Lka1988

I do. I’ve rooted every phone I owned on day 0.

So, basically what they’re already starting to do?

Fair enough.

My neighbor has a legit Vespa! 2-stroke, manual transmission, and it’s even got the spare tire. Very clean and spunky little thing. I’ve been meaning to ask them about it…

Reddit at least told us that we were banned?!?! and allowed for an appeal process

Which they promptly reject every single time, because it’s not a human doing it.

I wrapped it mostly because I just dig the look.

I’m sorry dude, I totally railroaded your thread! 😅

What

they have been siphoning features off each other for so long

Mostly Apple doing that (they just invented the Pixel’s “call screen” feature yesterday), but you’re not wrong.

the differences are only splitting hairs imo.

Not really. Outside of “black glass slab with big cameras”, they differ quite a bit.

What differences do you actually want to know? I’m genuinely happy to explain and show side-by-sides if needed.

I fuckin love my 49RR stickers haha

Thanks! It’s neither a Vespa nor wrapped 😁

2007 Honda Metropolitan (1st gen) in Honda’s “Purple Kanji”. Lowered, stretched, bigger rear tire through the former rear light cutout, and a few go-“fast” goodies. Only 49cc, but can do 50+ MPH on a good day…given enough green lights.

My favorite go-fast part:

Aren’t the pixel line the ones that have the bad batteries?

Where did you hear that? Only one Pixel model has had a legit battery issue (4a I think).

Yeah, no, that’s not the issue. Most people use 3rd party cables. Hell, I use my laptop charger on my phone all the time.

Hell yeah, I love being able to park up front in a crowded lot. I like parking by the Harleys, mostly to make them question their manhood (the one on the right is actually a Victory, but it’s the same crowd).

Tell me you’ve never used an iPhone without telling me.

I own and use both every day. Not even the UX is the same. They are not even close.

I’m aware, but the person I responded to specifically mentioned F-Droid, which is Android-only.

Tim “proven to be paid by Russians to spout bullshit” Poole? That Tim Poole?

All tech companies threw money at Taco Don, or at least pandered to him/his admin.

I have both. One for work. Use both everyday.

Same here, personal Pixel + work-issued iPhone. I use Linux ^btw and Android for the most part, but my wife has used almost exclusively Apple devices since college; in addition to her iPhone 16PM, she also has a Macbook (A1706 lol) and an 27" Retina iMac (last Intel model).

Safe to say I’m very familiar with Apple’s ecosystem and user interfaces.

Which brings me to my point: every time I come into these threads, I can always tell who’s only ever used one and not the other. They aren’t the same, they both have bugs, and both suck up your data in stock form.

fanboy

See, that was your first problem. This isn’t team sports.

But I can’t personally look past Sundar Pichai being directly at Trump’s inauguration in the front row

Did you not see Tim Cook in the same section?

If you really want to increase your privacy, you’re gonna need to use a Pixel device loaded with a custom ROM such as Graphene OS or Calyx OS. Or none at all.

Convenience wins out 99% of the time. Why carry a pen/paper when one can use the same device they already carry around? Hell, I don’t even use pen/paper anymore because my phone handles all that for me.

That said, I did set up some infrastructure at home that I use to store as much of my private data as possible.