Waze is now also Google. Apple can and does extract/extort lots rent/ransom from Google. OSM doesn’t have the pockets. They, like lots of FOSS, undermine the whole scheme.

After that, Apple would ban OSM apps from their store.

Snap. The problem is you never forget. It’s PSD.

“OK, OK, enough. I can’t watch you ham fist this anymore. The reason it says file not found is a DLL it needs isn’t found. There used to be this tool, DependencyWalker. Ah there still is. There you go, you are missing that DLL. A search will show us… Yep… That is what we need to install. Oh look it runs.”

No they work. It’s not like LineageOS. Both Bank apps I now need, work on GrapheneOS but did not on LineageOS. It is my compromise without being compromised.

Same problems though. If you run something odd ball like Ubuntu, the banking apps won’t work and you may struggle to have a satnav with traffic info. If you run stock Android, you will soon only be able to install, sorry, “side load”, apps Google approves.

Me too, but the lords of Technofeudalism, backed by government, won’t allow that forever. Maybe on PCs, but not phones. No “side loading” what they don’t approve. Banks and co, only allowing their apps on approved OSs. No satnav traffic data unless you use an approved satnav, rendering them useless.

The problem isn’t technological, it’s political. We need decent government protecting citizens and enforcing competition laws. The problem is the population don’t understand what is being done to them, so don’t vote against it.

None of it is new. Liberty vs security, monopoly, etc, aren’t new, but wrapping it in technology blinds most people to it.

Good podcast about this bubble bursting : https://craphound.com/news/2025/10/06/the-real-economic-ai-apocalypse-is-nigh/

Star Ship Troopers is basically American Fascists In Space. The movie is tongue in cheek. (Though in the book, the author is quite serious).

So scenes from the movie are going to give a Nazi vibe, but isn’t about supporting Nazis.

There are groups to support:

• https://www.eff.org/issues/eff-europe
• https://fsfe.org/
• https://edri.org/

And in the UK:

• https://www.openrightsgroup.org/

Some political groups are better than others, but most politicians are clueless.

The key is to get muggles to understand we are living in Technofeudalism and why being digital serfs is bad. The problem is ineffective competition law and that monopolies are bad. That monopolies and standards are not the same thing. I have no idea how. Most people are just naturally compliant and unquestioning of something seemingly so abstract.

The goold old analog hole.

This is the nub of the issue. Markets need effective competition. Without it, you get fiefdoms and serfs, and shit products. Antitrust laws have been terrible for decades. Thanks to broken political thinking. Smash up the tech monopolies and not just tech will improve.

Single standard, but multiple implementations.

This could be great, but “proprietary”. Gates is still the same Gates. If you want to save all the land and CO2 this could, release the IP free to all. Flood the market with cheap indistinguishable synobutter, real butter can’t compete with. Milk, cheese and yogurt next please.

One of the Russian’s proxy groups?

I’ve been on Debian Testing maybe 15 years at this point. It’s great. Though wouldn’t recommend it if you need out of tree drivers or are starting out. If that’s still not close enough to the edge there is always Sid and Franken Debian if you want to mix and match (not recommended, but can be useful).

It’s nice to have your more-up-to-date desktop systems with the same packaging system as your Stable servers.

Edit: and no snaps

Antennapod with gPodderersync & Nextcloud? There are podcast apps for Nextcloud to play in the browser.

I’ve ran LineageOS until two years ago from when it was CyanogenMod on my S3. Been a Debian user a bit longer. ;-)

What it’s got over LineageOS is it sandbox stuff out the box, so you can compromise with Google Maps and things like Bank apps run.

For work, I need a satnav with traffic in it’s route planning. No matter how good Organic Map’s maps are. Also for work, I need a Bank app. I’m not really happy with GrapheneOS, but I don’t have a choice. It’s my least worse option. Unless I keep a GrapheneOS phone for work and maybe try a Mobian phone for home… When it looks day drivable…

Edit: oh and transferring files, Nextcloud or scp in Termux.

They should be being sued for doing anti repair tricks.

The guys exposing the anti repair tricks are the heroes here.

It’s doesn’t fall over, it just slows down. Or appears to much more than OpenVPN. There could be something else going on, but for what ever the problem was, OpenVPN was coping better and just spitting out errors about a possible replay attack and continuing like nothing was wrong. I’ve not looked again as OpenVPN is working fine. For everything else, I’m using WireGuard.

Ah, I see it. Sorry. Corrected.

It’s not really an issue with OpenVPN as it seams to cope. It’s the only time I use OpenVPN instead of WireGuard.