the play services are not installed by default*

just so everyone is aware grapheneos only support’s pixels because it is specifically designed for taking advantage of the hardware security features found in google’s tensor and titan chips. and thus installing it on another phone would kinda miss the point (and vastly increase the scope of the project)

google is also basically the best company when it comes to phones for custom roms, as they provide stock images, a simple bootloader unlocking process (that doesn’t void your warranty as far as i can tell), and generally the aosp and software support that comes from being the phone of the developer of android.

I think watching apple’s promotional videos will explain a lot of your concerns better.

They’ve already promoted the idea of connecting a dualsense controller for playing games.

Just a note, there’s some studies that have shown that a massive proportion of high tier female athletes actually have chromeosone issues that would put them into the intersex category.

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*ruin your year

There’s a lot that I could say, but it simply boils down to them always favoring their corporate and ceo’s interests over their charitable ones.

Their ceo (and branch ceo’s) make obscene amounts of money.

Theres also that case and probably even more about an autistic woman being paid like less than 25c an hour.

Probably “evil” isn’t the right word, but they absolutely do not have “good-will”

Thrift stores in America are usually corporate and not for charity. Or, they pretend to be charities (but aren’t)

Goodwill is fucking evil.

Spotify literally changed the way people listen to music by being popular enough that the general way of listening changed from a purchase, listen forever model. To a listen to anything you want and never not have anything new, way of listening (but you don’t own anything).

A song is no longer worth a purchase of a cd, or dollar at itunes. It’s worth the 3 minutes of listening that it gives you when Spotify recommends it to you.

Obviously I’m biased. And also, yes, there were streaming services before Spotify, but nobody that mattered and with the influence of Spotify.

South Georgian here, we also call it this.

Pretty sure people have said this for like 10 years

This is exactly what the article said

Know that you’ll probably hate what you try first. Personally I say you shouldn’t use Pop_OS!, but its better than being scared of making a wrong choice. “distrohopping” is a great way to learn.

tldr: just do it

“It’s installed by default and all my friends are on it” - 50% of Americans

They don’t need to worry about the fact that the other half of Americans are not able to comfortably message them, or participate in group chats, because those are people poorer than them that they might not even want to interact with anyways. Some of them might even be not white.

This becomes even more extreme as ages become younger, with around 98% of college age students and younger having iPhones (this is obviously biased to higher income colleges in metropolitian area but the data is still useful). The peer pressure of not having an iPhone is genuinely incredible (trust me, i experience it). I have genuinely had people stop wanting to be friends with me once they learned I had an Android phone.

Apple has a monopoly so powerful that they influence the social circles of almost every grade schooler and college student in America. This is why they don’t want to give it up.

So you chose tencent?

yes this is oversimplified blah blah

Don’t use Raspberry pi.

Oversimplified and in many cases is not good advice. Raspberry Pis are perfectly capable low cost home servers that absolutely sip power and take up little room.

Mini pc’s such as dell optiplex micro’s and intel nucs are also a good consideration.