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  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • There are 3rd Party stores for Those too.

    Its just not plastered on the Main page of the project

    But I wouldnt argue that if you already want a degoogled phone, you have researched enough to at least know where to Ask for such websites

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • Linaege and Calyx is OK too, since they actually develope software (Linaege does it from scratch, Calyx develops Seedvault etc). even though they are not as rigid as Graphene, they are still ok for normal ungoogled stuff, and to be honest, most people dont need the security Graphene provides them with.

    My problem is with Roms like /E/ OS or Iode, which essentially add nothing of value, but instead Fork Linaege, remove Seedvault and everything what isn't essential, and sell what is essentially a DNS blocker (which you can just use on your VPN slot via apps like DNSnet, or Server side like Adguard or Mullvad DNS) as a new ROM, complete with Subscription Service and (in the case of E OS) even with non encrypted Backup, essentially begging someone to compromise their Servers and steal peoples Photos and Data.

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • Google was just a comparison. Of course Murena will not become as strong globally, but if we look at it relatively to the Costum ROM community, they have quite a fair share already.

    Don't take everything literally. I just said, that having the track record that /e/ has regarding actual Privacy and not relying on big tech, which dosent take much effort since they literally fork LinaegeOS, which already dosent rely on big tech, I don't think its a good idea to let them become any stronger than they need to be, since, like I just pointed out

    Murena does not do any substancial Development of Costum Roms. They just take Linaege, remove all the Open source software like Seedvault, and instead implement their own security nightmares.

    And no, tracker blocking is not a good reason to make your own Costum Rom. There are literal free apps on Fdroid which do it already, and better. Don't like it? Switch to the DNS server of adguard, they do that too. Or mullvad. Or whatever.

    Murena as a company is literally a leech just like Iode, which Attach themselves to Linaege (which dosent say they are Private at all), add a fucking DNS blocker, call it a day, and act like they just made Linaege Private.

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • nobody has to use Murena servers.

    Im just saying, that Murena, with their current services, is in no way better than Google. Also, that can change at any time, since the one making the Services and the one making the OS is the same Murena, so theres nothing stopping them to vertically integrate their Services more and more, until it becomes the only real option

    just like Google and Apple did it.

    Google started as a company that gave extraordinary Services for cheap to people, and only once it got popular, they started selling user data and doing questionable shit as result of them not really caring about Data Security and storing data unencrypted on their Servers.

    Murena is a company that is giving extraordinary Services for sometimes Cheaper than the non Privacy friendly option, and once it gets popular, they still will be reserving the right to start selling user data and do Questionable shit as a result of them not caring about Data Security and storing data unencrypted on their Servers.

    Yes, they did not sell your data. Yet. They did not release your Data to authorities. Yet. Their Service, being unencrypted, baked deep into the OS (with their Backup) shows just how much they could go that route at any time, and by having a mostly noobie audience, they wont get much shit for it probably

    For me, its just like the Mastodon vs. Bluesky thing

    Yes, /e/ is currently better than Google, but /e/ can turn as bad as Google any time. Unlike something like Proton or other Backup systems, since they have the option to encrypt your Photos and therefore make them Availible only to the user.

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • Of course /e/OS is not perfect

    Let me stop you here.

    Every phone /e/ supports, Lineage or calyx supports too. Lineage and Calyx are both non profit, implement an actually secure Backup system by default, and do not try to sell you a subscription.

    So why should I be defending a company that's worse then the Alternative, that's obligated to extract the most possible profit from its costumers, that says it is Private, yet sends your backup and Photos unencrypted to murena servers?

    And no, you can't jUsT uSe aNoThEr bAcKuP sErViCe. These require root access by default, so you can't just install Seedvault.

    Also, I don't give a fuck if the data to OpenAI is proxied or not. OpenAI is still not Private, and Murena has other, on device, Open source Voice to text options. Yet they, the self proclaimed Private OS, rely on a non private service

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • Well, since OpenAIs chatGPT is known to sometimes leak info, that could just happen some day

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • I am talking about their backup services and such.

