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Quick shout-out to Grayjay: An app to watch videos on any platform - reducing the power of individual services. The Software is open-source and can be found here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

I will test this out for myself and hope someone here finds this useful.

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[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If there was a Linux approach to smartphones, I’d be interested. Instead, it’s a choice between two large corporations. And one of them receives the majority of its income from advertising. So that’s why I chose what I perceived to be the lesser of the two evils.

[–] Quintus@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

The lesser of two evils is Android as it's like they put closed-source software on top of open source software (see AOSP) whereas on iPhone it's all closed.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

There are Linux phones, like the Pinephone and postmarketOS, but they're not as polished as Andrpoid and iOS

[–] eclipse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago