Now, if it was a Pixel...

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• PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apple tankies: That’s because iPhone has superior security features making them too hard to steal

  Google tankies: LOOOL it’s cuz apple sux!!!1

  Everyone else: can I take a moment of your time to spread the good word of Arch Linux? I use Arch btw.

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  • qazwsxedcrfvtgb1111@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t bring up Linux in every post challenge (impossible)

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  • halvar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used arch btw until i switched to nixos fr. Kind of like a splinter group, a cult if you would. Less aur. More flakes. Still mostly unusable.

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    • Vuraniute@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      nixos would be 10x better if flakes had actual documentation and not jack shit with a generous amount of nothing

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  • Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dude I love club penguin

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  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love how you frame Arch as the default which isn’t wrong but there are also Ubuntu nerds out there like me 🤓

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    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Imagine if there were ten different types of annoying preachy vegans

      That’s how irritating you are 😂

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• Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  err, people rob to sell not to use, and apple has the most overpriced shit today

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  • SternburgExport@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    try selling a locked iPhone

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    • efstajas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try selling a locked any phone made in the last 5 years. They’re all a brick if you can’t unlock them.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Throw them on ebay and just not say they are locked

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If it was a Pixel 2 or a 4a I’m keeping it, that phone was peak modern smartphone before everything went downhill with no rear fingerprint scanner and fixed focus selfie cams

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  • Cosmos7349@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t have a 4a, but big fan of my 5a with Graphene! The last one with both usb-c AND a headphone jack! It has been my phone of choice since my iPhone SE broke, and it is still my main driver.

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    • frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m still on my Galaxy S10e.

      The last normal sized phone with USB C and a headphone jack.

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      GrapheneOS is the way to go, unfortunately the 5a won’t be supported by Google for much longer, only until August of this year. GrapheneOS will probably provide a few extra months of extended support though.

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  • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I still use Pixel 4 and the fabric case is so great to the touch, too bad the new ones don’t have them.

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you have GrapheneOS installed on it? That way, you could at least get the update to Android 14.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oof, the Pixel 2 XL was hot garbage. I returned mine four times due to speaker issues, and the fourth was no better.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wild. Had no issues until the 5th QC wise but it was all downhill from there. I’m now considering carrying a dumb phone and some alternative to a smartphone

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  • some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have a 4a 5G variant and I can’t stand how the “stock” experience manages to be worse than on my old Samsung :-/ The pics are great tho

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Say whaaaat.

      How’s the pixel experience worse than Samsung? That’s the reason I stopped buying Samsungs way back. All the malware PUPs Samsung loads on being my main sticking point.

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      GrapheneOS gets rid of all the Google crap, it’s a much lighter and more minimal experience, I really like it. It also has some significant privacy and security improvements, it’s pretty neat.

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    • tsugu@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I 100% agree. Stock android experience is garbage even compared miui.

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  • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Loved my Pixel 2 XL. Upgraded to a P5 a year ago tho. Really amazing phone

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah the notch was a couple generations back so I’d put it back too, the dynamic island is much better

  -Sent from my iPhone

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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Death to notches, islands, or whatever. Return to full bezel.

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    • bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m quite happy with the centered hole punch on the latest Samsung made displays. Much less obtrusive than the notch and I can actually see the status icons.

      I’d still prefer a full bezel speaker HTC M8 style though.

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    • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve always been in favor of the notch. I hate hate hate the island and dots. The small notch allows pace for the camera, time and regular status bar on the sides. Most of the time you don’t even notice.

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  • sverit@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Baby reindeer!

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With both whatever-apple-is-doing and Android’s whatever-it-is-called-that-prevent-factory-reset when you don’t have access to the account on the device, I don’t see how people still buy “shady” phones and tablets.

  Last time I borrowed a relative’s phone to run an experiment, I had to contact them to “unlock” the phone after a factory reset before being able to do anything because I didn’t remove the account before. Unless people go out of their way to make their phone “stealable”, that is.

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  • Fosheze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Theives can still dump them in those shady cash for phones machines and walk away with a bit of cash.

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  • Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, if you can factory reset a phone to strip the need for authentication, that seems like kind of a bad thing, no?

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    • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can factory reset it, but not really. On first boot, the phone requires a network connection; you can’t skip setting up wifi if there is no cellular internet available. And it will ask you to authenticate the google account it expect before even starting the “real” setup process. As a matter of fact, once you authenticate with google, it does start again, ask again for wifi and will not have the account setup at all, as you would expect after a factory reset.

      So, while you can “factory reset”, the phone still needs the previously registered google account to start. There’s probably some phone that gives more leniency, but I was not able to circumvent that using adb (the device being locked, and impossible to unlock without accessing the menu, impossible to access without starting in the first place…)

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  • nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had to pay $20 to a slightly shady online service cause one of my kids is an idiot and changed all his passwords cause one of the other kids knew them (because he told them…) then proceeded to forget all the new passwords.

    So I know that on most models of Samsung phone you can just pay $20 to a slightly shady online service.

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• liquidparasyte@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh now we’re all in agreement that the notch was awful

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