Or, as honourably mentioned, OpenSuSE, specifically tumbleweed.

That’s conjecture. And I feel like that there are certain things that, when flagged, should be sent back up the pole. Not cause it’s part of the teams job explicitly, but because it should be common sense.

That was about their German language newsletter though. They have separate, localised newsletters for several markets, which I’d assume are manually translated. Also, as a native German speaker, I really don’t think it’s all that different than other European language regions regarding sensitivities.

To further stretch that metaphor, it’s like I manufacture bikes, and you copy one of my designs to build a single unit for yourself.

Also, I imagine it would be hard to discover and then prove that the app someone is using on their own machine is a clone of yours.

Also also, the validity of software patents heavily depends on your jurisdiction.

Also also also, there’s a lot of word processors and photo editors out there. The usecase of an app would have to be incredibly specific to even try and prove a clone is infringing on anything. If it’s a library - reinplementing a function in your own (or a LLM’s) code is unlikely to be a problem.

I don’t trust current LLMs to do this well, or in an affordable way, but if you somehow manage it, I don’t think the original manufacturer would have an easy time sueing you.

Which where built with loans that need to be paid off. Which also have a lot of GPUs that need replacement every 5 years, sometimes sooner. There’s more cost centers than just electricity.

Training is the problem. Inference is pretty manageable, training isn’t.

Looks like a Clevo Chassis. They’re actually not that uncommon, a lot of smaller ‘laptop manufacturers’ offer them with slight customisation.

There’s me, I guess. Never happened to me.

I have never not had a viable connection to work.

I studied bioinformatics, got into IT, got pushed into sales, got out cause I hated that. Now I’m a barkeeper. Not yet sure what I’ll do next. Maybe IT again, if I find a company that sucks less.

Also the sysadmin for a small non-profit, which is a lot more fun than any corporate job I had.

They, as in the user, require that feature.

Well, yes, but they specifically require family location sharing. There isn’t any privacy respecting service I know that does that, safe for some self-hosted ones (which might not be easy to set up for the average user).

As I said - the non-murena version of the Fairphone ships with a ROM featuring the usual integrated Google Services.

Another option I could see - buying a new device doesn’t brake your old one. You could keep running your current one till you found a way to set up a degoogled device with all the services you need.

Ist halt aber genau die Malware, die du erwartest. Ich glaube bei dem Ratschlag wird davon ausgegangen, dass die installierte App vertrauenswürdig ist. Aber point taken.

Nothing OS hebt sich nicht von anderen Stock Roms ab. Wenn du das so werten willst, kommt jedes Android Gerät mit einer fork (was ja auch mehr oder weniger stimmt). Diese Stock Roms sind aber mit wenigen Ausnahmen (ein paar chinesische Hersteller aus rechtlichen Gründen) alle mit Google Apps mit Systemzugriff versehen, haben also genau das was zum Kernproblem hier führt.

F-Droid, auch wenn da ein paar fragwürdige Entscheidungen bei der Verwaltung von signing Keys gibt, ist deutlich besser gefiltert als der Play Store. Wenn es dir um kommerzielle Apps geht, wird es die eh immer nur da geben, wo du ein gro der User erreichen kannst.

Die Alternativen gibt es bereits, was fehlt ist der Wille und das Wissen der Konsumenten, diese auch zu nutzen.

Refurbished Pixel, sowohl mainline als auch aus der A Reihe, sind oft für den Preis von Budget Smartphones zu haben. Ist bis ein anderer Hersteller eine Plattform anbietet die von ROMs supported wird und einen relockable bootloader hat halt das einzige was man kaufen kann. Alles andere ist in meinen Augen nicht sinnig.

Was Google hier tut ist zwar BS, aber das zeigt in meinen Augen nur, dass eine ROM zu nutzen, auf der Google solche Kontrolle über das System hat, ein Holzweg ist.

Ich benutze Aurora zwar auch, aber allgemein rät das die Graphene Community meines Wissens dazu, den Play Store zu benutzen, weil der deutlich mehr Sicherheitsmaßnahmen hat, um zu prüfen, dass das heruntergeladene Package auch tatsächlich das gewünschte ist. Deswegen wird auch oft von F-Droid abgeraten, weil das F-Droid Projekt allein die signing keys für alle Apps verwaltet, was als größerer Atack Vector gesehen wird.

You could just install Google Maps? Like, still gives Google access to your location and movement, but it’s a free device, you can put on it whatever you want.

You could also get a Fairphone with the Stock Rom, that should include Google Services. You could install a different Rom later.

There’s also self hosted FOSS location sharing services, but for those, you need a server or VPS, and do some legwork to set them up.

Founder/probably partial owner. Pretty sure the CEO released a statement that he doesn’t agree with the donation.