who the fuck asked for this
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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Whelp, I guess I now own my last Samsung phone. It was a good run. I've been considering going pixel for a while so I can put graphineOS on it. This just helps me make that decision.
Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don't need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!
I'm thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.
If I can do it, anyone can.
It's more a matter of running out the clock on my S22. When this puppy is dead, pixel is next.
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Don't they know how ugly the common people are. I'm not gonna buy something with an ugly guy in the ad. We ain't all plastic surgery Korean like Samsung home base.
Absolutely wild clown show we're living in
I weep for my newborn, whose reality will be marred by so much fakeness
I was just sitting there looking at the cool art I have as a lockscreen wallpaper and im thinking, man I wish my phone would scan my face and place an ai slop image with my face badly right on my lock screen. Thank god Samsung is so in touch with what features consumers want added to their $1000 devices.
Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.
This is excellent.
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That's crazy.
Anyways I'm gonna pitch never buying a Samsung phone again to the HR people if this comes true.
Glance says it will retain the biometric data used to create your digital avatar for 12 months from your last interaction with the service or until you manually delete your account. The company claims that your images won't be used for any other purpose or shared with third parties without your consent.
Thousands of pictures of regular people's faces, not just professional models, is valuable data. They're definitely selling that shit or using it for their own AI training.
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I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
The moment I see myself in an ad, I'm giving up on technology and joining the Amish.
Don't do that. The Amish are not good people.
https://www.grunge.com/268104/the-dark-truth-about-amish-country/
We should all be more like the actual Luddites - they destroyed technology that was being used to exploit and/or displace workers.
Let’s start a lemmite anti-tech community ironically full of tech nerds
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Minority Report, the bad parts.
Edit: glad I'm using a deGoogled Android phone, can't trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.
Someone at Samsung submitted a user story only to troll, and it worked "I need you to drain my phone battery and data plan for ads when I dont even look at it"
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, "Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we're enabling it by default"?
I've already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I'm keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it's genuinely a "flagship" for £800 I might jump ship.
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, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.
so i guess i'm going to hold on the the pixel 8 for as long as i can then......