• Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 hours ago

      I dunno, isn’t it kinda pointless to compare a stroke with brain cancer? Sure, you can have preferences, but they’re both horrible.

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              Has more bloatware than samsung and more spyware than facebook. Not the person you talked with first, but I also have a xiaomi and it’s borderline unusable if you don’t use adb to uninstall some of the ad shit. They throw ads on gallery, video player, music player, wallpaper, calculator, file browse.

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                Did you get one of the really cheap ones? I have heard they are cheap for a reason (e.g. they get the money from elsewhere, AKA selling you).

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                  I wish that was a problem exclusive to the cheaper phones or even xiaomi. I’ve had a Samsung Galaxy S20, it came with so much fucking bullshit apps. My gf and her sister both have a mid-high xiaomi (dunno about the specific model), ads are every-fucking-where.

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              Octo core, 8GB ram (+8GB “virtual” whatever that means), 1TB storage, Leica optics and a mind blowing 120watt charger (that I rarely use, but when I do… Hold your hat!).

              It’s just a very good phone IMO, no bling, but also no specific downside. Maybe the one thing is a not vert good file manager, but I use FX so I don’t really relate.

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                7 hours ago

                the other xiaomi user pointed out that its basically just android, with google play services and all, so you’re just any other android user pretty much, right?

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                    6 hours ago

                    yeah, the reason i compared google and apple is because it’s like the only two options available, as far as i know there aren’t any linux phones which can actually work as phones, best we can do is degoogled android and very few people use it

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      13 hours ago

      Nah. Ad blocking is shit. There’s no revanced or morphe or whatnot. Many things are better, but too many things are worse.

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        13 hours ago

        that isn’t true, i used to use iphone and it had uYou+extras which is basically a modified youtube app with sponsorblock and adblock, and there are other things which are similar, and adguard is also pretty solid

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      9 hours ago

      Google automatically screens and blocks spam calls. That alone is enough for me to put it above Apple.