i loathe the idea of giving google more money, so lineage via eos & murena is most likely the path i’ll take. and also, none of my phones are compatible so i’ll have to get a new phone.

i learned the hard way through buying chinese brands that international phones are hit-&-miss with wireless android auto (wired android auto works fine) and all of murena’s offerings are international. plus some bands are also not supported w international phones so they sometimes get poor coverage in some places like underground parking garages in the united states.

that’s only reason why i haven’t pulled this trigger yet and i vacillate for a couple of reasons and i think that the second biggest is that i ultimately plan to stop using this car and wonder if it’s best to wait until wireless android auto stops being a requirement.

(banking apps can be hit or miss, and the Uber app I believe blocked it).

but this is still the biggest reason. personal testimonials show me if the apps i want to use are supported

Hadn’t heard of IodeOS either until seeing that chart. They also seem a bit slower than Lineage for certain updates, but for the more privacy minded, may be the best option for non-pixel folks.

the price points w iode are much better murena but that nothing phone looks really nice.

… certain apps especially banking apps.

are you aware of any lists for this like other one you shared?

i loathe the idea of giving google any more money; but it’s clear graphene has to most fans here. lol

was it with wireless android auto and with after-market receivers like jvc?

worse than the kernel maintainers group? lol

but now i stress shutting down that central point. lol

my central point didn’t come back up the last time i shut it down 2 months ago, but it atleas encouraged me to get a new laptop and right before the price increases. lol

you have to keep your sources up to date if you don’t check in regularly and most distros provide a means for doing so. chatgpt should be able to handle this and i think this applies to most distros as well.

macs always feel smooth and snappy; they’re well polished compared to the core/libreboot clevos i had previously and i really like my macbook m2.

the price tag always get me with macs and they were the primary reason why i bought those clevos: i had the dubious pleasure of carnally getting to know a quartet of very highly placed engineers/directors/managers while i lived in silicon valley and what i learned during the pillow talk about both the company and about the employees makes me refuse to ever buy from them.

so, instead of spending the $$$ on mac hardware; i spent it on core/libreboot as my feeble and almost infinitesimally small middle finger to apple as well as my equally feeble & small (plus lazy) attempt to leave this world slightly better that i found it. lol

i haven’t yet figured out if it’s the institution or the employees that makes apple the biggest display of labor aristocracy i’ve ever seen and i doubt i ever will since not even most of their employees are aware of oniony layers of palace intrigue that goes on at the top. (no wonder why the forced chinese had to sell off grindr; that’s the only other way you can find this shit out). lol

missed that one, but it would have been nice. lol

it’s very affordable with the 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 13.6" model available for $750

my new laptop literally is more than double in each spec and costed $100 less; i guess mac people have a definition of affordable whether they’re linux people or not.

still, it’s nice to learn that this is an option now.

i also do the delete key and f2 since some wierdo companies used to use those in the past; my reilgion is open to all. lol

you’d hope it’s a teenager, but my experience with the right informs me that it’s more likely an adult with teenage sensibilities.

i wish there were as many testimonials of people daily driving the likes of postmarketos (eg graphene, eos, etc.) so help me decide on which one to use.

i keep vacillating on which one to use based on the few testimonials i’m able to find because i realize that the person giving the testimonial has a much deeper experiences with privacy and security that i do that makes their experience incompatible with mine and it sometimes feels like i’m the only one using android auto on car that never was intended to work with it.

i’ve had a lot more luck offloading cpu/ram/disk intensive work to beefy servers with cheaper and easier to obtain hardware and end up using my laptops as little more than thin clients and strongly recommend it if it’s an option for you to avoid these types of things.

same here even though i don’t use it much anymore.

for me, it was both the distro that i had used the longest at home due to rock solid stability and it’s become a signal to me that the shop i’m considering working in has rock solid people working on it.

i’m going to miss working on debian in a professional capacity and watching it due it’s thing in real world production capacities for millions of people at a time.

controversy?

I’ve been doing this by creating my own custom apt/yum packages and my own repos coupled w ansible-playbooks/puppet-manifests.

I’ve been needing this for years and never knew it existed. Lol

Thanks for making me aware!

so it does more than “sit on top” of apt?

are these thoroughly defined environments more than the state of all known packages pertaining to your system?

i’m trying to understand how you buy w revolut without providing your name

so you pick it up yourself?

engagement is the winning condition for the culture wars for conservatives; it doesn’t matter how wrong they are about anything, it only matters that you engage in it.