Not going to argue with you about the quality of German brand sneakers, I wear Adidas myself, but Nike still has several models that score well enough on runrepeat.com.

yeah, i dont think the quality of the shoes were ultimately the problem. consumers care more for trends than quality.

> consumers

people

Ironic, considering you're one of their most prolific supporters here. Every time I see a positive GOS headline on HN it's usually with your username next to it.

Now that I'm reading the stuff on Mastodon about AI I can empathize with them a bit more. People are batshit crazy.

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 it comes from left, center, or right").

Their whole spiel is if you don't 100% agree with with their opinions, you are a fascist or nazi.

I'm considering just leaving Mastodon, the primary thing that is stopping me is memories of when it was mostly a nice medium where you could follow some tech people with really insightful posts.

Huge respect to the GrapheneOS developers for finding the energy to reply to most of this bullshit. I'd have left long ago.

Needing an account to unlock the bootloader is a real bummer. I can live with issues 1 and 3. Thanks for the notes.

TL;DR: In summer, pumas in Nevada hunt more wild horses than deer.

Wait til they hear about East German Germans and West German Germans.

Shouldn't the headline read "GrapheneOS: Pixel 11 has bare minimum hardware level MTE support"?

As currently written, one would take away an entirely different message from the headline.

I wasn't aware GOS recommended AuroraStore.

We don't recommend the Play Store as a source of apps in general. For obtaining apps from the Play Store, we primarily recommend using our sandboxed Play Store feature. Aurora Store is mainly useful for working around Play Integrity API store listing restrictions.

Aurora Store can be used without the shared account feature. The shared account feature was on track to getting blocked for years and we've warned about it. Sharing accounts is against the Google terms of use and they've been ramping up their detection and banning of it. It's somewhat strange they allowed it to go on for so long. Aurora Store does still work as an alternate Play Store frontend since Google hasn't blocked that.

Due to Aurora Store bypassing the Play Integrity API store listing restrictions, they may decide to take steps to hinder it. It's a very easily bypassed way of using the Play Integrity API but it harms alternative operating systems.

They don't. It's unreliable but they have fixed security issues.

I have some LED bulbs at home but I use G9 halogens in either an E14 or an E27 adapter for the places where light quality is important to me. I tried a number of so-called "full spectrum" LED bulbs but I don't find the light they produce quite as satisfying as my halogens.

Thanks