Everyone: I MUST HAVE A LOCAL ACCOUNT ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS
Also everyone: uses iPhone with mandatory crApple account
Apple - “Amateurs, we’ve been doing it since the beginning and no one has a problem with it.”
I finally stopped dual booting Windows after I got the “You can’t log into this account due to repeated log in attempts or restarts, wait 2 hours” BS I ran into a few days ago. Sadly there is one game I can’t get working on Linux or a virtual machine, and one laptop feature that will not work until the maintainer of my device’s Linux drivers manages to get it working for my specific model, but being forced out of my own system and told I’m not allowed to access it for 2 hours is intolerable, and the fact its baked into the OS, and can’t be disabled, even more so.
which game?
Its called Gaia XI - Its the old MMO, Final Fantasy XI, but its been revived by fans. The complexity and nature of the game make it pretty hard to get it running on something other than Windows.
Holy shit, is this a real thing now? You’re not allowed to restart your machine too much?
Thank the gods I ditched my dualboot setup months ago, I would have ran into this same issue.
Enshittification is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
If we all want linux phones. we’re all going to have to go through some initial pain of using linux phones while its still a bit rough. Its the only way out of the duopoly (short of legislation). We have to buy linux phones and makes apps.
For now we can even use waydroid for using some android apps
Two companies where the customer relationship can be described as abusive.
You know. I know it. It’s your choice to stay or leave.
Sick of the bullshit excuse of “all companies will abuse me” mantra.
Abusers need you to believe that.
It’s a tiring conversation that you do for attention. Let me know when you actually want help escaping. Until then leave me about of your victim performance.
We need to stop calling it side loading. Say it what is is android wants to stop people from installing apps
“Installing independent apps”
I like this
Google wants to monopolize installing programs on your phone.
There. That should make them cower in fear.
But you’re installing apps when you click install on Play Store too. Sideloading refers to installing stuff outside of (the official) app store.
They are using “sideloading” to confuse the masses and give it a negative connotation
Sideloading was an established term ages ago. You can always discuss their purpose in using it but it’s not like they’re using differing terminology to what was already established as the norm.
Where does Apple fit on this meme?
They’re just offscreen taking your wallet.
Preventing installing outside of their monopoly is the correct term, not side loading, that’s just propaganda to make you feel bad for using your device freely.
Yeah they’re built on top of open source anyways… yet they pretend projects like chrome or android would’ve never happened without them. They’re the ones freeloading off of open source and claiming it… and except for pixel they don’t build the devices we use, so fk them and their predatory practices…
Niche communities like this care. Normies don’t care at all. That’s where enshitification comes from, from the fact that companies don’t get punished by the majority of their userbase even when they pull pretty extreme shit.
I think the problem I’d that they’re sold on the idea if simple/easy being the highest version of technology, that frictionless and smoothe is better than empowering or secure.
Its the pitch that got them to pick up smart phones, after all. And that’s what needs to change.
But the average American is tech dumb, and will happily fuck up their own devices. I work at a university, the number of students who think “restart your PC” means “hold down the power button until it dies” is sad. Some of them can’t figure out the exam software we use, like the “reset password” link. They have a mixture of Avast and Kaspersky that was preinstalled on their devices, long expired, which is the only barrier against them getting malware from the random shit they install. Browser hijacks are super common. They don’t know how to fix those, sometimes they just buy a new laptop.
So I’m not convinced the average American SHOULD have a device that’s complex and requires a lot of understanding. iOS is incredibly popular for a reason - you don’t have to be a genius, old people and children can use it, and it’s not going to leak your saved credit card info because you installed some random “app” from an ad, which is actually of course malware.
This site is full of people who think the average American is just a RTFM away from being as tech literate as them… please go out and do some end-user support to see what they’re really like. Simple, easy, secure should be what people expect.
They’re infantilized. They’re made to be children, their brains depatterned into sludge by systems that give no options and respond as they want to, to manipulate the user rather than to do what the user wants. All of our technology does this. Modern ux design is fucking violence. You can hear corporations glory in how far this has come. It’s horrible.
It’s not that they need to RTFM. It’s that they need to be challenged and put in a position where their agency is exercised and their choices matter. They need technology to be meaningfully a part if their reality, rather than fantasy bullshit a tech billionaire just kind of decides/does in their direction. They need to heal. They need to reclaim their humanity and ability to apply logic to the world. And then maybe also to RTFM.
And until they do our technology will be violence.
You, as the it department, will be the managers of that violence, the theological police chief of the mystical real of domination and deception that is technology in this paradigm, rather than the infrastructural support mechanic you want to be. It’s why they don’t respect you; because your job isn’t real to them, its just the excuse to intrude upon them ever farther. Your stated philosophy makes you the enemy of all humanity, which is metal as fuck but not good.
I don’t think about the avarage american, i think about the avarage person
I like my response more, but yours is pretty good.
