I’ll take a look but I think I have everything set like that.

I was referring to when my typing is not perfect, how it handles deciding what I meant to type. So like if I wanted to type this sentence, my fingers might have hit si likr uf I wsntrd ti tyow tuos semtebcd, my fingerd night have git Whereas on my iPhone or android with gboard it will have corrected all of it perfectly, the Heliboard app gets maybe 20% of it properly corrected, if I’m lucky.

If I could have the privacy and customizable aspects of Heliboard with the accuracy of gboard, I’d be happy happy.

I don’t know what that means actually.

Seriously, I don’t know if this is precisely accurate but definitely don’t spin down. Data errors, software problems if it has to wait for spin up and then something experiences a timeout.

I’ve had some drives spinning for like twenty years without any problems.

I like Heliboard except the autocorrect sucks balls. When I tried gboard - despite my reluctance - it was a pleasure. I really like Heliboard a lot but it’s infuriatingly bad when it comes to sensing what I meant to type.

I only ever use YouTube in a browser. I haven’t seen an ad since … oh I don’t know, since as long as I can remember. At least fifteen years.

They should really make a Netflix series on SCP. Like Warehouse 13 but like horror genre. I would watch the shit out of that show.

Most people who “report” online are high school dropout level education.

Well it could just be part of the collective corporate alliance that will always do anything they can to make any kind of freedom cost more for everyone. GrapheneOS is taking your freedom and not feeding on the corporate-issued fodder, and well, they don’t like that. So this is just one more small difficulty added to that choice.

This kind of thing is only the beginning. It won’t be long before absolutely nothing will work on any freedom-oriented OS, software, hardware etc.

Some fires need to start, and soon.

I have genuinely no idea how that could work

It couldn’t. It’s political showboating.

I have used Pop! which is basically Ubuntu but very polished and customized to enhance what’s already there. But as others said it’s not strictly a distro thing it’s Desktop Environment and also the graphics system I’m probably not using the right terminology. But Wayland is very good with touchscreen and I’ve read that X11 has some support as well (?).

You’re being logical. And you’re looking at the big picture. In budget allocated resources, they can only look at their own small box, and not think on a larger scale. Also, the people making these decisions are usually dimwits too.

I ate a clementine yesterday that ran Debian kernel lol. :-D yuks.

Well, then they hire based on paying the lowest, then yeah, you get amateurs who don’t know shit. Can’t tell you how many situations I’ve encountered in environments like government, educational, etc. facilities where I.T. is run by the cheapest labor available. And the net result is everything runs piecemeal and haphazardly. Oh, and the average user has WAY too much privilege because they have no idea how to properly restrict access. I see it often.

Yeah I really wish they’d make it less ironic. I mean, to NEED google hardware is just a cosmic practical joke.

I’m not sure about Graphene specifically, but as long as there’s an established procedure documented, I’ve done like fifty installs of custom Recovery and various ROMs, such as Lineage, crDroid, Resurrection, Havoc, Cyanogen, AOSP, AOKP, ASPCA [:-)], WKRP [:-)], etc. and dozens of other less well-known ones, and I have not bricked one yet. So, as long as you don’t do anything blatantly foolish, should be ok.

I’ve said on a few occasions when this subject came up about them closing off the ability to install whatever you want - the only reason Android has been what it is until now is because they needed an “in” to compete against iOS and Windows. Gaining a foothold was the priority, but now that they’re huge they can do what they’ve always wanted, to follow Apple’s example of mandatory middle-man.

It’s sickening. What people need to do is only buy second-hand and use devices that can be ROM-ed. I have a couple dozen that I tinker with and test stuff on. I also buy older models, put custom ROMs and Recovery and then sell them at a small premium, but I digress.

There’s only one way to get what you want as a consumer: unite and don’t buy.

In the current age, antitrust laws don’t apply to major shareholders of the Corporation of America.

What’s odd is that for a very small portion of the users, this is incentive to actually logout! Less clutter? Yes please.

And let’s be realistic: if they’re not signed in - or if they even don’t have a Google account (because they live on the moon), then they’re just gonna follow the instructions and do what they’re told.