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He's already been impeached twice, with very little coming out of it. Many republicans would have to truly abandon him for any drastic consequences to happen.

It's unfortunate that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series seems to have been completely botched by Qualcomm: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gjUzH4UcSkw

The curved display edges seem like a weird choice also, nobody seems to prefer those. Hoping to see better options with GOS support next year.

Mailbox.org and Tuta are generally recommended[1] as email service alternatives.

1: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#recommended-provider...

Do note that the car is computer on wheels which can record with internal camera and microphones everything that happens within the car, where you drive it, how do you drive etc. Data that might become useful if he sets his sights on you or any cohort you happen to belong to.

GrapheneOS doesn't include Google Play (Services) on fresh install, user's explicitly can opt-in. It seems to be the only AOSP based OS that doesn't make any connections to Google by default [1], and is therefore the only true de-googled AOSP OS.

1: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

In the meanwhile you can try this temporary fix: Go to Developer Options->Apps>Background Process Limit and change the limit from Standard to "at most 4processes" [1]

1: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1wr1767/c...

To think greed is some innate human trait seems to not be greatly substantiated by evidence on early human behavior. To see what we call greed all around us in market economy is only proof how we're all drilled from early childhood onwards to exhibit this behavior of greed, in accumulating money to survive, to archieve social status and approval etc. Drastic changes the economic system, and the very behavior set we are all programmed into, would more than likely regulate the behavior of greed. Though obviously that is extremely unlikely to happen.

Just.. use different search engine? Startpage if you still want the Google's search results but with vastly superior privacy

That was partially true a couple years ago that there were some crashes related to it. It is absolutely not the case anymore.

Google controls Chromium to the extent they can impose changes like manifest v3 and while some forks like Brave will try to circumvent such changes, it will eventually become too costly or incompatible to maintain.

It is kind of the same daydream as the Windows 11 debloaters have that if they just keep doing that, everything will be okay. That is until Microsoft implements features they can no longer fully disable, like recall, or just exercise their control to revert any changes at will.

You can change the link handling in the app settings so it doesn't try to open it via the app. Or open the site in incognito window.

With a user base of 500k if every GOS user left a review that'd make a dent.

Redlib provides an even better experience than old.reddit.com, while also being truly private.

The best approach to combat this is to cause as much headache as possible: bombard them with 1-star reviews, contact news sites, post this on social media sites snd contact Paypal's support.

And the Daily mail was founded in the 1800s. Age of the publication doesn't in any way correlate with the factuality of the reporting.

More apps starting to ban GrapheneOS in the guise of "security" is becoming increasingly worrying. Legal action in the EU may be the only option to stop this trend.

Pirated copies seem like a blackbox of potential malware, even if virus scans fail to find any problems (and they often give 10-30% false positives on most keygens/cracks). Even if the code is hosted in github, there has been plenty of cases of malware/viruses being hosted there too.

You can install GOS via another Android phone...

You can always buy an used Pixel. GOS only supports phones with hardware that they deem secure enough, and Google is currently the only manufacturer that makes phones that match their requirements[1], with upcoming Motorola phones that also support or even come with GOS installed coming out next year. I find this point so obvious that I can't understand people making comments like "can't take them seriously": you make security/privacy OS, having insecure hardware that compromises the whole project would simply not make any sense. Ask other manufacturers to do better.

1: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

Many cars already have internal/cabin view camera. I'd imagine it will sooner or later get detection for potential theft and kidnapping situations, where it can simply detect the driver by face and prevent driving if it doesn't recognize the invidual as one granted driving privileges.

I was referring to confusion experienced by people new to the passkeys creating passkeys for the first time ("Where am I saving this to?", "How do I store this in my password manager?").

The anti-phising benefits are still very much there even if you sync them to pw manager. Yes it introduces single point of failure (pw manager), but at the same time you no longer need to go reset all your passwords to every service you use if you happen to lose that device. Tradeoffs.

Passkey comprises of public key that the website you created it on holds, and the private key you store on your pw manager or in the TPM/secure element. As long as you can copy the private key to the new device, you don't need to recreate the whole passkey. In your case, you would just need access to a backup of the Keepass database in case you lose the device.

The biggest point of confusion in my opinion comes from Windows especially having lacked a way (and kind of still does) to save the private key of a passkey to your password manager, defaulting to saving it to Windows Hello, which saves the private key to your PC's TPM. In this scenario you can no longer easily copy the private key to other devices, and if you lose that Windows PC, you also lose the private key and the whole passkey as a result.

Paywalling with extremely easy, one-click payment of very small amount might work. Paywalling does still incentivize things like misleading, sensationalized click-bait titles, but that's pretty much the norm everywhere.

Alternatively, if there was a subscription that covered a massive amount of blogs/news bundled into one low-cost subscription, that might also work. What I heavily doubt is if donation-based micropayments will ever find enough users to remain profitable.

Time estimate depends heavily on the apps you use (data migration in them) and maybe some features that don't easily work out-of-the-box in GOS like Google's find my device, where you'd ideally migrate to use foss alternatives like FMD[1]. For the easiest setup by far just install the sandboxed Google Play Store and get your apps from there. In general the more additional security features you enable, the more issues you may face, so I'd recommend leaving everything to GOS default, like leaving Sensors permission ON by default. There are a few gotchas that may not be mentioned in GOS official documentation or elsewhere such as BT tracker devices not being supported for the most part, requiring workarounds. There are also few apps that don't currently support GOS [2][3], so be sure to check them out beforehand.

1: https://gitlab.com/fmd-foss/fmd-android

2: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

3: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

That's ublock origin preinstalled, not internal/built-in adblocking.

You're accusing them of ties to Russia... based on their names?

You can install MS store (not sure about the login though) on ltsc with one command: wsreset -i

How can you be so sure they have never been used in the wild? Surely not all uses of them get reported...

It's valid question for people unfamiliar with the project, but it is the AOSP in terms of looks, GrapheneOS does not customize the UI in any way beyond what their own features require as additions. Note that Pixel OS is not AOSP. The default home app of course also influences the experience quite the bit unless you replace it, which is what I'd personally recommend everyone to do as it's so incredibly barebones. Lawnchair is already a big step up as an open source alternative.