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- Comment on China connects its largest battery-supercapacitor hybrid storage plant - Energy Storage 4 days ago:
Supercapacitors are for stabilizing the grid, the batteries are for flattening the peaks/load-levelling at diurnal scale.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 4 days ago:
The trick is to buy dead tree and also download the same book from the usual online libraries.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Diesel generators run fine on heating oil, which is cheaper since no fuel tax and has longer shelf life.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 6 days ago:
I made sure my last car I bought had no modem in it. This is going to get a lot harder for my next. I will be probably limited to the used vehicles market.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 6 days ago:
You can only lead horses to water.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
Na, 4K, even 1080p upscaled to 4K is significantly better thsn FullHD with a video projector.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
You can use a pull-down screen attached to ceiling and a ceiling-mounted video projector. 4K is fine for that. I would not be able to tell the difference between 4K and 8K in such a setup.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
GrapheneOS comes enirely Google free out of the box, including telemetry. It is also a reasonably secure mobile OS. You don’t get all that by just changing the launcher.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
It’s about picking noncooperative jurisdictions.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
Can you still unlock the bootloader on Xiaomis? It was always a pain, but I’ve read they have completely locked them down now?
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
On GrapheneOS Play Services is sanboxed, so it cant affect other installation sources. It’s just one source of many.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 3 weeks ago:
Linux has been fine as a desktop since i386 days.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
You can use F-Droid and other install sources on alternative ROMs.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel tablet without any Google Play so that doesn’t affect me. On my Pixel phone Google Play is sandboxed. I expect however that Google will disable bootloader unlocking on future Pixel hardware.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
The EU is no longer an ally in such matters but a bad actor.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for putting that option on my radar.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 weeks ago:
Bought a Pixel 7a new below 350 EUR last december. Buying used is also an option.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
I use Osmand+ for most of my navigation. Google Maps also works. GrapheneOS is for Pixels only.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
Imagine the custom ROM situation was as bad for phones as it currently is for tablets. There is just one supported tablet which is new.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
GrapheneOS has a decent airplane mode.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
I wish a Linux tablet will be ready by the time the custom ROMs will be killed off.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
The war was lost by default. The one party did not show up to the battle because they never knew a war was on.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about technical utility. It’s about freedom.
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 3 weeks ago:
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 3 weeks ago:
Paid 335 eur for Pixel 7a new last December on Amazon Germany. Not cheap, but GOS was worth it.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 3 weeks ago:
Buy on sale and used. That’s on par with chinese hardware.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 3 weeks ago:
It is precisely about me and a small group of technical users who care about freedom. The rest of the users, that’s strictly their own problem. If the gestapo outlaws skates and I can’t get them on the black market and the society is fine with concentration camps that’s also allright. I’m too old to care.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 4 weeks ago:
Your comment wad removed by a mod, fyi.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 4 weeks ago:
If you want to opt out, use alternative ROMs.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 4 weeks ago:
If you want improved security, use GrapheneOS.