Bigger fish to fry at that point bub

Is there anything like this in the US? Seems like a fun group.

Your point?

I haven’t run graphene, so I can’t speak for it. But on any other android variant, microG is a system-app, so that it can spoof Google’s services properly. That means patching the system.

Functional apps is the important bit, use of microG allows apps to provide push messaging etc without knowing Google services aren’t installed. There’s still some communication with Google as a result, but it’s fully sanitized.

I invite you to try installing common apps like Strava or Pokemon go without any Google services at all.

There’s also CalyxOS if you don’t want to run anything Google on your phone at all, but still have functional apps and such.

Bro, it’s not equivalent.

Bamboo’s got about 1.7MPa compressive strength to weak concrete’s 15MPa.

I’m absolutely keen on caring for nature, but being pragmatic also hinges on knowing when to use certain materials at the right times. As an engineer, my goal is maximizing utility, and thus minimizing environmental impact when considering the system (earth) as a whole.

E: sources:

• https://www.bamboo.org/_uploads/pdfs/JABSv29_Sanchez_20191007.pdf
• https://theconstructor.org/concrete/compressive-strength-concrete-cube-test/1561/?amp=1

You’re right of course, but not solely. It’s also got very, very high compressive strength.

Things get murky once time comes into the discussion.

Yes, more concrete is used. But if the building survives for 100yrs, there’s a point where the reduced CO2 required to power the HVAC system thanks to the added shade cover, equals the amount of CO2 expressed in order to create that extra concrete. And that benefit continues as time goes on, never mind the added beauty.

Do we create durable homes for our people by choosing concrete over the naturally carbon-sequestering wood? Are we not subsequently damaging our forests more directly as a result? I’m not really sure either way, to be honest.

However, I expect losing the ability to make multistory buildings would be losing out on efficiency in indirect ways; heat rises, so in winter, less energy is needed to keep a large group of people warm vs a cluster of individual houses. Groceries and work can be closer to one another thanks to the higher density. There’s obviously some real downsides to these choices as well, but there it is.

I’m on CalyxOS, it works great. Locked bootloader, ability to block connection of devices when screen is locked (defeating cellebrite’s method of choice), work profiles and firewalls etc.

If you drive a Toyota and the infotainment system has a “DCM” icon in the corner, your driving habits and location are being recorded to their servers.

E: this is happening via their own cellular modem built into the vehicle, with its own separate SIM or eSIM. Getting at the module seems to require access behind the dash, almost purposely making it difficult. Pulling the fuse will kill the front passenger-side speaker, though there are YouTube vids on how to reactivate the speaker while keeping the DCM module dead.

Why the hatched ground plane instead of solid?

Sorry, “google blobs”? A lot of work went into MicroG, and I think it’s a shame that you’d minimize so much good work to reimplement the lynchpin of Google’s control on your devices.

At this point I’ll presume you’re just misinformed, as no proprietary google code operates within microG unless you decide to run with device attestation, and there it’s running as a sandboxed service. At any other time, you are able to run open source code which spoofs your device details to Google, and spoofs google to all these other closed source apps in a reliable and readable, much smaller codebase.

Honestly, the irony of running blobs, when one is completely closed source vs the other which is fully open. Hahaha.

All your points are true, yet still depend on Google in sandboxed form. That negates everything else for me, who wants a reasonably secure device that works out of the box and also respects my privacy.

If a nation-state wants into my phone, it’s delusional to believe even graphene can hold them off, you need real opsec for that, and unfortunately all I’ve seen thus far from graphene guys is cosplaying that the NSA wants your porn selfies.

Graphene and micro g? Cool. Sandboxed Google? Nope.

Agreed, it shouldn’t be their problem. But, I am using applications just fine that are sensitive to root, even device attestation, but I don’t recommend attestation just out of principle.

Even pokemon go seem to run ok with just micro g and aurora.

There’s also CalyxOS, low drama and very reliable. Https://www.calyxos.org

PiKVM for open source networked KVMs: https://pikvm.org/