Yeah, I’m against all of this control at the core. The privacy is just another step beyond.

Privacy friendly my ass. If they ask for my ID, it’s not private.

I’ve not seen this one. How does it manage to remove things without root?

Edit:nvm, answered my own question in the documentation. Uses shizuku which relies on adb

Lol for sure, there are other offerings too, just threw out the first thing I thought of.

https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-h1290fx

There are other models too if this is too much hardware

Synology has been shit for years. Don’t use them. If you are thinking about them, stop. Go with something else. QNAP would be a similar but better option off the top of my head.

I tried to but they wanted to force me to give them my phone number. Fuck them, they don’t need it.

I’ve neutered my win 10 updates so they don’t work and I’ve got Linux on two laptops out of 3 now. Going to move my server over soon, then eventually my desktop and the final laptop. Peacing out of the ms ecosystem

Yeah, part of why I want to get one soon is to have a semi recent phone before they can’t do graphene properly anymore

When I can afford $250 I’ll keep it in mind. 🙂

I don’t think anyone has been unreceptive here man. I’ve been been completely cool with what all you’ve said so far and even thanked you for it and haven’t countered anything. Your day going ok?

? Who is Felix? Is that pewdipie?

Did this go to the same place?

The cost of buying a pixel is the only thing stopping me. I don’t have enough to replace my aging phone with much of anything, let alone a pixel.

Not the person you’re replying to, but honestly I don’t pay attention to pop culture shit, so I’d ask honestly too, and thanks for providing the explanation, I assumed he had moved on since I heard little of his antics anymore but it’s good to see info. Don’t assume people know things like that. Just assume they don’t and get to be one of todays lucky 10,000. 🙂

In case you aren’t familiar with the lucky 10k, see here.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Man I want to move to Graphene so bad. I want all the google ripped out of my phone.

Lol nooooo, I’ve been trying to get rid of all mine! Of course since I’m an IT guy that really just means they go to the box of bygone cabling standards, but still. I want them out of my active cable stash lol

Thanks for the link. I can’t necessarily agree that it’s low impact, transferring files at 2.0 speeds is brutal.

Or there wasn’t good enough engineering to begin with to achieve usb 3 speeds. Seems like they should have got it right before using it as a reason to cripple the thing further.

USB 2? What a stupid choice that appears to be. Did they have any reasoning behind that?

Just keep in mind they are considered a crime in the US and can be located. Use with caution.