melooone

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Currently in the process of installing Lineageos on my brothers redmi note 10 pro.

Its a huge pain compared to my phone, mainly because unlocking the bootloader requires an account with his number connected. Then I had to install Windows to use their shitty unlock app, which the requires you to wait up to 30 days for seemingly no reason. Luckily "just" a week for us.

But yeah the hardware is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Maybe he wants Investors to think that his site will be really good for targeted ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Are you actually using beet juice? I would recommend sand, fine gravel or something else that prevents slipping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the tip! Im gonna buy some needles from the store tomorrow to try it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think the cost is the problem, as a usb-c port can be had for less than 3$ for an Individual. I think its more that manufacturers don't think this is something most people want and therefore doesn't make sense for them to offer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I used to use mine pretty regularly for some wired IEM's and sometimes connecting it to my PC.

But a couple months ago, I put my phone in a bag of silica gel balls to absorb some water after it got wet.

Cannot recommend this to anyone else though... because those balls actually have roughly the same diameter as the headphone jack and one got completely stuck inside, making the port unusable. :(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also a bit confused by this. I thought the point of searxng is to combine your preferred search engines. So couldn't I just configure ddg for the image results?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, Aurora is not the ideal solution and Google might be cracking down on it soon. But as long as it works I don't really mind it going through Google, at least I don't need an account for it.

And sadly many Apps are just made with Google in mind because it's so popular, but my hope is that in the future more and more Apps will have at least a Google free option.

Mobian sounds cool, but doesn't seem so promising to me as well. I agree that custom ROM's are not in a good spot right now, but I think it's gonna get better in the future.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (13 children)

I know that many people still rely on Google's services, but speaking from my own experience, it's not hard to ditch them entirely.

I installed LineageOS 2 months ago, and was only missing my banking app, which I installed using the Aurora store and it works without any issues. For everything else I found alternatives which are, admittedly not as good/users friendly as Google's. But I wouldn't say there's no true FOSS phone OS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Aren't custom ROM's open source? It would be nice if you could buy a phone from big brands with it preinstalled already. That would make it so much more accesible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol I see how that sounds a bit bad. I rewatched the entire thing today, its actually really interesting.

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