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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

do you have the ability to remove whichever apps you dont like?

The user notitication makes sense, i guess its more secure. Btw, so everytime you switch user, you have to restart?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and it comes with very few by default as well

No restart needed, pull down twice and the switcher is on the bottom right. Usually takes just a couple seconds to switch.

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

thats nice to hear. I thought you need to restart to change profiles.

You're on the 9a right? How is the battery under Graphene? I used to have the OG Pixel (codename sailfish) and try different roms on there, but the battery is just terrible.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I'm still feeling that part out since it's only been about a week, a full charge can last me multiple days (5100mAh) and the battery in my pixel 5 (4080mAh) was pretty run down.

Fully charged 25.5hr ago & pretty heavy use yesterday and I'm at 63%, the 5 would have been twice dead by now.