ecrevisseLiteral Hostage Situation
Is this real?
I’m so used to computer-things being files I edit sovereignly on my device that I find it hard to understand the serfware.
real_squidsI can believe that, even on android their functionality has been declining for years. Can still edit (poorly), and copy on my slightly outdated version, but overall the experience is worse than before.
Android is nos good either. Google Calendar requires access to all my contacts to run. Nope.
I might be on an old enough version that it still functions as intended without that permission (its from 2021 lol). Photos on the other hand nags you to update and eventually completely stops you from using it unless you “update”. Thankfully I can disable both apps so it’s not a big deal for me
sp3ctr4lAndroid isn’t really that hard to like 90% de-google, you can replace most google apps with FOSS alternatives, then disable and deny all permissions to almost all google apps, even uninstall many… you can do that all without root, without even ADB.
To get to 100%, yeah, you’re gonna need ADB and root and some kind of replacement OS… but you can do a lot without it.