Hey, first of all, I love to see the custom rom scene still doing its thing. I think we need to keep fighting to keep our phones as open and as 'ours' as possible. But we, and I mean, a big 'we' as everyone in XDA Developers, Lineage OS developers etc, have as a group a tremendous knowledge in this area.In fact, for the most developed phones, we know almost everything about them. If only everyone could get toghether…
Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
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#102What if I want to have google services? While it's awesome you're building a competing infrastructure, it's dead in the water (at least to me) if it doesn't integrate with what I have already.
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#103“be far more respectful of user’s data privacy” “the chat application is Telegram” Is this satire?
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#104Boring. I'd like to see a smartphone that ditches the "app" model (where your phone is an appendage of other people's brands) to a "personal assistant" (where your phone works for you.)
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just worried it will go the way of geocities.
doubtful, nobody will ever look back wistfully on the aesthetic of early Medium pages.
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#106Forked from Lineage but it's unclear what problems are being solved that aren't already solved by Lineage.
Worse, it's forked from an old version of LineageOS that will be deprecated/unsupported once 16.0 is out.
That is to say Duval based his product on whichever LineageOS release was 'current' at the time but plans to sync to the next available release when his next development cycle allows (which is Oreo, currently).
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#107> We decided to adopt “/e/” as a textual representation for the symbol of “my data is MY data” Discussion appears to be here: https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/leaving-apple-and-google-e... I appreciate the reason for the name change, but if the goal is to target laypeople, /e/ is not obviously pronounceable or meaningful for my mom or kids/teens.
I just assumed it was pronounced “slashy-slash”...
Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
#108> We decided to adopt “/e/” as a textual representation for the symbol of “my data is MY data” Discussion appears to be here: https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/leaving-apple-and-google-e... I appreciate the reason for the name change, but if the goal is to target laypeople, /e/ is not obviously pronounceable or meaningful for my mom or kids/teens.
> /e/ is not obviously pronounceable On the contrary, it's a scientific notation for a specific pronunciation of the letter e. /e/ represents in linguistics an unrounded closed-mid front vowel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vo...
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#109For the love of all that is holy give me back my scroll on your website. https://e.foundation/ I thought we got rid of this scrolljacking nightmare.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it's very difficult to search for
This should be higher in branding concerns today If you're not googleable, you're going to have a hard time
Now we're using common nouns as names for everything and it has completely broken the ability to search for both the product AND the common nouns.