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by palata 6mo ago
To be fair, it was already done by bad managers long before.
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by palata 6mo ago
Yeah it's a good question, and in the end it's arbitrary. I would say: 1. Because e-waste. 2. Because if I buy shoes, I own the shoes. If I buy an electronic device, I own the electronic device. It should not be legal to add a mec
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by palata 6mo ago
> In a hypothetical scenario, where a signifcant portion of users switch to one of these alternative OSes, there will be an incentive to monetize. Which is why it's better to choose an alternative that is open source, so that when t
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by palata 6mo ago
> Also, it's not the same as modifying the stock OS that does work with a non-stock OS that doesn't. Again, the non-stock OS works, except for the parts that cannot work because they are being actively blocked. It's not th
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by palata 6mo ago
Maybe don't list JetBrains with the Electron ones then?
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by palata 6mo ago
> I have been a JetBrains lifer for the better part of fifteen years [...] and the product underneath is Electron Do I misunderstand, or does the author start by saying that in fifteen years of using JetBrains IDEs, they haven't rea
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by palata 6mo ago
> If you handed a layperson a GrapheneOS phone and asked them what OS was on the phone, they would probably say Android. Agreed, that's exactly it! The pain points of GrapheneOS/LineageOS are due to the fact that device manufac
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by palata 6mo ago
I don't know what you are talking about. Did you read the article? It was communicated by Google too [1]. ONE TIME, you go to the developer settings, you do the confirmation dance (wait 24h and whatnot), and at the end you choose to &q
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by palata 6mo ago
> My point was that this is the direction the world is moving to. And I agree with that, but it feels to me like it reinforces my initial point: fighting the Google flavour of Android is a lost cause. > We're already sitting here
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by palata 6mo ago
> If you want a successful mainstream operating system. It needs to work within the rules of society. It needs to comply with regulations. It needs to cooperate with mobile device manufacturers and network operators. Which can be done wi
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by palata 6mo ago
> The bank isn't banning graphene os. They're banning anything Google labels as untrusted. I don't agree here :-). AOSP provides an attestation mechanism that totally works with GrapheneOS [1]. Google provides Play Integri
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by palata 6mo ago
> legislation would be needed here but that's just not going to happen Why not? The EU DMA is going in that kind of direction...
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by palata 6mo ago
> Google's play protect prevents me from using some apps on my phone running graphene. My banking app is one of them. Well, your bank is the one choosing to prevent your from running it on GrapheneOS. That's my whole point agai
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by palata 6mo ago
Not sure what you are trying to say. My point is that technically, we have good alternatives. I am not talking Mobile Linux: we have Android alternatives that are indistinguishable from Stock Android to normal people... except for a few pai
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by palata 6mo ago
> Becomes a 25-hour cycle involving It's not a cycle. You do it once. One time you wait 24h, and that's it.
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by palata 6mo ago
Only because you don't know what those alternatives are. I can take a random person in the street, show them my /e/OS or GrapheneOS phone and ask them what it is running. They will 100% say Android. I can ask them to use it f
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by palata 6mo ago
When you buy an Android phone, the Stock OS you get is AOSP (the open source Android base) + Google stuff + Manufacturer stuff. Now it sounds like you don't know about it, but if you take only AOSP and run it on your phone, you will
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by palata 6mo ago
Have you tried installing GrapheneOS? I don't think it's harder than properly installing F-Droid and then installing NewPipe with it. > the new totallyFLOSS-OS Nobody said it has to be new and totally FLOSS. Just build on top o
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by palata 6mo ago
I think that for the first step, we need to make sure that AOSP forks can work. And those can just copy the binary blobs. Don't get me wrong: I like all alternatives. But the most realistic alternative to Stock Android is based on AOSP
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by palata 6mo ago
I feel like you missed my point. I am fighting for the 100% (and you are not, as you say). We should all own our devices, and owning a device means that we can install whatever OS we want on it. The beauty of it being that if you can instal
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by palata 6mo ago
> So much for vibe-coding apps for personal or niche use You will still be able to do that...
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by palata 6mo ago
Agreed. And it does not mean that they should open source everything. If I buy a connected fridge, they should give me a technical way to flash my own OS on it. Maybe I will lose most functionality by doing that, and maybe it will be a lot
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by palata 6mo ago
Interesting insights, thanks! If I may ask: is that a reason to prevent me from unlocking, adding custom keys and relocking the bootloader? It feels like you are talking about the implementation details below that. I don't really mind
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by palata 6mo ago
> the only value that Android really offered me was the ability to run my own code on my own device. Since they are taking that away Except they are not. And you can actually do that on iOS.
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by palata 6mo ago
I agree, and this is the problem with lobbying: everyone has an agenda. IMHO, this is not a problem: it is possible to disable the check (though it takes some clicks and 24h), and those who care should actually lobby for alternative OSes li
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by palata 6mo ago
Well we should fight against that, then.
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by palata 6mo ago
That's the real fight. We should fight to make this illegal. It should be mandatory to provide the technical ability to install an alternative OS on a computer, period.
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by palata 6mo ago
Same as you can trust Google. Though GrapheneOS is entirely open source, and Google is not. And Google has been screwing you in the past.
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by palata 6mo ago
Which is because other manufacturers don't allow you to unlock/relock the bootloader, right?
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by palata 6mo ago
How many apps do you have that don't run there? Would you be willing to share them? I have been using GrapheneOS for a couple years and almost everything works seamlessly (except when e.g. a bank decides to ban GrapheneOS).

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