Amber May 29, 2025
windows users with their 50 ahk scripts, powertoys, third party package manager, batch and powershell scripts holding up their entire operating system: "linux is too complicated"
Show thread🎼 Melody 🏳️‍⚧️May 29, 2025
@puppygirlhornypost2 ironically this is the only thing i miss about windows. i love installing a bunch of shit to make my computer work like i wnat

i know you do that on linux too, but the vibe isn’t the same.
Show thread🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️   θΔ ⋐ & ∞May 29, 2025
@silly @puppygirlhornypost2 wait yeah i get it because i miss my jailbroken iphone as an android user
Show threadsodiboo May 29, 2025
@tauon @silly @puppygirlhornypost2 same. I miss so bad having an actual package manager and an abundance of tweaks that actually work well. iOS jailbreaking spoiled me and I hate the Android equivalents. ​​
Show threadAmber May 29, 2025
@sodiboo @tauon @silly good news, the ios jailbreak scene has been shit ever since ios 10. ios 9 with pangu was the last good thing and it became a money grab with plagiarism. i dont jailbreak my iphones anymore. coolstar is a prick, i miss saurik. so ios jailbreaking isnt as good as it was
Show threadsodiboo May 29, 2025

@puppygirlhornypost2 @tauon @silly big disagree. yalu102 was my first jailbreak, and I was with that scene for a while. up until like, iOS 14 or 15.

I never got the thing with CoolStar being a prick. in hindsight, I think that was always rooted in transphobia? like, her jailbreak tools worked fine and they were nice to use. I like Sileo better than Cydia. when I used unc0ver i anyways installed Zebra, because it was sorta similar to Sileo.

it became a money grab with plagiarismI was never aware of any widespread plagiarism. it never felt like a money grab to me. the free tweaks are abundant and the paid ones I used were always fairly priced and i think it's money well spent.

I loved the jailbreak scene i got to experience. I was young, so maybe I didn't comprehend the horrors, but it felt comfortable.

and then, coming to Android, everything is so.... fragmented. it's not as fun. everything feels unstable because they literally werent made for the exact operating system I have. customization stuff barely works. play integrity is a bitch (compared to iOS, where libhooker & shadow are magic swords that slice through any detection). discovery of stuff is hard because there's no good central repo. where the fuck is my package manager I need my package manager. and the system itself is so hostile to rooting (see: play integrity). I can't use mobile touch payments. I can't use RCS. even apple has RCS now. at least on iOS, nothing about the core system degrades when I gain root access.

Show thread🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️   θΔ ⋐ & ∞May 29, 2025
@kkarhan @sodiboo @silly @puppygirlhornypost2 wrong reply
Show thread🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️   θΔ ⋐ & ∞May 29, 2025
@kkarhan @sodiboo @silly @puppygirlhornypost2 jailbreaking and rooting are essentially the same thing
Show thread🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️   θΔ ⋐ & ∞May 29, 2025
@kkarhan @sodiboo @silly @puppygirlhornypost2 i don't understand how this is related to rooting
also hello? the checkm8 exploit? any other iphone bootrom exploit? pongoOS? these are cool tools
Show threadsodiboo 
@kkarhan @tauon @silly @puppygirlhornypost2

the thing about Android's openness is that... it feels like i was told a lie.

Yes, I can in theory install any OS on my phone. That's neat. But what does that actually give me? Nothing.

Because the kernel drivers are out of the main tree. Because the hardware isn't really standardized. So, every distro has to maintain releases for every device.

And they don't have enough maintainers to do that.

So, because I don't have a Google or Samsung or Xiaomi phone, I'm left with like, maybe half a dozen choices? if I'm lucky? most of them aren't even good. And, because I went with one that had customizability, I'm left with an unstable buggy mess that crashes too often, and my device is no longer supported so I'm just left to rot. I get that maintaining devices is a huge burden, and the One Person just doesn't have the time anymore. Nothing against them. But as a user, this fucking sucks.

What good is freedom and openness, if I'm punished for exercising it? Google apps especially, but even on a fundamental level as security updates, I'm just, what, left to die? "cold flash necessary".

At least on iOS the freedom is real. You have to wait for it, yes. Apple doesn't make it easy. But when your version has a jailbreak, it'll feel good to use.

My next stop is probably GrapheneOS, and it's not even because of privacy, or being degoogled. I just want something that works, and is reasonably close to AOSP. GrapheneOS doesn't pretend to have the capacity to support many devices: they do Pixel phones and *that's it*. They even promise 7 years of support for the latest two generations. That sounds great, given my trauma from other Android distros.

I do care about privacy, but it comes second to having something that fucking works. It's my phone, and I'm sick and tired of all the Android modding bullshit that was never an issue on iOS.
May 29, 2025 at 10:33pmWeb