Sweet. Welcome to the cult of Debian.

We (Debian users and contributors) are inevitable. Our quiet satisfied computing cannot be stopped, only delayed.

We should consider getting some fancy robes and a few club houses, though. The only thing that can make Debian better is cookies and tea.

I’ve not worked with a marketing team where that would work, but maybe it will for some.

I’ve never been anywhere that I thought it would work, but it ultimately did, almost everywhere.

I’ve found it takes a few iterations, but the marketing folks in on it love being the ones who actually can reliably deliver on their promises.

It doesn’t work for the marketers that promise whatever they please without talking to dev, but I don’t find them to be worthwhile professional allies, so I don’t sweat it.

It doesn’t change the “massive customer will only renew if” scenario, though.

Very true. It doesn’t help with that case, and that one does happen. I’ve had the best luck saying “we don’t do that, but we’re scrambling to add it” in that situation.

The stupidly easy solution is to just give them stuff that has already been successfully delivered to production to market, 9 months from now. There’s invariably a huge backlog of years worth of successes that marketing wasn’t even aware of.

“No deviations will be approved from this year’s Agile product roadmap!”

“extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy,” got me. It’s perfect.

Also, your username is perfect for this moment.

NDISWrapper was a big turning point for me - the first time I got Linux working and kept it for the life of the hardware, it was due to NDISWrapper.

°7

Good point.

I’m willing to accept a reality where the science magazines are constantly excited about every development in helicopter technology.

In the pull down area where flashlight and Bluetooth toggles go, GrapheneOS has options for disabling the camera and microphone.

Sounds great, but I can’t find “bouncer” on either the F-Droid or Google Play stores. Anyone got a link?

And virtual reality gets a free revival every other technology, while we’re at it.

I’m predicting VR coming back into the limelight, try again, shortly after everyone loses interest in AI.

Also, I’m still pissed that flying cars aren’t in the limelight more. I was promised daily updates, and I’m not seeing them. That’s the biggest proof that the media is completely disconnected.

I’ve seen this sentiment before, but I’m waiting to switch until I learn how to add the microphone and camera quick toggles included in GrapheneOS to LineageOS. Is there a project for that?

Yeah. But it’s still rare to see “no unicycling” signs so the unicyclers need to get on that.

Yep. That’s a good clarification.

“Apps within the same profile can communicate with mutual consent and it’s no different for sandboxed Google Play.”

If GFS is installed on a profile, any app in that profile can use it to phone home.

I suspect that aspect is mostly mitigated, for me. by my not using a Gmail account to sign into any apps. Theoretically, it doesn’t stop them from fingerprinting, in other ways.

Except:

“Google Play receives absolutely no special access or privileges on GrapheneOS as opposed to bypassing the app sandbox and receiving a massive amount of highly privileged access.”

and

“As with any other app, it can’t access data of other apps and requires explicit user consent to gain access to profile data or the standard permissions.”

Means that GFS is going to be denied it’s usual fingerprinting solutions.

Source: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play combined with professional experience with privacy technically, and a decent amount of (educated) speculation.

TL;DR:

Using separate profiles is better, particularly when using GFS.

But as someone who doesn’t sign into any Google account and just wants a banking app to work, GFS on the main profile is still way better than stock Android.

be sure that google can’t access anything else

Last time I read the GrapheneOS docs, my understanding was that this has been taken care of for you, even when using a single profile.

At what point does one stop being a noob?

I recognize that trick question. For C++, the answer is always “soon”.

Yeah. My journey of love, loathing, hatred, adoration, and mild appreciation for C++, ended with the realization that 90% of the time I can get the job done in C with little hassle, and a consistent, predictable, trustworthy set of unholy abominations.

Perfect description.

It also describes why I now love GoLang so much.

“How has GoLang improved on this unholy tome or horrors?”

“Well, it fits in my pocket now.”

This is the best privacy policy.

“Money isn’t everything. I know because I have money, and I have everything.” - An American Tail

Yeah. You’re both right.

The board is a usually a cheap single board computer (usually running Android, and an emulator or two).

The board is custom to the extent that the operating system has been optimized to know that it’s running inside an arcade cabinet.