I bought an expensive Samsung microwave thinking it would outlast the cheaper ones. The thing actually started to rust in the first few months something not even the cheapest microwaves have done on me.

Last Samsung appliance I’ll ever buy luckily I’m in the UK and got my money back.

All I want from an Os is to launch my programs of choice and not suck up my battery running unnecessary junk I couldn’t care less about.

I remember being downvoted heavily on Reddit when I called this stupid mostly down to how limited it is and the silly subscription.

Kinda hoping now all those downvoters purchased one because they deserve it.

And I was blown away the ps1 game Vagrant Story turned Into 90mb file as a chd.

That said one of the games I enjoyed most even when I had an Amiga was a 48k ZX Spectrum game called Chaos.

It’s a bit too restrictive by default imo, good for privacy but you will need to change quite a few setting if you want to browse normally.

Despite my opinion it’s the browser I use most on my laptop.

Pretty much everything AI is a scam, I mean it has its uses but isn’t exactly as claimed yet. Pretty much every non phone AI gadget I’ve seen so far definetly is a scam.

Could be I just can’t get over the timing of echolon suddenly being called over and Google appearing almost instantly

That said I still use Google just don’t trust it really I’ve always felt it was an intelligence company in truth and probably the echelons replacement.

Google’s a dumb ass company and I strongly suspect them to be Americas replacement to the echolon program mainly due to the timing.

Seems profits getting a bit more relevant than intelligence to them these days.

Yeah I’d rather go without YouTube than deal with the ads at this point they went ridiculous with it a long time ago.

I hope they do I bought a nothing phone 1 after reading promises of how they wouldn’t move to another phone until they had everything right etc.

Not only did they not keep it but after launching the 2 almost right after this claim they actively sabotaged the 1 the camera got worse the battery got way worse and thing is now super unstable and I really believe it’s on purpose as custom roms make the phone great.

The company is dead to me but I am kinda enjoying seeing the phone 2 users now complain because they are starting to get the same treatment now.

Yeah now I’m never buying a roku I think when amazon eventually manages to wreck my cube (which they really seem to be trying to) I’ll have to try something like a raspberry pi or maybe a small ryzen card.

I’m really not sure but The one thing I’ve decided is to take it out of another company’s hands.

I won’t write them off before I’ve owned one, I imagine they could be good for things like battery life but I’m not sure if they’d be an improvement over other chips like ryzen apus.

Will be curious to see the advantage and disadvantages.

Yeah I’m leaning that direction but I’m also quite attracted to whatever the newest raspberry pi can do.

Mini PC might be easier but yeah I think either way a sbc will be my choice whether it’s a Ryzen sbc or something else like a raspberry pi I’m honestly not sure.

Can state for a fact it won’t be any amazon or roku device but that’s about all.

Could see it effecting Ios devices but even then people will just use a browser. Not really going to effect pc and Android users will likely just sideload.

So not really sure this would have any effect as it stands.

Between this and Amazon’s recent nonsense with Firetv I think next time I’ll just buy a generic Android box or something, maybe even a mini PC.

Bought this a couple of months ago myself that said its probably a good thing it’s being open sourced I just have bad timing and bad luck in general when I buy things of the play store.

Just as an example I bought GTA Vice City and a few weeks later my phone updated to 14 and it hasn’t loaded or even seen an update since. So yeah avoid that one.

I’ve kinda figured out from YouTube repair videos Immediately disconnecting the battery then using pure alcohol and cleaning the components is probably the best solution.

Unfortunately by the stage I could even open my phone and remove the battery it would probably be wrecked anyway by my attempt to do so.

I think this will ultimately backfire on them I gave the bing app a chance on my phone and I got so tired of the try edge interruptions I unninstalled everything Microsoft.

The search was actually decent but the constant nagging was very annoying.

Sorry I only know this from things I’ve read myself so it’s at best third hand info, but yeah from what I understand F-Droid is pretty much under constant threat of just vanishing.

I use quite a lot of F-Droid apps myself so obviously I don’t want it to and wish it had an alternative.

No, F-droid.org is already on its last legs, although I do hope it survives but from what I know one single guy now controls the entire repo and had made threats to shut it down more than once.

I hope somebody forks the entire thing and hopefully does it with an attempt of it surviving as Google has gotten wild in their restrictions and something like F-Droid is sorely needed.

Google lately has tried to restrict Android to below Ios levels. This will kill Android altogether imo and can’t be allowed.

Androids only strength as an os was freedom and that under serious attack mostly by Google themselves.

Shouldn’t it be impossible for them to even be able to hand over your notifications in the first damn place.

There’s no reason I can think off that they should even have this info.