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Cake day: March 18th, 2024

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  • It’s been my daily driver on oneplus 6T for the past 2 years and it does the job (of a smartphone).

    It’s using the microG services to provide play store apps.

    It has fake location, "hide IP address " (VPN), and block app trackers with stats.

    The OS updates once a month and requires a reboot.

    It has an aurora-like app store to download Google play store apps. I also have fdroid on mine cause I’ve found some updates were lagging in the past.

    Overall it’s a good compromise between full google and privacy, it can be cranked up on privacy by disabling microG if that’s your thing.

    Some bloat cannot be removed like the notes/gallery apps and whatnot. I’m not a fan of the bliss launcher either, but I got used to it.

    The thing that irritates me the most is that some of my apps cannot be added on any wall screen. Like Unciv, subsurface and some other games that I had in grouped apps have been wiped onr day and I can only find them through searching for them, or in the list of apps.

    Hope that helps


  • Electric cars are not a “green solution”. Because of all the associated costs to produce and maintain them:

    The battery requires rare minerals that are to be mined elsewhere (Africa, China, south america…), in abject conditions.

    The host country needs to deploy charging stations, plugged to the grid, which has a high cost in copper, contributing to point above.

    The internal wiring of the car also increase the cost, contributing also to the first point.

    And what to do of all the defective/old batteries ?