The other ⅔ apparently have their head in the sand .

How the hell can you be a chain smoker and run a marathon?!

I looked into this for myself but I was told a lot of what has already been said here and decided to go with a pixel + graphene OS .

I'm probably sticking with this type of setup until there's a proper Linux phone that can be easily used as a daily driver.

I think the key is patience. One day I think we'll have something that will be able to daily drive Linux that won't feel like you're using the alpha release of android.

It's criminal that Cuba has been crushed with sanctions for decades all because the US doesn't like their government. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot how people would react

Maybe it's because I use Linux but I can't relate (anymore). So glad I'll never have to sit through another forced windows update 😌

But have they figured out how to keep the wheels from falling off?

Eat them or they will eat you.

My guess would be that maybe it wasn't locked in the first place or they happened to randomly try a few pin combinations & got lucky..

I think those are most likely scenarios.

Now if you're some very important person who could be target then I wouldn't assume what I stated previously & instead assume the worst.

This only applies to people on the stock rom? Or?

I'm using graphene and not having any problems with my device.

But they are paying you for it. Not for your time specifically but for your distance. Idk if you read the article but highest tier is 130% of your base salary.

This should be illegal. I'm so tired of having to turn the TV up to hear the dialogue and then all the sudden the loudest noise you ever heard in your life. Then you turn it down .. But here's the next dialogue where you have to turn it back up again.

It really ruins the experience for me personally

I'm on Lemmy.world & using the eternity app I haven't had any real issues yet but it's only been about 2 months for me since I started using this platform.

This is the same tired line we have to hear every 4 years. It's been a substitute for concrete policy and it's gotten all of us nowhere.

For music:

https://www.f-droid.org/packages/it.vfsfitvnm.vimusic/

Or

https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.anandnet.harmonymusic/

There's also alternatives for YouTube like newpipe & libretube etc

I don't use Arch but if I did id probably go with archinstall. I don't see the point in going from scratch unless you absolutely need to. I could care less about bragging rights for installing an operating system lol.

Just Linux for me..I haven't used windows since windows 7. I'm probably going to sell my steam deck though because it mostly just sits in the case on top of my computer (where I usually play since my computer is plugged into my 50 inch bedroom TV. But the stream deck is nice and fun to play with.

I might be in the minority but I actually like the camera visor more than what Samsung does because Samsung phones never sit flat. There's a small wobble because the camera is on one side. At least with the pixel camera visor the phone doesn't do that when you set it down on a flat surface. If anything it very slightly tilts the phone towards you. Not as extreme but it reminds me of a keyboard the way it's slightly titling the keys towards you to make typing easier.

Honestly. I don't think you're missing much. It's not like if you go to a different distro suddenly you're going to have all these new applications you can't get on mint or anything.

I started with mint and played around with other distros (mostly Debian/Ubuntu & Arch based ones) and I ended up settling on an Ubuntu based distro with kde desktop.

Using something like Arch might make sense if your PC is super new as they tend to have support for the newest hardware.

At most you might want to try a different desktop environment but if you have no reason to hop I would say don't waste your time unless you're bored and want to experiment just for the hell of it.

there's a site that will let you play around with different distros/desktop environments over the Web (it's going to be slow and you can't use a VPN when connecting) but that might be a good choice before going through the trouble of downloading a distro, flashing to USB and possibly installing it on your PC/laptop just to find out you hate it.

Honestly it's kind of shocking this didn't happen sooner. Idk how people follow Jesus and then say, "those homeless people sleeping under that bridge are drug addicts and bums. They're getting exactly what they deserve because they don't want to work" and the general glorification of "free market" capitalism to the point of arguing not all people are worthy of things like healthcare or food.

To me it just never seemed compatible with their religion and if you look to South America there's a strong correlation between socialism/communism and Christianity/Catholicism.. Nicaragua is a fine example of this. (See image) "Christianity, socialism, solidarity" is what it says.

I've been using dark mode since dark mode was a thing. Even on LCD screens (although I try to avoid buying devices with LCD when possible/affordable)

Light mode is annoying to me now. I can't use it .