this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
543 points (99.3% liked)
Technology
75864 readers
3163 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
What's going on with Europe lately? You all really want GOOGLE of all mega corps in control of your identity?
You're going the opposite way, it should be your right to install an alternate OS on your phone. If anything they should be banning Google licensed Android.
Its not the populace, our politicians just like in the US have gone rogue. People are voting for the nutters due to anti immigration propaganda and so increasingly getting far right. Its happening across the entire western world and its bad news for everyone.
Except this isn't even the right wing nutters doing it. These are mainstream politicians executing their power grabbing neolib agenda, with very little democratic oversight or public debate.
had a hope for europe to actually be socialists, at least no one ever confuses america for being left
At least in the UK it has been the Labor party doing it, they all want control.
I just wanted the EU to fork lineageOS and provide it as an alternative in major chains.
I miss LineageOS so much, my last couple of phones haven't had a build of it and my asshole banking apps wont work on it now.
For my next phone i'm just not going to buy one unless it's already supported and if I have to skip online banking I'll do it.
one advantage of cards over banking apps
I use cards, I don't even have NFC on my phone, but it is nice to be able to check my bank account, lock/unlock the card, deposit checks, etc.
I may be able to do most of that on the website, idk. Guess I'm probably going to find out :)
Use the old phone w generic android for banking apps. Most banking websites will still have app functionality too
I can just text bal to my bank to get my balance
I use the banks webpage. Still works on LineageOS even when the app doesn’t
Fwiw there's fairphone with eOS
They get their tech advice for laws from big tech.
We dont want it. VdL is one of the most corrupt people in policits and unfortunately has a lot of influence
VdL = Ursula von der Leyen to the uninitiated. Conservative politician, but the more boring kind, not the Orbán-style post-fascism kind.
to hear it from any non-Americans on lemmy they're better than America.
looks like they're just as susceptible to this fascist bullshit to me though...
We invented this bullshit, of course we're susceptible.
Still better than America, though ;P XD
We're sneaky. I call it effective authoritarianism, it's a sugar coated baton
Hey Google, where was the origin of fascism?