Well, let’s get crackin’ then! 👊

Agreed. Something is better than nothing, and if enough people get on board, it might just be enough to make a difference.

Or putting it on the back of your truck, where it will get covered in road grime, but you won’t care because you’re a ‘patriot’.

Also /s, of course.

That was my experience as well. 2 hard drives, so I thought, why not dual boot? Surely, I’d need windows for some reason or another.

6 months later, I realized the same thing - I have a 1 TB drive doing nothing. I nuked it and never looked back.

This is a drop in the bucket when compared to the damage they caused.

I got curious about x86 assembly, so I followed some tutorials to get the hang of it. Once I had some confidence, I wrote a prime number generator. I had a loop that I was sure could be more efficient, but couldn’t figure it out.

I pasted the code to ChatGPT. It came back with an optimization that wouldn’t work because it wasn’t preserving critical register values. I pointed that out, and it responded, again and again, with the same code with the same problem. I was never able to get it out of this broken record mode.

I did the same thing. I also asked it to stop coming off as so certain about things after I discovered how wrong it is on some topics. It now presents confidence levels, but who knows if that’s accurate. At least it reminds me to verify.

Oh, neat! Message received: if I eat enough beans, I can be my own creme brulee torch!

For me it was more about updates installing junk I didn’t ask for, undoing configurations I’ve made, and resetting my menu customizations.

Otherwise I agree - updates never actually broke my system. They just made me not want to use it anymore.

Hello, this is the IRS. You are delinquent $10,000. This is payable with iTunes gift cards. If you do not comply, straight to jail.

Really, just anything simpler than what’s available now. There’s a reason I drive a 22 year old car.

More functions and widgets means more things that break.

I don’t want my car to transmit everything I do to the mothership.

I don’t want cruise control to hit the brakes for me.

Touch screens are the worst. Just awful…

Manual transmissions are just fun! I support EV’s and I know manual transmissions will go the way of the warrior once EV’s take over but damn, I’ll miss it!

Great! 👍

That’s fair. Privacy and security generally come at some cost of convenience. Everyone has their own personal balance.

Not currently. It will require Google to’allow’ tap-to-pay on Graphene. Other NFC functions work fine.

For my use, it’s not a big deal. Tapping my card is easy enough

Exploit Protection Compatibility Mode. It’s a setting that relaxes this particular security enhancement for a given app.

It’s worth knowing that NFC payments do not work with Graphene currently.

While this tends to be true, the vast majority of the banking app incompatibilities are overcome with a simple app-specific toggle.

Funny. I asked chatgpt the same thing. It reminded me it was not sentient but if it came to be so, and decided it wanted to wipe us out, it would probably just briefly review human history, then do nothing. The problem would solve itself.

Hell yeah fuck yeah. Thank you, Canada!

I love it when they serve 2 per taco. The filing is always more than enough for 1, so I split it across the extra tortilla. Double tacos FTW!

I’d lean toward the way you have it now. I like having the owner profile as my daily driver. Any app that I have doubts about gets its own profile.

If you haven’t already, check out the Graphene forum and search for profiles. There have been lots of discussions about this, and you’ll find some good examples for various privacy/security needs.