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I routinely get a Samsung notification telling me to agree to some new agreement thing. I swipe it away. It just reappears in 48 hours or so. I swipe it away. We’ve danced this dance for years.
I don’t know what it’s for, I don’t care, and things are just fine as is. There’s nothing it it for me so, no.
At some point it annoys me so much I just hit accept. It’s probably nothing anyway.
That’s what they want, so spite fuels my resolve to reject it repeatedly
I know, bad habit. But I just couldn’t care less about those stupid agreements. I just want the damn popup gone.
I do the same. I’m close to just delete my samsung account because I don’t really need and/or use it.
True. I genuinely don’t use i either.
Then again, I’m rolling an S20 Ultra+ that just does everything excellently still. If I want to extend its life as long as possible, I should just load on another OS and solve the Samsung issue that way.
I stopped using a Samsung account a long time ago. Never used it with my current phone. It doesn’t seem to make a difference.
btw you might be able to block notifications from that app with long clicking
No, it doesn’t let you disable this notification unfortunately.
I legit got this notification on my phone while reading this comment. I do the same and will continue to do the same.
Please click here to agree to our new Samsung privacy policy.
I’m sure that they would choose to interpret the swipe to clear it as a click
but yeah my last phone I did that for several years. nope, no thank you.
every time I start my TV I have to say I don’t want the new firmware because it comes with a new privacy policy / user agreement
I will need to buy a new TV soon, and the single biggest factor won’t be price, features, or quality, it will be the absolute minimum smart features available. I’m fine with a sleep timer, and built-in audio smoothing would be great, but I can add anything else I want with a dongle that costs less than $100 (or just attach a full-blown computer to it). I’m not made of money, but I’m fortunate enough that I can afford to buy a TV with something other than an opportunity to invade my private life for marketing.
The other thing I’m looking for is a decent non-Google/Apple smartphone with an eye to privacy. A decent Linux phone would be great, Sailfish OS looks promising, maybe there are other options. Hopefully my Samsung lasts until then. When one of their updates came out whose main feature seemed to be the ability to spy on you everywhere, I closed my account and don’t even have that logged in anymore. There are a number of interesting features I can’t use, and a lot of terrible features I don’t want, that aren’t available to me anymore. A smartphone that belongs to me, and not some corporate conglomerate would be nice. We’ll see.
We bought a smart TV a couple years ago, and it was so hard to find a model without a built-in microphone… No I don’t want my fucking TV to listen to every word said in the room.
Sailfish isn’t bad but its a compromise. I don’t like that it’s not open source. I’m happy to pay for it, but I’d prefer if it were a community project rather than something buiut behind the closed doors of an understaffed company.
That said I’m using it to type this comment so I must still think its better than the alternatives.
Same with WhatsApp for me, there are new terms and conditions that allow engagement with businesses and sharing some personal data with them, I’ve been rejecting that shit for four years now, they still keep asking.
And the app still works? Mine told me it was compulsory and would stop working if I didn’t agree
Sometimes it’s true but they’ll always let you agree later if they do disable things, so always reject them the first time, in case its an empty threat.
My Samsung forced update and installed bloatware. I’m looking forward to going back and getting a clamshell phone from
tothe 2000’sI use an app specifically designed to automatically dismiss notifications and I use it to dismiss this Samsung one you mentioned and the voice mail notification, which for some ridiculous reason can’t be disabled.
Which one
I use Macrodroid for similar notification handling shenanigans. I even bought it bc it’s so beautifully customisable 👌
The owner of Macrodroid has started cramming third party trackers into the app to cash out on it. When I started using the app a few years back, the Exodus privacy report for the app counted 2 trackers on the app, one for ads for the free version and one for crash reporting. Now it counts 30 of them, almost all analytics and telemetry. This is an insanely high number. Considering the amount of access and permissions Macrodroid needs to function, this is terrifying.
ugh, thanks for the heads-up!
