That also depends a lot. Often (e.g. on Fairphone) the stock ROM may lag behind way worse than e/OS.

So if a user has reasons to avoid a Pixel, or just wants to improve their privacy without replacing their device, e/OS may be a marked improvement even on security.

Not quite, it requires Play integrity.

Safteynet seems to mostly work.

Whether you knew better or not, I mostly wanted to provide slightly more accurate information for whoever might have been reading the thread.

Actually, no. e/OS includes MicroG, so even most app requiring Google services work just fine. What really doesnt’t work is Casting videos to a Chromecast, and anything requiting Play Integrity certification like Revolut.

Not sure what you’re talking about.

I was just saying that rounding is a normal thing to do and not lying.

Also Jesus was born in like 4 BC.

But more importantly, who cares?

I lived in my previous city for 9years 9m. I usually tell people I lived there 10 years, I don’t expect they’ll fell very betrayed when they learn the truth.

I can decide to not use Google (I have indeed stopped), but it becomes harder to avoid all websites that run google stuff.

Resistance is obviously not futile (or Google wouldn’t be doing this). But resistance will have to update.

At least there’s a chance this crap is illegal where I live. And if so, there’s a small chance they’ll care.

Except, it is irrelevant whether or not you decide to use Google.

It’s a sign of how bad the situation is that we talk about car repairs in terms of hacking.

Documentation should be mandatory, and DRM on this stuff mostly forbidden.

For the FP4, I think I’m going to go for e/OS, because of the official Android Auto support. I want to degoogle, not root, and most other OSs require quite a bit of mess to get AA to work.

That may be ok for an Arduino, but for a car I’d really like to be able to get support, which may be tough with a smaller provider, unless they really use generic components and document their stuff decently, which I’d really have to be convinced about. And let’s not even get into the software support.

And I write this from my 2yo old Fairphone 4, which I plan to degoogle during the holidays, while I sit in front of my 7yo Thinkpad.

I use Arch BTW.

Edit: And my chinese vacuum cleaner runs Valetudo.

The Chinese ones tend to be less enshittified? Having just recently about how Xiaomi cars disable software updates if you change the headlights, allow me to doubt that.

a couple KDE tweaks even made PiP work fantastic

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That wouldn’t be so bad per se… Many improvements in human conditions have been achieved by automating stuff and kicking people out. Think of the green revolution.

The problem is that the use case here is to massify the production of literal shit, like clickbaity articles on social media content, or ever larger volumes of advertisement. Those jobs don’t need to be replaced, they just need to go away for good.

Are we really going to use an AI to write motivation letters from a list of bullet points, to send it to an HR that will condense it into a list of bullet points using AI? Seriously?

Personally, I find myself in a bizarre situation.

I have some open source ““Ai”” solutions that I find really really nice and helpful e.g. the image search in Immich, or LanguageTool which bills itself as an AI spellchecker.

At the same time I am horrified at the stupidity underlying 99% of big tech AI stuff that gets wall street hot.

But… Isn’t that kind of the point? Slashing computational cost so that we can deploy that stuff wherever it’s needed without a tenfold increase in the world’s energy bill?

Whether we should do that at all is a very different question.

It literally says “Other authenticator apps that support OTP […] can also be used”.

The whole “Apple products are great because they control both software and hardware” always made about as much sense to me as someone claiming “this product is secure because we invented our own secret encryption”.

I don’t find it at all annoying to keep NewPipe up to date.

I think you may need to take a look at Obtainium.

You can get e.g. pylance to work if you trick it:

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/1640

So, at least in that instance, it’s just Microsoft being a little petty.