WellTheresYourCobbler [ey/em, they/them]

I don’t understand the “giving money to Google” bit about pixels because you can get just about any pixel you want off eBay refurbished anger practically good as new. I would never consider buying a brand new phone because the prices are unreasonable no matter what company you’re buying from.

Webview is used so that apps can display web pages without opening a separate browser

Holy shit please

It’s fine I just install uBlock and cope

This is so fun

I’m pretty sure it’s recognized it’s well discussed when talking about ticks here.

Shitttt my bad idk how I missed that

Apple TV isn’t open source but if you want to watch your streaming services in a quality higher than 720p you’re going to have to pick something proprietary anyways and at least Apple TV has no ads and is very pleasant to use.

Love to see some accessibility improvements and the nautilus update is going to make handling my large folders a lot easier

Huh that does sound arbitrary

I saw this before but I wasn’t ready, I think I might be now…

Honestly the UAC (the admin password/permission popup) and the way it handles software crashing (I believe by taking a screenshot of the current session, then moving to a safe session and asking what you wanted to do)was pretty nice. I don’t think most distros have matched the security of windows UAC prompts but then again it’s not as necessary on Linux either.

Yes omg I forgot about this but I do miss it frequently

I like that on hexbear and some other communities here you have just an upvote and no downvote. It makes posters who disagree have to either just move on or actually make a decent argument instead of just pressing the “I don’t like this” button.

fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.

Everyone suddenly forgets the used markets when talking about grapheneOS for some reason. Used old pixels are dirt cheap and don’t pass any money to google.

This is the right answer to this question. You have to be ready to learn a new OS if you want to switch to Linux. IMO that doesn’t mean you should expect to be doing everything through the command line but if even a ui difference is going to be a problem then it’s probably not time.