imposing an artificial entry barrier of hundreds of dollars/euros for not getting assraped on the reg gets a well deserved fuck you and die. the vast percentage of gos functionality can be had with lineageOS and a few tweaks, for a tenth of the price.
$500 for a phone is not fucking “reasonable”! shit’s supposed to get better and cheaper at the same time. but if your easily breakable slab of glass costed $99, that’s not hella much profit for their gaping assholes.
and miss me with the “refurbished” (isn’t) - $200 for a used phone that was spat on and rubbed and used in the shitter and now has a bad battery is not reasonable.
my sincerest apologies to the huge population beset by nation-state actors, who got no alternative to locked bootloaders and are exposed to evil-maid scenarios. the rest of us can get two $50 used phones, run lineageos on one (while that’s still a thing), postmarketOS on the other, and accelerate the latter’s progress by shipping like a quarter of the remaining balance to its developers.
are you being a good little consumer and I’ve somehow disrupted your bliss, you poor thing? sooo sorry, go vote with your wallet you ignorant, useless troll
brah, phones haven’t changed significantly in the past decade. competent devices should (and do) cost like $100. chinese phones cost that much, made at the same place where these things are made. that’s enough for all the parts and a healthy profit and that thing can run the same software as the $500 one or the $1000 one.
those things nowadays ain’t nice-to-have, they’re must-have and poor people shouldn’t be excluded from safely participating in the global communication sphere. gos could at any time ship gos-lite that isn’t based on a hardware-backed TPM that’s exclusive to pixels and I’d shut the fuck up. that thing would cover the 99% of us that ain’t a buncha jason bournes with nation-states after us.
fuck google. fuck the pixel. and fuck grapheneos.
imposing an artificial entry barrier of hundreds of dollars/euros for not getting assraped on the reg gets a well deserved fuck you and die. the vast percentage of gos functionality can be had with lineageOS and a few tweaks, for a tenth of the price.
$500 for a phone is not fucking “reasonable”! shit’s supposed to get better and cheaper at the same time. but if your easily breakable slab of glass costed $99, that’s not hella much profit for their gaping assholes.
and miss me with the “refurbished” (isn’t) - $200 for a used phone that was spat on and rubbed and used in the shitter and now has a bad battery is not reasonable.
my sincerest apologies to the huge population beset by nation-state actors, who got no alternative to locked bootloaders and are exposed to evil-maid scenarios. the rest of us can get two $50 used phones, run lineageos on one (while that’s still a thing), postmarketOS on the other, and accelerate the latter’s progress by shipping like a quarter of the remaining balance to its developers.
What a fool
are you being a good little consumer and I’ve somehow disrupted your bliss, you poor thing? sooo sorry, go vote with your wallet you ignorant, useless troll
It has. $500 in 2026 doesn’t go as far as $500 in 2008.
I wouldn’t buy a pixel again because of the quality control issues but that’s beside the point.
brah, phones haven’t changed significantly in the past decade. competent devices should (and do) cost like $100. chinese phones cost that much, made at the same place where these things are made. that’s enough for all the parts and a healthy profit and that thing can run the same software as the $500 one or the $1000 one.
those things nowadays ain’t nice-to-have, they’re must-have and poor people shouldn’t be excluded from safely participating in the global communication sphere. gos could at any time ship gos-lite that isn’t based on a hardware-backed TPM that’s exclusive to pixels and I’d shut the fuck up. that thing would cover the 99% of us that ain’t a buncha jason bournes with nation-states after us.
So what you’re now saying is phones have gotten better and cheaper.