sigh third option when?

How did you know it’s not the truth…because I implied it wasn’t… and I don’t see it as something that couldn’t happen, people asked for MicroG support for years…

Sorry but this sounds like you’re defending yourself because you know you spread rumors or maybe even complete misinformation.

I’m not a huge fan of trolling

There was no trolling. You said it’s the best ROM for security. I told you of a better one. Saying “best ROM for security” was more of an act of trolling than my response.

I can tell you no Open source ROM gets funds by Google, unless if it’s a program…

Idk. I heard that Lineage receives money from Google so I said that but, in contrary to you, I didn’t say that I’m sure of it. I just said “I believe it’s the case”.

But don’t you just get tired of jumping through hoops for every little thing these days?

Do you know that everything in the universe has a price so it stays balanced? Same goes to this. You either deal with it (spend effort) or switch to a worse (evil) option where you pay with your data (much more valuable thing) to get more consistency.

Big tech needs to stop being evil.

Not gonna happen. Even if you put highly moral or religious people on the management, someone will find a way to ruin it. The bigger the project gets, the bigger effort bad actors will be ok with taking to take over it. The xz vulnerability is the perfect example. The bad actor there spent like 2 years to get trust of the main developer.

Any good app/product that becomes very popular will be inevitably acquired by an evil company at some point. That’s why the default cannot be good.

Doesn’t look like a good place for business communication, especially if there’s some secrecy to it which is not a rare case.

Then you may want something with a more power efficient and slow CPU, probably even ARM based.

I think using the RCS can raise legal issues if Google/Apple collects the messages, especially if you’re in the EU. I don’t remember how RCS works and I heard it can be E2E encrypted but seeing the comments makes me less sure about the safety of using it in a business environment. SMS isn’t encrypted at all and easy to intercept but there’s less chance of it being automatically collected for marketing purposes.

Using apps is better tbh unless you make your own apps to create more bloat and fragmentation. Here where I live nobody uses SMS anymore.

This is about to change since LOS are about to include MicroG by default in future releases

Should I bet all my savings this isn’t gonna happen? Just don’t trust unverified rumors and never ever spread them as the truth.

more than any other ROM

ROMs without network support.

Wdym?

I believe LOS uses Google stuff because they get money for doing it, especially for making it the default search engine in the default browser.

Oh ok then. If it has a vanilla version then it is degoogled and can be more degoogled than LOS. What I meant was if GOS was microg only, it couldn’t be as degoogled as LOS because LOS is vanilla. Still it’s a shame that LOS can’t find a better supporter than Google.

Sorry for a probably stupid question but can’t you get something with a dedicated GPU for the same price? The CPU will be worse but the machine will be more balanced for all kinds of tasks. Not for programming though.

Just continue using Signal. Why change it to something else and worse?

Mister/miss, LLMs that can run locally are fine. It’s the infrastructure and the large scale of commercial cloud LLMs that create some issues. You have to read some researches on this topic.

This. But 99% of the internet will hate your project for absolutely anything they don’t like in it and it will kill the project because distros won’t want to use it.

Too much of an environmental impact for the usefulness imo.

Welcome to modern Linux where almost everything works, mister/miss

What I meant by a “middleground” is that GOS has gapps, even though they are sandboxed. There is no way it can be more degoogled than LOS or any other fully vanilla ROM that’s actually degoogled.

Do you mean that any copying is bad or any copying is ok as long as it helps achieve the goals?

Yea I thought about that too. But apparently some people find “AI” useful.

GNOME Software but it only has Flatpaks which my machine can’t quite run smoothly. It’s weird that I use the GNOME ecosystem without Flatpaks though. Anyways I just use the AUR on my system that’s based on Arch btw.

Say that to capitalists.