Annual Salary Range $180,000 - $440,000 USD

I mean I’d be “obsessed” for that kind of money…

I’ve used them both for years also (along with Accrescent and Obtainium). You’re not wrong, Aurora Store itself does not require Play Services, but most of the apps do. Like I said, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. The biggest problem is that you can’t receive notifications without Play Services. Even supposed “private” apps from the likes of Proton and Signal do not support UnifiedPush. Despite the Android system itself being mostly open, the vast majority of developers do not make their apps available outside of the Play Store without Google services. And many of them are now being encouraged to use proprietary attestation from Google as well. Since the vast majority of people simply do not care, the developers don’t either. The best solution I’ve found is to create a work profile and keep all the apps that require Play Services in there.

The point is, it’s not nearly as simple or easy as it’s made out to be in the above comments, and FDroid is most certainly not a “replacement” for Google Play Store.

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. And even when it does, it still requires Google’s spyware to be installed on your device.

They count by website traffic so probably not, no.

Not really the same, as Facebook ToS means they own everything you upload. Not the case here.

Yeah Windows better hurry up and get some AI integration!

It wont win over some mythical “everyday home computer user” because they dont exist anymore.

I don’t even know what you’re talking about. The vast majority of people are interacting with a workstation on a daily basis. The only mythical users are the ones that exclusively use phones and tablets.

For Linux to truly “snowball,” it needs a serious, fully seemless office replacement

No one uses Office applications on their local machines anymore. Everything is done in the browser.

Matter of fact, a large majority of all work is done in the browser. Computers have, for a long time, been glorified Facebook machines. Look at how many people use Chrome OS that doesn’t even support any local software at all…

I wasn’t being rude. That was only you. And since you continue to do so, you can have this argument with yourself. Goodbye.

No one uses phones or tablets for actual work. They’re just media consumption and mobile interface devices. When people need to get shit done they sit down with a keyboard and mouse. That’s why they call them workstations.

Unfortunately many of the apps needed just to exist as a member of society are only available in the Play Store.

Thanks

tl;Dr? Why do I have to load 12 pages to read this?

I don’t even know what this is supposed to say or mean.

It’s not the “latest” Pixel generations, devices as old as the Pixel 4 receive extended support (although it’s obviously not recommended) and that’s mostly because Google does not support them. This will be greatly improved moving forward, since Google has promised much longer update cycles for new devices.

the OEM has to make and test these updates anyway. In virtually all cases they will then release these worldwide

I wouldn’t be so sure. There’s a vested interest in NOT shipping them outside the EU. It’s called planned obsolescence. Just looks at Macs and OCLP. It’s so easy to keep older Macs updated that it’s actually able to be done by some random developers in their free time (not to trivialize this effort, just to say that it would be extremely trivial for Apple as the developer of the OS and one of the most profitable companies in the world to do it). And yet Apple does not ship these updates to them. Why? Because they want you to buy new shit and they know not doing so will render them virtually useless in a short time.

I know it seems like I’m being mean in this comment

You are just being mean and extremely rude. It’s completely unnecessary and I’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve such language. You are actively making this community shittier.

The unfortunate reality of an app like this is that it requires a level of privacy that few are equipped to utilize.

Everyone who downloads ICEblock gets logged by Apple accordingly. Everyone who receives notifications from ICEBlock are similarly logged. The White House has made it abundantly clear that they will prosecute “to the fullest extent of the law”.

I usually just use SyncThing and sync the Home directory to another device.

That’s more complicated than a short comment can summarize

You realize there’s a whole rest of the world that’s not the EU?

Not having security updates makes it effectively trash, as far as I’m concerned.