Lka1988

I…was never using Graphene?

Currently running stock 15 (rooted). 15-based Calyx is my next OS upgrade. Or possibly e/OS (when they get to it).

now with the Pixel device-specific code being closed sourced

I have yet to update my Pixel to Android 16 specifically because of this.

Calyx is going to be my next update. I say that a lot, but I’ve been methodically going through all of my apps and making sure everything I use will work on a de-googled ROM. It takes time.

Graphene OS devs tend to sniff their own farts and claim it’s roses.

Unless you have a legitimate need for that kind of locked down security, I wouldn’t worry about any of what they have to say.

You want a peach or strawberry, ideally a peach, but they’re both rotten. Instead of just getting rid of the rotten fruit, you picked a rotten strawberry.

You want to use an AI slop machine (rotten peach), but it doesn’t work on your device because reasons, so instead of not using an AI slop machine (throwing away the rotten fruit), you chose to use a different AI slop machine (rotten strawberry) that does work on your device.

Yeah, the one with a bit driver on the back

¿Por qué no los dos?

You can see the corner of it poking out of my pocket if you zoom in

So instead of a rotten peach, you went for the rotten strawberry.

Odd.

Waze has been owned by Google longer than it’s existed on its own, for several years now.

These 6.5" and 7" phones don’t fit in pants pockets. Yet I don’t see any guys out there wearing fanny packs or carrying purses around with them like women. Where do they stick them? Are they all sticking their phones up their butts?

Let’s play “where’s the Pixel 9 Pro XL in a case with a magsafe wallet attached”:

Size was never the point of the Pixel A-series. The point was “less features for less money”. Sometimes it happened to come in a smaller device.

Not just manufacturers, my friend. People use their phones for media, which is always better on a bigger screen.

First and foremost: nobody buys them. Manufacturers would build smaller versions of their flagships, but many would be severely limited or use lower-spec parts compared to said flagships. Or, the models that were high-spec like their larger siblings would cost almost as much, and so the average person will just get the bigger one because to most people, bigger = better.

It may not make sense to those of us more familiar with tech, but that’s not the point.

Also - nobody has heard of Sharp Aquos phones. I’ve got one of their TVs (from 2007 lol), but even I didn’t know they made phones until this post.

You can get a Dell micro Optiplex for less money and have a full fledged i5 or i7 processor with similar power usage.

Absolutely, I’ve got a cluster of mini PCs with 7th/8th gen T sku i7s, plus an Optiplex SFF running a standard i7-7700, and everything together draws less than 100W on average.

Same. I saw it for what it was right off the bat. No thanks.

I used Thunderbird for a while, but for some reason it would dig up years-old emails and present them as new and unread. Despite the fact that I never leave anything “unread”.

I turned those off the moment they appeared in my gmail account. Don’t understand why others still use them.

Well, no. It’s a full-blown Debian VM running on your portable Linux-based device, with its own virtual network adapter that accesses the internet via NAT through your phone’s physical network adapter. Just like a VM on a normal server.

The terminal program used to access said VM happens to be a web app. Very much like Spice, NoMachine, and others. You can even SSH into it from Termux if you forward the port.

Syncthing never had an official Android app, and the current iteration, Syncthing-Fork, is updated quite frequently.

I try to stay away from the play store at this point. Even Tasker is sourced from the dev himself (license is like $4, absolutely worth it), and is more capable than the play store version.

Glad you figured it out, but I’m really not liking this trend of “just search for it” in settings. Settings should be organized in a way that makes sense for the user.

/r/conservative gets a pass on a lot of shit. Admins don’t like it when they get called out for it.