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  • While this is good since it provides some revenue beyond donations and also simplifies data backups, I think it’s kind of ridiculous that they still have not implemented a way to restore backups cross-platform (it’s just left as something they plan to do in the future). Like, is it really that hard to just export and import a file in a standard format?



  • I mean Japan’s political situation is kind of weird. The LDP has basically been in power forever (with super brief interruptions). It lost power recently though so we’ll see what happens I guess. IIUC tho anti-immigrant sentiment is rising (at least partly fueled by the massive waves of shitty tourists IMO), which prob isn’t a great sign based on what’s been happening in other countries.





  • They’re getting taxes no matter what. If you just purchase American goods because you don’t want to give them money from tariffs, then all you’ve done is demonstrate that tariffs work since now American businesses are selling more.

    Ideally, if corporations lose enough business, they’ll actually put pressure on the govt (of course, they might just roll over based on how things have gone so far). In any case, this isn’t even really a sacrifice on my end since a lot of American products are kind of shoddy.



  • I’ve read a couple of the essays. On top of stuff like fawning over Stalin randomly and portraying everyone asking him questions in interviews or whatever as morons, they didn’t even answer the questions raised in their premise until the conclusion, and when they finally did, the answers were just completely unsatisfactory. Basically a waste of half an hour or whatever.






  • Tbh I think disabling play services on a Samsung phone is kind of like pissing into the wind since Samsung’s privacy is so terrible, but I guess it’s better than nothing. Only one company stealing all your data instead of two lol.

    Maybe it’s because I haven’t used One UI and I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, but I’m pretty sure some of those aren’t really much different on GrapheneOS (or AOSP). Brightness can be changed in the quick settings/toggles/whatever they’re called thing in the notification shade using a slider. Bluetooth autoconnects when enabled, although idk if there’s a way to get it to work on the lock screen without unlocking. There might be a setting to allow it. I personally don’t think it matters much since it’s not like I constantly turn it on/off. It also takes two taps I guess if your phone is already unlocked. IIRC the wifi/cellular thing is fixed in Android 16 QPR1 (so will be fixed in GrapheneOS soon), but I haven’t checked recently so maybe that changed.

    The Google search thing is not there on stock GrapheneOS since it’s not using pixel launcher or whatever. Idk when you last used it since you mentioned the Pixel 5, so it might also just be things have changed since you last used it.

    I’d be pretty much fine with the USB-C dongle solution if there were two ports, but there aren’t so you need to pick between charging and headphones, which is super annoying. Phones with headphone jacks are basically dead though now, unfortunately.

    Pixel hardware is kind of a mixed bag though, yeah. Beyond the headphone jack issues, the kinda shitty processor (compared to Qualcomm) is irritating as well. Doesn’t usually cause problems, but games or even just flutter apps sometimes just run poorly. Samsung hardware with GrapheneOS would be my ideal phone probably.