There are solutions like IPFS for decentralized content hosting so downtime of a primary resource is less important.

How many GOS users are out there, you think? They have zero impact on the resale value.

This whole situation is caused by fascists in your government. Which shouldn’t be frustrating, but rather galvanizing to action.

Gee. I totally not saw that coming.

These people who push for it are fascists, and the only way to deal with fascists is to kill them before they murder you.

No, of course. They’re going to annoy China about it, until they get sanctioned.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/what-does-cia-whistleblower-use-edward-snowden-graphene-os_id137050

No, it’s paywalled.

That’s some industry-strength bullshit there. It’s not an all purpose computer despite pretending to it.

I have a binary trust scheme: services I control (meaning: self-host) and those I don’t (hosted by other people).

While Google is notorious, I have no evidence that Proton is any better. Now they move their hosting to Germany and Norway. They could be all a honeypot for what I know.

If I finally ditch Google it will all be back to mice and a pumpkin (self-host) for me.

I refuse to rely on proprietary services. My remaining vice is Gmail because running your own email and family shared calendar is a PITA – been there, done that. My GOS tablet had no Google or other proprietary services. My GOS phone has Play sandboxed and runs a few apps I don’t strictly need (weather, Duolingo, Crunchyroll and Gmail and Google calendar).

You’re believing in the tooth fairy. We live in corporatism as a political system, with a nearly complete regulatory capture. As a consumer, you are completely screwed. So do not use proprietary services and products. If you call this corporate sympathizing I wonder what you’d call corporate criticism.

Why would you voluntarily give a company access to you health data, and not expect it to be abused ten times to sunday? They haven’t even secured it properly, so perhaps your health records are being traded on a data black market.

How would Samsung get my health data in the first place?

These people are screwed, then. You can’t expect an uncaring universe to accomodate your wishes, if you’re not willing to move yourself. Stopping using stuff is always an option that doesn’t cost money.

Mine runs fine. Also runs on GOS.

Google doesn’t give a shit about what you want. It only understands two things: credible legal threats and not giving them your money.

It seems they are not getting sued enough.

I am told the smartannoyances start nagging, and some eventually refuse to work without OTA upgrades.

So, no, the first step is: do not buy these.

Not the correct answer, because the defective products will start bugging you about lack of connectivity, and eventually can stop working.

Better solution: do not buy such defective products.