Preventing installing outside of their monopoly is the correct term, not side loading, that’s just propaganda to make you feel bad for using your device freely.
Yeah they’re built on top of open source anyways… yet they pretend projects like chrome or android would’ve never happened without them. They’re the ones freeloading off of open source and claiming it… and except for pixel they don’t build the devices we use, so fk them and their predatory practices…
If we all want linux phones. we’re all going to have to go through some initial pain of using linux phones while its still a bit rough. Its the only way out of the duopoly (short of legislation). We have to buy linux phones and makes apps.
Everyone: I MUST HAVE A LOCAL ACCOUNT ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS
Also everyone: uses iPhone with mandatory crApple account
Apple - “Amateurs, we’ve been doing it since the beginning and no one has a problem with it.”
We need to stop calling it side loading. Say it what is is android wants to stop people from installing apps
I finally stopped dual booting Windows after I got the “You can’t log into this account due to repeated log in attempts or restarts, wait 2 hours” BS I ran into a few days ago. Sadly there is one game I can’t get working on Linux or a virtual machine, and one laptop feature that will not work until the maintainer of my device’s Linux drivers manages to get it working for my specific model, but being forced out of my own system and told I’m not allowed to access it for 2 hours is intolerable, and the fact its baked into the OS, and can’t be disabled, even more so.
Two companies where the customer relationship can be described as abusive.
You know. I know it. It’s your choice to stay or leave.
Sick of the bullshit excuse of “all companies will abuse me” mantra.
Abusers need you to believe that.
It’s a tiring conversation that you do for attention. Let me know when you actually want help escaping. Until then leave me about of your victim performance.
Enshittification is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
Niche communities like this care. Normies don’t care at all. That’s where enshitification comes from, from the fact that companies don’t get punished by the majority of their userbase even when they pull pretty extreme shit.
