Ah, so you have friends and family! That is a blessing, and I know that from distant experience.

I guess I don’t understand why remote access is such a popular use case. Throw some shit on your phone, h/d, or thumbdrive and you’re good for a few hours. I crammed 4 full seasons of STNG on my phone recently.

Why are a multitude of poor options better than a few good options?

There’s this weird mix of free market capitalism and FOSS philosophy that says more and shallower forks = better ecosystem.

Not commenting on this OS specifically, but just questioning your blase assertions that more options is better. Maybe it would be have been better to invest more time into an existing project.

Until the update that bricks the car unless it can consistently recognize a face.

Buying a new car in 2026 is a risky proposition with no horizon.

Installed. But, long term, how do they plan to pay their bills?

Also, any advice for a text-to-speech engine on Graphene? Here We Go won’t talk to me without one.

That’s what I’m doing…

Switch away from Google Chrome to Brave.

Switch away from Google Search to DuckDuckGo.

Get a free Proton account and start moving accounts.

Use Waze instead of Google Maps, discover Waze is now owned by Google, buy a fucking atlas. Fuck this timeline.

Next step/shit to figure out:

Move my contacts off of Google.

The Last Thing I’ll Do: Migrate Photos to a self-hosted solution.

If I was running a fascist government, I wouldn’t enable my spyware on every phone–that would make it too easy to detect and it would mean the people I’m spying on would take measures to protect themselves.

Instead, I would leave a backdoor open so that I could activate the specific phone of a specific person, a phone unlikely to be monitored in a lab by a security geek.