• guldukat@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I always thought Pixel was the platform to have for fucking around with the OS and stuff. Of fucking course I was an idiot.

    • new_world_odor@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Don’t be too hard on yourself, they definitely put money and effort into influencing opinions in all the subversive ways they can manage. But also, let this be a lesson to always check alternatives and their reason for existing. I consider it part of best practices.

        • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world
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          3 hours ago

          Yeah, I’m aware that Microsoft coined that phrase, but Google seems to be doing something quite similar.

          Google embraced the creation of an open-sourced Android project, extended its capabilities with centralized software distribution, and is now extinguishing by forcing developers to comply with its new requirements and banning third-party app stores.