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Ruminant Llama
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Nostr Class of 2023 Bitcoin Class of 2021 πŸ•ΆοΈπŸŒ»πŸ₯©πŸŒœοΈπŸ•ΉοΈπŸ€–πŸ”β˜•πŸΊ #plebchain #coffeechain #ai #IT #foss #hardware #multilingual πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Industrial Hardware Engineer - looking for new jobs and project opportunities. Highly interested in IT, Cybersec, internet politics and online privacy. I have a weak spot for the ridiculous & absurd 😜 Always curious, always learning ... and shitposting occasionally.
Replying to Avatar walker

Authoritarian and conservative, of course. But come on, how is apple communist? πŸ€”

As long as the beer is cold, at least πŸ˜‹

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There are a lot of suggestions to switch to Graphene right now. I tried Graphene twice for weeks at a time on a Pixel 6 Pro. Here are my observations/thoughts.

* None of my banking apps worked.

* Ended up using Google anyways for maps because the "free" alternatives took me miles out of the way or had no clue where things were.

* I never got the full zoom capabilities of my phone's camera to work, despite installing - you guessed it - Google's camera app.

* Swipe to type might as well have been non-existent.

* RCS never activated despite days of trying - oh, and that required installing Google Messages. Most people in the US still use text.

* There feels like a dearth of FOSS photo galleries with competitive editing features. I ended up installing.... Google Photos.

* Backing stuff up automatically... you going to also self-host NextCloud? Are you going to set up SyncThing? This is not a simple software swap - it requires a whole lifestyle.

I'm a software engineer and competent with Linux, etc... and I felt like I had reduced a $800 phone to the equivalent of something I could buy on prepaid for $150.

I'm sure there was a way to "fix" it - but that's the point. I do this for a living, and I don't have time to fix it. My phone has to work. Period.

You guys realize that basically *nobody* outside of this small echo chamber is willing to deal with that right?

I don't even hate the project - I follow several of the developers and they're fucking *awesome human beings* doing amazing work. Essential work that is needed and used by probably 10's or even 100's of thousands of people with high threat profiles. But almost nobody is going to do this unless they have significant other factors contributing to their threat profile, or they're nerds like us who are willing to tinker for hours to get less than what they get by pulling a stock phone out of a box.

The year of the Graphene Phone will happen at the same exact time the year of the Linux Desktop happens. When it just works. 99% of the time. With no sacrifices in feature set or performance.

Thank you for sharing your perspective on the matter.

I'm on android and it is a slippery slope to feel morally superior to #Apple users.

I think it is the same as with #bitcoin adoption: everyone should try to educate about alternatives and show solutions.

Very similar to your mode. But my productivity lacks consistency very much. Each day is basically different depending on the schedule and tasks.

Somehow it works best if I match my current energy level with the task complexity (email => low energy, when tired & hard engineering => high energy, sometimes in flow state)

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https://frame.work/

A modular laptop that you can easily fix and upgrade yourself.

Wen smartphones?

πŸ–•πŸŽ

My next Laptop, for sure

I really lol'd

Coinbase sued and then redeemed 🀑

https://void.cat/d/EtrUugnNGP4GTHAcUrjibp.webp

I really dig his swag πŸ˜…

Something beatiful is being built! 🀩

For all of you #plebs using #notion:

Take a good look at: https://anytype.io/

It has great potential to replace Notion - big opportunity to self-custody your notes and data in this kind of framework.

Really like this snippet. Perfect description.

but man, srsly - please don't be offended, but you need to work on your posture and neck muscles.

Reminds me of Joker's trick with the pencil 😈

So two is a party. Yay πŸ₯³