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You know what, indeed, when reading your point like that, I agree. From my POV, GrapheneOS is not looking great as a product. Which is exactly what you miss as well - looking at the website, and its inadequacy as promotional material.

To me, the approach of product management makes a lot of sense. For example with linux and gaming, some of the gamers can surely be reached with a nice website, a streamlined installer etc, initiating a conversion from Windows. However, what really boosted Linux in the gaming space is Steam's involvement - first by creating an easy to use product out of Wine (Proton) and a great bundle with the Steam client, and then by releasing the Steam Deck, which has Proton preinstalled and as default. This created an incentive not just on the gamer side, but on the developer side as well.

I want a similar thing for GrapheneOS. I think the current project and website is not just fine, it's more than enough the way it is. Where it needs more energy is reaching users via b2b agreements - like having phone manufacturer support for GrapheneOS, and even better, Graphene preinstall offerings, preferably in a wide price level. Murena, for example, is one that's on the right track with their similar thing. I want this for GrapheneOS as well.

I guess the TL;DR is: they don't need to target the end user better, they need to find businesses as partners.

Because their "hardware" is not a singular thing, but a complex package. How do people vote on any political party?

You're right that I worded my comment wrongly. More precisely, GrapheneOS doesn't and cannot have the most convenient, most widespread, Google-backed tamper protection, which developers use because it's convenient, and often the easiest way to gain some authority, compliance, or just a badge of security.

I dislike this kind of criticism as well, because they approach from a wrong angle. Linux distros get this as well.

They might not want more users, but they definitely need more users in my opinion (or maybe it's me who wants this so badly :))

>more than just getting bespoke deals to be supported on $1500+ small marketshare phones.

Oh yeah. We need a wider scale of much cheaper phones as well, for starters. The fundamentals are down - GrapheneOS is SOLID. For the next level, it needs to be a product.

>The first thing the majority of people care about is what the OS will look like on their phone if they install it.

I think this misses the point, because the majority of the people DGAF what's on their phone, as long as it works seamlessly as a phone, by which I mean a tiny computer with fancy software. These are the people GrapheneOS needs to reach in order to stay alive on the longer term, and to not be shut out of the ecosystem over time. The people who are looking for a secure alternative Android are reached well enough.

GrapheneOS merely needs more users, so that there is more pressure on banks and other app devs to support these (or, to pressure Google in return for a more agnostic integrity check).

I therefore welcome the Motorola initiative to support GrapheneOS, but it would be even better if devices were sold with it, and even better if there were devices for multiple price points.

They don't block Graphene directly, they block any phone that doesn't have attestation, which the Graphene phone cannot have. https://grapheneos.org/usage#banking-apps

Basically, GrapheneOS on a phone counts as a "tampered" device.

1. I'm personally paying for Chatgpt Plus, single account. I mostly use it for personal stuff, and occasional coding - one-off scripts I do from the chat interface, and I used Codex for a more complex project.

2. I sometimes have questions I don't want to associate with my main account, I use duck.ai or chatgpt.com in a private tab. I also dabbled with self-hosting, but it's mostly curiosity, testing abliterated models, testing linux-amd integration etc.

3. Sticking to the defaults. My dayjob pays for Copilot, which means a Copilot plugin in IntelliJ

4. I haven't even looked into agent orchestration and swarms.

5. Not using agent platforms either.

My project freezes the postman version to the last one which supports local data, 10.27.x or something. I honestly can't fathom what extra feature can a newer version have that is critically missing from this old one. It feels like a solved problem to me. I know that tools change all the time, but this version seems to do whatever a postman like tool can do, and more.

To be honest, the beancounter mindset could have been felt from this project for many years now, starting with their hosted online integration.

It's gonna turn into an Eternal September kind of thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

While no chatbot can ride a bike currently, that doesn't invalidate OP's point. "Distillation of all human knowledge" here is not a scientific claim, it's a colloquial exaggeration to emphasize its actual capabilities vs the complaint people have against it.

Yeah, it's crazy how music vanishes. Well anything really, from the internet, since keeping it up needs active work on someone's part.

I too have a library that's somewhat in disrepair. In my case, a corruption happened when I was hauling my hard drive around - and it didn't happen when I chucked the hdd in my bag, it happened when I have set up the wrong sector and header information in my buddy's bios! Suddenly the chemical brothers songs had some black metal in them.

This made me realize that I don't actually love any website like that. Wikipedia comes the closest, but even if that would disappear, surely someone would have a dump, which I'd grab at that point. Until then, I won't do this.

The two things I go back to are music, and books. Even books not so much, but songs tickle a very specific part of my brain, that I want to reproduce over and over again, and then not for years, and then again. And when I want to go back and I can't, and I know I could, that really hurts, and I feel betrayed. So I do actually archive the music, even from streaming sites.

This is not how consent works. I appreciate the malware consideration of Windows, I hate it as well. However, using an OS, and having it auto-update a driver does not mean that whatever else is also welcome to be installed alongside that driver. And Microsoft agrees here:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/microsoft-responds-t...

