Yeah that’s worrying for both phones. OnePlus just doesn’t promise updates and longevity. The Fairphone does make these promises, but with a bad track record and the current hardware I’m not certain it will be useful very long.

Yes, that’s exactly it. I edited my post so everyone can give feedback to Google about for what it’s worth.

I used LineageOS for a long time on my OnePlus One and moved to iPhone since last year. Tried S24 ultra for a month, but I disliked a lot of things. Now I’m getting fed up with the walled garden and the aas kissing Tim Cook does in the White House. I prefer Chinese phones of American ones. Google is the only issue, but I know my way around Shizuku to uninstall bloatware/spyware from Google. But I’m worried apps like ReVanced, NewPipe and several F-Droid apps won’t work because of this dumb policy.

I personally want to keep using ReVanced, Newpipe and a lot of F-Droid apps. I’m just worried in the future it will all be taken away. I have two iPhones now. In the past I used Samsung, but didn’t like the multiple and double of everything. 2 app stores, 2 webbrowsers, 2 note taking apps, 2 mail apps. Some of it was deletable and some wasn’t. I do feel like OnePlus comes with less bloatware.

I especially feel like apple is opening up more and Google is closing down Android more. They’re moving to the same point in a spectrum. Which is IMO a false sense of freedom and ownership. It’s how dictators rule a country: you can do whatever you, but only if we like it.

I think they already did something to frustrate forks of Android not too long ago. Not sure what it was exactly, but for new updates developers now have to reverse engineer Google’s updates first before they can update their custom forks… I wish there was a kickstarter or something to create a third OS based on open and fair principles. One that’s actually usable with the most basic apps. I can do most with web apps, but not everything.

Happy to see more people are mentioning Hamas as a resistance group! Hamas is NOT a terrorist organization. It’s an answer to 75 years of genocide and illegal occupation. 100% of the murders in Gaza are civilian.

The Germans are one to speak. Any country that’s still actively supporting Israel can never convince me that they’re better than Russia. If Gaza falls, so should Ukraine and the rest of Europe. I don’t care about the fate of this continent. Let it be a bloody battlefield again. That’s the only way to learn these filthy colonizers a lesson,

There isn’t barely any good alternative for smartphones. Tech companies and CEO’s are now what the Church and the Pope were in the Middle Ages. Both keep the masses dumb, ignorant and hateful.

Great can we also take the innocents killed in Afghanistan and Iraq to trial? Why is it that pathetic American soldiers fight a war with the best tech and weapons, and somehow still feel like they’re the sad little victim that suffered.

At this point, I just need a community device. And I’ll gladly pay monthly for an OS that has the basics with a web browser and full privacy.

Just you wait until EU representatives start licking American/Trump buttholes and reverse every sanction or law imposed on US tech.

Tell me, what should people use instead? Should I train my own pigeon to send messages?

That’s why I tend to stick to Apple. They’re both evil, just one is a little bit less evil.

I haven’t encountered a troll yet and the encountered bots so far are useful repost bots. Reddit is just filled with obnoxious people that I couldn’t stand, moderators with small dick energy that moderate to whatever rules they prefer (like permanent bans for using very common non-targeted slurs) and just annoying trolls on subs like WorldNews and Canada that get away with racist shit all the time.

I was worried at first that Lemmy would be basically dead compared to Reddit. But holy hell, its active enough and its qualitatively better than Reddit could ever be. I never realized how shit it was until I actually decided to leave permanently.

I now realize how most people would be Nazi’s or side with them with their silence during the holocaust. Anyone who is silent today can never convince me that they wouldn’t be nazi’s in WW2

You didn’t say a wrong word. On the same hand they allows WorldNews and Conservative scum to facilitate hate and incite violence. Reddit deserves to die.

But it’s less convenient. The topic is about incredibly useful stuff under or around 100 pounds. An electric pump is only like 10 pounds more than a good hand pump that you can only use for small stuff.

I deleted my 13 year old Reddit account and I am so glad I did. They started banning me for the most ridiculous things. I am very vocal about the Israeli genocide and just using the word genocide, was enough for them to temporarily ban me. They follow a zionist agenda and they censor voices that are against genocide. I don’t have to talk about Spez, everyone already knows what type of person he is.