clonedhuman @ clonedhuman @lemmy.world

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Also making giant rebar craps all over

I'd love to see a user-friendly, easily-implemented FOSS alternative to the entire Android system.

The options that exist now often can't get past all the defenses that Android and phone manufacturers put into systems to secure their own data collection/revenue. I have an older Motorola phone that I literally can't install another operating system on.

We desperately need a stable, user-friendly, and hardware-adaptive replacement for Android. I don't want that shit on my phones any longer.

Shit, I remember degaussing monitors. I also remember picking up a power supply I was working on before lunch, not remembering that I had powered it on earlier to test it, and the shock throwing me against the wall.

Ah, the good old days.

I don't think things like greed are endemic to our species, and particularly not like the greed that is so all-consuming that you take necessary things for life from less powerful people.

I do think, however, that without a massive change in mindset, that this capitalist viewpoint, the viewpoint that says I can take whatever I want from whomever I want, will persist. We might not be hardwired for greed, but we are hardwired for hierarchy.

And, if that hierarchy is one that valorizes this poisonous type of greed, that the lower primates will mimic it to rise in the hierarchy.

But, we have so many other available hierarchies. The capitalist one is dominant now, but we can change that.

Yep. A Linux build + Firefox (with Privacy Badger and ublock origin plugins)

I hope so.

Yes. But, we are conscious beings and we can choose our spoonness.

Are you trying to accomplish something? Some work you need to do? Be like spoon. You have one purpose---to accomplish that objective.

Choose to be like spoon, and have a blessed day.

Now I'm imagining this too.

This game is so good. I hope Larian builds something even better for their next go.

Right there with you.

Fuck Android.

I hope a consistent, user-friendly alternative that works on all Android phones arrives soon. I've tried so many with an old phone and they're always a pain to install and then don't work quite right. I also don't want to spend $500USD for a phone designed specifically to sidestep Android.

It would help if Android/Google didn't consistently try to block every single thing that would allow you to get rid of Android, but they're never going to allow that.

I hope that something user-friendly and consistent arrives soon. I will ditch Android in a second when that happens.

Yeah, I have an older Motorola phone that I've used to try and get Android alternatives, and none of those three systems will work on my phone. It doesn't look like any of them will work on my new phone either, but that might just mean I have to try it.

Google/Android also seems to make it as difficult as possible to install any alternative system. The easiest I saw was /e/OS because it was all automated, but after about 10 minutes it informed me that my Motorola phone just wasn't supported.

There's such a long ways to go with this sort of thing, but I think it's pretty clear that the world desperately needs a user-friendly, non-corporate alternative to Android/iOS.

It's really a bummer that we're all carrying around powerful little computers with us but the corporate operating systems for them use much of that processing power for their own data collection/profits/purposes and tries to prevent us, those of us who own the phones, from using that power for our own purposes.

There's a lot of good stuff on F-Droid, and it's nice to see a university doing a project like this.

I'm still waiting on a solid, consistent alternative to Android. It seems we might be getting there with tiny steps.

It's 100% fascist rule, pure and simple.

We have a handful of national politicians who are trying to resist while the vast majority of them are simply playing along to preserve their own status and power. Democrat/Republican haven't meant anything substantial for a while now--you have to look at who's paying them (via 'donations' or otherwise) to know.

We can hope that they start killing each other (which they'd do if they had any backbone). Otherwise, our options are both extreme and extremely limited.

Leon dying would help.

The world is toxic because of people like Leon.

It's not 'someone' I'm talking about. It's a very specific person, and Leon barely qualifies as a person. He's like a disease of culture/society that needs to be eradicated before culture/society dies.

When regular working people eventually win, we're going to have to reinstitute all the controls that we had for decades preventing single corporations from owning too much of the media. Break it up into little pieces. One of the first things corporations did when they got their first man, Reagan, in power was consolidate the airwaves; they know that's the tool necessary for them to repeat and spread lies, and without this tool, they're going to lose.

It's not an accident that Sinclair owns most of the local tv stations broadcasting to rural markets and that all the AM radio stations are run by a small handful of Conservative propagandists.

We've gotta get that shit shut down--a limit on the number of stations any company can own, massive fines for violating standards of truthfulness, etc.

The Zionists are carrying out a genocide.

Just block this dude. He's not worth listening to on anything, and he's not worth arguing with.

Let's try and keep old.lemmy.world a clean, hygienic place by blocking the garbage.