printf("%s", name);

Some suggestions:

• read books
• listen to books (the Internet Archive is great for this)
• write with pen and paper (diary, emotional journalling, poetry, transcribing your senses into written words, whatever)
• install AI blocking filters (uBlock Origin or host files or settings in Duckduckgo etc)
• practice boredom (“dopamine detox” is bullshit, but getting accustomed to writhing a little bit when there is no stimuli and instead focusing on your breathing, how your body feels or the dust particles in your room is not)
• yoga, walkabout

I agree. People that lack the technical expertise or rooting compatible devices shouldn’t be forced to even consider this. Once you have paid for a device, you should be allowed to do with it whatever the hell you want, without Google or other big tech shoving unsolicited policies down your throat.

You’re right. At the very least, users shouldn’t be forced to make this choice. It’s absurd how little authority we have over devices we have paid for with our hard earned money. :(

Are there people who are angry out of principle/ideologically but who don’t do sideloading etc? Because, I’d like to think that if you are angry enough at this, then you have the incentive and the will to root you phone (making it an unsupported device and making it NOT locked for sideloading) and go on with your life. I wish Google died like… Yesterday. Don’t get me wrong. Am I missing something?

Awww I fucked up. Thanks!

Neither does mine

If people in the 1990’s only knew how much personal and sensitive data those desktop UIs collected unbeknownst to the common end user with the purpose of profiting off of it by selling all that aggregated data to honorable businessmen who in turn would hand it over to totalitarian regimes and other cyber criminals. Oh boi.

While I do not condone creating an account on Reddit, the megathread of r/piracy is really great and accessible without an account. Check it out! Also: https://fmhy.net/

Holy Moly! DC++?! Brings me back. HARD.