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.

With Newsom’s signature, now it’s up to the voters to decide whether to temporarily sidestep the state’s independent redistricting commission

How temporary is “temporary”? I can’t find it in the article

How common is such a test in the US? I work in the US and so far, I’ve never been asked to perform a drug test, ever. Then again, maybe I’ve been lucky…

Gmail, outlook web, whatsapp web, slack web … just some examples of webapps that I use or used in the past that someone might legitimately want notifications from. Maybe you don’t use them, or are not required to use them for work, and that’s fine.

The article is specifically talking about android though, and there you’d most likely use an app for those, so I personally never needed them on mobile, but I can see someone else might need them.

Hasn’t been true for my past two jobs at least (US based), what I do outside of company premises / my own hardware and my own time is mine. They only own what was done on company’s dime. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but that’s not my experience so far, and I’m not sure if would be legal.

I literally run deepseek r1 on my laptop via ollama, and many other models, nothing gets sent to anybody. Granted, it’s the smaller 7b parameter model, but still plenty good.

Microsoft could easily host the full model on their infrastructure if they needed it.

Al Jazeera is fine, not perfect (who is?), but definitely fine

The usual “free speech as long as you agree with me”

If they are the minority, why does Netanyahu keep getting reelected?

censorship is bipartisan, they just want to censor different things

This is the actual reason why there is a 2nd amendment

Good to know

I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren’t broken for once…

Is that hypothetical or are you saying that right now, people are being denied us citizenship if they have a speeding ticket? Cause I was pretty sure anything minor like that pretty much wouldn’t count, not sure if things have changed

Few years ago at work, people were using them to clean electronics after soldering, etc. but once, they did it on a board with a MEMS device, a gyroscope and accelerometer chip. Took them a while to figure out while none of them worked until they narrowed it down to the ultrasonic cleaner…

Signal is better for privacy than whatsapp, and of course whatsapp is owned by meta and it leaks some … metadata to them (pun intended), but as for their end to end encryption, it actually uses the same exact scheme as signal, so even if you’re forced to use it, it’s still not that bad. Way better than telegram, for example (avoid telegram).

Using Signal or other secure messaging apps should be normalized, not reserved for people who are at risk, else the simple fact that you use it raises suspicions. Not sure if this argument is enough to convince your friends … maybe just tell them you like it better due to some feature it has?

The old jelly pro had a decent modding community, and I definitely was able to unlock the bootloader and root it, though not sure about degoogling.

There is. The screen is smaller, but the actual phone is bigger 🤦‍♂️

As a lover of small phones, unfortunately that’s the truth. Apple tried a couple years ago with their iPhone mini and sold very few. Still, there should be enough of us that maybe some smaller phone manufacturers could fill this niche.

And maybr make it fully unlocked and repairable, replaceable battery, etc. while they’re at it.

Yeah I said at least 5 years, cause I haven’t been here forever, and also it seems they’re getting worse in the last few years, though maybe that’s just my biased perception.