I prefer your reply too,if i wasn’t triggered by the fact that he continued to say “American” instead of “person” i wouldn’t have writen at all
I don’t see how one can get confused; those things have very little overlap.
They care after the fact but they dont understand and are hostile to the idea of trying to.
And only care once it directly affects them, because they’re tired of politics and the likes.
Thwy are infantilized. Children who would rather die than grow.
iOS: the OG user shitter.
It was called Mac os first, child.
One of my favorite memories about Macs was in the school computer lab. I crashed the system by plugging in a USB with a word doc I needed on it. Nothing more than plugging a USB in and getting a stack trace. The lab monitor was adamant that I couldn’t have crashed the mac because iT jUsT wOrKs and basically blue screened when he saw it.
Good times. Mainly because I haven’t been forced to use it outside of labs.
When was this? In my school years, the lab Macs were garbage. But I’ve had much better experience with more recent Macs (though I’d prefer to not use them in general).
Mac OS is heavily Unix-based, it’s not a terrible operating system. But it is an awful user experience if you’re not used to it.
I’ve been having to use a modern Mac for the first time in a new job, and I think you summed up my experience with it perfectly. God I hate how “helpful” everything is about the user experience
We need to evolve the format
Stuff like this is why i daily-drive Linux for over a year now; windows 10 only exists in a VM for stuff that refuses to work (i use this VM about once or twice per month for an hour or so). Originally i just didn’t want ads in my start menu, preventing a local user would have sped up the switch to instant instead of 2 weeks.
I haven’t missed Windows at all. Don’t even have a reason to set up a VM set up for it.
Yeah but users are dumb. This happens constantly. Microsoft starts with a switch so users can disable something unwanted, then they remove the switch.
The annoying part of actually the dumb users who defend bad behavior with “you can turn it off”, keeping people on the software instead of making meaningful changes to Linux or something else.
Of the changes listed in that article, which do you think are scummy? It wasn’t clear from the link you dropped.
Yes, I did read it. I’m asking you to explain how it supports your opinion.
You don’t even need to go into the article. The scummy thing is right there in the hyperlink.
What alternative do we have for phones? Is Lineage os simple enough for the average user?
Followup question: what alternative do people with locked bootloaders who don’t want to get a new phone have?
I just bought a phone earlier this year before I heard the news, and I planned on keeping it for the next four years, given that it’s a brand new, high-end flagship device. I don’t plan to sell. I don’t want to sell. It’s the best phone I’ve ever had!
Always has been ;) E.g. my parents are rocking LOS+microg since forever, they have no idea what adb, fastboot, flashing, partitions, rom, root etc mean.
And if you get the right device it’ll take you literally two minutes to install. But installing ANY operating system is just something the average Joe doesn’t do today, so help people out or get yourself some help the first time. Same with Linux on desktops.
Not on my phone / computer!
I will literally just stop using a phone for anything but work. They suck anyway and have always been a shitty alternative to a computer and are constantly tracking us. We have been soft coerced into accepting this low quality alternatives.
I will use my computer with intention and have already started considering leaving my phone at home entirely when I leave.
At this point I just want a tiny palmtop Linux computer like one of those GPDs, or what the Open Pandora / Fira? was supposed to be, so I can do actual tiny computer things.
And just keep a “smartphone” to blend in with normies and survive in society at a basic level.
I’m so sick and tired of having to hunt down some super specific (but hopefully popular enough for developers) SoC phone hardware that’s probably only sold in Europe anyway, so I can put a decent OS on it, which requires a whole weekend of steps because the hardware manufacturer doesn’t want you to, and it’s all good and dandy
“Except the camera doesn’t work and Bluetooth will randomly die.”
…Just to sidestep the ever present corpo-government panopticon trying to 24/7 beam the ad-verse directly into your brain.
My first iPhone 3GS was so exciting at first, so was my first Android I could put Cyanogen on. Now I hate these stupid manifest-landfill bricks because they’re so adversarial to human well being.
I just wish it didn’t require some absolute miracle of moved mountains to get some hardware that belongs to whomever buys it, instead of being black-boxed and booby-trapped to shit “Because screw you, that’s why.” Because The Market™ became about indebting and mining, instead of just selling a thing.
Agh! Sorry for the rant.
(Sent from my Motorola Stylus because they’ll at least unlock the boot loader if you ask nicely and I can use my SD card and drawing on it is neat.)
I have the GPD microPC. I’ve run Fedora and Arch on it both with great success. It supports s3 deep sleep mode so the battery lasts days with light use.
My only complaint is that the keyboard and mouse buttons are terrible. Ive also never been able to get it to fast charge (which it claims to support).
I tried their slightly larger models as well. A little too big for holding like a tablet and typing.
I heard the microPC 2 is out now.
Literally bought a new phone just so I could have a work phone with standard Android and my phone, with Google ripped out at the root level. (Also ripped out the dedicated ai button software)
