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[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

I can live with most of the other stuff, since the quality is good and they are hassle-free devices with Unix-like conventions, they last long, feel fantastic to use; Despite the price, despite the ring-kissing of Trump, despite being a mega corporate spreading its capitalistic cancer across the globe… all because the alternatives have been even worse.

Union busting is where I draw the line though, no matter if it’s in the sale or manufacturing or design side or whatever. This is the first one I hear about, I’ve not been aware of any earlier instances, mostly because I don’t follow stuff so tightly, I am almost certain it has happened before, but now that I have it in front of my eyes I can no longer abide it in my blissful ignorance.

This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today.

I encourage others to consider the same.

Not really sure what I’ll do after these current devices die on me, but now it’s clear to me it can’t be apple. Google’s been dead to me a long time, same for Sony, Samsung, most other big players.

I guess we’ll see what the landscape is like in 5 years.

Fuck this. Fuck apple. Fuck me.

[–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Consider Fairphone. You pay a bit more for mid tier device, but hopefully (and so far seemingly) the money is being well spent.

[–] nlgranger@lemmy.world 3 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago) (1 children)

Software security is not their top priority if the discussion with the Graphene OS project is anything to go by. Not necessarily a deal breaker but something you may want to know.

[–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 minutes ago

Is that info from the latest Motorola collab? I heard about the beef between GOS and e/os, but nothing directly about Fairphone itself.

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 35 minutes ago

a bit late, but never too late

[–] audit69@programming.dev 2 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

🥲🥹🫡 https://system76.com/ I have used all main systems... I was a mac fanboy... and I can tell you gnome... you will like. So much you can do. Best of all no apple ID. It also appears the CEO is fighting back with the whole age gating. There is a way. There is hope.

[–] laz@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago

We have different lines, but yours is respectable. It's sad that Android is also enshitifying.