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GrapheneOS already ships Seedvault, which extracts application data with no root at all, so what you describe is possible in at least some form, but I assume not with the ergonomic…

The source code is right here, make your hardware follow whatever rules you wish with your derivative of it: https://grapheneos.org/source

Software freedom is about freedom of choice, not philosophically mandated security holes. You are free to take the GrapheneOS code and introduce a huge vulnerability in the form of…

It may not record your ethnicity or religion, but ID documents certainly record your sex, and plenty of authoritarians seem interested in identifying individuals for whom this data…

Commoditizarion is a process, not a binary state. If I run an oil refinery, my fractional distillation system needs to be reworked depending on the exact mixture of crude I'm takin…

> of course everyone, it's definitely the 200MB usage surplus that makes your phone feel heavy. It actually is though? My Pixel 9a has a perfectly serviceable CPU but I am often fr…

> Do most kids have the ability and motivation to build their own machines? I and pretty much everyone else in my childhood TeamSpeak server did at roughly 14 years of age.

I don't know if that tracks, senior leadership was heavily influenced towards implementing the one child policy by the works of Song Jian, who came from a rocketry background and p…

WhatsApp performs dynamic code loading from memory, GrapheneOS detects it when you open the app, and blocking this causes the app to crash during startup. So we know that static an…

On my Pixel 9a (also on GrapheneOS) the biggest limitation is it can't be set to higher than 1080p, and the upscaling algorithm with my 4K display (not sure where in the chain that…

That is true of press, weld, and paint stages, which gives you a chassis and nothing else. It is absolutely not lights out for "final assembly" which despite the name is how massiv…

I also am a programmer, and I care about all of these things on my laptop. I used my trackpad to click reply on this webpage, that's not a rare thing! If you ever have a meeting wh…

There are all sorts of other things that don't show up on a spec sheet so easily that Framework isn't competitive on. It has a diving board trackpad, significantly worse speakers, …

Requiring me to upload my ID to invoke ssh with the -D flag should certainly be a top legislative priority of the United Kingdom

This is not really anything new, back in AIM and SMS messaging days, people would type "wuu2" or "whats up" to a friend, but to express the same idea in an email, you would probabl…

When I drive cars with old headlights, they are clearly inferior to the point of feeling nearly dangerous in some situations. I would also not call modern lights less reliable, alt…

I feel like this problem is better in the UK than in North America. For starters, there is higher market penetration for better headlight technology, particularly ADB (adaptive dri…

There are all manner of health conditions that can occur that have little to do with your own healthy living, and don't incapacitate you or make life not worth living, but will cri…

The walled gardens got a lot more appealing. When we moved to Canada from the UK in 2010 there was no real way to access BBC content in a timely manner. My dad learned how to use a…

I don't see what advantage any company gets from choosing to build products that enable personal data ownership. I say this as someone working on a venture with these sorts of desi…

I don't think Framework will be able to compete on efficiency with their design philosophy. The NVMe disk is swappable, which means it has its own controller which manages power ma…

The case is part of the utilitarianism. I need to attach my phone to a bike mount. I use a Peak Design case that has a locking attachment point in the centre to securely fasten the…

We could potentially see one-time-purchase model checkpoints, where users pay to get a particular version for offline use, and future development is gated behind paying again- but …

In the UK it has become very common to need to scan a QR code on your table to order at a restaurant, which takes you to a website. Most certainly you can still order at the bar th…

Unless you need the GPIO pins it is likely a better choice to go with one of the many x86 mini PCs on Amazon, although you need to ensure it is not totally no-name. I got a GMKtec …