KaKi87 said they didnt understand what postmarket meant. i was just explaining that :P

post meaning after, market being… market

it is an “after you buy the system from the market” operating system. Its not the one that came on it from the market.

As a Calyx user, only kinda. A lot of the hardening done in GOS is missing from Calyx. Likewise, a lot of features in COS (firewall rules per connection type per app for instance) are missing from GOS.

i dont want to sound like a dick but they really should’ve just forked the LineageOS apps that are maintained like they did with seedvault. this feels like theyre reinventing the wheel, or NIH

Google is rolling out a new AI-generated feature on Pixel 10 and Pixel 11 devices called “Battery usage summaries” which translate battery use stats into natural language.

i have a functional brain.

why would anyone with that need AI to tell them “youre using youtube a lot. thats why your battery is low!”

thats what the 67% next to the youtube logo tells me in that settings menu

what a useless piece of shit feature.

If youre saying they built a backdoor into it, theres no reason to. Anyone could see it in AOSP when it releases. For proprietary builds, they will already be using Google Play Services with admin privileges. GPS already is recording everything you do on your android device. Not to mention, the default encrypted DNS servers are probably Googles. Why include a backdoor when you are the service provider?

its not even a backdoor. its just an update to comply with newer DNS standards.

Lawnchair might have a couple of those features? Its highly customizable.

Lawnchairs most recent versions aren’t on F-Droid due to a dependency in AOSP itself. I turn internet access off on it just in case though.

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seems predatory

It doesnt, but it does work with watches that aren’t built by oligarchic companies who want to siphon you for advertising data.

PineTime is like, $25, with a Pro version on the way soon

Repebble just launched

gadgetbridge

Yeah thats pretty much the gist of it

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-preview-releases

It should’ve asked you if you wanted to switch update channels a few months back.

Google made changes to the AOSP release cycle last year. This change took AOSP from an open source project where every commit was visible, to more of a source available “here is a tar ball with squished commits so you can’t say we violated the license” once every 6 months sort of deal.

Due to those changes, AOSP forks are faced with 2 options. Stay fully FOSS, reverse engineer each tarball drop for figuring out what each new commit was for and adapting that into your codebase, or the Graphene approach of partnering with an OEM (Motorola) to gain access to embargoed AOSP code, and maintaining 2 codebases (Graphene FOSS, and the Graphene embargoed version).

Graphene is trying to maintain their security goals even if it means the end user can not completely compile the most secure version of their OS on their hardware.

Lineage, Calyx, and Lineage forks l4mg, /e/OS and iodeOS are (whether by choice or by the fact collaborating with an OEM is a difficult pain in the ass) taking the first route.

You can use GrapheneOS’s open source update channel, but you miss out on some security updates.

Ive always felt every android fork has its place, just the same way every linux distro does. They all serve a different purpose.

Graphene is only leading in security updates if you choose to run their closed source builds. Otherwise the difference in security updates between open source Graphene, Calyx and Lineage (can’t speak to other Roms, have no experience with them) is usually days.

Despite a spoofed 120Hz display claim, its eye-friendly dimming, strong telephoto macro performance, and unlocked bootloader make it an unusually competitive imitation

GET LINEAGE ON THIS SHIT ASAP!!!

you’re implying every vehicle produced today isnt a spy vehicle, which is just plainly incorrect.

By 2030, new US cars will have AI detect if youre drunk,and if it think youre drunk (or simply fails) you will be without a car. Congrats.

Confused as ive seen tons of the Kei trucks on US roads with plates

best we can do is close off AOSP code so you can’t fix the bugs yourself even if you wanted to

that “little bubble” is keeping people out of ICE concentration camps and pedophiles away from children but you have fun giving Sunfar Pichai and Peter Thiel all the surveillance information they want so they can torture you when they feel the time is right.