A fork won’t do you any good. This has to do with Play Services, not the OS.

You start from “China bad” and the work backwards to fit your narrative. It’s almost pointless having discussion online on anything about China.

They’re not reading but looking for keywords. People with low literacy do that.

Those are a fraction of a percent of reviewers. The issue predates YouTube. The days when it was only written articles was no different. They are at the mercy of not being shit listed by companies.

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a choice between what problems I want to deal with that are specific to the particular brand.

Some may or may not even be real issues I’ll ever encounter. It’s impossible to tell because nobody talks straight.

This is generally the implication with reviewers. You better not be too honest or you’re not getting any more review samples. Never trust reviewers. Not even the dude that’s supposedly reputable. They all know the game. Use the review to see the hardware and the basic functionality. Ignore everything else.

3D printing is particular bad though. I’ve been perusing this hobby for the past few years without buying a printer. There’s so much shit surrounding this particular topic. The communities are all militant about brands too.

The end social media maybe. It’s fundamentally broken anyways. They can keep breaking it worse for all I care.

We’re not meant to be ruled by algorithms. It was a stupid idea to listen to antisocial neckbeards selling the world on how they could master sociology with graph theory. These are the same geniuses who deride soft sciences as not real science.

I used to think anti-consumerism was a lot more popular. It’s a significant disconnect from how I thought people are. Apparently I took more media related courses in high school and university than most people do.

One thing that continued to confuse me is how tech cultures are unrepentantly consumer capitalists. The earlier times of the world wide web was very counter-culture. So it’s been an unending source of befuddlement how tech nerds have been deep-throating the adtech boot.