I've just "now" re-re-retried to read a newspaper on PDF sitting on my couch. It's bearable mostly because I'm stubborn. It's also not best because I'm stubborn: I use my 2-in-1 Linux laptop for it and dislike dynamic pages for "old" media. So PDF it is -- which can have issues when dragging, so I use newspapers' websites which clone or use Pressreader.
Idk what I meant to say, but don't count newspapera out, yet. A small but non-loosing cadre of sellers and buyers ecosystem may still exist.
You may want to try to look at Gl.inet routers. I'm not sure yet what is their modus operandi, but at least Flint 2 has both their official firmware (with Mediatek's SDK, I guess) and a vanilla Openwrt version -- on their company page.
Their features (Glinet's mesh) are not compatible but it does seem better than just drop support totally.
There also seems to be some involvement in the upbringing of openwrt support -- so it's not a hands-off approach, but on the other hand I'm only looking at Flint 2 firmware/OS development.
Additionally, their Flint 3e uses Qualcomm so the route it takes may be different -- though I hope not!!!
Now, if we are talking about my ISP router/modem....... I'd rather not think about it.
PS: Gl.inet also has a router with fiber optic. Not sure how that would work if I wanted to throw my ISP's router/modem out the window.
No, talking to other humans is over and if it's not a technological solution with zero human feedback, it's not a solution I could build a VC-funded startup on, so obviously not a solution in real-life.
This is based on a video seen on Facebook, so take it with a grain of salt.
AFAIK, BYD batteries are based on "bad" materials, with fabrication method perfected until they are competitive [enough(?)] with batteries made with the "good" materials.
The good stuff is patented, locked by the West. China workarounds it. It's not that it is "bad", is just copying West's strategy doesn't work for them.
This seems like a garbled retelling of the shift from NMC batteries to LFP.
The latter are worse on some dimensions, so much so they weren't considered viable for cars in the West. But incremental improvement saw them take over the Chinese market. A classic "low end disruption" story.
They bought up the patents from A123, an American firm with a Taiwanese American MIT researcher founder. The firm floundered in the global financial crisis, a time that is a big inflection point for China's global domination of green tech.
The problem with that theory is that BYD and a few other Chinese companies already for some years have had batteries that are better than anything made in the West, from the point of view of energy density, charging rate, temperature range, cost, so if there is some stuff that is patented and locked by the West, that is the bad stuff.
Living in the EU, I find it concerning that China has advanced so much in battery technology and in the West there are very few positive signs of attempting to keep up with them.
Closing your eyes and imagining that others are not really better, when they are, is not the right strategy to avoid remaining behind.
LineageOS definitely doesn't have most of the privacy and security of GrapheneOS. It lags significantly behind the standard Android Open Source Project (AOSP) updates which means not having all the standard patches and protections. Many of the patches aren't backported to older releases. It also doesn't use all the standard security features. LineageOS doesn't reduce privacy and security nearly as much as many of the operating systems based on it, but it's not as good as a production build of current AOSP on an up-to-date device. GrapheneOS makes massive improvements to the privacy and security of AOSP including providing many important protections missing in AOSP such as Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes and secure paste. It also fixes many privacy and security vulnerabilities not yet addressed in AOSP. They're not at all in the same space for privacy and security.
Linage can hide as much as graphene. Graphene just throwing silly features at you that are basically useless. If you wanna hide from tech companies Lineage works perfectly. If you wanna hide for from government agencies get a flip phone. Only thing grapehene can currently do over lineage is get you an easy felony.
LineageOS doesn't keep up with very important standard privacy/security patches and protections. This post is a clear example where it took until October 2026 to ship crucial privacy/security patches and protections from June 2026.
GrapheneOS greatly improves upon the increasingly inadequate privacy and security provided by Android. It fixes many privacy and security vulnerabilities along with adding important missing privacy and security protections.
Traditional cell phones lack any form of secure communication and are entirely dependent on cellular. Those lack basic updates and security protections in practice too. Those are the opposite of a more private and secure device. A smartphone with GrapheneOS or iOS is far more private and secure than any traditional desktop/laptop computer at a hardware, firmware and software level.
> This post is a clear example where it took until October 2026 to ship crucial privacy/security patches and protections from June 2026.
I don't think that's true (although I see how that could be inferred from the post), I think the post is saying what has been done in the last few months, not at the time that the post has been released.
You can find the changes where the security strings were updated on Gerrit, including in the commit message which were implemented, previously implemented, not implemented (empty for the ones I checked) or not applicable. https://review.lineageos.org/q/subject:%22release:+Bump+Secu...
Images are built weekly, so it should take up to 7 days after the change is merged for it to be available for a device via the updater.
I think they are referring to that LineageOS by and large (there are probably exceptions) does not have support for relocking the bootloader. Some apps refuse to work with an unlocked bootloader (but there are ways around it).
It has drastically lower privacy and security. That includes apps getting far more data, VPN leaks, many serious privacy and security vulnerabilities being unpatched for many more months or years and not having greatly improved exploit protections mainly protected against apps and remote attacks. Protecting against data extraction is a small part of where security matters and there's much more to privacy than protecting against security vulnerabilities.
It's quite the other way around. GrapheneOS is definitely more secure and private, see https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm, and also more usable, because Sandboxed Google Play has better app compatibility than microG.
GrapheneOS doesn't receive early access to security patches via Motorola. We receive those through a different partner. We were already doing security preview releases prior to Motorola giving us access to their repositories which don't contain those.
Pixels provide the same security features and updates for the budget 'a' series devices as the regular ones. Pixel 8a is one of the recommended devices for GrapheneOS since it still meets all the current era security standards and still has over 4.5 years of updates remaining despite being 3 generations old due to starting with 7 and launching after the initial set of 8th gen devices.
Motorola will be working towards providing the same thing as part of our partnership with them, but we're starting out with the high end flagship devices due to those currently being required for it.
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