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For example, my setup: Gmail: any email service Android: root it, use a custom launcher and utility apps. GMaps: Waze (lets you provide your own speech sampl
by sterlind 9y ago
For example, my setup:
Gmail: any email service
Android: root it, use a custom launcher and utility apps.
GMaps: Waze (lets you provide your own speech samples, even)
You don't have to secede from these whole platforms - just extend around them and reach into them.
- samstave 9y agoPffft You’re examples: Google Google Google. Your examples are all fucking google.
- golergka 9y agoSo? These are still different products, even if they happen to be acquired by the same company.
- sterlind 9y agoCould you explain how "any email service" means Google? Is ProtonMail a Google service? OP's question was about how power users can keep UX control while services degrade their features to cater to average users. That's what I care about, not ideological purity in my software stack. People like you are the tech equivalents of the militant vegan.