This one: https://joaoapps.com/autonotification/ lots of features, somewhat confusing, but I literally only use it for the auto-dismiss, which works so well the notification doesn’t even appear so it’s effectively disabled.
“If we let you control your phones you’ll just mess them up!”
Which is our right. I paid for the phone. Google, Samsung, and Apple aren’t fucking paying me.
Which is our right. I paid for the phone. Google, Samsung, and Apple are
n’tfuckingpayingme.There, I fixed it. It’s time for a new FOSS phone OS to take over. GrapheneOS looks nice, but it only runs on select Google pixel devices. Maybe if phone manufacturers were forced to let the user chose their OS?
I would love to get GrapheneOS or some other similar OS but the lack of mobile tap-to-pay support just kills the idea for me.
I was looking at that too and came to the same conclusion. I should probably migrate off apple at some point but Android in its current state is not viable for me.
What about it isn’t viable? Genuinely curious
I can’t use it stock because cell providers can push bullshit apps I don’t want without my permission and I can’t fully disable Gemini. Switching to grapheneOS addresses those concerns, but cause new problems, like killing tap to pay and triggering security flags on games and banking apps.
Yeah that’s a fair point. Some android models do have minimal or none bloatware, like Google pixel… But also then papa Google owns your ass lol
I have this little offline only single purpose device that handles tap to pay for me. It is actually waterproof, survives falls, is light enough to not be noticed, and hasn’t run out of battery in a few years.
Jokes aside, what is wrong with good old plastic cards? If you don’t want an extra wallet (which I need anyway to carry ids, drivers license, cash, emergency ear plugs, a handy sticker or two…), just get a phone case with card/cash slot thingies.
As it is right now, my cell phone replaces a collection of about six plastic cards. I have not yet found a wieldy phone case that has space to store payment cards.
Realistically, this question could also be asked with cash. If you’re going to be pulling out a wallet-like item anyway, and you are that concerned with privacy, why not go with anonymous, fee-free, secure, actually offline paper money? Card processing is not offline. The card machine has to be connected to the Internet for it to work (offline card processing theoretically exists, but is not widely implemented enough to rely on and is not particularly secure).
If people are going to argue that wanting to pay with a cell phone instead of a plastic card makes me lazy because the card takes a few extra seconds to use compare to the phone, I’m going to argue in turn that they’re lazy for using a card when using cash, with all of its privacy benefits, also only takes a few seconds more.
How can you spend time thinking about phones, when there are children starving to death in Africa! See, I am can do that too.
Besides, I do carry cash for everyday expenses, and I do prefer cash. I don’t know where you got that idea from.
But the question was to replace tap-to-pay. Sadly, tapping people with a fiver makes them irritated at best.
I’ve got nothing against you. I’m just not willing to accept a lecture (from other people, not you) about being “lazy” for wanting tap-to-pay on my cell phone. My statement is that the convenience of tap-to-pay for payment cards and transit passes is not worth the otherwise marginal privacy benefit of switching to Graphene.
I’d love to own my own devices but I’m so addicted to my phone I can’t handle pulling out my lighter, smaller, always charged debit card and so will continue to give up my ownership rights so I can continue to be mildly inconvenienced.
Debit card? You let your bank know where you’re spending money??? Cash only for privacy
(I don’t actually follow this, I like credit cards and their rewards points, unless it’s actually cheaper to use cash)
I’d love to stay private, but I’m so addicted to giving my financial information to banks that I can’t handle pulling out a lighter, fee-free, no-Internet-access-required, and nearly universally-accepted banknote from my wallet and so will continue to give up data about my spending so I can continue to be mildly inconvenienced.
If you own a smartwatch that supports tap to pay, you can use that instead.
I don’t wear a watch at all. I view smart watches in particular as completely useless gadgets. What useful thing do they do that a cell phone doesn’t? Count your heart rate? Sell that info to advertisers so they know what time you stay up at night doom-scrolling? They have absolutely no utility for me.
