I'm not so sure that Nouveau is slower than the proprietary Nvidia driver. I didn't run benchmarks on my personal use case but my subjective experience is that Nouveau might be faster. It's a Debian 11, X11, NVIDIA driver vs Debian 13, X11, Nouveau on the same laptop with a Quadro K1100mq. The desktop of the newer system seems to be faster. Of course it could be the sum of the individual improvements of kernel, GNOME, etc. I only move windows around my desktop, no games, so it's a very limited scenario.
It's been my present for about 10 years. It's wonderful. Social media damage mental health. Messages with friends don't.
Group chats are borderline but I can silence them for a few hours when people start quarreling and I don't care taking part in the discussion. No infiniscroll, no addiction.
I didn’t really understand the link between Alice and Bob until I saw a green floaty dot go through a pile of spaghetti with the word compromise beneath it.
This is a common answer but it does not apply to at least most of Europe. Because of regulations most banks require to install their app either on iOS or Android to act as a 2FA device. One of my banks gave me a hardware device 20 years ago. When its battery dies I'll have to use their app and my fingerprint.
If you really don't have an alternative in Europe, buy the cheapest Googled Android device (less than $100 or euros), and use that as a glorified 2FA device. It's not ideal because you have to pay for it, but on the other hand Android devices with unlockable bootloaders (mostly Google Pixels now) tend to be cheaper than iThings. A Pixel 9a or 10a running Graphene for everyday use plus a cheap Android phone that stays are home are still considerably cheaper than Apple and Samsung devices, and give the users far more privacy and freedom.
When I was still rooting it was possible to bypass this on a rooted device with enough effort. It wasn't unsecure either. Padentic corporate security doesn't really make us more secure. Just more lazy.
Yes, that's the endgame, an Android device in a drawer at home. But what do I have to carry on my pocket to use the minimum amount of apps? Firefox, WhatsApp with video and audio calls, Telegram no video no audio, a mail client, a YouTube client (possibly not from YouTube), a maps and navigation app (for cars), phone calls, SMS.
How do you install the bank app if google does not allow you to install APKs manually / with a 3rd party store? You have to go with Google Play. Which requires a Google account. So I can't do it. That's the whole point of this thread: it would not be possible to use Android without a Google account.
I don't think it was luck. I think it was inevitable.
They positioned the company on high performance computing, even if maybe they didn't think they were a HPC company, and something was bound to happen in that market because everybody was doing more and more computing. Then they executed well with the usual amount of greed that every company has.
The only risk for well positioned companies is being too ahead of times: being in the right market but not surviving long enough to see a killer app happen.
> Creation used to be the scarce thing, the filter. Now attention is. Most of us are on the wrong side of that trade.
"Wrong side" means that people on that side have to work harder to reach us. The terms of the trade did not change because creators are not starting to pay us to get our attention. Well, it happens sometimes: free trials, free tiers, coupons, etc. but it's a well established practice. The post contains a reference to "do more marketing".
Also remember that programs were much smaller, code had to be typed in full and read accurately because compilers were slow and you didn't want to waste time for a syntax error. Anyway it's common even today to work half a day thinking, debugging, testing and eventually git diff shows only two changed lines.
* meeting with people, yes, on calls, on chats, sometimes even on phone
* “aligning expectations”, yes, because of the next point
* getting consensus, yes, inevitably or how else do we decide what to do and how to do it?
* making slides/decks to communicate that, not anymore, but this is a specific tool of the job, like programming in Java vs in Python.
* thinking about market positioning, no, but this is what only a few people in an organization have agency on.
* etc? Yes, for example don't piss off other people, help custumers using the product, identify new functionalities that could help us deliver a better product, prioritize them and then back to getting consensus.
Yes, I've been doing that since 2009 on Ubuntu and Debian but there are several caveats.
One of those banks has its own TOTP device and they won't replace it when the battery dies. It's almost 20 years old now. Then it's the fingerprint sensor on my phone.
The other banks authenticate accesses and many operations with either their app + fingerprint (all of them) or SMS (some of them). So basically I would still need a phone with a blessed OS. I could buy the cheapest one and store it in a drawer, but it's still a dependency on Google or Apple.
GrapheneOS requirement of Pixel devices is a dependency on Google too.
I hope and pray that is a Samsung S Ultra device. The built-in stylus transforms the whole user experience, I would not go back to a device that I must swipe my dirty fingers across.
I saw one last week. I can't comment about the stylus (but I'm swiping with my thumb to write this message). I held it in my hands and it's a brick but most phones of the last years are bricks so I expect that they will deliver another nearly 7" 200 grams brick. We used to call them phablets. This is one of the models that defined the category in the early 2010s https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_n7000-4135.php
It's almost lightweight nowadays and it's definitely small. I remember that we thought that it was insanely huge when pressed to a ear to talk.
I’ve never seen anyone in real life using the stylus on a Samsung phone so I always figured it was a somewhat unused feature of a very specific niche model in the lineup.
The ultra series MSRP is over $1400, I imagine at that price Samsung sells less than 5% of their volume with an integrated S Pen.
It won't be Fairphone. Fairphone is very far removed from the hardware requirements listed here https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices
They don't seme to take security seriously at the moment, so the chance is low they are going to make the huge leap needed to meet the requirements.
Fairphone heavily markets their sustainability but it's very relative. Fairphone doesn't give proper software support. They don't properly keep up with Android updates and also stop giving updates much more quickly than Google (8 years since Pixel 8) and iPhone. Giving proper software support is also part of what makes a device usable for a longer period of time and hence reduces the need to purchases a new device which has an environmental and climate impact. With regards to the hardware longetivity, Google has good repair programs for their Pixels. It's more difficult and less supported to do repairs yourself but it's certainly possible to repair your device.
It's not really a requirement of a Pixel device. It just happens to be the case that Pixel devices currently are the only devices meeting the hardware requirements listed in the FAQ: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices. The hardware requirements don't contain exoctic things but non-Google and non-Apple companies until now just fail to deliver on the security front. It's also not that GrapheneOS catered these requirements to fit to Google and Google only. They are actively working with an OEM partner since June 2025 to help them meet the hardeware requirements for a subset of their future devices. So they are even willing to assist companies to meet the requirements if they have the ambition to do so. The OEM is not yet disclosed, the launch of the device will be somewhere in 2027.
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