| ▲ | OsrsNeedsf2P 5 hours ago |
| I recently upgraded from the Pixel 7 to the 10. Nothing but regret - the phone isn't worse, but it's not better either, and I had to reinstall everything. Why did I do this? |
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| ▲ | jsheard 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The cool thing about Pixels is that not only will you have to pay extra for RAM because of AI, but some of the RAM you paid for will also be permanently reserved for local AI features, regardless of whether you use them. https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-10-3-5-gb-ai-only... |
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| ▲ | drnick1 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Pixels only make sense if you are going to install Graphene. The Google OS is bloated with spyware. |
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| ▲ | inigyou 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | On a Pixel phone you have only Google spyware. On another brand's phone you have all the same Google spyware, plus the spyware from that brand and a permanently locked bootloader. | | |
| ▲ | esperent 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can remove 3rd party spyware/bloat in 15 minutes with Shizuka/canto and a usb cable and you won't notice anything changed in the phone. Unfortunately the Google spyware is so deeply integrated that you can't really do that unless you accept a ton of things not working - not just Google apps but also lots of third party apps that require Play services. | | |
| ▲ | drnick1 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, if you want full degoogling you need a custom ROM like Graphene on Pixels or Lineage. The main issue these days is that bootloaders are locked. Phone manufacturers mostly refuse to give you control over your own hardware. | |
| ▲ | recursive 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > You can remove 3rd party spyware/bloat in 15 minutes with Shizuka/canto These techniques seem not to be widely known. A kagi search turned up only information about some singer. |
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| ▲ | trvz 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That’s on Google. iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are amazing upgrades. |
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