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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • All those are fair points. There’s not much freedom of choice because common people are struggling to live as it is, to splurge on something with a bad camera and battery life makes no sense (I believe those are some main points people upgrade their phones).

    I’m running a 4 year old phone and probably will be going on 5th year because of economical strain.

    In your analogy, it also doesn’t help that there’s only one ethical restaurant among hundreds of unethical ones. It’s expensive because nobody goes there and nobody goes there because it’s expensive.





  • I don’t think you’ve been using MicroG on GrapheneOS, since it requires signature spoofing and GOS specifically disable that because of security reasons. Or did you compile your own version of Graphene with the flag enabled?

    You’d have been better off with CalyxOS which bakes in MicroG. Push notifications from eg. WhatsApp come in immediately and car parking/e-bike apps which expect Google Maps get the map automatically replaced with OpenStreetMaps without the app knowing any better.

    But of course there is sacrifice, and the ideologies and mindset of the person decide if they are worth it. I’m just a bit triggered calling some FOSS app likely created on someone’s freetime pathetically worse than a multimillion dollar one.




  • Thanks for your opinion. But I don’t think vanilla arch is aimed at inexperienced users.

    I installed Arch for the first time a couple weeks ago, after 5 years of running linux, and found the experience fun and educating. I’ve got it all setup to my liking and managed to eliminate 1k packages from my previous install. Had I tried it without experience I wouldn’t have had such a good time at all.