• pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 hour ago

    What this comic or meme isn’t showing:

    Linux user spends every waking hour being a Torvalds Witness prophet, browbeating everyone and anyone into using Linux. While proclaiming about free choice

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    1 hour ago

    I had to chuckle in an exasperated way when I opened the Xbox app on my phone… and there’s a fucking Copilot tab in there as well.

    I understand the use cases for AI, but Microsoft seems to be throwing the whole lot at the wall and seeing what sticks.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I agree. Can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe the window behind the monitor? I try not to assume simply because of the style, but the lack of author credit makes it hard to check anyway.The weird thing is it wouldn’t at all be hard to draw by hand.

      • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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        1 hour ago

        It’s also the font on the pop-ups, and the AI logo.

        There’s a very generic style of Facebook cartoon that these things absolutely nail.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    There’s also the part where a windows update unlocks a new kind of fear: “what will it break this time?”

    A linux update instead brings the joy of “nice! New things everyone was waiting for!”

  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    2 hours ago

    It’s not just AI, but new android phones drive me spare.

    You can’t disable that. You can’t uninstall that. You can’t make a backup of the whole phone. You can’t make a backup of one app and restore it to a different phone, unless you go through Google. We’re going to install these apps you don’t want, and there’s no way to cancel it.

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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      1 hour ago

      Universal Android Debloater.

      It’s a community-rating systems for apps, and you can remove/permanently (even through os updates) disable them through ADB, without actually needing to know anything about ADB because uad comes in a nice GUI package.

      I think I removed ~200 apps (most of them invisible, background ads stuff) from my phone. Much better experience.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      And even simple things like the gallery is so bad, scanning your whole phone. I want the gallery yo show my photos, not my video collection or downloaded images.

      I’m not rich, but if I could I’d jump ship with my xiaomi 13t.

        • Valmond@lemmy.world
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          1 hour ago

          Yeah I need a good camera, and I heard the pixel is good. I’ll look into that, I can probably keep an older xiaomi for my banking app with all the google crap on it…

          • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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            1 hour ago

            Actually, don’t rule out that your banking app works on Grapheneos! Mine is not marked as supported in the wiki and works!

            I don’t have contactless payments because gpay doesn’t work, but it’s not a big deal (and it can be solved if you use curve or if you buy a garmin smartwatch)

    • 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      And even if you want to install Android Android, not Google Android, you need to set up Google Android, agree to Google T&C to unlock your bootloader.