You’re unfortunately right that a Linux phone wouldn’t solve these problems and I’m with you that devs who bend the knee to Google have no interest in providing a Linux phone version - at least for the foreseeable future.
Once there’s a considerable market share for Linux phones (which may never be the case…), those users are potential customers and the tides will shift.
Until then it would at least provide a portable computer that can do a lot of the things current smartphones are capable of, but without the restrictions created by Google and Apple.

I have a more pessimistic view of bad scenarios.
Combine Google Play Integrity checks with being unable to install apps except they’re from the Play Store and you are at the whim of Google.
Right now I’m battling an app provider (of an app I rely on) who decided to start Play Integrity check shenanigans, although that’s in violation with their TOS. I know about not so great scenarios already. My alternative would be to cave and forfeit GrapheneOS, which I’m not willing to do.
We. need. Linuxphones!

I’m not saying I’m a fan of that, but at least Apple is upfront about the walled garden they offer and ever has been.
Google started differently, but turned around 180 degrees.

I wasn’t aware of that.
Thanks for letting me know!

And what good is ‘sideloading’ (imo a loaded expression), if you can’t use your phone the way you want because of the Google Play Integrity crap that fails on custom ROMs?
Btw. I don’t think that the amount of F-Droid users are a rounding error, but I may be wrong.

Google is paving the ground for Linuxphones.
It’s so blatantly obvious how evil they’ve become that it makes striving for alternatives a necessity.

Does anyone have one of these phones https://linuxstans.com/linux-phone/ and can say anything about it?
Other Linuxphones would be fine by me as well :)

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I’m strongly feeling there’s an end coming for using Android in the way I used to.
Google Play Integrity bullshit is putting the nail in the coffin, if killing F-Droid doesn’t come first.
Too many lickspittle app developers cave to Google’s monopoly.
Then again, I was able to grow up without a portable computer and while the world has changed quite a bit since that, I’m sure I can go back to that.
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How dare you say, the peasants should earn a fair share of the wealth they generate?
Does no one think of the poor billionaires anyomore?
Can’t those workers just eat cake instead of going on strike?

I don’t think that I’m the one in this conversation who appears to be bothered 🤗
I hope you manage to send the email and wish you a good day too.

Doesn’t it open your email program with all selected addressees?
What did you expect to go horribly wrong?

These politicians really aren’t afraid of those they were elected to represent…
For their sake I hope they stop this FAFO, before more damage is done.

Why don’t you just try it? 😉
But the answer is: yes.

To stay in your example: if something has a success rate of killing 1% of all cancer cells (which would not be very effective) , it fails at 99% of all cells.

A factor 20,000 imrovement would mean 0,99^20000 = 5.056988325166235*^-88 failure rate, which would effectively mean complete success in destroying cancer cells.

Alas I’m sure there’s a different math behind that increase in effectiveness.

Mandatory WFH isn’t as good as optional WFH.
After all it’s being able to choose, what makes most people with “WFH option” happy and thriving.
It sounds like you have found your balance between office and WFH. Now find a workplace that allows living that balance!
All the best!

Lucky me needs Proxmox only for self-hosting and loves it :)

Especially considering this was losless - strictly speaking only the compression of the SSD was… 😈

Thank you for your vote of confidence!
But nah, for those 1-3 hours daily that Musk can alot to that specific task, $100k per year would be ok for me.
Hell, I could do nothing and just let the engineers do their job and I’d be by orders of magnitude better than that lunatic.

I’d do it for $100k a year, because it would remove Musk from power in that particular place and save people from harassment while I could comfortably live off the wage.

You gotta understand: if you give $40B to Argentina, you need to save money elsewhere.
Those $7B here are obviously $33B short.
More savings need to be made!

I think so too.
With electric energy, there’s no “one size fits all” solution.
These novel approaches will fit somewhere.