I am reading this with a rooted LineageOS phone with MicroG installed.
wasn’t there also some concern about messing up the radio communication for a lot of users?
the idea was that you actually can’t mess with radio communications. if you send too much data, it kinda clogs the airspace of radio frequencies and that’ actually illegal to do in many countries. rooting the android phone lets you access the radio antenna directly, and you can’t let playful nerds mess up the city’s mobile internet for a million inhabitants every other day. especially since the source of interference would be hard to track down.
Now i wonder what that would mean for mobile internet usb peripherals that you can plug into linux laptop and desktop machines. how do they solve this issue?
Rooting the phone means playful nerds could potentially mess up radio frequencies, but they can already do that because they can build radios using readily available electronic components. We already have all kinds of regulations about radio use, and we go after people who actually cause problems.
I have a desktop I built in 2019 with no TPM running. Windows 10.
Starting a couple of months ago, occasionally when it boots it will automatically open a full-screen ad for Windows 11.
It’s extremely disruptive because of my setup. I use my monitors and keyboard for my work laptop and have a KVM to switch between the two, and since I use that space for work I don’t like to spend much time there for recreation. So I often turn my desktop on and run it headless whenever I’m done with work, and don’t see the ad, which then messes up my attempts at streaming. So I need to walk back upstairs to switch the KVM and close out of it manually.
No matter how many different “permanent” solutions I can find on the internet it keeps finding a way to do it again every couple of weeks. I’ve moved to Linux on most of the rest of my personal machines, but this desktop has all my old music production software that needs Windows. I’m getting pretty close to just investing in a different music production platform that works with Mint though.
Have you tried GRC’s InControl? Supposedly helps prevent the win11 update attempts.
Oh thanks I’ll have to give that a shot later!
idk what you are using but bitwig runs well on linux and is pretty modern and good, reaper is a little uncomfortable to use but extremly powerful
I know it’s been rough for a buddy in a similar situation, but if you’re an ableton user, he’s found bitwig to be the closest thing to come to what he needs. But I believe he’s still had some driver trouble in places. I don’t do much myself as a full-time linux user, but what I ave done of late I’ve used in-the-box deals like an MPC Live for the heavy lifting, then recorded into
Microsoft Paint for AudioAudacity on my actual machine from the box.I can’t remember the drama with audacity, the usual over reaching and collection of data type shit I think but you should check out Tenacity instead which is a fork of Audacity.
I actually use Cakewalk Sonar X2 mostly. Cakewalk went out of business and has been bought-and-sold and resurrected multiple times since I bought it back around 2014-ish. Whenever I built my desktop in 2019 it was kind of a miracle I was able to get the license activated- I forget what ended up working but I remember having to do a bunch of online searching through forum discussions to get it done.
I downloaded the trial version of Reaper on my Linux Mint machine and it’s… Okay. And to be fair at $60 it’s a lot cheaper than the $150 or so that I paid for Cakewalk. Considering I’m not doing anything professional that’s probably what I will go to eventually.
Sometimes I look at the pace of technological progress and think that humanity is moving too fast for its own good. There’s constantly new companies and new products starting up and then going bankrupt and obsolete in a couple of years. The Cakewall software I have is perfectly fine- it could run just fine on far weaker hardware, there aren’t any features in other modern software that I feel like I’m missing. It just feels so wasteful to have to spend time, energy, and money to switch to a new platform because capitalism dictates I must.
Check out Ardour as well!
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Or that “Let’s finish setting up your PC” box as if I haven’t been fucking using it for ten years.
Which is just fucking using Onedrive to save your personal files on Microsoft’s servers.
Fuck you, Microsoft! I don’t want to login with your fucking servers.
If it’s supported by your hardware and software you’re still using, I’d be tempted to blow away Windows 10 and put Windows 7 on there. I ran Windows 7 for several years after support ended - best Windows experience ever. Rock solid stable and no hassles of having to deal with updates. I eventually moved onto Linux after continuing to run Windows 7 for general desktop usage started to become unfeasible, but for something that just needs to run Windows to do some specific things, I’d definitely consider it.
