Being an iOS user feels like being a second-class citizen.
Time to replace my lost Android...
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you are 60% to blame for making spend these precious sats, the rest of the blame goes to citrine, amber and pokey.
damn you
damn you all!
Yes it's annoying and less functional
Come on home son
Yes!
Although I am trying to completely eliminate google from my life, I'll admit I've always hated iPhones. It may just be not having a back button, but I can't stand them. Next phone is going to be degoogled.
i'm getting one android to just do my banking and occasionally do navigation with all radio off in both cases
my "degoogled" phone i already have it, it has a screen with like 2 rows of 12 characters, old school LED array, i forget what they are called, too long ago i first had one (before AMOLED). it's about the size of your thumb and can only do voice and sms
i just have been trying to figure out how to arrange it... the main problem actually has been the way these batteries are built in and when you leave them plugged in all the time, they literally inflate with hydrogen and are at risk of catching fire
so i'm rooting the bank terminal device, and installing a battery charge regulation app that keeps it from ever going over 80% and that should prevent the thing swelling... and the dumb bank gets their small task of maintaining their one terminal system, so i am relegating it to not being my phone at all, just a dumb brick in the corner sitting on top of my computer case
just hoping the bank app won't complain the system is rooted, i had some other stuff complain about that
may have to get a dongle that offloads that from the device by reading the device charge level and actually, you know, doing what i want it to,ie, not blowing up with hydrogen lol
also, yeah, i'm gonna go through my gmail, what few things i have tied to it, and move them all to proton, and yeah, i'll be off google completely then, except for the unavoidable stuff i can't remove from the bank terminal brick
will be nice, just thinking about it, how much i would like to not feed google anything
gonna have to wean myself off translate (use about every other day) and maps (about once a week)
only google related thing i will use is Go which is fine because it's actually good enough they aren't running a persuasion bullshit campaign to get hipsters to fawn over it like Rust and Mozilla
Get out of Google is very hard. I've tried on a fresh phone for a few months, without Google account whatsoever.
If you are willing to replace Google wallet with some alternative and loose Google maps as well, then OK.
But wallet alternatives are PayPal or another couple of US only services. Or go around with piece of plastic like a caveman.
And for as good as Organicmaps is, still missing lots of venues and content.
Plus many apps I use often are only available on Google store or as apk to manually upgrade and from not really trustable sources..
Caveman here reporting for duty.
I will likely have to keep play services on it after installing the xapo app but I will have root so I should be able to remove everything else. And yeah just osmand, for the rare navigation requirement...
I can't see myself ditching it completely from desktop but I can stop using mail and calendar, maps on desktop I use maybe 2x a month, translate maybe 5
Yeah, but anyway fuck google.
its like being trapped in a padded cell
Always have been (TM)
:)