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hellfire103

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Young humanoid in the UK. Proudly LGBT. Slava Ukraini! | they/them

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Thanks!

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So, I’m 17 and my Dad is an Apple fanboy. He started using Macs back in the '90s, and he’s always been using their stuff. Over the years, he’s managed to get my mum and her parents to ditch Android, and his parents to move on from their RAZRs. Now that everyone has iPhones, I have no hand-me-down routes. I have asked to get an Android, using my own money that I earned, but he always brings up the same arguments:

“Androids are inherently less secure than iPhones”

“We all use iPhones”

“Apple’s proprietary ecosystem just works”

“I had an Android once. Once.”

“Are you just trying to stop the Find My tracking? What if I need to find you?”

That last one could easily be misinterpreted. It’s an emergency thing; he’s not spying or anything. Don’t worry.

I have an old Android in a drawer somewhere, but it’s running 4.4, it isn’t supported by any ROMs, and the battery barely lasts half an hour, so there’s no point in trying to get it to work.

I’ll also be going to university this year, so I should be able to get a cheap Pixel on eBay and flash GrapheneOS onto it soon enough.

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My situation is complicated.

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I got it for free. It used to be my Gran’s.

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Wait, really? Why is it in such a state‽

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Thanks! The last one won’t work, since it’ll be all MicroG’ed, but those are still some great counterarguments.

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I use ProtonVPN 24/7, and it hasn’t changed anything. It’s a firmware thing, I think.

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Something Android has had since version 1.0: the ability to install apps from places other than the App Store.

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…batsense.net/…/ios-17-2-sideload-apps-what-you-n…

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It wasn’t my dumb idea.

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Time to get an Android, I guess.

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Wasn’t my choice. I was 10.

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To cut a long story short, it’s 2.

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I don’t want an iPhone, and it’s a long story as to why I’m stuck with one.

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Possibly, but for the sake of sideloading I’d may as well just buy an Android.

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Had I not been 10 years old, I would have voted remain.

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I will as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

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Of course it can. Man, technology just keeps getting better and better! /s

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Ha! Yeah, I remember that phase. I was planning to install LXDE as my first distro, simply because I thought the wallpaper looked cool.

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I use master because I’m nostalgic. If it matters that much, though, I’ll start using trunk (like we used to back in the days of SVN).

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I use Reddit via one of three frontends (kddit, Eddrit, and Remini).

Some of my known haunts include:

hellfire103,
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And Putinism. It was, after all, the TLD for the Soviet Union.

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I prefer WikiLess, tbh. Also, Metastem uses .su, which was the TLD for the Soviet Union.

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