No matter how many different “permanent” solutions I can find on the internet it keeps finding a way to do it again every couple of weeks.
Can I ask which version of Win 10 are you running? I have never run into this with Windows 10 Enterprise (or Education) versions.
Alas, I am running the Home version. I did find in my research posts from sysadmins running the Enterprise version who seemed to have more luck permanently disabling it than I did.
My undergrad university offers licensed Windows desktop OS to Alumni free of charge. This is how I’m legally using Windows Education version (which is the same as Enterprise). I got the sense it was part of a packaged software benefit program MS offers to educational institutions. You may want to see if yours does the same so you could get it free too.
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Have you heard about out lord and saviour the Linux kernel?
Hail to the minty freshness
Yea, that’s a Windows Home thing.
Upgrade to pro, where that stuff doesn’t exist.
Not to justify it, but the thinking by MS is “this OS is free, so you get ads”, like commercial TV or the rest of the nonsense on the internet.
Also, I’ve run Windows with updates disabled since Windows XP, and have rarely run into problems. I say this as someone who’s been in IT since the early 90’s. I’ve seen 10x more problems caused by updates at work than anything else.
At home I enable updates every 6 months, then go manually grab the updates I need, or else it’ll update things that will break my system.
Is Windows Home free? I’ve certainly never seen it be free. I’m ok with free stuff needing to make money somehow, within reason, but the second they start asking for creditcard information that shit better be clean as a fucking whistle.
Even better if you can get your hands on an Enterprise key. Even more configurable and is doesn’t have some of the annoying items.
Windows Home isn’t free, though.
I don’t use my Windows 10 desktop a ton, but I’ve definitely gotten the full page “Update to Windows 11” screen a few times, and it has Windows 10 Pro installed.
I paid for my Windows license already, I think it was like $110. I’m not really interested in giving Microsoft any more money to continuing to use a product which is worse than the one I already paid for.
Yep, updated Sunday night after I pushed off the notifications for months. I feel like they punish you for making them do it too, because it turned my alarm off and I was late to work because of it. Funny how my last phone, an S8 never had the issue of me having to unlock my phone to initialize start up after restart.
Did you have encryption enabled? I just upgraded from my s8 3 months ago, if you have the encryption turned on then you need to put in the password after every reboot for it to decrypt the phone. I he that its not ‘initializing’ and the device encryption is optional and you might not have had it on
Not the guy you’re asking but I don’t think it’s related to encryption. I’ve had the same thing happen on my S24 with nothing encrypted
Edit: I am wrong, see below
Your phone is encrypted by default, there’s
practicallyno way to not let it encrypt without unlocking the bootloader.Older phones that came out before the default encryption was standard were the ones that had the option to encrypt the phone or let it remain decrypted.
Huh, learn something new every day
So what’s the non-corpo option for phone OSes?
yeah, i bet you can ask women who work in the tech industry about their understanding of consent and get some colorful responses.
I want the same control over my phone that I have over my desktop computer. Why is it so hard? Sure, there are several people not capable of doing that, but they aren’t on their desktop as well, and it still works out. Not everyone needs to run Linux, and that’s fine. But I want to.
How long ago was this post? I also received OS update on my android just yesterday.
3h ago
/s
The worst thing is the past few years android updates brought fuckall exciting new stuff and just more spyware and worse performance .
Yeah, I was using stock pixel launcher forever until the most recent “update” that added yet another button to the search bar that you can’t remove, that I used daily, and the button went conveniently right where my right thumb tapped. Switched to Lawnchair, and it’s not without issue. Why can’t shit that has worked just continue to work the same way?
Why can’t shit that has worked just continue to work the same way?
Line must go up.
At the top of the world, we’re all just the bottom line.
