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Re:LineageOS 19 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:02AM (#31167585)
Security is a bit different for different people. If you want to do browsing minimising ads/spying from rubbish lineage is there. Also one can block minimise data, improve battery life by avoiding playstore

> corporate settings that do ha

Use a dedicated phone

Re:LineageOS 19 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @09:58AM (#31167536)
Please try https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki for recent devices (Android oreo and later). GSI is fine; of course not everything is perfect. Also google XDA GSI forums for specific advice
This is how universities (or people from academic background) interpret...
> Money buys financial independence and time.

Hi Roman (from Chelsea). how are you?

Re:ReVanced on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:25AM (#30803295)
I am genuinely concerned that you feel bad. But do you know how much money poor people pay to watch ads + all the scam ads they get (and unfortunately lose money). Seriously, test it. (I used to live in 3rd world and now use adblock)...

> Completely screw over small businesses and screw the content creators. On a venture capitalist forum

Then please try to screw VCs (not innocent people in developing world that want to see something for 1GB data per month and they lose so much money for ads). Sure please bill the VCs.

Yes, the hypocrisy is unreal.

> If they can't afford it as a basic cost of doing business, they can always close.

Why do you choose such a company to do business with at the first place?

> Part of me thinks (perhaps naively) if I had the ability to speak with a real person over the phone, we could sort this out instead of constant emails or creating tickets that go into a black hole. As more companies outsource, automate, or severely cut their customer service department, there needs to be some kind of pressure to stop these frustrating experiences from happening.

Look at Dell or HP customer service. Google, Github or Digital ocean will become the same. Yes, you will never get the product designer or systems or devops engineer from those companies. The customer service will repeat the same thing million times over. (I lost Apple account, and unlike Google, I could reach Apple but they just repeated the same thing. (i.e) password is wrong; not our problem).

Also note that if there is direct connection to devops or dev, people ask silly questions to waste time. (i.e) These companies pay just $5000 per year to run their entire business with profits 100X and expect $10,000 per month DevOps will troubleshoot their problems.

> Voting with our dollars doesn't work when these companies are so integrated with our lives.

Example please. As long as it is not w e a p o n s all is wide open market.