the consumer asked for, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

sighs....typing this on an S23 Ultra. I can't wait to get a pixel to degoogle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd recommend CalyxOS as a replacement os.

No google code at all to get full functionality of your hardware (excluding Google pay, but graphene doesn't have that either.)

Anything you need, e.g. swipe typing or advanced camera features, you can install Google's versions and block their ability to talk to the internet via the built-in firewall.

calyxos.org

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just wanna use my carriers sms/rcs channels and their 5g internet. I don't need Anymore middleman than Me>Verizon>Host/Destination

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sure, you get that by default. Firewall only steps in for apps you explicitly block. There's a toggle for if you want apps blocked by default for you to allow, if you prefer.

Point is, it's a system that just works, stays out of your way and doesn't phone home to anyone, just as you'd expect.

Whatever you wind up doing, good luck out there and have fun.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I have a galaxy. I disabled the Galaxy AI. I disabled the Google AI on my phone, and I blocked Google search AI. I disabled Microsoft AI. I think ATT has one that listens in on calls to warn you of a call being a scam, but I haven't figured out how to disable that. Many of my calls are privileged under atty/client privilege, so have someone or something else in on that risks waving that. I want to disable it, but I don't know how. I tried to disable Yahoo's email AI. But, now there is yet more AI for me to disable?

Dear tech companies, please stop shoving AI down my throat. I really don't want it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At that point I'd just get a dumb phone for calls and a tablet with data only SIM for the rest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Only works on Pixels, and I'd rather not give Google any money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

buy used. you aren't giving them anything more then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

risks waving that.

Use a dumb phone or thereabouts, they're still around.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I freaking hate the future, man. I’m so sick of this shit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

That's... A really good idea

Time to redesign my phone case

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Do I want my face in ads? No. Not at all.

Would I want this same tech used to character swap myself into movies, or just swap actors in whatever? ...okay yeah that might be kinda fun novelty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You get ads, you get ads, everyone gets ads!

- Samprah.

[–] Murdoc 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Look under your chair... It's an ad!!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Stuff like this always reminds me of the personalized ads in Mass Effect (like here: https://youtu.be/hMdIypwM2KI ). That game has accurately depicted the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Someone at Samsung submitted a user story only to troll, and it worked "I need you to drain my phone battery and data plan for ads when I dont even look at it"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Other bloat on the list of stuff to remove using ADB

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think you need a rooted phone to remove stuff, adb alone won't cut it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I sold my S23 Ultra last September and adb did suffice indeed

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Don't they know how ugly the common people are. I'm not gonna buy something with an ugly guy in the ad. We ain't all plastic surgery Korean like Samsung home base.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

+666 upvotes

Can't upvote this now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

So, how much will they pay me to opt in?

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