I just started playing it for an hour after I read this and it's amazing! I wouldn't have minded paying the 5€ if it just had a demo to try it out. But luckily there is an OST I can pay for to at least give some support
Lemmert
joined 4 weeks ago
Personally I'm more than happy to cover the Dutch translation if you have the time to get translations working. Thanks for the project!
I have GOS, you can't remove it unfortunately. Those kind of people are everywhere online but never forget it's your device. You can do with it whatever the hell you want, regardless of what the "point" of anything is.
I'm severely alarmed by the amount of people arguing whether or not Steam is a monopoly. You don't need 100% of market share to have monopoly position. Pure monopolies are extremely rare and are almost always state-run companies like for public transport. No anti-monopoly legislation is written in a way to only break up firms with literally 0 competition.
But how does this tie back to your original statement about GOS security and tying itself with Google? The issues you're raising aren't even a GOS specific one. I also find it strange to not call it secure because services themselves are reliant on Google's services. That is not an issue any OS can solve. I say this as someone who does not rely on any Google services on my phone. I also believe you might be conflating security with privacy.
I don't really see the issue. So you don't really care about robust and trustworthy hardware. That I get to some extent considering you're more worried about your data itself. But if you're flashing your device with GOS, there is no data being shared to Google unless you specifically want to use Google Play Services or the Play Store. Both of which don't come pre-installed
Edit: I added the if
Just wondering, do you have a problem in the sense that you don't want to support Google or more that you're worried the actual hardware is not safe or trustworthy?
No, I currently use Syncthing to sync my documents and music folders between my devices. If there's something else, like the clips I make when playing with friends, the computer automatically syncs them to my Seafile instance with their sync client.
That way I can easily share the folder and check it on my phone using the app. If you don't encrypt the drive it will show up and be navigable in your files app, without taking space (at least if you use the stock gos files app)