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by drnick1 7mo ago
I don't believe GrapheneOS intends to discontinue Pixel support, as long as Google allows it.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Ahoy, sailor!
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I don't see what prevents anyone (e.g., a distro maintainer) from patching that anti-feature out of the source or disabling with with root access. As long as people can control the software running on their machines, which is the idea
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by drnick1 7mo ago
This is absolutely the right stance to take against such stupid mandates.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I have always considered Qt apps (even for Windows) to be native. Think of VLC, VirtualBox, etc.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> But, in 2026, writing a greenfield application in a memory-unsafe language like C++ is a crime. I disagree, the GUI layer is far from behind a safety critical component, and C++ is a battle-tested choice for everything from GUI, videos
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Unless you have a place to shower and change at work or wherever you go, biking is utterly impractical. That's also assuming you have a safe place where to leave your bike, and that your commute is like 10 miles or less.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Absolutely, but this can only happen if we refuse to run nonfree software on our machines. Even if the maintainers of a Linux distro decided to somehow implement some anti user feature like age attestation, it would be trivial to patch that
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> At commute time there are frequently jammed with /cyclists/, but let's face it it's miles better than being stuck in a car. Cycling is wonderful, except when it rains, when it's cold, when it's hot, when i
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by drnick1 7mo ago
What kind of game is Iran playing here? It's as if the regime wanted to get nuked.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Why post this without making the text available?
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Like what is happening now, completely decimating their army, navy, and air force. If that isn't enough, destroy their only source of revenue (oil fields), or go even further and destroy their electrical grid and send the country back
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> like in particular, does Zoom run well on most distributions? It works fine (tested on Arch), but at the very least you should run that kind of malware as a separate user, or better yet, in a VM.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> because it's not going as planned and Israel is still getting hammered What makes you say that? Iran is a country twice the size of Texas, and dismantling the military-industrial complex of a massive country takes time and money.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> Iran has their own satellites. It's probably safe to say they have been destroyed, jammed, or spoofed since the war started.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> Man Windows(Pro) is just such a nice desktop and host now Windows is terrible relative to a recent version of GNOME on Wayland, slow, bloated, full of spyware and AI.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Developers will also be able to publish their apps on free Android devices like Graphene, I don't think that apps like NewPipe will go away.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Then don't use those apps. I know it's easier said than done sometimes, but freedom is more important than convenience.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> Buy a cheap unlocked smartphone and run GrapheneOS Note that this needs to be a Pixel at the moment.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Is the overhead of such tools, and added attack surface, justified over sshing and issuing a shutdown command though?
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by drnick1 7mo ago
This 100%. I don't understand why everything needs to be an app nowadays. Some things are best done in person and without to technology. No, I won't install some shitty app that requests location and network access to order lunch.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
What is the use case for this over standard command line tools like systemctl, journalctl, top, docker ps?
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by drnick1 7mo ago
The UK has been declining for at least 50 years, it isn't a new phenomenon. It's only really relevant culturally; after all EU countries are forced to speak English or they wouldn't be able to communicate, even after the UK&#
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by drnick1 7mo ago
So what? The only reason the U.S. did this is because it can. What will the UK do when 4chan tells its online regulator to go suck a d***, send in James Bond?
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Apple is just as bad, you should have switched to Graphene and retained the good aspects of Android without the parts that suck (Google).
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by drnick1 7mo ago
The vast majority of apks work just fine without Google libraries. In some rare cases, things such as notifications that depend on Google's servers may not work if the developers haven't not implemented an alternative backend such
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by drnick1 7mo ago
You don't need Google Play at all on GrapheneOS. You have to option of installing a sandboxed version of Google Play, but it isn't installed by default. Google's verification shenanigans are otherwise irrelevant to Graphene,
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> Well thats a nice theory but do you yourself give guarantee to all models that they will keep working after such potentially destructive 'hack' ? The mod is reversible, I don't see how this could ever be an issue. But as
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by drnick1 7mo ago
My car does not have a cellular modem in it, and my phone runs GrapheneOS. I use airplane mode extensively and rotate SIMs regularly. Data brokers aren't getting any anything from me.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
If it comes to that, an alternative hack would be to replace the LTE antenna by a dummy load.

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