Permissions, you say? Lemme introduce you to Portable Apps.
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Reddit being enshittified is what motivated me to switch back to Android. I don't want to continue using a a locked ecosystem only for apple to one day say: "Welp, no more adblocks 😜 Oh you use VLC? Dude that's for pirates only. Signal? That's for terrorists. Standard Notes? What evil plans are you hiding? Banned Banned and Banned."
I used iPhones because everyone else was using them so I kinds fell for the peer pressure thinking "Hmm... what are the odds that Apple become evil? Probably don't have to worry about it." The Reddit shitshow just triggered a fear in me that made me rethink about my life decisions. Apple's locked ecosystem suddenly looked terrifying to me, and I just wanna nope out. So I got an Android phone and gave the iPhone to someone. I love my apks and don't need to worry about Google-Play shennanigans.
Lemmy isn't weird at all. Now P2P platforms like secure scuttlebutt and aether, that's some weird stuff. I couldn't get them working at all (or maybe nobody is using these anymore). P2P is very confusing for me. I assume that a federated network is as confusing for many people as p2p social networks are confusing for me. I guess there will be someone out there who reads my comment and be like: "What? P2P networks are so simple, what don't you understand?" I guess people just have different amount of tolorance to being confused by complexity of something before they just give up. I couldn't figure out those P2P systems so I just give up.
I'm conviced those people aren't real and everyone is in fact secretly using an ad blocker.
I mean, how do you not get annoyed with so much ads? People are probabaly lying in surveys to trick youtube to not blocking adblockers.
There's something wrong with my Jenga towers!
Trains only run on a specified track and there isn't one near me. A car isn't bound by a track and can go anywhere.
27? What an amateur...
Glances over at 3-digit Firefox tabs...
"~~How to commit a genocide?~~ How to fail art school twice?"
Fennec is only for Android, because the desktop Firefox doesn't have have weird app-store shennanigans to begin with, so there's no point of maintaining Fennec for desktop.
And I do use Fennec for Android, just to keep the Google-Play shennanigans out of my browser.
Are you saying my favorite characters in my favorite novel doesn't actually exist? I can prove they exist, see... it's in the book!
Is it difficult to take pets on vacation?
Edit: not judging, just curious
Why use usb when you can download from Google Drive? Or is that not allowed too?