• SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    9 months ago

    It’s not just AI, but new android phones drive me spare.

    You can’t disable that. You can’t uninstall that. You can’t make a backup of the whole phone. You can’t make a backup of one app and restore it to a different phone, unless you go through Google. We’re going to install these apps you don’t want, and there’s no way to cancel it.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, I need to figure out GSIs. Finding non-flagship phones with decent custom rom communities is getting harder.

    • 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      And even if you want to install Android Android, not Google Android, you need to set up Google Android, agree to Google T&C to unlock your bootloader.

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      9 months ago

      Universal Android Debloater.

      It’s a community-rating systems for apps, and you can remove/permanently (even through os updates) disable them through ADB, without actually needing to know anything about ADB because uad comes in a nice GUI package.

      I think I removed ~200 apps (most of them invisible, background ads stuff) from my phone. Much better experience.

    • Čauky Mňauky@lemmy.zip
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      9 months ago

      My Android phone app started to show me “suggestions” instead of the call history. Geez, thanks Google. Instead of calling my GF, imma call a proctologist.
      And I just know this feature will soon be used to serve me even more ads. I mean, the play store is bad enough as it is.