HOLY FUCK

I was just in the middle of trying to fill a prescription and Android system update forcibly kicked me out and restarted my phone with no way to delay it

i already clicked the install later button, scheduled for march 3, then it did it anyway

causing me actual monetary and time damage by disrupting a medical process

this shit has gone way too fucking far. no more forced automatic updates

#FuckGoogle #FuckAndroid #FuckTechBros

oh look Google re-enabled its voice assistant that I've disabled umpteen times.

google executives need to serve prison time.

id root this phone in a heartbeat, if that were possible, but only the non-US models can be rooted. đŸ€Ź

#FuckGoogle #FuckAndroid

We finally know how Android's new app verification rules will actually work

Google has shed more light on how Android's app verification rules will work, which will block sideloading apps from unverified developers.

Android Authority
I'm soon switching to the Furi FLX1s #LinuxMobile. Google's SafetyCore (sensitive photo scanning) and restricting install from other sources soon wanna jump ship so fast! Not to mention that Komikku with file syncing would make manga reading great! #FuckAndroid, just a bit!!

#FuckAndroid its time for #MobileLinux

google has made it clear time and time again that they are not intrested in android being driven by the community.

android and aosp are so far apart from each other nowadays that it is difficult to call android "open source"

the path to actual mobile Linux adoption is probably gonna be through extracting VoLTE radio stacks from existing android roms rather than reimplementing from scratch.

carriers have made VoLTE so ridiculously proprietary that open source implementation is basically impossible at this point... but what if we treated android's radio as a black box and built compatibility layers around them?

extract the radio from the rom, add it into a compatability layer that will work with it.

halium already does this for other hardware components. it's not elegant but it's pragmatic as fuck.

all we need right now is adoption. more proper implementations can come later.

i havent really seen any projects already exploring this approach but maybe i just havent searched enough.

#fuckandroid #ubuntutouch #mobilelinux

#google
#android
#fuckgoogle
#fuckandroid
#fuckimoverthisshit

In an effort to kill Newpipe and Revanced, Google are fucking up.

Their attempts to stop side loading of APKs must be halted, there isn't a choice. Not unless everyone wants to start applying to banks etc for app certification and drummimg up the millions for their own OS?

In the meantime, fucking bless India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFRtnt-xOnM

Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Released: Improved VoLTE Support & Waydroid Android 13 Integration

YouTube

Lovely. I paid for that app. First they remove it from my library and I am forced to download the APK, now a forced Android 14 update kills compatibility with Android 5.0 and lower apps unless I mess with ADB to enable them again.

It's gotten to the point where I need an android Virtual machine inside an android phone.

#FuckGoogle #FuckSmartphones #FuckAndroid #PlannedObsolescence #YouWillOwnNothing #AndYouWillBeUnhappy #iNeverAskedForThis

I fucking hate that the alarm on my phone will just randomly change UI

I never want the way my alarm turns off to change. I do not need this bullshit first thing in the morning.

I am so sick of asshole designers inflicting their shitty ideas on us with no way to opt out.

#fuckandroid #fuckgoogle

@riley E-ink tablet, FYI.

It has no SIM capability, no camera, though there are a mic and speakers. I keep authenticated apps to an absolute minimum (Pocket is that exception), though I'm thinking of adding email to it. Jitsi meet might be a voice comms option.

TL;DR: excellent for reading, good for Web (use Einkbro: https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro), quite good for podcasts, notetaking suprisingly good, multiple firmware upgrades over the past 2.5 years, which I consider good support (exceeds any prior Android device). Reasonably un-googled (no Google Play or Google registration), though still Android. Heavy use of F-Droid and Aurora Stores.

More recent releases double onboard storage. I'd still prefer to see ~512 GB (it's cheap). Document management is a major weakness.

I've written a few reviews and reflections mostly at Hacker News. Meta-review linking others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36965197

From that:

For more on what e-ink delivers vs. tablets generally, see "The Case Against Tablets" (and specifically the long comment with the big table):

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e506

The Long Comment: https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e506#956cc690403301391d35002590d8e506

Related topic, E-Ink Design Principles for Web and Applications:

  • Persistence is free
  • Paints are expensive
  • Refreshes are slow
  • Colours are very limited or nonexistent
  • Line art displays beautifully. Raster images not so much
  • Pagination navigation is strongly preferred to scroll
  • Graphics are reflective rather than emissive
  • Touch / Wacom may exist
  • Feature detection capabilities are limited, particularly for HTML/Web (via media queries).

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/638a8d10e041013afba8448a5b29e257

@mutkitta

#eink #onyx #boox #OnyxBoox #EinkTablets #Einkbro #Android #FuckAndroid #ebookReaders

GitHub - plateaukao/einkbro: A small, fast web browser based on Android WebView. It's tailored for E-Ink devices but also works great on normal android devices.

A small, fast web browser based on Android WebView. It's tailored for E-Ink devices but also works great on normal android devices. - plateaukao/einkbro

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