monovergent 🛠️

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Cake day: November 27th, 2023

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  • Wondering the same. I’ve been hoping to hold off on a new Pixel until the new EU battery laws take effect (also, where the hell is concept art for a new generation of user-serviceable batteries?).

    You know those factories that pump out iPhone clones? Honestly, I’d love to get whoever runs one of those hooked on GrapheneOS. It’s damn impressive how they can set up the tooling, clone the iOS UI, and sell it all for cheap within a couple of months. And without the kickback Google gives for pre-installing Google Play or whatever. Imagine that effort being put towards a phone just for GrapheneOS.

    Admittedly, someone who makes iPhone clones is probably not someone who thinks about security much, but my point is, I really wish someone stepped up to produce phones with first-class support for GrapheneOS.

    More realistically, I’m banking on the passion of the folks at GrapheneOS. Should Google pull the plug one day, I’m hopeful the GOS team can recommend a plan of action until a more GOS-friendly device shows up. Worst case scenario, I’ll keep my Pixel with GOS kicking around and have a separate device with regular Android. It’ll be just for the apps that demand spying, shut off at night, and I’ll minimize travelling with it.











    • Light and dark modes with nothing in between. Platinum from MacOS and the default look from Windows 95 were crisp and bright without burning out your eyeballs.
    • Wasted screen space. People laugh at Japanese websites for looking too busy, but I’d much rather deal with that than scroll for ages or look for links buried 3 levels deep in a hamburger menu.
    • The idea that everything needs a backlit color LCD screen.
    • Modern standby on laptops. Sure I could just hibernate it, but that’s very inelegant when S3 sleep was perfectly fine before.
    • Glued-together electronics.