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first of all, posting this here is kinda pointless, ain’t a soul here that doesn’t know about this thing. second, no ill feelings about madame V., the world is better with her work in it, but this ain’t the audience for it as her work is kinda superficial and, again, directed at a different audience.
third and final, fuck grapheneos. fuck the pixel. and fuck google. and fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.
if you think this thing is a good idea, that’d be as if linux can run only on a couple of the most recent thinkpads and nothing else. would you still be into it? I know I wouldn’t be.
gOS is the easiest to get onto hardware and that’s why this thing dominates the youtube slop sphere. you try to make flashing lineageOS into a coherent video, you’d lose all of your audience, presto.
for the 99,9% of us that ain’t a buncha jason bournes on the run from 5eyes and friends, lineageOS is plenty fine and secure as is.
fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.
Everyone suddenly forgets the used markets when talking about grapheneOS for some reason. Used old pixels are dirt cheap and don’t pass any money to google.
you are still buying stuff you dont need to and they are not cheap by any metric. $200 for a phone with a degraded battery that was rubbed all over, spat on, taken to the shitter, and dogknowswhatelse is not cheap, by any metric.
a year ago, $50 could get me a Poco F1 or Oneplus 6/6T, SDM 845 with 8 GB RAM. full lineageOS and postmarketOS support. nowadays, same money can get me something like a Poco X3 Pro, SDM860 with 8 GB and 256 GB storage. insanely powerful platforms, that’s what I’d buy if I had to. but I don’t gotta, the latest lineageOS runs on my shit.
first of all, posting this here is kinda pointless, ain’t a soul here that doesn’t know about this thing. second, no ill feelings about madame V., the world is better with her work in it, but this ain’t the audience for it as her work is kinda superficial and, again, directed at a different audience.
third and final, fuck grapheneos. fuck the pixel. and fuck google. and fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.
if you think this thing is a good idea, that’d be as if linux can run only on a couple of the most recent thinkpads and nothing else. would you still be into it? I know I wouldn’t be.
gOS is the easiest to get onto hardware and that’s why this thing dominates the youtube slop sphere. you try to make flashing lineageOS into a coherent video, you’d lose all of your audience, presto.
for the 99,9% of us that ain’t a buncha jason bournes on the run from 5eyes and friends, lineageOS is plenty fine and secure as is.
Everyone suddenly forgets the used markets when talking about grapheneOS for some reason. Used old pixels are dirt cheap and don’t pass any money to google.
you are still buying stuff you dont need to and they are not cheap by any metric. $200 for a phone with a degraded battery that was rubbed all over, spat on, taken to the shitter, and dogknowswhatelse is not cheap, by any metric.
a year ago, $50 could get me a Poco F1 or Oneplus 6/6T, SDM 845 with 8 GB RAM. full lineageOS and postmarketOS support. nowadays, same money can get me something like a Poco X3 Pro, SDM860 with 8 GB and 256 GB storage. insanely powerful platforms, that’s what I’d buy if I had to. but I don’t gotta, the latest lineageOS runs on my shit.
“Superficial”?
Good news: that premise doesn’t exist, you can install it on used shit as well.
No it’s more like if 90% of PCs came with a locked bios.
No there are numerous reasons why GOS is superior for most people. Mostly a combination of privacy, security, and ease of use. Also rapid updates.
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