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   Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 12:12:49 JST Ben Zanin

   I'm simmering mad that some combination of Samsung and Google decided to shove out an update to Dad's phone which replaced the power-on flow with an almost inescapable account creation/activation funnel for Samsung AI (?) and, simultaneously, remapped the physical side button from power-off to Google Gemini.

   Unasked, unprompted, and unwanted, his phone suddenly became useless and hostile to him.

   We worked through it together but there's no way of actually turning it *off*, only snoozing it.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 12:15:38 JST Ben Zanin

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     • Leander Lindahl

     @leanderlindahl neither unwelcome nor annoying! I'm waiting eagerly for Sailfish devices to become available in my region; but I'm afraid that while these phone operating systems would fix the issue of vendors pushing unwanted UI changes, they would force my parents to be fully dependent on only me for phone support. This would be a worse problem than the one I just solved.

     I hope /e/OS and Sailfish become much more available in the future though.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 12:15:38 JST Rich Felker

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     • Leander Lindahl

     @gnomon @leanderlindahl In the immediate, I think the only non-disruptive fix is finding the option to hard-disable all updates/checking-for-updates.

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     Leander Lindahl (leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 12:15:42 JST Leander Lindahl

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     @gnomon I hope its not an unwelcome or annoying suggestion, but what about installing /e/OS, lineage or sailfish?