Yup. I used to to think that future generations would look at our car culture the way we look at slavery. Destroying the planet for profit, comfort and laziness. Then the battery revolution happened and if anything the laziness got even worse.

Even vehicles that used to be prohibitive are now used more then the better option, like electric scooters, bicycles, etc. I see a lot more electric bicycles on the road now than proper ones. And most of them teenagers, so that’s not even the usual excuse of *it’s replacing a car " because they can’t drive, it just added more vehicles, just unlicensed ones.

But it makes people feel good with hypocrisy to pretend that they are doing something good, without really making any effort or sacrifice, except spending more money and consuming more.

It’s our idea of making a difference. Consuming.

It’s not the reliability of the sources. It’s the obsession. Even the website you complain about have non Chinese content. But you are 100% constant anti China posts.

China does a lot of bad stuff. Every country does. But why do you obsess with them so much?

I would really like to know. Because with no explanation it either looks like you’re being paid by an enemy of China like the US or that something bad happened to you and you need to seek help because you got some deep trauma.

I don’t think Lemmy is big enough for the US to pay someone to do propaganda. So it looks really odd.

Have you ever checked your post history? Did you ever even post anything that’s not about China? And was any of those posts against?

China sucks, but if you are being honest you have some really twisted mind to not realise your obsession.

Is he getting paid for that?

It’s funny people down voting but even the “propaganda” website they mention have a lot of non China content, but this guy is 100% foaming against China as if nothing else exists in the world. If that’s not propaganda I don’t know what is.

I’m not a fan of China, but there’s much worse evil in the world right now like the US and Israel before his brainwashing can work.

Funny opinion from someone who is obsessed with only posting stuff against China.

I don’t know if the source is worthy reading, but this user sure is not.

If it’s completely offline and the banking thing can be completely disabled it’s awesome.

I would love to know the softwares (and their dependencies) I use more so then I can decide how to donate myself. The dependencies being a big thing. Like on android I use syncthing fork, which would be nothing without syncthing. And there may be other essential stuff running on boot that I don’t know and should help.

I agree, but those options are also unlikely in the long term. I’m just being positive and hoping for a life without Google.

I was thinking, Linux only really worked because companies profit from it and therefore support it. If it were just for desktop users it would have never been more than a programmer hobby. I don’t see phones benefiting more than the end user, and without a lot of profit on that I don’t see that working. So I think the future is dark.

But I’ll still invest on it and pretend I live in an ideal world and pretend it’s possible. It’s not zero percent chance I hope…

From my experience with Sailfish, it is user friendly. The problem is the hardware working as well and finding apps that do what you need. Both issues won’t be fixed without a larger user base.

But it will never be for the average user. That requires massive companies backing it and that requires evil intention. Google is a good example. It started being “nice” but just to get enough market to do this. Or Microsoft and Apple, just being evil from the beginning since they know the average user doesn’t care about that.

Custom ROMs won’t be an option forever. They are going step by step, just “the tip” first to not hurt too much.

Unless people fully fork android and maintain it, but then google will make sure to break compatibility. Plus less and less phones make it possible to install custom ROMs.

The only way forward is getting rid of them. Like Linux and microsoft. “Ecosystem” will always be a problem as it is with Linux (adobe and other garbage refusing to allow compatibility), but as long as it works well as a phone, like Linux works well as a computer, then it will be fine for a lot of people and software will be made to meet their needs (and a lot of software will work as it is now, like Syncthing does on Sailfish).

It worked with desktops. It took a long time, but it did. It can work with phones if there is enough people backing it.

It will be a bumpy road again but if I can get 100% free of google as I did with microsoft, it will be worthy.

None. Move out of Android. Their dick move is deeper than just fucking up alternative stores. It’s to make sure it’s not worthy for anyone to publish outside of play store.

For your safety, of course. Nothing more at all.

Let’s invest in Linux options.

And that’s exactly google intention. All that “security” bullshit is to justify this.

Without something like f-droid google hopes that someone like me who despises them will be forced to use play store.

And I’m sure many of us will bend. But as for me, I’d rather go back to dumb phones if Linux phones don’t work. And google board members can stick their security on a pineapple and stick it in their ass.

With a condom of course because i want them to be safe while being fucked, just like they wish for us.

I think it’s lyrics from nine inch nails