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I used to love Android but I want to move, and I don't know if it's the right thing.

I was an iOS supporter until iphone 5 then I discovered the beauty and freedom of Android.

To this day with Samsung s22+

But currently I am a bit tired, there is no android phone that I am passionate about, oneplus has given me nothing but problems, Samsung with exynos is a disaster (not to mention the new blockages at sideload and the green stripes on the display), I don’t even want to go near all the other Chinese brands, and Nothing is not what it promised to be.

I want to go back to iOS but there are a few things holding me back:

  • how can sideload be managed on iOS? Are there modified apps like youtube, reddit?
  • I follow a lot of NSFW channels on telegram, discord and reddit itself, are there any problems on iOS? are there ways around this? (my girlfriend has iOS, and every time I want to forward an nsfw gif she doesn’t see it)
  • surf the sea, is it complex on ios? Especially in terms of gaming?

TBH only yt, nsfw and modded apk keep me on android. Thanks a lot in advance

deranger ,

my girlfriend has iOS, and every time I want to forward an nsfw gif she doesn’t see it

Say what? There’s no content censoring that I’m aware of. I’ve had no issues looking at all kinds of NSFW/NSFL content.

Regardless, you’re likely not going to enjoy the lack of modified apps and game piracy; I don’t do either of those. Maybe it’s possible but you’ve gotta jump through so many hoops IMO it wouldn’t be worth it.

Zero issues with NSFW though, that’s bizarre to me. There’s screen time web content filtering but I believe that only affects safari.

GravitySpoiled ,

My partner can’t view webp/webm content on ios either. It’s a real pain once in a while.

Taleya ,

Yeah but there’s a difference between’doesn’t support webp’ and 'blocks porn*

TheDuckPrince OP ,

I can tell you that there are channel marked as NSFW that share video and gif and if I send it to my gf, on her phone (even with nsfw enabled) she get the message “this channel is used to share pornographic material” while on android I can see everything.

deranger ,

What do you mean by channel, like on Telegram?

This is a region specific Telegram setting if so, it’s not iOS. Tell her to disable the adult content filter.

OpenStars ,
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Why not Nothing, if you don’t mind my asking?

I’ve also thought about Fairphone as my next one.

And I’ve thought about an iPhone like this too - if you have adblocking via a home router or pihole or some such then why not? Piracy could be done indirectly and just play/stream from Jellyfin or some such. But my thoughts are not well enough along to be of any use to you there, just to say that your ideas don’t seem crazy to me. Buttery smooth operation, actually pleasant to hold and use (not burning a hole in my hand after not even a minute of standard web browser usage as my own S22 does, probably bc of my Blokada VPN adblocker?), so long as the downsides can be mitigated.

Pixels seem to be to be entirely too imbalanced to me to include a super expensive camera that I barely use and barely any stats that I actually do (game emulators or whatever) - I really want a Nexus except they don’t make those. Even OnePlus doesn’t make those flagship killers anymore. I doubt they exist at all tbh.

Another idea is to get like an old OnePlus 7-ish device and just immediately replace the OS with a custom ROM. Fast charging is both good and bad - great utility but leads to heat issues later in the battery’s life.

I almost just want a cheap piece of crap dumb phone at this point, so that I don’t have to spend hundreds of hours researching every damn thing that the manufacturers are trying to do to me and ways to get around them without leaving (literal!) scorch marks on my hands.:-( But I also want Google Maps and maybe an Uber app in an emergency so that’s what holds me back.

So with that I think I’ve recommended just about literally everything now in this comment… :-P

ladfrombrad ,
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I almost just want a cheap piece of crap dumb phone

Looked into a KaiOS device? Not entirely dumb, GMaps is only the web version so no voice navigation etc.

But might be something of interest to ya?

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

KaiOS

It looks interesting - thanks for the tip!:-)

jeffreyosborne ,

This does sound quite cool!

Teknikal ,
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My Nothing is the most unstable Android device I’ve ever owned and they don’t ever actually fix anything just come out with childish gimmicks.

I think the last one was Chat Gpt integration which turned out to just be a widget that launches chatgpt if you manually install it and even that only worked for a couple of weeks and chatgpts own widget is better so what was the point.

OpenStars ,
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YIKES!? So it’s a marketing gimmick then? Not the ChatGPT, that’s obviously one, but the Nothing phone itself? So sorry to hear that:-(, but at least you are spreading the word so as to help others avoid that for themselves.:-)

I do have higher hopes for the Fairphone though.

reddeadhead ,

I use a Pixel and would recommend one. I dont have much experience with apple devices but I’ve heard of people using sideloadly.io to sideload apps on iphones. No idea how well it works if at all.

WeAreAllOne ,

Get a Pixel, install GrapheneOS and you’re done.

kusivittula ,

can’t wait for my s22u to die so i can do that

cmgvd3lw ,

You can wait for a cat to fall into a garbage can or you can push a cat into a garbage can and get it over with.

kusivittula ,

i would never do that to a cat and i don’t have money for a new one

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

I would have gotten a pixel years ago

No expandable storage

YourPrivatHater ,

You just keep buying the wrong phones, Samsung is shit and the China companies steal all your data. Try Pixel, nothing but good experience with them and if you want another OS there is GrapheneOS for the Pixels. IOS is a closed system and definitely The worst for piracy and privacy, even though they want to sell you their stuff with “privacy” in mind (its better than chines phones though)

holgersson ,

Chinese companies steal your data Try Pixel

lol

Putting GrapheneOS on the Pixel is good advice though

YourPrivatHater ,

Contrary to popular belief, pixels are surprisingly private, more than Samsungs or the China phones at least. Google will still try to up sell it, but they do on all Android devices.

grandma ,

Pixels are arguably the most private android since you only get Google tracking. With other androids you get Google tracking on top of all the other tracking

FrostyPolicy ,
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If there’s tracking it’s not private.

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