KDE Connect is one of the most amazing pieces of software I’ve used in my life

Yeah, it’s a moving target for sure. For now, the devs seem to be very certain that AOSP will stay and that they will still be able to port GOS on new devices (although it will take more time and work).

If app installation is not managed by Google (i.e. if you’re not using Google Mobile Services or GMS), Google cannot block the installation of any apps. Graphene’s devs have confirmed themselves that this new measure will not affect their ROM

It does not block anything by itself. I use Adguard as my DNS provider and it does that system-wide. It you can also use a VPN provider such as ProtonVPN that does it

For american standards, you’re basically a commie, lol

For the rest of the world, you would be center-left.

The thing that would push you farther to the left or back to the center would be economic issues: you’ve only talked about social issues, but what about the economy and government?

• Should the government play a big part in regulating businesses?
• Should people pay more taxes, especially if they are rich?
• Should essential services such as roads, electricity, water, postal services, healthcare and public transportation be provided and managed by the government or by private businesses?

There are also some test online that place you on the political spectrum by asking you those kinds of questions, it might be worth checking them out.

OTOH, I kinda feel bad because you live in a place where there are only effectively 2 parties (right and far right), and chosing another one is going to waste your vote essentially. People like Sanders and AOC have a huge following, but they have no chance of success imho

It’s about surveillance. Federated services are not a threat to big tech since it’s so small

I’ll happily continue using my GrapheneOS Pixel since nothing will change for 3d-party ROMs :)

If trying to exterminate a whole population did not do anything, I doubt abusing Thunberg will change things

Try a good one such as Inoreader or NewsBlur, you’ll never look back

Ooh this is a good one, especially considering that in order to have a yacht you also have to hire a whole crew and pay for docking it.

It’s not an e-paper screen, though. It’s basically just a regular screen with a matte screen protector on top. Not really impressive, if you see it live

It’s pretty sad that new and innovative companies only exist to get sold to big corporations these days. And I’m saying that as someone who did not like Arc

Kids don’t event know the folder struture of their Home directory, so why would they know what a File System is? Lol

You sure it’s HP? The circle in the front makes me think of Dell

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but I did notice it on my Pixel 8 Pro! The interesting thing is that I’m running Graphene OS, not stock

Have you checked out the FuriPhone FLX1? I think people don’t talk about it much, and I don’t know why. To me it seems the best option

Since you’ve talked about OpenMW + mods, do you have any recommendations for someone who played Morrowind on Windows years ago and would like to play it again on Linux via OpenMW? What works, what requires tinkering? Any mods that you recommend?

Yep that’s pretty much how it went. Also print ads have lost against digital ads, which pay way less money to publishers and keep paying less each year

Do you know who Dan Harmon is? Creator of Community and Rick And Morty, IMHO a genius. He had a live podcast named Harmontown where he improvised a history lesson and he came up with this

It explains it all in a more convincing way than any historian could, imho. Besides being funny, he has a deep understanding of what makes humans tick and that’s the whole point of how fascism happens

Graphene OS does something similar. It sandboxes GMS like any other app