Some people care about privacy.

Blind people shouldn’t need to give up their privacy to Microsoft and Google to have a web page read to them.

Why would you pay a tip to the taxi driver? They are usually self-employed.

Why are we not using them in end-user devices

World of Goo!

Their distribution of books is completely legal.

Corporations just have more money to warp the laws in their favour.

That’s why the Archive is appealing: they still believe they are right.

Wikipedia requires attribution, which AI scrapers never give.

It is “public” work, but under a license.

Then maybe it shouldn’t grow.

It seems a very valid reason to give up your privacy.

Hungary will have the presidency, not the total control. They propose discussions but the vote in the Council is still majority based.

Go vote what left parties in your country think about it. It’s likely the same.

Which features do the lack?

Doesn’t it seem that this problem is caused by Google not operating the markets in the same way?

Why would you import used devices from the US in the first place? People sell them in Europe too.

Not everyone wants to deal with that (setting up payment methods, filling tax forms, …)

So you wish that all corporations shouldn’t pay their developers at all, because MIT licence exists?

Intel Management Engine improve no one’s life.

It is very sad how you don’t see that “forced openness” is good for everyone.

If you live in Europe, .eu

I don’t know what you are on about, but if brand-new Pixels are too expensive for you (although their price is uniformed to the US one), you can easily find them second-hand.

I’ve read some lemmy users dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising and the pixel 7a you’re supposed to install graphene on because it’s from google

There is no misleading advertisement. Go with Graphene if you own a Pixel (from Pixel 5 up) or you can find a cheap second-hand one.

there is so much false information about this OS, namely compatible phones that simply don’t work

Care to share which devices are you talking about? If a device is officially supported by the latest LineageOS version, it works.

Why?