For real. I clearly didn’t make it as far into Patrick’s series as you did for other reaons, but I’m not surprised about what you said about it.

I tell everyone to avoid the US if they can. This is smart.

It doesn’t matter how bad the encryption is if you only use the device to make phone calls. Smart phones don’t encrypt phone calls either.

Heh. You didn’t miss much and I didn’t make it much farther I think (I’m not actually sure how many books there are in that series anymore).

I stopped reading after he adopted the whole Cosmere thing. I believe his writing took a turn for the worse after he started trying to tie them all together.

This just reinforces my decision to have a non smart phone instead.

Just block it if it bothers you. Lemmy makes this ez pz.

Driver support, like in the original post. I’m not trying to imply that it’s an impossible situation by any means, but there are better options, like designing / supporting hardware that already has open driver support and with OSes that are designed for them and to be open instead of what we have with Android and hardware designed for it.

I think this should be obvious based on the post that this is a reply to, but the short answer is that it’s based on Android, which Google very much still controls even though it’s “open source.”

Not to mention way too expensive as well…

I keep trying to tell people that Graphene is a dead end. There are other options we should be pursuing.

I see hate fucking is making a come back.

Heh. I know this was meant as a joke, but I don’t use use GOG (mostly because it has very few games I care to play), but I also don’t play those games.

This is what I usually recommend to my friends who are interested if they have the hardware to spare. Sometimes I even gift them a machine if I have one to spare (mostly back when hardware was cheaper). This way you can also try out multiple distros without caring to find out which one you like best as well.

I’m glad to see this used for this. I see you are another person of culture.

I do, but I feel like it was a missed opportunity to use the “present day, present time” quote.

I sure do love me some expensive everything and being one paycheck away from homelessness!

I live in the grey and don’t take everything to heart like that. You can believe someone is the best candidate and vote for them but still wish they could be better.

I love reusing old tech like this. People toss / sell at a loss a lot of stuff that has quite a bit of use left in it.

I was asking the OP, who I am assuming is not the person who wrote the article, unless I am mistaken and they have a male name and look male in their picture despite using she/her pronouns.