Overused? According to who?

Frankly, their asshole attitude sucks.

I had an error flashing it to a Pixel, and dev response was classic “what did you do wrong” instead of addressing the error message, they criticized me. Well, fuck you then.

Mind, I’ve been flashing phones since 2010, I’ve done hundreds of flashes, so I have extensive notes for every phone. My current approach is to use a project management app (MS Project), so I don’t miss anything. I’m meticulous - if a step doesn’t work as expected, I start over from the beginning, including re-flashing the factory image, until my documentation is spot on (I built desktop deployment images in a former life).

I’d read other comments about their behaviour, but thought I’d give it a try anyway. Sorry, if support is like that to me while just setting up, what it like if I had a real problem?

I’ve also seen the same behaviour when they discuss how their approach is different from other people - they don’t seek to clarify how their approach is different, but only to say their way is right, and to denigrate anyone else.

Graphene is useless to me with attitudes like that.

It was a bit emotionally difficult to take new $400 hardware and then just simply re-flash it risking say bricking.

This is a not-insignificant part of why I buy older (flagship) models. My most recent upgrade was to a Pixel 5, I bought 2 for that same $400, and another for $150.

Flashing has gotten so much easier, especially with Pixel (or not Samsung, and a few others). Motorola has been pretty good forever, generally, though some models have been tricky.

I’m not using Graphene (I disagree with their attitude about some things), but DivestOS - a fork of Lineage. Running MicroG for now, but working away from Google Store apps.

Check out NativeAlpha - it’s a browser which presents websites like an app. A big plus is it uses the phone’s own web engine, so it’s really just an app/UI config. I use it for my library, bank, hospital/doctors, etc. It seems to be good at replacing dedicated apps (with their issues). I tjin

Hermit is an app on Google Play that’s similar, but doesn’t seem to require Google Services (not that Native Alpha does, just surprising for a Play app). I’ve been finding so many apps that have GServices dependencies for no apparent reason, like simple offline dictionaries (what the hell??)!

The earphone community here recommended earfun to me. A couple years ago I picked up a pair of Air Pro buds, about $80. They’ve been great.

https://www.myearfun.com/eu

I’ve never had a Windows pc get slow after 6 months… Unless I’ve beat the snot out of it as I just don’t care. But I’m an Admin, user boxes don’t usually have such an issue. I have a 10 year old Windows 7 box that’s as fast as it was 10 years ago.

But… If you install/uninstall a lot of stuff, over time that can cause issues (because Uninstallers are notoriously lazily compiled - I say this as an app packager of 20+ years.)

I used to say Windows Reg cleaners are snake oil, but on some systems it can really help with the uninstall issue - lots of crap, especially stuff related to context menus, can really slow it down. The only one I’ve ever recommended is Crap Cleaner - I’ve seen it revive a test machine that had gotten slow from a billion installs/uninstalls, testing lots of iffy software, etc.

Not even close.

Though it’s really impressive how much it’s improved over the years.

Right? Like every little municipality could do this?

While this is true (and a problem with current engines like Google), I could see having a local LLM doing the filtering for you based on your own criteria. Then you could do a wide-open search as needed, or with minimal filtering, etc.

When I’m searching for technical stuff (Android rom, Linux commands/how it works), it would be really helpful to have some really capable filtering mechanisms that have learned.

When I want to find something from a headline, then it needs to be mostly open (well, maybe filtering out The Weekly World News).

But it really needs to be done by my own instance of an LLM/AI, not something controlled elsewhere.

With your own customization, done locally.

He’s doing his level best to kill it.

I see that as a good thing. Prevents it rising from the grave.

I haven’t used a swipe in years. Virtually all contact less now.

Hahahahaha, right, sure.

Not like we don’t have plenty of current dead hardware as an example of just this issue.

How about we build on knowns, rather than corporate promise fairytales?

Also, many, many, many apartments buildings aren’t built to handle such electrical loads (I’d bet loads of money most aren’t capable - why would you engineer a building for more than it’s projected to need? That just costs more).

In every apartment and rental house I’ve been in, you’d have to install a new service to be able to charge anything, because they’re already running close to max current capacity.

What’s that charger going to pull, in amps, for how long? It’ll need to be 220v, at least, and those are dedicated runs (think electric dryer or electric stove).

Everyone knew assembler back then. I did and I’m no developer today.

This is a “one of a kind” error.

OK, that it can happen at all is a problem. And sorry, but the idiots who put their data in with Google should be fired.

I get offloading risk, little good will that do when your company goes tits up.

Right?

To whom is this not obvious? Top talent has options.

When permitting security failures costs more than preventing, then companies will do something.

Por que no los dos?

I can see both sides:

Super humbling because nature’s complexity can provide data storage and retrieval capacity several orders or magnitude greater than the best we can do right now.

Also super exciting because look at what every brain on the planet is composed of, and how it functions, in a freakin’ square millimeter!

Crazy stuff. Wild.

Fair words make me look to my purse (English proverb).