• Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    14 days ago

    You keep using that word ‘enshitification’ I do not think it means what you think it means…

    At least, not with a 100% hit rate.

    • Crafter72@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      51·
      14 days ago

      Probably they took what most avg user would see. Android? We have custom roms. AI Tools (assuming all of them?) Not even close.

      But still find it hilarious that OP even have to post the correction.

      • 0ops@lemm.ee
        3·
        14 days ago

        We barely have custom roms, and they’re almost exclusively for pixel devices these days. Even new OnePlus phones have no custom rom support because OnePlus stopped releasing the MSM tool that’s needed for any custom development. Til though that incidentally the OnePlus 11 does have some custom roms because the MSM tool for it was leaked, but nothing else released after the 9 has any custom rom development

        • xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          13 days ago

          There are a lot of custom roms for xiaomi devices though. I use it on 2 different phones rn.

          • Manzas@lemdro.idEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            Well ,that’s of you are lucky and have a snapdragon a lot of newer mediateks don’t even havo bootloader unlocks e.g. poco x6 pro

  • Gregor@gregtech.eu
    191·
    14 days ago

    Not all subscription based services are malicious. Case in point: Bitwarden is incredibly cheap (10€ per year) and is the best password manager I have ever used. Also services that need constant upkeep costs, such as your carrier, ISP, perhaps even a VPS (I use Hetzner for that), have simply no way to be one-time payments.

    • Tux@lemmy.worldOP
      82·
      14 days ago

      l meant online subscription services like Neftlix, not things like ISP and services that is impossible to be one-time payment

    • GlenRambo@jlai.luEnglish
      43·
      14 days ago

      There was some drama recently with Bitwarden. They sorted it out now but it nearly became enshitified.

      • VonReposti
        51·
        14 days ago

        Eh, everything points to a mistake. Bitwarden not only rectified it ASAP but also made the switch to GPLv3. The latter is not just something you do to please people, you need to understand the legal ramifications it can have on your business, so it very likely was a change that’s been discussed before all of this.

      • Gregor@gregtech.eu
        4·
        14 days ago

        I tried keepass, but the autofill is subpar at best. Also, the syncing is a bit hard to set up and often fails because of conflicts.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    71·
    14 days ago

    It’s a shame Google is going downhill so quickly because I still adore Pixel phones and their image quality/shutter speed/simplicity (they just come pre-loaded with Google bullshit). Does anyone have a suggestion for a worthy successor? I’d like one as close to stock Android as possible while actually rivaling Pixel cameras.

    I remember getting talked into trying a Samsung S21 Ultra briefly (we’re out of Pixels right now, but the camera, bro, I swear, bro, best on the market, bro, you won’t be disappointed, bro) and that had one of the most unsatisfactory cameras I’ve ever dealt with, which was a bigger turn-off than it weighing more than a cinderblock and coming with an roaring Metropolis of bloatware. I couldn’t even snap a clear picture of my child if she was moving. It was like snapping blurry photos of a small cryptid.

    I see Pixel hate occasionally, but I’ve been using them since the Pixel 3 and they’ve been like a snappy little pocket companion. Never felt more comfortable with a phone in my life, and each one feels just like the last but with improvements. Especially with the right launcher. I don’t want to move on from them, but my faith in Google has quickly evaporated.

      • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
        6·
        14 days ago

        To be fair, it had its moments. Windows 95 was a pretty big step forwards and the alternative was OS/2 Warp, which has some nice features but was from IBM, who were still dreaming of replacing the PC with a vertically-integrated home computer again.

        Windows 2000 (or XP starting with SP2) was also solid. 7 was alright. None of those had too much bullshit bundled with them.

        Everything since Windows 8 has been some flavor of shitty, though.

        • undefined@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          As a vehement Microsoft hater, Windows 2000 is really the only one I considered great. Windows XP meant dumping the 9x garbage into NT and spelled the beginning of the end for the actually good NT variant of Windows.

      • Tux@lemmy.worldOP
        54·
        14 days ago

        even tho it was always shit.

        ALWAYS HAS BEEN

        🌍 🧑‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀

  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
    4·
    14 days ago

    How have macOS (its correct name) and iOS been enshittified? As a daily driver of both I haven’t seen anywhere near the level of advertising and privacy violations on them as I’ve read about on other platforms.

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      Its seems less on the software side, but more of a hardware reparability and cost issue.

      For the iphone 16, going from 128GB to 512GB is $200.

      The new Mac mini is asking for $200 for 8GB extra of ram, and $800 for 2TB of (non-removable, encrypted) storage (the base model is only $600). For an extra $1200 you can upgrade the Mac mini to have 32GB RAM, 2TB of Storage and 10GB ethernet.

      For reference a good Samsung top of line 2tb nvme drive is about $200. And most 32gb ddr5 kits are about $100. So instead of $300, you pay $1100.

      On the software front, they are more stable. If you jumped from a 2014 iPhone to a 2024 iPhone (and iOS), it’d be similar enough you wouldn’t feel you’re on a brand new OS.

      Good luck trying that with android (or even windows to some extent).

      • undefined@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        Oh yeah I always forget people still cry about that. I’m a big fan of the unified experience that the software and hardware bring together, and that experience hasn’t been poor for me.