I also swapped to Lawnchair not that long ago. The only thing I miss so far is the ability to use app shortcuts on the home screen. Like opening YouTube directly to my subscriptions, etc. It also uses black text for the status bar on the home screen making it invisible but that might be user error.
Edit: There’s a setting for “Dark Status Bar.” I don’t know if it was on by default or if I switched it. But now I can see it again.
My recent (unwanted) update changed the lock screen to this weird format where the two-digit hour is above the two-digit minute instead of next to it separated by a colon like normal people use. I keep setting it back to what I want but this weird over/under format keeps coming back. Some fucking douchebag of a UX/UI designer thought this was a genius new way of showing the time and now it’s being jammed down my throat.
I always keep at least one notification so I don’t have to see that stupid format on my lock screen.
Huh, I’ll have to try that.
You guys do know that there is an option in the settings to just always have the normal clock?
Thanks! This wasn’t implemented when I got my phone, but it looks like they added it a couple years later. I never looked after the option wasn’t initially there.
The recent OneUI update on my Galaxy is shit. Performance and functionality overall are worse than before. Smdh
Thank God for the Bixby button though.
I returned my Samsung phone over that button. Haven’t touched their shit since.
Fuck that button. At least let me map it to something else!
You can. They did an update to the S8 (and others, I assume) that let you remap it. I used some app before that, something from the Google Play Store but it’s been way too long to remember the name. Nowadays there isn’t a Bixby button anymore for us to remap. They tried to take over the power button with AI now, but thankfully you can remap this back to power as well.
Oh you reminded me that I also have the Assistant on long press power button, but I don’t use it almost at all, so…
That is the first “feature” I turn off when setting up any Android. Power off is the panic button, you don’t just give that to AI.
You can map it to something else. You have to download a Samsung app to do it but it’s relatively trivial
I installed e/OS when Google made the button to turn my phone off give me an AI prompt.
Hey now that’s not fair, they also made the ui huge so it looks like a fisher price toy! No you can’t turn it off why would you want that??
Of course they did, the average American struggles to tie their shoes.
You dont own something unless you install linux on it
this can be easily remedied by killing all of humanity except yourself
Are you telling me Linux doesn’t have automatic updates?
It does not. No normal Linux distro installs updates without user consent. You can turn that feature on though if you like.
Sure it does, if you turn them on. Here’s the relevant screen in Linux Mint Cinnamon.
I’m using linux mint, which is beginner friendly. It doesn’t have automatic updates as default.
Hmm… The tech industry looking a little rape-y…
The new Android RapeOS!
We’re getting close to the point where “running a stock ROM” is on the same level of inadvisable as “using a web browser without ad blocking”. The latter of which was, btw, also not that big if a deal like ten or fifteen years ago.
It was sort of a big deal. The forbes malware injection attack by ads was ten years ago. It still ranks as one of the most hilarious ‘poetic irony’ bits in computer security. I’m sure ads were doing other insidious shit in 2010 that just went unnoticed because it didn’t hit security researchers.
Praying for some stronger ROM support for foldables. As soon as ATT lets my phone go free (2 year contract) installing one would be the first thing I do, except my phone is a Razr Ultra 2025 and I can’t even find much for the Z flip let alone the razrs.
For now though mullvad stays on with dns blocking and I just keep to Fdroid and Aurora store if needed, not sure what else I can do
Same. I’ve never seen any alternatives available for my Z Flip. I’m thinking I’ll go with a Linux phone next time I need a new one. I don’t care anymore if they’re “ready” or not.
Every major Android update takes up more memory. When my phone is about a year old I have to just stop updating it, because I tend to keep it close to full, and I can’t have them stealing more memory from me.
These criminals know that the updates will negatively impact functionality thus forcing you to upgrade. It’s theft.
I ignored a recent update that would give me some AI bullshit. After a few weeks, they just pushed the download to me and gave me a notification of a scheduled reboot to finish the install. Frustrating to say the least…
