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madmads

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    Comment #48764527

    The story starts with a German man, John Boepple, in his button shop in Germany. He immigrates to the US with the resolve to search for more freshwater mussels. So yes, it is relev…

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    Comment #47013643

    I think it's just meant to be a fun experiment, not your next enterprise backup site

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    Comment #45291558

    What would be an alternative that conveys the same thing, in your opinion?

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    Comment #45247954

    That was my experience too. Up and running in 30 minutes, I was quite surprised

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    Comment #41389342

    The smarter way to comment online: Read the article before commenting on how to best understand it. As the other reader mentioned, that's not what the article says.

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    Comment #40248790

    Not universally true, I use banking apps on my Pixel running the latest GrapheneOS. There is literally nothing I cannot do on my phone. I think it's possible that no US banks have …

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    Comment #37923978

    Yea it's probably to have a catchy name and get some attention. Although it's technically accurate to call it 4D since it includes time, I think 3D video recording would probably g…

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    Comment #37915771

    What are you talking about? How does this relate to anything in the discussion? Besides, you were denigrating the intelligence of the average person, as though that's the reason th…

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    Comment #37915584

    That's probably the most self-aggrandizing interpretation. Could it be that other people have other priorities or interests rather than spending their time figuring out how to obta…

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    Comment #37888742

    Fair enough, but on the flipside I wanted to point out that for at least some of us it's possible to use GrapheneOS with no compromises to the experience. Usually you only hear abo…

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    Comment #37883402

    I use GrapheneOS daily and use banking, government, and other sensitive apps without problem. It's a common myth that you can't use those apps on GrapheneOS.

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    Comment #37749228

    Maybe if you sprinkle the advice with your own bit of reasoning it becomes usable, you don't have to take it as literally as written on the page.

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    Comment #37740394

    I think it's assumed that it's within reason and in situations where the ultimatum has the purpose of pushing you into a situation you would prefer not to be in. The WoW example is…

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    Comment #37622123

    Yea that doesn't make much sense

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    Comment #37208726

    You might wanna check out Chronophoto for just guessing the time. https://www.chronophoto.app/

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    Comment #36256413

    Do you think it's possible to pay a new group of people and have them care as much as the people who met voluntarily out of sheer interest and dedication to their community? I doub…

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    Comment #35862100

    Are we still getting surprised by this? I feel like I've read a version of your comment on posts like this for the past couple of years.

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    Comment #35743796

    NL is meant as Netherlands here and the context is that since you can't talk about growing cannabis in the open, people talk about their "vegetable" gardens or "herbs" instead. The…

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    Comment #35684054

    Because some people believe that sufficient progression in this field would result in a setback for humanity in the long run. Personally, I'm not sure what to believe.

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    Comment #35622971

    Working just fine in Northern Europe

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    Comment #35555229

    But doesn't using one battery through another effectively mean that you're using both batteries in terms of wear and tear? If the phone drains the internal battery and the magsafe …

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    Comment #35449451

    There's active support going back to the Pixel 4a with the Pixel 4 being EOL. https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support Looking under the next section "Which devices are recommende…

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    Comment #35449305

    I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 Pro daily and I can use banking, transport, and government apps just fine. There's only been one time I had to look up how to get an app working and t…