• just2look@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    I am one of those people that would love a better battery, and also that is going to buy a pixel as my next phone instead of an iPhone. If they hadn’t forced AI garbage into the phone, I wouldn’t be planning the change. I know the new pixels also have AI garbage, but they have the advantage of allowing me to wipe the OS completely to install something less maliciously intrusive.

    • khalid_salad@awful.systems
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      12 days ago

      I run GrapheneOS on my Pixel and I am pretty happy with it. Also, check out OpenBubbles (fork of an app called BlueBubbles) if you have a Mac that you can extract the hardware ID from. I use it to get my iPhone friends to stop complaining (it’s an American thing I think) and it’s good enough the vast majority of the time.

      Reactions still come through as

      shitheel reacted 🖕 to ‘hi everyone’

      though