awesome callback <3 I use it every once in a while to gauge my listener’s cultural intelligence >;-)

It doesn’t ahve all the hardware needed for all the channels. It DOES however have enough to actually work. Verizon certification is a well known difficulty.

And none of that explains why the US Verizon version doesn’t come with /e/OS

Yes you can put whatever COMPATIBLE OS you want on it. Sadly GrapheneOS isn’t one of them. But again, you’re not wrong. I was just highlighting what I found about the options and their trade-offs.

There is Verizon service, you have to buy from the US store. But then it is Android and not /e/OS … it took me a while and a fair number of AI tokens to full figure that out.

trl;dr it is a hardware cert problem why the EU version is T-Mobile and the US is VZW/ATT. I still couldn’t figure out why the US-VZW/ATT version can’t have /e/OS but it still smelled like obtaining certification is the problem and there doesn’t appear to be any public statements on a timeline for it.

If you want privacy, buy a pixel and flash GrapheneOS.

If you want modularity/repairability buy a Fairphone.

• If you want modularity/repairability and privacy, buy an /e/OS Fairphone from the EU store but accept only T-Mobile
• If you want modularity/repairability and ATT/VZW, buy a Fairphone from the US store but accept no extra privacy
• If you want it all, guess we gotta wait.

None of those are reasons not to try a good idea. They are just problems to solve.

Also, have you ever been to those areas of NYC? Bulk buying, transport, and resale of food isn’t that easy to do in the best of times.

If it helps, you’re VTSAX 401k right now would only lose about 0.1% value if SpaceX dropped to $0. By June 2027 when all insider shares are unlocked it could go as high as 1.5%, but again only if it went to $0.

I hate Musk, I think SpaceX as an IPO was trash, and I disagree with the rule changes for index inclusion. But big picture, our 401k will be fine.

The ol’ wallet biopsy

Nor is decentralization controversial. And there can be a conversation about making sure it is not actively discouraged.

But economies of scale are real. Does that mean a single power plant for the entire US, continent, world is a good idea? Of course not. Nor is 8.3 billion* individual installations.

* current world population

I’m here right now in fact. Been in Prague since the 15th and now Innsbruck and the heat has been crazy

Let’s hope he doesn’t. Because if he does that means it happens even sooner than his natural life lasts.

Yes. I know climate change is happening now. but that’s harder to incorporate into a short comment on the hope that a narcissist won’t live long enough to have to give a shit about it.

Call me when it starts to corner the Toilet Paper Market. Because THAT is when it has become sentient and is planning the next economic apocalypse.

What Israel do exactly what every insider knows they will do, when they will do it, and they all profit off it.

FTFY

Same in VA. But we have to GET the ballot first before we can drop it off.

haha all good. Also another thing that might have impacted my experience is I use Consent-O-Matic which helps eliminate most GDPR pop-ups which is half of what was annoying you; right? Which, FWIW, is why you get those cookie pop-ups most of the times. For right wrong or indifferent it’s an EU law and The Guardian follows it I guess. I mean sure it would be nice if they just didn’t try to collect shit cookies so they didn’t have to then ask you about it, but that’s what we got sooooo [sigh]

I said (or thought I implied) I use both and I use Firefox.

or just use ublock and noscript? I was able to view the article without any of that. Not even sure how you use the internet without them but you do you.

Seriously I was waiting for the punch line at the bottom, “… Just like Christian Nationalists”

The chaos agent in me wants her to keep slinging shit at Congress

Honestly a perfect job for AI. Input job description, input your full highly detailed resume, “tailor my resume to highlight knowledge skills and experience that align with the job posting” then do your final polish.