It didn't work out as expected, but I applaud the effort.
Anecdotically, what helped me was returning from university to a very depressing party in my home town with a female friend in my early 20s. We had a great time dancing but I could see the guys standing around the dancefloor were 10+ years older than us, undressing her with their eyes while trying to look some movie version of cool with a drink in their hand.
It was such a depressing sight into a potential future - I told her that evening I want a girlfriend.
She just told me to get one then. That's when I started (online) dating.
It was a rocky road from there until I found someone great, but that one moment of "Just do it then" was what made all the difference for me.
Interestingly enough, skipping ahead to the 'perfect' partner from the start would have not worked out I believe. It took a lot of personal growth to become a good partner myself and years of dating and relationships helped figure out what was important to me and where I am willing to compromise.
I wasn't aware that plane windows create this much drag. If the reported 60% fuel reduction (on small jets) yields similar results on commercial planes, I wonder how much more viable electric planes will become.
As usual with new tech these days, there's a caveat near the end of the article:
"[...] it’s “possible” they could even display airline safety videos, in-flight entertainment (like movies and shows), or advertisements".
Ads aren't something that private jet owners will be concerned about, but if you've ever been on a Ryanair flight, you know they will pull every stop to make the experience as terrible as possible to extract a couple more cents out of you.
I feel as an Android user, you've always had to put up with a more incoherent overall experience compared to iOS but received some additional freedom in return.
In recent years, Google has been steadily eroding their end of the bargain.
I wonder where that will leave them in the long term. Short term, I think restricting side loading will reduce piracy and drive sales of their subscriptions.
Long term though, I wonder what will set Android devices apart from iOS for the average user, apart from being offered at different price points.
It feels they're playing themselves into a position where they're more directly competing with Apple, ultimately restricting themselves to lower price devices and lower margin sales. As far as walled gardens go, I personally prefer Apple's and I assume most people do.
I cannot say anything about the MX Ergo. So far, my MX Vertical hasn't gone all sticky on me (yet?).
What worked for me on other sticky plastics was rubbing alcohol. I does leave the finish slightly different than it was initially (less grippy), but I've had good results.
I'd like to switch phones soonish and was looking at the fairphone 6 with /e/OS but feel deterred by its mid range specs which would probably limit its longevity. I would like to get away from google.
Is waiting for the new pixel and then putting grapheneOS on it a good way forward? Seems weird to pick a google device to get away from that company.
Has anyone else done the same?
Alternatively, there is the iPhone but I do like fdroid and the more open nature of android.
> I'd like to switch phones soonish and was looking at the fairphone 6 with /e/OS but feel deterred by its mid range specs which would probably limit its longevity. I would like to get away from google.
> Is waiting for the new pixel and then putting grapheneOS on it a good way forward? Seems weird to pick a google device to get away from that company.
> Has anyone else done the same?
I did end up going for a Pixel + GOS.
Although it is conterintuitive to use a Google device to get away from Google, according to GOS developers themselves, the Pixel series were the only devices that met their strict requirements for security.
From personal experience, been using it for almost 3 years now, and it gives you 95% of the benefits of Android while giving you back control over your phone, and being generally more secure.
Just stay out of the radar of the leadership, they can be a bit abrasive, for the lack of a better expression.
> Although it is conterintuitive to use a Google device to get away from Google
The purpose of GrapheneOS is privacy and security, not specifically avoiding Google, which is not what privacy is about overall. Many companies including Android OEMs have worse privacy practices.
> Just stay out of the radar of the leadership, they can be a bit abrasive, for the lack of a better expression.
There are a lot of ongoing attacks on the GrapheneOS project and our team including through fabricated stories and spin. People should look into the actual verifiable facts and look at who is being targeted with harassment and bullying. We defend ourselves from this including debunking inaccurate claims about the project and our team.
Is the camera with GrapheneOS as good as the stock android one? I get to use my wife's iPhone camera sometimes and it frequently shocks me how good and responsive it is. But I'm coming from a OnePlus 8 Pro, which never had a great camera in the first place.
I suck at taking pictures. It's definitely good enough, but worst case you can install the stock Google Camera app and disable network permission to limit snooping.
I think the Pixel Tablet was a matter of a week or two.
There seems to be two challenges though that popped their nasty head lately.
Some developer being temporarily unaivalable due to personal issue, and something about Android Open Source Project (GOS is built upon it, to put it simply) not necessarily support upcoming Pixels.
But the team seems resilient and motiviated to keep the project going.
> I'd like to switch phones soonish and was looking at the fairphone 6 with /e/OS but feel deterred by its mid range specs which would probably limit its longevity. I would like to get away from google.
Fairphones lack proper security patches and OS updates from day one. /e/OS makes this substantially worse compared to Fairphone's own OS. Fairphone tends to lag 1-2 months behind on Android's standard partial security backports and a year or more behind on yearly OS updates. They skip the monthly and quarterly releases. Fairphone 5 uses the Linux 5.4 LTS branch which will be end-of-life in December 2025 with no plan to move away. Older Fairphones use end-of-life kernel branches.
Here's information from the author of the divested projects about /e/OS including data on updates from 2021 up until late 2024:
For the Chromium update summary from July 2024, note 128/135 was shipping each update on a given update path. /e/OS only shipped 12/135. They did not ship most Chromium security updates and skipped most releases. They're still skipping many releases and have significant delays for the ones they do ship.
Here's an article from another privacy/security researcher on /e/OS covering some of these issues:
As documented there, /e/OS has their own invasive services including user tracking in the update client. https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using... is another example where /e/OS sends user data to OpenAI without consent for speech-to-text compared to Apple doing it locally by default and Google at least supporting doing it locally and encouraging enabling it.
There's a third party comparison table at https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm with a privacy and security focus. It doesn't currently cover invasive services added by operating systems or privacy/security regressions beyond patch delays though. It covers what is done with most of the standard AOSP services and how Google service compatibility is handled.
> Is waiting for the new pixel and then putting grapheneOS on it a good way forward? Seems weird to pick a google device to get away from that company.
The purpose of GrapheneOS is providing a high level of privacy and security. This requires secure hardware/firmware with important hardware-based security features and driver/firmware patches. Using a Fairphone with /e/OS is nearly the direct opposite of GrapheneOS.
> Alternatively, there is the iPhone but I do like fdroid and the more open nature of android.
An iPhone would be a far better choice for privacy and security than anything with /e/OS.
Cardo means thistle in Spanish. Some thistles are very likely a purple table microphone (the original icon was like that, then I simplified it to better integration with screens).
You are not kidding, opening up the network tab in Chrome reveals they are loading nearly 300 images named: 0000.jpg -> 0289.jpg and stitching them together in canvas elements as scroll-able videos (Each image being ~50kb).
Anecdotically, what helped me was returning from university to a very depressing party in my home town with a female friend in my early 20s. We had a great time dancing but I could see the guys standing around the dancefloor were 10+ years older than us, undressing her with their eyes while trying to look some movie version of cool with a drink in their hand.
It was such a depressing sight into a potential future - I told her that evening I want a girlfriend.
She just told me to get one then. That's when I started (online) dating.
It was a rocky road from there until I found someone great, but that one moment of "Just do it then" was what made all the difference for me.
Interestingly enough, skipping ahead to the 'perfect' partner from the start would have not worked out I believe. It took a lot of personal growth to become a good partner myself and years of dating and relationships helped figure out what was important to me and where I am willing to compromise.