What an absurdly sycophantic graph.

I never knew B&T to say that phrase. Their faves were always “Party on, dudes” and the like.

I’m pretty sure Wayne’s World skit on SNL in the mid 80’s is where the phrase was born.

Ah, a change.org petition . I eagerly await the sweeping improvements to life abroad.

3.5 GB disk space required? I’ll just look out the window, thanks.

“Imagine browsing without trackers following you everywhere or your phone’s performance lagging because of ads. That’s the kind of freedom GrapheneOS promises.”

It’s hard to take the sales pitch seriously after such disingenuous statements such as this. The OS itself doesn’t serve ads, but rather the apps you install and the web pages you visit. As well, as soon as you browse the web or install one of your most loved popular apps, you’re being tracked. For the average user, the one that wants to use the same apps on the gOS OS that they do on stock android, they will be faced with basically the same ads and the same tracking.

The graphene install docs is in your language and will walk you through the install process. Their support page points you to discord, telegram, matrix support channels as well.

https://grapheneos.org/install/

https://grapheneos.org/contact#community

As a general rule anyone that asks for a non-proprietary thing that will do everything their proprietary thing does without alternative solutions allowed is so far from the reality of non-proprietary software in a proprietary world that they can not be made happy so I’ll leave the support of that to others.

Like anything else, can be, depending on your needs.

It’s reddit, you get what you get. That’s why the majority of us stopped using it.

I disagree but we’ll revisit the conversation in a decade as I added the task to my calendar so I’ll talk to you in 2034.

The senators were not the ones that exposed anything.

Betterbird

Could you tell me what would be lacking? There’s a surprising amount of bells and whistle s you can add to the setup. Check out bunsenlabs distro for an example.

I love OB with tint2 and conky , no de needed.

Doubtful that it will be for us, we’re fairly well insulated from the goings on around us, income/Bureaucracy wise.

Not only am I embarrassed by the US and it’s inhabitants, my family has been planning an international move for some time. Once we are no longer caring for the elders in the family, we will make our exit stage right.

Does randomizing your MAC create any usability issues? Needing to log in repeatedly, getting bumped off network due to looking like a different device, anything else hindering usability?

Which is why I said “linux as a whole”. Many distros will try to undo the nerdery and neckbeardism that is built into the parent distros but as a whole, linux is going to always be less welcoming to a new user than someone that’s used to useless warnings and repeated password entries for elevated privileges. Being safer and being new-user-friendly rarely go hand in hand.

Yes but surely you’re aware that even the most new-user-friendly distros and their tools aren’t necessarily aimed at new users.

That warning is a perfect example of how Linux developers choose which hill to die on. They post a warning for an app that everyone knows can deliver bad times to two camps of users; those that know and don’t care and those that don’t understand the warning. If we could quantify the helpfulness of that warning, odds are that it saved 0 users from malicious action from that avenue of attack.

Never expect Linux as a whole to be “helpful” to the new crowd.

Schadenfreude intensifies.