Ah, yes, the marginal cost of production concept. Put simply, to maximize profit, one must produce and sell product up to the moment the last widget produces exactly zero profit.
So, extending that service voluntarily unnecessarily adds some cost, which in theory means some of their widgets produce negative profit. That is unacceptable to the shareholders.
Understood. My issue is more abstract. It would be nice if some who don’t need it also put their support behind the concept for altruistic reasons and because they realize it could affect them when their hardware is no longer cutting edge.
As I said in my comment, I was not implying you personally had any such attitude. I was commenting on my feelings about how that statement could be interpreted and the general attitude behind it is part of what I have in the past actually experienced when I advocated for the value of building for a less l33t configuration. The attitude by at least some and perhaps many is a weaponization of the attitude I saw in your comment (again, not seeking to imply you actually had that attitude).
When enough people just don’t care because the problem does not directly affect them, the problem is not addressed because not enough people care. That is what I was attempting to say. Thus, I apologize for the appearance of saying you personally had a “bad” attitude on this. It’s a common attitude and is a contributing factor to many real-world serious social problems, and I just don’t like it because of consequences on a larger scale.
I don’t like the implied sociopathy in that assessment. It smacks of "i got mine, fuck you ". I’m not implying that is your attitude, just pointing out that people who don’t care because it does not affect them overlap the population that is all for fascism because they are in the “in” group and aren’t (obviously) harmed.
Building to work well on low-end systems does not take from high-end systems unless the devs don’t take advantage of it when it is available.even then, they are not worse off. They just don’t get something better than “the pleebs” are getting.
This is what I did for a while. As your addiction takes root and you add more and more mods to get cooler and cooler effects, you will eventually start playing on your gaming PC, and uninformed spectators will think you are playing a game that just came out with sick animations. I suggest you include Serana dialog add-on and Touched by Dibella.
Well, what unlockable options are there? I certainly accept that I might not be keyed into everything. Fairphone is the only one i recall.
Please, don’t just snark. Enlighten me.
Well, take a look at LineageOS and the associated microg edition. They work on dozens of devices. I’ve been flashing ROM’s since the first Android phone and I’m still using my Pixel 2XL, degoogled. I still have my Moto X 2013 {with custim, now unusable ROM} because it is like a river rock. It feels great to hold.
Google phones have always been unlockable - primarily for the benefit of developers.
Calyx also offers a degoogled Android, focused on privacy like Graphene.
If one wants a phone and own it, Google is the only sure way right now.
I’m American and switched to all that except ksuite over a decade ago. Started with linux back in '95 with Slackware.
I suggest you fully switch to Linux, and use QEMU to host Windows 10. Fire that up when necessary. Most windows software including games can be run in linux with Wine/Proton - no Windows needed.
Best to have 32G RAM, for flexibility.
Once you get comfortable, set up your own cloud. The simple hands-off choice is Synology, but there are good FOSS options. Set up a personal vpn secured with a certificate and a domain name, and you have your cloud wherever you need it.
I use OpenVPN and activate it briefly when i need something on my NAS, then disconnect. Joplin via WebDAV works well with this setup, as do shared volumes.
I know a few are on F-droid, so he could get those at least
Anything you get from f-droid or Izzy will work fine. OsmAnd is on F-droid. Anything from play store will expect google push notifications, etc., so you need microg or equivalent.
I found that google voice is working with LineageOS with MicroG. The last time i checked a year or so ago, it didn’t.
Well said… Two weeks before the equivalent i posted moments ago.
I’m confused. Authy is just a 2FA client. There’s half a dozen in fdroid. I use FreeOTC myself. Are graphene users unable to use anything else?
It’s configured to run at the native resolution of the device, and looks good, but I’m not sure it is really at 4k.
Skyrim performs flawlessly, but Baldur’s Gate gets sbout 15 fps at this rez, so I have to lower the graphics setting. I’m nesr endgame, so there is a lot of city animation.
I can’t speak on multiplayer experiences, but i have several emulators set up on my OLED deck. GameCube, N64, switch, ps2. They work well, and i have a 3DO pro2 i use while it’s docked to my 4k tv, sound through a surround sound bar with woofer - amazing sound. I mostly run skyrim and Balder’s Gate 3 at the moment, but i enjoyed BotW and my son likes sonic.
I don’t know, but there might be pdf viewers that permit editing layers. Try LibreOffice Draw or gscan2pdf. Maybe The Gimp can do it.
MicroG installer revived combined with the LSposed signature spoofer module solves this problem, as long as you are willing to root with Magisk.
Since devices that came with Android 10, all devices are expected to adhere to a standard Android interface. The GSI stands for generic system image.
Given a particular Hardware platform and drivers any GSI should run on any matching Hardware.
I know that Andy Yan’s LineageOS GSI works on my sm-t510 (a64 variant) and from user testimonials, it also runs on the sm-x720 (arm variant, TAB S8).
I linked the forum section that contains the thread for his and many other GSIs.
I have the P6. It’s an all around good phone. Don’t forget to look at GSI ROMs. All recent devices handle those. I can and eventually will install LineageOS on my Galaxy Tab S8 and have it on my old Tab low end tablet.
Incidentally, microg is much better now than when he wrote that.
Electronic frontier foundation has a guide for attending protests.