Tehdastehdas

Reminds me of Microsoft killing Nokia and their new Linux phones.

I agree. GrapheneOS is the best (unless Google hardware is backdoored - does anyone check microchips with a microscope?).

Lineage OS / iodeOS / etc:

/e/OS is very beginner-friendly (as was Mandrake Linux from the same guy) compared to GrapheneOS, and it has been translated to more languages. My newest opinion about /e/OS after 1.5 years of use: https://piefed.social/post/2293825#comment_12563961

Fairphones are sold with /e/OS too. It’s almost entirely deGoogled.

This comparison chart shows which parts of /e/OS are not deGoogled:
https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

I’ve been using /e/OS for 1.5 years. It’s okay.

• Open-source software made by a small French company, Murena, headed by Mandrake Linux creator Gaël Duval.
• Easy way to escape surveillance capitalism while keeping most of Android app selection. Based on LineageOS based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project).
• Most apps work. For comparison, GrapheneOS (also AOSP-based) supports more apps because of sandboxed Google Play. MicroG, the substitute for Google Play Services used by /e/OS can’t pay through Google (yet), so you can’t buy some apps. Most banking apps work: https://community.e.foundation/t/list-banking-apps-on-e-os/33091
• Runs faster and for longer per charge than Android (because surveillance load was removed).
• Imitates Apple phones. Easily re-Androided by installing Lawnchair launcher.
• Text dictation with local AI (new and buggy).
• Easy to install: has a web installer (like GrapheneOS). (There’s also the seemingly easy https://openandroidinstaller.org/ for many OSs. I don’t know anything about it.)
• Easy to activate Nextcloud sync/backup; defaults to Murena server. In GrapheneOS you set it up manually.
• Can relock some phone models’ bootloader (like GrapheneOS, iodéOS and CalyxOS do), improving security over LineageOS but staying below the most secure GrapheneOS. More about bootloader relocking:
  https://piefed.social/post/1741494#comment_9999461

Murena seems to be a bit overwhelmed with the project. Slow security updates. Slow bug fixes, even with privacy bugs. Slow customer support. A cloud outage. Community support forum and chat work fine (unfortunately the chat is on proprietary Telegram).

We can help Murena hire more developers by buying devices and Nextcloud service from them.

AOSP-derivatives depend on Google’s development of Android and can be sabotaged by Google. The sustainable solution is something else, maybe a real Linux such as Jolla Sailfish OS, PostmarketOS, etc.

Seems like it would be more effective to get the client applications to (suggest to) clean up the links. All users can’t remember that.

Same company that made front-wheel-drives after promising it never would.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091743514002023

Driving towards obesity: A systematized literature review on the association between motor vehicle travel time and distance and weight status in adults

Highlights

• Over-reliance on private motor vehicles has likely contributed to the obesity epidemic.
• Evidence for a positive association between motor vehicle driving and weight status exists.
• Small, widespread, reductions in driving could provide significant population health benefits.