I agree the lack of liquid cooling on Leaves is problematic - I see their batteries die much sooner, often under 10 years. But it’s fine if you don’t live in a hot climate.

They also replaced the batteries on every 2017-2020 Bolt between roughly 2022-24 with warranties until 2032. So by buying a used one now, you get a car with a battery that’s only 2-4 years old, not 6-9 years old. That alone makes them worth it.

The first two generations of the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Bolt are the closest to what you’re describing.

And Cloudflare protection on it as well, that surprised me

You need a lot of money for incentives. The bigger factor is large scale adoption among the corporate apps that others use (their privacy policies notwithstanding), which I realistically see never happening for Graphene, sadly. Sideloading is a decent alternative, I just don’t know how long it’ll be around for.

¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ That’s what the book uses for J

Sevenk

From the book:

A is for Aisle

B is for Bdellium

C is for Czar

D is for Djibouti

E is for Ewe

F is not for Photo, phlegm, phooey, or phone

G is for Gnocchi

H is for Heir

I is not for Eye

J is for Jai Alai

K is for Knight

L is not for Elle

M is Mnemonic

N is not for Knot

O is for Ouija

P is for Pterodactyl

Q is for Quinoa

R is not for Are

S is for Seas

T is for Tsunami

U is not for You

V is for Five

W is Wren

X is for Xylophone

Y is not for Why

Z is for Zhivago

So it is not just “so stupid design” that “we don’t even feel devices are 10x faster than 15 years ago”, but deliberate design to use the hardware capabilities for the sake of other people’s computers.

To my limited understanding, better use of hardware requires both some level of standardization of hardware and better optimized software, with lower level programming languages if possible. Vibe coded Electron apps are never going to be as well optimized as something made to run a particular chipset. But how do we accomplish that when most programming is being done on high level programming languages? It seems that the industry has prioritized human readable code and improved UX over hardware efficiency, which at a surface level isn’t the worst trade-off.

I ultimately agree with this vision, and it’s a serious problem I’ve contemplated as well. That said, what’s the right balance between more efficient, repairable hardware and accessible, more readable code?

The ATT post-3G sunset compatibility list linked above often includes only US ATT-locked versions of phones, even when other carrier variants exist. Look at all the older Samsungs that only take the GxxxA variant when GxxxU and U1 devices exist that are carrier unlocked and have all the same bands. In the case of the OnePlus 6T, only the T-Mobile version is ‘supported,’ when the unlocked version is the same in all other markets (including the US). I, too, have a lot of beef with this setup. For whatever reason, ROW Samsung Galaxy S10s (G973F) are supported. Go figure ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Sounds like something a food truck vendor selling spicy shawarmas would say.

Fun fact: Linus Torvalds is a Swedish-speaking Finn

Buy penny Bitcoin?

In the absence of GrapheneOS, you could just flash LineageOS without GApps, right?

I have music playing in my head most of the time, by default. Only if I’m doing something cognitively demanding does it pause or the ‘volume’ drop to 0 but keep going in the background

If anyone needs a more comprehensive explanation:

• This comic became a popular meme many years ago
• Those memes evolved to include overly simplified illustrations, like depicting the characters in each panel as lines like I Iı II I_
• That last panel simplified looks kind of like the letter L
• L in Roman numerals is 50
• Turning back into digits, you get 1 2 2 50

83k Github stars in under 4 years is definitely indicative of an excellent project

I need multilingual swipe typing support, and unfortunately nothing else comes even close to SwiftKey. AnySoftKeyboard is open source, and is pretty good for swipe support in one language

I didn’t realize Visible has unlimited hotspotting. ATT/TMO block/paywall that, though it’s possible to bypass using custom ROMs or non carrier firmware in some cases

I imagine The Crew (2014-2024) somewhat qualifies - it’s got the entirety of the US in its map. While its servers were shut down last year, it was just relaunched by the community a couple weeks ago