Hi 👋 just shared the site with one of my buddies and he told me he doesn’t care much about it because there’s no way you’ll be 100% privacy enforced since you’re using an iPhone and sharing your location, name, birthdate , personal files, photos.

I’ve to say this gets to me but on the other side I’m also respectful of everyone‘s opinion because after all, this is what makes us special

How are you handling these circumstances usually, do you say something?

  • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    84·
    3 days ago

    Android may be created by an advertising company but they also give you the ability to run whatever OS you want and strip it of Google’s proprietary software completely. These days you can install OS like Graphene by simply plugging in your phone and clicking buttons in your browser.

    This is patently untrue, and a total misrepresentation of the facts. You can install other OSes on a rather small list of Android phones. Furthermore, while the user might just be clicking a few buttons, behind the scenes those buttons put into play a rather complex series of actions that break the protections put into place by Google and phone manufacturers to stop you from doing exactly that.

    Saying that Google gives you the ability to install other OSes is like saying Sony gives you the ability to install other OSes on the Playstation. It isn’t true, Google never gave you that ability, the technical wizardry of white hat hackers did.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      47·
      3 days ago

      This is patently untrue, and a total misrepresentation of the facts.

      LOL what? No it isn’t.

      You can install other OSes on a rather small list of Android phones.

      How many iPhones can you install another OS on? That’s nothing to do with Android anyway, you’d have to talk to the OEMs and carriers about that, Google lets you do it on their phones.

      while the user might just be clicking a few buttons, behind the scenes those buttons put into play a rather complex series of actions that break the protections put into place by Google and phone manufacturers to stop you from doing exactly that.

      No, it doesn’t. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

      Saying that Google gives you the ability to install other OSes is like saying Sony gives you the ability to install other OSes on the Playstation.

      No, it’s not. There’s a toggle that Google put in the stock settings specifically for that purpose.

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        65·
        3 days ago

        No, it doesn’t. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

        Kid, you’ve no fucking idea what I know, so stop with this adolescent shit. Your whole post is nothing more than you saying “nuh uh” to everything I wrote. If you’re going to argue about stuff, at least take the time to actually be fucking informed about what you’re talking about. I’ve been jailbreaking iPhones and taking apart Android since before you were old enough to even know what XDA is.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          56·
          3 days ago

          you’ve no fucking idea what I know,

          I know you know nothing about this.

          Your whole post is nothing more than you saying “nuh uh” to everything I wrote

          …and what do you think you wrote? I didn’t see any evidence? Get a Pixel (or other similarly unlockable device), go into the settings and look for the “OEM unlocking” toggle. There’s your evidence. Maybe you can learn something new today.

          I’ve been jailbreaking iPhones and taking apart Android since before you were old enough to even know what XDA is.

          You’ve no idea how old I am.