I’m just so tired of the algorhythms. It’s like being in a cage mentally.

You see, there’s this concept of time. And as time passes, variables change. It can explain a lot if you understand it.

Ironically the only thing that will ever work is identifying a user to a person in one form or another. Otherwise it’s just a never ending arms race.

I started talking to a friend about this and he called me a tin foil hat wearing conspiracist and said even if it’s true him and his company is making money off of it so he doesn’t care.

Well they are building data centers like they want to have enough resources to do just that.

Yeah so I don’t see what the issue is. If they gave me stock android from 8 years ago I would still be happy to use it, and most basic users probably wouldn’t even know the difference. There are very few features released in the past few years that I couldn’t live without. Probably the only notable one I can think of is notification history. Other than that it has been all downhill, like removing the ability to easily record calls, which iphone can do no problem. As it is now I have to use a differnt phoen a a bunch of hacks to get it to work. It’s my device, let me assume the risk. Nanny bullshit.

I’ve never developed on Android, but would it be hard to port most apps to AOSP at this point if the developer wanted to?

It’s the hardware, and it feels like mobile in particular is intentionally designed to not be modular. I suspect that is by design to keep it under control of the big companies.

Honestly if there was an alternate and functional phone/OS/app store that early adopters who are a little technical can embrace, it would be the #1 platform in under 5 years. People in the know are chomping at the bit to get away from these big monopolzed platforms, and once it gains steam and polish, people will flock to it.

The only thing stopping a mass exodus is that there is no single version of Linux that is just dominating. I know that defeats the purpose of Linux, but that is what the dumb masses (such as myself) want. We want easy, and we don’t want to be special. If I have a problem I want a thousand others with the same problem, not my own little unique problem that I have to take hours away from my day to fix.

If they were smart they would hedge and use AI but not call it AI. Actually build a product that leverages AI and give it an appropriate name.