Cyberwolf

I don’t think China is good. I think China is a strong country doing normal superpower stuff.

The difference is China doesn’t start wars and isn’t out to overthrow other countries governments.

Their leadership doesn’t act like clowns either, they have the seriousness that the western world seems to have lost after everyone collectively decided that voting far-right is “based” for “owning the libs”.

So all in all I expected people to hate China less than the US. But online propaganda speaks louder than reason these days.

I do the same as you. Although i probably report the most blatant cases of astrosurfing, political propaganda, trolling and so on.

I prefer China’s honesty to the US’s dishonesty.

It’s simple: America Good, China Bad.

There isn’t much more depth to it than this. BTW even Lemmy is sadly suffering from the same brainrot.

Yeah, this conversation is pointless. Feel free to isolate yourself, the rest of us are still gonna try to work with what the world can offer.

China is a bad relationship? I’ve got some bad news for you but 90% of what you own is made in China.

No, I don’t. Samsung and other authorized OEMs run stock Google services so there’s no benefit to using them. Those devices are also substantially inferior to the Pixel in terms of security features anyways.

The only phone I recommend is a Pixel with a properly set up GrapheneOS install, making use of profiles and private spaces depending on which apps you want to expose to Google Play Services/Framework, and which you don’t.

Ideally your most used profile is filled exclusively with FOSS or privacy-respecting apps that can run without Google services. And I’m talking about going really deep even on elemetary things like using an offline keyboard like Heliboard or FUTO that won’t send everything you type to Google/Microsoft/Apple. Or using Gboard but with network access blocked.

Yes, this set up takes time and some research, but it’s the only way you can guarantee your data is properly split between what is just for you to see, and what others see.

A device that is truly yours and not someone else’s to mine for data and spy on you, possibly getting you in trouble in the future when a government demands your data from Google/Apple.

But if you’re not willing to put in the work to set it up, then I don’t recommend any other Androids. Stay on iPhone instead.

Hold on, you think GrapheneOS isn’t perfectly private (and you’d be right, it isn’t, and their main focus is security anyway) but you think iPhones are better?

Why, because Apple told you it is? Because they have some gimmicks that sound good on paper but don’t actually protect your data in any real way?

Okay dude. Reach out to me whenever cus i got a bridge to sell you.

Also, everything you said is incorrect, and so is your conclusion. But I don’t think we’ll ever see eye to eye on this so why bother.

I understand all of that and I agree with you. Not wanting to pay monthly storage fees is perfectly reasonable too. I know I did everything to avoid giving Google any money for storage.

But microSD slots on phones aren’t coming back, and manufacturers are giving you 512GB of internal storage at most, so we need to move on with the times.

I don’t have a home server (yet) either, but I do have 2 TB disks I use to store all the important stuff I want to save forever. Nothing lives on my phone so I’m fine with 128GB.

Local syncing can be done just by installing Syncthing or Omnisend, and everything gets transferred through your home Wi-Fi. No need for complicated setups. I mentioned home servers as an example but you certainly don’t need one.

MicroSD cards also die so I don’t know why you used that as a slight against internal phone storage. You should always have backups.

Storage is dirt cheap these days, it makes no sense to hinder yourself buying niche phones, often at inflated prices, just for a feature that is easily worked around. In my opinion.

What’s the use case for microSD slots on phones these days anyway?

If it’s (just) to avoid paying Google or Apple storage fees, you can work around that by buying one or several HDDs to keep at home and sync stuff over the local network, possibly even build a server and access your stuff remotely.

I really don’t understand the need for that much space on the go, though. Are you watching entire series on your phone?

Are you saying China DIDN’T aggressively take over Hong Kong and all of the businesses that operated there?

Uh, i kinda am, yeah.

Last time I checked, Hong Kong is still a tax haven in the middle of Asia. Western companies are still opening offshore subsidiaries and bank accounts there to engage in tax evasion, and the welfare system is still as pitiful as it was before China took over.

Retirees living in literal cages or under bridges is still common, and the same 3-4 families that ran Hong Kong’s banking, industry and real estate are still in control like they’ve always been.

China took control of Hong Kong on paper only. By any economic metrics, everything stayed the same.

We as in Europeans, which I assume most of the user base here to be, unlike Reddit. Sorry if my assumption bothers you.

To be fair i’ve not tried fucking up with this too much

We could tell.

Sorry, but what you are dismissing as “They only… You still… You lose…” is very ignorant.

What the GrapheneOS team has achieved is technically impressive, sandboxing Google Play is something no other project has done yet, and now with Private Spaces you can essentially split your profile in two and decide which apps you want Google Play to run through, and which you don’t.

I put all the privacy intrusive apps in the private Space and installed Google services there, and I only open that space about once a week to keep in touch with some friends. The rest of the week I’m enjoying a fully degoogled phone using only FOSS apps and a bank that doesn’t require Google services to be installed.

The team deserves all the praise they get for building the most secure (and ironically, private) OS in the market right now, even with Google being so antagonistic to them. The phone is fully functional and we’re definitely not living 10 years in the past.

You should give it a proper try and form a facts-based opinion, or stop talking about it altogether.

Independent untill the party decides they’re not independent. (Eg).

Again another non-sequitor that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Nobody disagrees that China doesn’t like people publicly criticizing their government.

That has rigorously NOTHING to do with the normal operation of companies that do not engage with politics in China, which is what I was talking about before you barged in.

Also, it is the US that has been kidnapping people into unmarked vans and arresting people at airport, detaining them for however long, and deporting them to countries that aren’t their own for as little as having a meme criticizing the current US regime.

So really, which one is the dictatorship?

The sooner we stop seeing China as enemies, the better. We need them more than ever now that the US has decided to go full mask off.

BYD is free to operate as it wishes in China, along with several millions of other companies. And their products are good.

They know, they just have too much invested in their 401k to think about their own best interests. Sold themselves and their future families for a couple more % points of growth yearly.

I don’t know if this is Windows trying to stop hemorrhaging users to Linux, but if they go ahead with this it will likely hilariously backfire and make multiplayer games become even more compatible with Linux.

Steam is already rubbing their hands grubbingly.

But even that is incorrect.

Yes, Xi Jinping is powerful as the Chairman of the party, but the communist party of China is not the military, and there is a fair amount of decentralization in decision making.

Further, the guy above goes “look at how Xi is suplexing Taiwan?!?!” even though he isn’t because guess what, he doesn’t actually have the power to do so.

Also, none of this has anything to do with the topic of EV production, which is in the hands of a private company which largely operates independently of the government, much like millions of other companies that operate in China.

Which is why I said the dude is just spewing brainless US state propaganda and Red Herring.

Is it any less bad that to have a pretend personality when you’re talking about finding friends…?

but saying that a Chinese company isn’t “under the control of Xi Jinping”, the guy who crushed Hong Kong for having too much independence and wants to do the same with Taiwan, is laughable.

Just take that sentence at face value and consider the ridiculousness of actually believing the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.

You’re just regurgitating unfounded US propaganda which, this being Lemmy, is very unfortunate to see.

If you think Xi Jinping is dictating what BYD does with their cars then you don’t understand the fundamentals as to why China managed to attract so much foreign investment and got to where they are now in the first place.