Install Windows - does updates as part of the installation process. Get to desktop and check for updates - more updates to install. Reboot and check for updates again - yet more updates.
GrapheneOS is much better at updates than 90% of OEMs. They released Android 16 within a few weeks of Google's release despite Google making a bunch of changes to deliberately make custom Android OS development harder (both with the AOSP in general and the pixel device trees). During that time period they also backported some of the security fixes from Android 16 to the current Android 15 QPR2 release. Unfortunately Google are still trying their best to fuck things up, they still haven't published Android 16 QPR1 to the AOSP yet despite saying they'd do that on the 3rd September. So currently GrapheneOS is great for updates, and will continue to be for as long as Google allows. Also anything preventing GrapheneOS from updating in a timely manner would affect all custom Android OS's
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They have also fixed a security flaw that Google themselves are yet to release a fix for (and this is probably not the first time that's happened)
Thankfully they might struggle a bit more with it as it's something the public feels a bit more strongly about. I feel like queer people are pretty widely accepted nowadays especially among the younger generations. Whereas with all the privacy stuff they can get away with it because most people either don't understand or don't care (or both). Way too many people believe in "nothing to hide nothing to fear"
Oh wow, I hope you're wrong but who knows at this point considering one of the only noteworthy things they've done in the last year is attack trans people. What's the source of that last image? I'm really hoping that's one of the examples from the 80s and not a recent one...
Why do characters like this even exist? I've run into this before where I couldn't find a file I'd downloaded by searching for it. I remembered what folder it was in and checked it was still there, after playing around with the name for a bit I realised the "a" in the file name wasn't actually an a.
https://github.com/VentralDigital/InterProfileSharing