Ok first of all: GrapheneOS is great, probably the best alternative Android OS, but their PR skills are rock bottom. Still, many ignore that due to how good it is.

With that said, I don’t believe their claim that it’s impossible for them to target a user with a malicious OTA: their reason is basically that the update server never even knows who is downloading, and so it can’t send a different file to just one user. That’s true, but thet could, in theory, make a single OTA that everybody gets, but checks for a specific IMEI or other device ID and only there enables some malicious payload.

I trust them not to do it, for many reasons, but technically they could. I also don’t think they’d do it to Louis, despite the beef they have with him.

Sure, but the problem is the ecosystem of alternatives stores effectively collapsing or falling under Google’s control. That will affect everybody who uses them, whether on GrapheneOS, LineageOS or certified devices.

As many people here are saying, you don’t owe them anything and shouldn’t be ineligible for rehire for giving them the stardard 2 weeks notice, but if you care about your coworker and your manager on a personal level, e.g. because they are good people, maybe even friends, then sure, go ahead and offer to be accomodating, within reason. Being kind, while not required, is likely appreciated, but do it cause you care about them, not about your rehire eligibility (which, once again, shouldn’t be an issue here).

Well, clearly as others said, it’s the economy of scale: making large quantities of the same thing is cheaper than making small runs or one offs, and spare parts don’t sell as much, if an item is designed well (i.e. doesn’t break immediately).

But, I want to add something important IMHO: buying new because is cheaper isn’t really the problem, the problem is the waste it generates, and when we throw away (or hoard…) something, neither we nor the company that made the item pays for the cost of disposal. In fact, in many cases, the cost will be paid by society as a whole, sometimes by future generations. This is why it appears cheaper to buy new, but really, there’s a hidden cost that individuals and companies don’t directly pay.

If we could, somehow, make a company pay for the disposal of all the waste their products create, I tell you, repairing would be a lot more common.

So, China made their own copycat RoboCup competition?

It’s mostly true, but not true often enough that makes it worth to buy cheap (and possibly twice), hoping for the lucky inexpensive quality item, then to buy nice, hoping you won’t have to buy it twice anyway cause it was just overpriced.

Also agree on what others suggested: buy cheap first, then if it breaks, buy quality.

You’re entering a world of pain

I believe the point is, once some data is publicly available, even if you try to delete it, you can never be sure all copies are truly gone. Like you said, maybe it lives on somebody’s hard drive, maybe some other user managed to scrape it for their own personal use, maybe they screenshotted the most compromising posts, etc. You can never be sure it’s gone.

I guess what they’re saying is, even though it’s “not supported” officially, you can still try and there’s good chances it’ll work anyway. If you need or prefer to stick to a supported configuration, it seems your options are either to switch to podman and figure out nextcloud, or switch away from RHEL.

I don’t think a macbook can fit in my pocket … and I don’t think the (virtual) keyboard on an iphone is a “manufactured restriction” compared to a macbook

Interesting, never heard of it before but looks promising, I should try it. I don’t care much for AI features, but I’m not against it either, especially if I can use locally hosted models, and it seems Zed supports ollama natively, so that fits the bill.

Coming from vscode, one of the features I use a lot is devcontainers, does Zed support something similar?

Visual Studio Code, I think it’s just the best, works on all platforms and there’s extensions for literally everything. If it enshittifies too much with e.g. copilot, etc. there’s always vscodium instead.

If I’m on a linux terminal, I use the micro editor. I can survive using vim if nothing else is available, but yeah, I used to be in emacs team back in the day…

I have used Qt Creator in the past and, while it was pretty good back then, nowadays I’m not sure if it can compete with vscode, I haven’t kept up with its development.

From what I understand, there was no hack nor fork in the recent news about Signal, it was human error, somebody literally invited the wrong person to the chat 🙄

Signal is still secure.

As for WhatsApp, it’s true that being Meta they collect everything they can, mostly metadata, but don’t they still implement the same end-to-end encryption as Signal? So, at least the actual content is your messages and calls should be truly private, i.e. out of reach even of Meta (and let’s say, all of this using a phone with no google e.g. graphene or lineage or calyxos). Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Exactly

Despite being in the hands of the zuck, whatsapp is more private and secure than telegram, and not because of any collaboration with X/twitter, it’s been that way forever… so go ahead and use it (but if you can, signal is even better on that front).

True, a literally steep learning curve means you’d learn very quickly!

Artificial Insanity?

IMHO the top comment on the post you linked is the best: No schadenfreude (defined as “pleasure in other people’s misfortune”).

Lacking that, banning politics and catharsis will do.

That’s a far cry from genocide though