The main reason why I use open source is precisely because I don't need or want to worry about this crap. The software is as much property of humanity as it is of the creator, it is basically just knowledge
Stop the liberal anti wallcandy propaganda. It feels so good to eat the wall candy. It tastes exactly like cotton candy but it's available in my walls and my mattress
It is an oven with the convection setting turned on by default. So it's like having an oven but for a regular person instead of the design made for 1960s suburban moms cooking for 10, like the "regular" oven
First off, Google has made agressive deals with phone manufacturers to ship spyware with their phones by default, and some of the stuff can only get taken out by rooting/jailbreaking the phone. By doing so, they acquired nearly 100% of the app store market share, and then used it to make "useful features" such as integrity checks that are tied to the Play Services app (which is an always on spyware background app).
The end result is, even if you manage to root your phone and install a custom ROM (which is not always available to every model), a bunch of apps will refuse to work properly because you fail the Google Play fingerprinting steps and are assumed to be a security vulnerability. If I'm not mistaken there's also some shady stuff with certificates, too
Something like a digital version of Wikipedia could work out great. I could have encyclopedic knowledge of their world and future events, such as "the pope is going to name himself such and such" at the palm of my hand
League was the reason I stalled so long, too, but honestly, Riot is just as bad as Microsoft. Vanguard is unacceptable and we should make our voices heard by not playing their games anymore. There are so many great games running just fine on Linux, nowadays I don't even feel like I'm restricted at all
The main reason why I use open source is precisely because I don't need or want to worry about this crap. The software is as much property of humanity as it is of the creator, it is basically just knowledge