A friend saved a flyer from her high school days that was this entire image of Burt nude from Cosmo, hand-traced onto the middle of the flyer with Burt’s arm replaced with a sizeable dick hanging out there taking a nap on his thigh. Then totally unrelated “King Kong with Slint - Dave’s Bar 1234 Fourth Street, Friday 10:00pm” or whatever text around the drawing. It was just messy enough of a tracing/drawing that it wasn’t immediately recognizable, but when you looked for more than 2 seconds it was like “oh - OH. OK, uh, wow.”

You’ll have yellow shins and calves on every pair of pants you own.

That’s what Google wants, because people gave up on Jailbreaking iPhones because the loss of features wasn’t worth it on the other side. Google probably doesn’t love that their flagship is the best model for use with custom ROMs, plus they’re also trying to lock out Xiomi as well for what that’s worth.

While giving up is an option, someone somewhere needs to coordinate this entire OSS ecosystem to focus on singular projects. I would love to see a privacy and FOSS non-profit do exactly this.

I’m in the same exact boat.

At some point when Google kills custom ROMs, everyone working on customs ROMs won’t have anywhere else to go other than a Linux phone.

Same. Never use these things on Android.

That’s about the connection to Car Play, not GPS

When customs ROMs and most FOSS apps are killed next year on Android, we’re all going to find out very quickly how much the trap has closed around us.

Same reason I loved to Linux on desktop, something that used to be cool and open and at least work mostly has enshittified beyond repair. I’m not going to let the bastards get me if I can help it.

Pray for lawsuits.

We should start a co-op that buys advertising data on people that say stuff like this and then bombards them with spam that says “You have nothing to hide, [name]! You want everyone to know you love [advertising data entry tied to them]”

Wait…am I fake?

For real, I think the question about “should I eat a whole chocolate cake” sort of opened the flood gates to people asking anything.

Meanwhile, OP said ask them anything - they answered like 3 questions. Answers were never promised, just the ability to ask anything.