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Is it only Graphene? I vaguely recall having had it on DivestOS (RIP), which was a Lineage fork.

Edit: Any app, duh, yes, silly me. Don’t remember if it was possible for all of them.

IMHO if you only care about Google sucking your data and not other privacy/security, the most important question isn’t between OSes as much as it’s between:

1. No Google apps (GAPPS); honestly good ol’ LineageOS is just fine. If you don’t install Google spyware you don’t have Google spyware, just the connectivity check and dns. Which you can probably change. Major con, many applications installed from Play store (through Aurora store, apk, whatever) and practically all notifications you’d receive from them stop working.

2. MicroG; open source GAPPS replacement that tries to send as little data as possible to Google, while keeping Play store apps & push notifications working. /e/, iodé, Lineage for MicroG, Lineage but add microG manually during installation, formerly CalyxOS…

3. Add GAPPS but try to handicap it somehow (incl. GrapheneOS work profile isolation); I don’t remember if it’s eg. possible to block them from accessing the Internet on non-GrapheneOS phones, by app permissions or eg. NetGuard?

If we’re taking into account other privacy and security, then GrapheneOS by a mile.

buttmonkey → b8y

I’d read b8y as “baby”, so absolutely ❤ this. Was this intended, am I an idiot for not reading the others as anything?

I thought this was on medical care for their dogs. Nope, acquisition. Huh.

Honestly this is the kind of ridiculous luxury shit I wish rich people would spend their money on. Bet those dogs are loved as heck, and improve the family’s quality of life more than $200k of just about anything else. That’s $200k that stayed in real economy without disappearing into the stock market black hole, into more “stuff” and pollution, or into inflating house prices by treating a fundamental need as an investment. Kudos to them!

I contacted the EU DMA team a while back. Part of the response:

We have taken note of your concerns and, while we cannot comment on ongoing dialogue with gatekeepers, these considerations will form part of our assessment of the justifications for the verification process provided by Google.

So at least some part of the bureaucracy are aware of it.

I like it. I visit classical concerts more than pop ones, but there it definitely isn’t automatic, but a light-hearted “artist’s choice” response to a genuinely enthusiastic crowd after the approx. 3rd round of applause. Not a given. My favourite is still when the soloist did a jazz encore and the audience swapped from “no applause even between movements” classical mode to “applaud good solos” jazz mode.

Briar, SimpleX, I2Pchat on desktop, maybe LXMF/Reticulum/Sideband over I2P if you want to get techy.

Shoutout to https://standardebooks.org/ if you read from Gutenberg and would like a cleaner ebook format.

Tomato Europe vs Potato Europe.

A waffle iron would equally be unwise.

The Nordic model is a capitalist one.