Andromxda

Seems like I have 1.6K since I came here in March - that's 7 months. It would equate to 2.7K if I kept it up at this rate for a whole year.

But GrapheneOS works on them.

And GrapheneOS has call recording btw

Again, many apps are broken.

Which apps do you mean? Most apps work just fine on GOS, even many banking apps and others that require proprietary Google Play services. The only apps that don't work, are those that make use of Google's completely stupid "Play Protect" API, which claims to verify that a device is secure, but in reality has absolutely nothing to do with security. Google (and other Big Tech companies) don't give a single fuck about your security. It's not Graphene's fault, and has to do with nothing more than Google's monopolistic practices. It's designed in a way, where an operating system has to be manually whitelisted by Google, in order to get certified. Obviously, they only allowlisted their own spyware-filled proprietary OS, which is less secure than Graphene.

Fairphone might be interesting

Unfortunately Fairphones are highly insecure, shipping with a completely broken implementation of Android Verified Boot, and using the publically available AOSP test private signing keys by default to sign the OS. They also lack all the hardware security features present in modern Pixel devices.

When do you think will Valve enable this by default in SteamOS? It would greatly help the little Steam Deck with playing more performance-intensive titles.

Do you use the Stock OS, or a custom ROM?

Yes, GrapheneOS is always very quick to push out new updates.

I think all the crypto scams, all the shitcoins, NFTs and other blockchain bullshit were much worse. At least AI companies usually don't require you to give them large sums of money, they're only after your data and absolutely fuck the environment by wasting absurd amounts of power, but they don't try to take away your life savings

No shit

not to mention Chinese OEMs which can recharge more than twice as fast

Which absolutely fries your battery. That's one of the reasons Chinese phones would typically have horrible battery life, were it not for their stupid and aggressive "battery savers" and process killers that prevent basically anything from running in the background, which makes some tasks completely unfeasible/impossible on these devices. You want to receive push notifications outside of Google Play/FCM? Too bad, your app is gonna get killed after like 2 minutes of background usage. You want to sync your files/photos/contacts/calender/anything with your self-hosted server? Too bad, you can't do that, because some Chinese manufacturer wants to market their phone with some crazy 120W charging and doesn't give a fuck about the consequences. There's a reason why Apple has stuck to 5W charging for so many years. And it's not because they couldn't figure out how to make it faster...

To be fair, there's always been backspace feature, it's just a swipe gesture, not a dedicated button

That's been Microsoft's slogan for decades

I haven't seen that on midwest.social yet, but I'm definitely gonna continue to observe this and then decide if it's worth blocking them

I definitely try to avoid it. Whenever there's an (active) alternative community available, I prefer that.