They had Oppo backing, but Oxygen OS was not Color OS.

IMO OnePlus died when Oppo took over, discontinued Oxygen OS and replaced it with a slightly camouflaged Color OS.

I had a 9 Pro that I really liked at the time and some of the OS features I purchased the phone for immediately disappeared. To top it off Oppo seemed to stop fixing bugs, even some severe ones making the phone frustrating to use. I was a repeat customer, but after that there was no way I’d ever buy another OnePlus Oppo phone.

Pure gaslighting by a multi-billion dollar company that’s responsible for the vast majority of Android malware in the wild. If Google wanted to make Android safer they’d make a concerted effort to stop distributing malware through the Play store.

Probably so, but it’s better to be aware of the costs up front so you can take everything into account when making a purchase decision.

“I get that idea” by getting quotes directly from my insurer on various EV’s models that don’t include Teslas. Where do you get the idea that Tesla crash statistics define the insurance cost for every EV on the market?

When I looked at used car insurance rates recently, EV rates were significantly higher for cars of similar selling prices. That may just be due to the fact the initial sticker price is substantially more for an EV than it is for a similar gas vehicle.

Nephew has one. Both he and his wife love it and would buy it again. Check those insurance rates though.

The 30 percent Google tax is officially dead

Exactly the opposite. Google’s extending their control and making it significantly more difficult for developers to make their apps available and for Android users to find and install those apps.

Android has almost caught up to Aero which was released with Windows Vista in 2006. What an amazing Google innovation, it only took them 20 years.

Remember when Google backed off the changes to Chrome that prevented adblockers from working and a short time later implemented those changes anyway? Why TF would Google start caring about what users want now, especially since this issue is way less visible to most people? Google wants people to think they have a voice about what happens with Android, not to actually give them one.

Blocking side loading will force apps and any generated revenue into Google’s Play store which is exactly the point of this no matter what Google says.

The bloviating Google is doing now is irrelevant. The company will move forward with blocking side loading within the next few months, guaranteed.

Remember when Google backed off the changes to Chrome that prevented adblockers from working and a short time later implemented those changes anyway? Why TF would Google start caring about what users want now, especially since this issue is way less visible to most people? Google wants people to think they have a voice about what happens with Android, not to actually give them one.

Blocking side loading will force apps and any generated revenue into Google’s Play store which is exactly the point of this no matter what Google says.

The bloviating Google is doing now is irrelevant. The company will move forward with blocking side loading within the next few months, guaranteed.

Absolutely

I truly believe it’s better to meet them and challenge their (rather stupid) opinions

I spent months on another social media platform doing just that and I learned quite a bit about Maga and none of it was good. They literally had nothing to back up their opinions besides posts and videos by other right wing assholes. Their “research” was entirely within their own echo chamber and outside information, no matter how authoritative, wasn’t considered at all. Information they couldn’t easily disregard or ignore like quotes directly from congressional reports didn’t change their minds either, although it did shut them up.

In addition, 80% of Trump supporters on that site were functionally illiterate. They couldn’t spell, capitalize, or use punctuation, nor could they write a complete, coherent sentence. They likely had just as much trouble reading.

I did learn that they really didn’t like it when someone was able to easily disprove some of their bullshit in a sentence or two and I was threatened more than once by Maga assholes on that site.

There is no challenging Maga Nazis, Trump said it, they believe it, and that settles it.

We have an openly fascist president who reads Mein Kampf and administration members who combined have made Nazis comfortable literally doing Nazi salutes on international broadcast TV. IMO the U.S. IS the Nazi bar in the story - we let one Nazi in and now they’ve brought all their friends. Let’s not repeat that mistake on Lemmy.

Give them the boot.

Scalzi - both The Kaiju Preservation Society and Starter Villain are terrific.

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A few years ago someone I knew at T-Mobile said they could no longer get replacement parts for 2G equipment. If it’s still up and running I wonder how it’s being maintained? Or maybe he was misinformed.

US carriers have supposedly decommissioned 2G completely as of February of this year according to Google:

Carrier shutdowns: All major U.S. carriers have shut down their 2G networks. AT&T completed its shutdown in 2017, Verizon in 2020, and T-Mobile (the last major holdout) by early 2025.

Really creepy.

2G has been phased out on current US networks but is still in place on our phones. I wonder what steps they’ll take to access our data when 2G is phased out on the phones themselves.