Technology

I took the jump and installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9 this weekend. Easiest alternate OS load I've ever done, didn't even need to see a command line. (I've put LineageOS on many a phone and GrapheneOS's web-based installer is amazing).

Loving it so far. I have three profiles, the main 'Owner' with NO google services/app store at all; and two more 'Personal' and 'Work' profiles that have Google stuff that I alone chose to install.

Amazingly GrapheneOS even lets you deny Google App Store itself permissions to install from untrusted sources (in this case, Google App Store itself) -- I was suprised to see installing just App Store triggered attempts to then load: My Pixel, Google Photos, Fitbit(!!? WTF), and a few others, without any confirmation first. Was able to shut that shit down immediately. (I had never, ever installed Fitbit on my previous phones, so there's no excuse to install it "from my previous device" or whatever...)

I hope GrapheneOS spreads to other phone models. And I'm sure Google has a team planning on how to strangle it before it does...

There is a reason quartebacks don't return kicks and linebackers dont play wide receiver. They followed their natural genetic build and skillset to become the best at what they are built to do.

Samsung has been a fuckin train wreck with every single piece of fuckin software they touch. They used to make amazing hardware products and I was their #1 fan 20 years ago. Then they started embedding software in every cunthole they can shove their tiny dicks into.

First I stopped buying their TV because the volume button on the remotes hat an embedded feature that when pressed down/in instead of up or down (like the sticks on video game contorll3rs) it backed you out of fuckin everything and launched the fuckin atrocious built in samsung broadcasted tv. Signed into hulu/netflix/disney/xbox/fuck even if your just listening to music and the tv is on sleep mode... NOPE FUCK YOU AND FUCK WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING WERE SIGNING YOU OUT OF FUCKIN EVERYTHING AND BUTTFUCKING OUR BROADCAST SERVICE OF CHANNELS CABLE COMPANIES CANT EVEN MAKE A DIME FROM. Not cable, not anything you plug in or choose. No it takes you to a tv service which broadcasts only shows that noone will pay to watch.

Then it was laptops but i dont remember why it might of just been residual pissed off-ness from the TV.

Now about to be my fuckin ZFold-5 that AGAIN is the best piece of mobile hardware ive ever owned. Indestructible, blazing fast processing power that is only slower than my blazing fast typing speed with full qwerty keyboards like the good Ole cellphone days, beautiful display, beautiful cameras. It really is my favorite thing that someone else has ever ruined.

They just facefuck shitty software onto of shitty software into everything they can. I MEAN PERFECT EXAMPLE AND TIME TO STOP WAS WHEN EVERYONE SAID FUCK YOU TO THEM MAKING FUCKBOOK A BUILT IN APP. Fuck samsung right in their fucking fuck hole.

I wouldn't be surprised if Israel, again, is pushing for this :

The software in question, AppCloud, developed by the mobile analytics firm IronSource, has been embedded in devices sold primarily in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

I hope that we someday have a Linux-based Steam Whistle from Valve, so that we have a phone that is actually ours.

Don't buy any Samsung devices, got it.

First sentence:

Samsung has been accused of shipping budget Galaxy A and M series smartphones with pre-installed spyware that users can’t easily remove.

So unremovable in the sense that it can be removed.

When my Graphene'd Pixel 7 goes out of support I'm switching to something Linux based even if I have to get a Raspberry Pi and a case and carry around a brick. My handbag's big enough.

I will never buy another Samsung phone or tablet. I was done the moment I started getting notification ads from the Samsung store that I cannot disable.

This is Israeli spyware.

They own you.

Zionist Spyware

Funny how they never mention where this comes from... The bullshit propaganda is strong in this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronSource

The software in question, AppCloud, developed by the mobile analytics firm IronSource, has been embedded in devices sold primarily in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

So if you're not in the Middle East. You're good. Still not going to buy any Samsung devices.

With the past decades or so a phone has become a standard piece of equipment where it's virtually used everywhere, anytime. It is a complete disaster that those standards are not applied to what's deemed under the hood - all these companies are deemed to do anything they want to because nothing is standard.

Look where that got us - a duopoly where going against them is deemed "inescapable". It is disappointing how we even let this happen in the first place, the capitalists and fascists basically own us because of it.

All that got us is a standard thing tacked together by mystery tape and glue - hardware & software. Open source software and standards have barely any say here just because the fascists in rule decided so.

I hate galaxy phones, they're build quality is so shitty and the prices are higher than a google pixel. Now they come with Israeli spyware? What other phones have spyware that I should know about?

Hello from GrapheneOS 👋

Tech savvy Lemmings don't need SwapMyOS, but for more non-technical folk, it's there just in case by demand.

AMA.

I have yet to purchase a Samsung mobile phone and I will do my best to keep it that way.