• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Can someone please come out with a phone that’s an actual computer and help stop this nonsense?

    Phones cost a lot of money at this point and I’m completely sick of them being some locked down, surveillance ridden pile of crap. A reasonably built one would be able to replace a laptop at this point if it weren’t for these artificial constraints imposed by the stupid fucking suits running things.

    • TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml
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      29 days ago

      Battery life is limited by cell modem drivers being closed source and having to be reverse engineered.

      I have been looking into an alternate hybrid radio device using Reticulum. Though with that comes a new less convenient user experience for a lot of apps.

      • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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        29 days ago

        As long as your phone model is supported by any custom mod. I have checked compatibility for almost all smartphones I owned, some 7 or 8 through the years.

        Not a single one of them was ever supported by a custom mod.

        • kepix@lemmy.world
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          28 days ago

          but you did not check custom rom aupport before you bought tgem, cause did not want freedom and moddability. its on you.

          • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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            27 days ago

            I consider price and technical specifications. I don’t have 200€ to spend on a phone. Most phones I bought were less than 100€ new. What I care about a phone is that it supports two SIM cards.

            With such constraints, choice is quite limited unfortunately.

            Is it worth having a free device? Indeed. Is it worth spending 4 times the price just for that? Not to me.