Maybe you and me would resist buying a TV, just to stick it to them, but I don't see this on a population level, at all. Convenience is now utilized so successfully that these things might as well be essential.

I'd also like to bring in another thing: that people don't care that much about this aspect of privacy. They care that their neighbor don't see their naked bodies, but they don't care that their viewing data might end up in a datacenter or whatever. This surveillance is too abstract to be meaningful to the layperson, there's no feedback of it at all, everyone's doing it, and practically nobody got hurt so far.

So a boycott of an entire product category is a hard sell. Not just because of lack of alternatives, but because the incentives are just not there.

What's a fun car for you, and what parts of the driving experience do you find fun? I drive a car that's widely regarded as boring as fuck, and I love it (Toyota Auris with 1.8 HSD). I really enjoy the scenery rolling by and the problem solving part of the driving, like what roads I take and such. I also really like that the cabin is quiet (compared to my last car), so the engine / wind / etc noise doesn't stress me extra, and that I can hear my music, podcast, or own thoughts better.

I just remembered, I also have this minigame where I make the car consume as little as possible. The UI gives the avg consumption after each drive, so there's immediate feedback on how I did. I currently count 4.1-4.5 l/100 as a success (52-57 us mpg). Nicest I ever got over a meaningful distance is 3.5 l/100 (67 mpg).

Even monitors are not automatically safe nowadays:

https://windows.gadgethacks.com/news/lg-monitors-installing-...

Boycotts can only work when there are viable alternatives. When there isn't a suitable replacement, and abstaining is unpopular, the needle isn't moved. Elections are often the same: people vote on huge package deals, each of them worse than the other, when looked at from a different perspective.

There was definitely evidence, just the mainstream was never loud with it. I'm on the privacy train for more than a decade now, and smart TVs were always considered abysmal in this regard - bad defaults, low configurability, and no alternative firmware.

One pragmatic difference is that the art we directly interface with, the code we don't.

On the other hand, art is also strongly related to the human expression. Code can be artful as well, but usually it's more like utility, and to be frank, most art is utilitarian as well. So, art was was soulless enough before AI, and AI now ratcheted this up to a level never seen before.

Completely aside, but you maybe haven't even chosen to dislike cilantro. Some people have some gene configuration that make them taste cilantro like soap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OR6A2

In case anyone else is also interested in the "what kind of music", this is straight from the study:

>>The patients were asked to choose their preferred music from two prerecorded instrumental musical pieces instituted as the music therapy. We used non lyrical, soft, slow tempo, relaxing instrumental musical pieces of either flute [click here for audio]or piano [click here for audio]as the choices presented to the patient.The musical pieces were selected based on their slow and meditative tempo (60-100 beats per minute), and only non -lyrical instrumental piano or flute based versions were chosen.The flute version which was preferred by most patients was a combination of Raga Yaman and Raga Kirwani. Raga Yaman is bright and uplifting and Raga Kir wani is known for its soothing and calming effects. Combining these two Hindustani classical ragas provides musically uplifting qualities that could be helpful in reducing the stress associated with surgical procedures and control the hemodynamic responses to surgery. Noise cancelling headphoneswere used to play the instrumental pieces at 60db. The musical piece was played for the entire duration of the surgery on loop using blue tooth connectivity of the headphones with a mobile phone.<<

Oh, that's right! They use KDE only for the Desktop Mode operation, not the normal one. So yes, not much is impacted.

This is interesting to me, because SteamOS, so Steam Deck uses KDE. I really wonder how they are going to tackle going from X to Wayland on 4 million machines, and what that will bring.

1. It's the other way around: because people don't care that much, that's why there is almost exclusively proprietary hardware around.

2. The people who require the "higher grades" of being open source are simply not a large enough market

3. Being open source is not a natural advantage of a product, in fact, it's more of a risk, liability, responsibility, and effort than being proprietary.

Hence, proprietary is the default.

And, for this reason, different entities ship different versions of the Linux kernel (and system) as well.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisquel

The simple statement that it's not 100% open source is not an attack on the effort. It needs to be said, because the blog entry's title is "Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source".

I stopped drinking caffeine in my everydays, reserving it for occasions that are more meaningful to me, like a weekend of chores around the house, or going out to a party.

Drinking it every day makes me a bit jittery and anxious, and I feel that my employer doesn't deserve the increased productivity that it brings. Turns out that I get the same salary, even though I'm noticeably slower, less creative about my solutions, and less focused. In turn I'm steadier, more thorough. A good tradeoff, especially on a personal level, and I don't miss it at all, even though I was drinking 4-5 coffees as day in my "prime".

I also quit "cold turkey", like the author. Headaches on days 3-7 or so, which I managed with a low dose of paracetamol. They weren't too bad, but I tolerate headaches really badly :)

Maybe there are other factors too, I'm not very sure. When there are thin light lines on a dark background, that's really hard to look at for me. And strangely, the same dark lines on a light background don't bother me at all.

Yes and to make it worse, sometimes the unstyled paste shortcut doesn't work. For example, in Microsoft Notes.