Actually, the best time was around 4 months ago. I paid around $100 for my 2x16GB 6000 M/T CL30 DDR5 kit. The same kit right know costs over $500.

Not great timing unfortunately…

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hdd-prices-spike-as-ai-infrastructure-and-chinas-pc-push-collide-hard-drives-record-biggest-price-increase-in-eight-quarters-suppliers-warn-pressure-will-continue

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All code is stored in .py files and can optionally be edited using external code editors like VS Code. When the “File Watcher” setting is enabled, the game automatically detects external changes.

Ok, that is really cool.

I really wish I could buy big ass dumb monitor at the cost of a similar size smart tv.

Our back-end to your rear-end.

Well, assuming you live in an area with cheap electricity. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not have computer running 24/7 that idles at 60 Watts.

That’s amazing! I have the same combination in my luggage!

You are not voiding any warranty. You can very easily revert back to stock if you need to.

Android itself without the proprietary crap added to it by Google is open source and will continue being so long it keeps using the Linux kernel. This is not going to change as the Linux kernel is licensed under GPL, and if you link against GPL licensed code your own code also has to be licensed under GPL.

The problem GrapheneOS has is not with AOSP going away, but with Google not publishing the device tree for their Pixel devices like they used to, making it impossible to unlock the bootloader, and generally making harder to develop a custom ROM for their devices.

The GrapheneOS team is currently working with an OEM to develop a phone that comes with GrapheneOS from the factory. If that happens and we no longer have to rely on Google hardware for installing it then the problem is solved.

Get a Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it. It is super easy these days, you can do it using just a Chromium based web browser. And don’t worry there is no chance you will brick your device.

It’s also useful for prototyping. Put something together quickly as a proof of concept and then do it the proper way. That is how I mostly use it at least.

I like how it has a frown on the link preview and when you open the article it has a smile.

That means RAM prices will come back down to logical levels, right? …right?

I find your project very interesting, I have to point out a bit of irony though. You say,

Phones just do too much these days. And I don’t get the feeling they respect my time nor privacy.

However, making regular voice calls and sending SMS over the cell network is absolutely not private. If you want privacy you need the ability to utilize end to end encryption, and to do that you need a device capable of running something like Signal.

Other than that I agree with your other points. I too miss the days where phones didn’t all look like a slab of glass and every manufacturer wasn’t afraid to experiment with all sorts of cool features.

I do blame them because they actively choose to launch different products nobody asked for (e.g a Bitcoin wallet) instead of focusing on feature parity. I pay the exact same amount of money as a Windows user but I get less. Proton is a privacy focused company so naturaly the number of their customers running Linux is gonna be much greater than the average software company.

Linux has been treated as a second class citizen by Proton with pretty much all their products. Just look at the state of the ProtonVPN client compared to Windows. They are simply allocating less resources to Linux development in general compared to other platforms.

Do you remember that time Netflix removed [insert series title]? I basically have my own private version of Netflix. That way nobody can take my favorite series away from me without warning.

If it’s something like a bank or the government which already know my real identity then I don’t really care. For anything else, then I just don’t use the service.

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