Linux-based phone still ‘runs 99% of Android apps’ so you can do more with it, if you wish.
  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    63·
    20 hours ago

    I mean its a small company. We have become too used to subsidized costs at the sake of our privacy. Know why TVs are now $200? They are literal spyware in the home. Try buying one without spyware, $999 real fast for the same TV.

    Know why phone companies give you a “free” $1000 phone? Youre the product. Constantly tracked and sold. A digital slave.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      3·
      5 hours ago

      People don’t know this it seems. You actually have to give up something to gain some privacy. Can be money, can be features.

      Most people still use Google while there is Kagi for like 10 dollars… Because they want privacy, but they need it to be free. :)

    • mecen@lemmy.ca
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Not free, and on pixels you can install de googled androids like grapheneos and LineageOS

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      24·
      19 hours ago

      Pinephone was a fraction of that price. Can’t you run PostmarketOS on a Fair phone too? But that has much better specs.

      • OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml
        16·
        18 hours ago

        The pinephone was atrocious (As a daily) though. From what I’ve heard from owners it still struggles to this day to run basic mobile Linux OSes.

        • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          18 hours ago

          Fact. It’s amazing that it exists, but it is definitely not a daily driver device. At least for me.

          • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            15 hours ago

            Buuutt are you someone who travels and uses airline and banking and hotel apps? Or do you stay home and use arch on a thinkpad ?

            /joky

            • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              3·
              8 hours ago

              I have done all of those things without apps. Why the fuck would I want an airline and hotel app?

              • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                1 hour ago

                Hotel: check in to room immediately without even going to front desk, even if its 3 am.

                Airline: instant update of gate changes. When you need to sprint to make your flight because thr gate changed to one a half mile away, this is something you can’t live without. TVs are getting less and less in airports now. Also, literally no one uses a paper ticket and I suspect they’ll be phased out completely in 5 years. Too easy to fake.

                There are people alive today who have never once written a check (I do, often), so you can kiss all of our old analog paper ways goodbye in a few years.

                • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  2·
                  1 hour ago

                  Yeah I have never written a cheque either but I don’t need an app as an alternative. Don’t really see why I would need an app to tell me about gate changes at an airport, how often are you flying? I have changed devices more often than I have been in airports.

                  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
                    1·
                    45 minutes ago

                    Well we are different in that regard. I keep shit a long time ha, so ive probably had my phone 3 years and been in a plane 5 or 6 times . my SO flies a lot more, has many times had to sprint to their gate because it changed last minute.

                    Plus, we dont own a printer anymore (ink=scam) so thats another hassle to go print a ticket. I’m guessing you can’t even print at home either you probably need to use the airport printer.

    • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
      17·
      19 hours ago

      Phone companies dont give you a “free” $1000 phone, you’re actually paying more for it via the monthly bill payments.

      That’s on top of you being the product as well.