Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!
      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        a mobile OS no longer offers any benefit

        I can see a benefit to offering older relatives an OS they’re already familiar with that would be difficult for them to accidently FUBAR

  • cheeseburger@piefed.caEnglish
    63·
    2 days ago

    They just want to have a locked down desktop OS you can’t install adblockers on (for example), for a start. Imagine you have a PC at home but dont have “root” access, just like our stupid phones. Fuck right off.

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      Yeah lets not run operating systems from Microsoft or Google, thats a very bad idea if you care at all about privacy.

  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    44·
    2 days ago

    The company stated it is collaborating with Qualcomm to build a new platform that converges mobile and desktop computing, leveraging recent advancements in AI.

    i wouldn’t be “anti-ai” if every single company wasn’t forcing it into every single thing with no way to opt out except to hack your own devices…
    however, fuck ai… and there’s no way it’s improving that android pc….
    the bubble popping will be catastrophic

  • Einar@lemmy.zipEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    Excellent. More closed systems and more control to Google. Now even on PCs.

    It is even “built with artificial intelligence (AI) at the core.”

    Exactly what we all want. Thank you, Google. What would we do without you?

    … 🤮

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    leveraging recent advancements in AI

    This guaranteeing this will never be installed in anything of mine. Not even as a VM. Even TempleOS got more bare metal time than this will ever see.

    • 🇵🇸antifa_ceo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      This is the innovation capitalism drives. Just worse versions of things we already have with middlemen bolted on to suck more money or control away from you.

      Enshittification comes for everything eventually

        • 🇵🇸antifa_ceo@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          13 hours ago

          You should read the other comments here because they hit on a lot of them.

          This is bad if you want control of your device and data.

            • 🇵🇸antifa_ceo@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              For one on ChromeOS I can run whatever Linux shit I want with their compatibility layer.

              Aluminum OS is going to be a locked down like Android is when your carrier locks it down and doesn’t allow users to get root on their phone. They will have an app store with all approved apps on it. Google is currently removing the ability for people to side load apps on their phones (not that most people do that anyway). They will do this on this OS too.

              I need you consider the average tech illiterate person who will use this OS and unknowingly have all of their data get silently sucked into Google’s orbit. Google already does this on Android…they want to capture what you do OFF your phone now on other devices too and control it.

              • tekato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                4 hours ago

                For one on ChromeOS I can run whatever Linux shit I want with their compatibility layer.

                Have they announced that they’re removing the Linux compatibility layer? Or you got that from the comments too?

                Aluminum OS is going to be a locked down like Android is when your carrier locks it down and doesn’t allow users to get root on their phone. They will have an app store with all approved apps on it. Google is currently removing the ability for people to side load apps on their phones (not that most people do that anyway). They will do this on this OS too.

                And you know this how? Did they also announce it? Or are you saying this because it shares code with Android? Instead of speculation, we have a real example with Apple. iOS is arguably the most locked down mobile OS, but you can still install whatever you want on MacOS (even literally installing Linux). You are assuming that an OS based on Android (which is more open than iOS) will be more locked down than MacOS.

                I need you consider the average tech illiterate person who will use this OS and unknowingly have all of their data get silently sucked into Google’s orbit. Google already does this on Android…they want to capture what you do OFF your phone now on other devices too and control it.

                So Google is not collecting data on ChromeOS? Otherwise why even mention this.