microtonal

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by microtonal 4d ago
Android 16 was released on Fairphone 6 on March 16 2026. Yes, I know, way too late. The Android 16 build of /e/OS for Fairphone 6 was released on July 20 2026. Four months later. This was exactly the point of my comment.
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by microtonal 5d ago
LG is contradicting themselves here. In order to detect a wake word then they must be collecting or recording ambient conversations. I don't know how LG TVs do it, but e.g. many smartphones use a dedicated ASIC/audio processing
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by microtonal 5d ago
Very few of them will support RCS (I think currently only Google Messages?), which GrapheneOS also wants to support. I agree that a new backup system is also high impact, but there can be more than one high-impact thing, and the Message app
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by microtonal 5d ago
Unfortunately, 25% would be extraordinary for any project. Though they were stating $10 per year. You only need 2.1% of the users to donate $10 monthly to get to the same amount. I think GrapheneOS is one of those projects that is really
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by microtonal 5d ago
It starts with simply rolling major releases out earlier than /e/OS. Remember that to get security fixes for vulnerabilities not marked high/critical, you need the QPR/major updates. Those vulnerabilities may not be an i
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by microtonal 5d ago
LLMs do not solve every problem. You are dependent on Qualcomm for hardware firmware updates and apparently they charge quite a bit extra if you want continuous monthly security updates [1]. This is possibly one of the reasons that smaller
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by microtonal 5d ago
I don't think they can, even if they wanted to. From the GrapheneOS device requirements: Device support code updated to new monthly, quarterly and yearly releases of AOSP within several months to provide new security improvements (Pix
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by microtonal 5d ago
This isn't a hypothetical, Fairphone supports alternative OSes. Heck, you can even buy it with /e/OS in their store: https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-plus-e-operati...
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by microtonal 5d ago
A brief search says that iPhone sales in 225 were approximately $200 billion. 5% of that is therefore approximately $10 billion. If you call that a "massive flop", your standards are completely unrealistic. That is a massive succ
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by microtonal 5d ago
But you see people talking about the mini almost every time there's a discussion about iPhones (or phones in general). ...in tech forums where people hold strong opinions about tech and the people who have their pet peeves come out.
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by microtonal 5d ago
I don't believe this at all. If people yearned for smaller phones, they would have gotten it despite COVID. My wife and I both had a Mini and I remember going to the local electronics store (most of the summer there were no closures) a
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by microtonal 5d ago
It's doubly disappointing because just 4 days ago the project wrote [1], on using AI for the new Messaging app: Why? Using an LLM as an additional reviewer seems like a good use of LLMs? Personally I have found LLMs very useful for t
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by microtonal 5d ago
A bunch of the AOSP apps feel like you have to rewrite them for modern standards now and then you can basically have them in maintenance mode for years. The AOSP messaging app has also lasted for 15+ (?) years and has basically had no maint
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GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released(github.com)
327 points by microtonal 6d ago|255 comments
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by microtonal 7d ago
The other day I needed something wired for reasons and plugged in some lightning EarPods (not AirPods!) and they sound crappy. These were the earbuds that came with iPhones and that most people used. You can now get AirPods Pro 3 or Galaxy
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by microtonal 7d ago
Better than the iPods on Android experience . If you do Android-on-Android, the experience is on par. See e.g. Samsung Super Wide Band for voice.
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by microtonal 7d ago
Yeah. It seems like part of Mastodon is completely derailing. Recently I found out that you are a fascist if you say that left authoritarianism exists (the context was a harmless statement like "we oppose authoritarianism regardless if
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by microtonal 7d ago
You can bash the Air all you want, but it's the iPhone I love the most by far, and I had many iPhones since the 3G. It's such a pleasant phone to hold and the screen size is lovely. If they release a second version with a ultrawid
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by microtonal 7d ago
Difference is that the Fold 8 started at 2000 Euro (compared to 2339 Euro including VAT for the Duo) and can now be bought here already for 1500 new. That's 800 Euro less and Samsung will mostly decrease prices further while Apple will
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by microtonal 7d ago
I have an iPhone and an Android phone and I don't see the gap at all when it comes to software. Quite the opposite, I think iOS regressed a lot with iOS 26 to the point where I see quite a lot of render stutters on an iPhone Air and 17
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by microtonal 8d ago
They seem to have a very level-headed AI policy? https://mastodon.social/@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social/117236... tl;dr mostly not allowed, but useful for PR reviewing/auditing, because adversaries use them as well
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by microtonal 8d ago
i will trust Gael based on his reputation Don't? He has mentioned in multiple interviews that security hardening is only for pedophiles and spies (sort of implicating GrapheneOS). They are inaccurate about /e/OS being degoo
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by microtonal 8d ago
They said I never liked the idea of giving money to buy a Google phone so to get away from…Google. . For most people it's a non-argument though - they are feeding data into the Google ad machine every day (even more so if you are usin
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by microtonal 8d ago
The problem is that there is now midrange or lower midrange phone outside the Pixel a series that provides the minimum necessary for device security, namely a separate secure processor to store secrets and MTE. In fact, Snapdragon CPUs had
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by microtonal 8d ago
There is no proof that that an account will actually be required. The fact that some existing Motorola phone require this does not say much.
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by microtonal 8d ago
It was likely them providing the GOS team with source code of some of the most critical patches, when Google withheld it for months waiting for Samsung to release patches. I'm pretty sure reading on Mastodon that it was another OEM t
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by microtonal 8d ago
There is little information available about the future devices. I think they are just extrapolating from prior unlockable Motorola devices. IMO it's not worth speculating until there is some official information or someone has actually
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by microtonal 9d ago
For now. I wouldn't surprised that if enough people start doing this, they'll just put a cheap cellular modem in the TV. Or find open access points. Or make a deal with Amazon and others to exfiltrate information via a smart home
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by microtonal 9d ago
I am not sure about other products. But I have noticed that Samsung phones started putting most toggles off by default (toggles for collecting data). So the GDPR slowly seems to have some effect on different products. (A few years ago, you
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by microtonal 9d ago
We should draft such a regulation and call it General Data Protection Regulation. My guess is that we'll see a lot of malicious compliance.

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