    Afaik, their Photos and file Backup Servers are neither Open Source nor encrypted in any way

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • Look at the friggin´ Screenshot of their website

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • I just dived into that rabbit hole, heres what I could understand until now:

    • Theres this Business guy, who owns/Controls much of the Calyx Infrastructure.
    • When Copperhead, a for Profit Company tried to buy up Graphene, the Calyx Guy was (according to Graphene Mastodon team) very prominent and they tried to pressure them into buying it up
    • Now it backfired for Calyx as the Business guy did a

    • On the team, and now they have to change all the Infrastructure and Keys in order to make their workflow secure again
    • Louis has a Telecom Company with that dude as co-founder, apparently according to some legal document
    • Also, very many other OSs have a Problem with Graphene, as they want to be the next Private ROM, but they just wont put in the Time to do anything more then fork Linaege and add their own Propriatery stuff (looking at you, Iode), so they very often try to make alligations against Graphene, only to be completely wrong

    Tbh, I just dont get ROMs, just because you cant beat Graphene dosent mean that everyone needs the kind of Security Graphene gives you. Just dont fuck up, no matter how hard it apparently is.

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • Privacy is the Main point spoken of in both the websites.

    And don't come up with some „but privacy means big tech and OpenAI isn't big tech” bullcrap.

    The word comes up 3 times in /e/, and the whole paragraph in Calyx is all about being spied on by big entities

  • How do you make the most of GamePass on SteamDeck?

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  • Mandatory disclaimer about Gamepass:

    Gamepass as a model is not sustainable. It is a loss leader, and there is no way it will go like this without enshittifying.

    Not only does it lock you into windows via proprietary APIs, making sure wine can never make it work, it also locks you into its subscription, by, well being a subscription.

    If you do not have the money to support the creators directly, just choose the lesser evil, pay less than a third (5$) for mullvad, support one of the best VPNs, and just pirate them.

    That way it works on Linux, dosent lock you into anything, and instead of supporting a Megacorp, you are supporting a good company. Still not better than supporting the devs, but better than Microsoft.

    For the other 12$ you are saving up, just buy the game you liked most every 3-6 months.

    That's how I do it with RE, Rimworld, and everythibg else I play.

    But about your question: if you wanna suck Microsoft dick, you can't just have the best of both worlds.

    Either you stream, or you install Win on your Steamdeck, which will tank the Performance and battery life.

  • My lifesize pillow ~wife~ Linus keeps me warm

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  • Oh shit, hes hot

  • No, Android is not doomed. No, Android is not as bad as iOS. It takes 5 clicks to opt out of Gservices. If you are unable to do that, theres Degoogled Phones. Your Bank? Theres cheap used Phones.

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  • You are wrong. They are still open sourcing a reference Version. That Version is just not their pixel model, but instead a dummy implementation.

  • Americans who live near state borders,how do you notice you've crossed the border?

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  • I mean, thats kinda exactly what happens when you go from German highway to Czech highway

    Everything just instantly gets yellow and dusty

  • No, Android is not doomed. No, Android is not as bad as iOS. It takes 5 clicks to opt out of Gservices. If you are unable to do that, theres Degoogled Phones. Your Bank? Theres cheap used Phones.

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  • I do their same too, but unfortunately, my Bank requires a costum 2fa app for any Kind of online payments and online banking, but fortunately dosent use Play protect, so I can just make a profile with the apps + sandboxed Gservices

    I mean, I could use Paypal since it has the Option for SEPA and handle all my online stuff, but I'd rather just use my card instead of paypal

  • No, Android is not doomed. No, Android is not as bad as iOS. It takes 5 clicks to opt out of Gservices. If you are unable to do that, theres Degoogled Phones. Your Bank? Theres cheap used Phones.

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  • Yes, we need regulation.

    But for Mobile Payment, you already have a Card so you can pay in store and every bank has a website.

    I am talking as someone who has lost access to the Mobile bank for 2 weeks, and still you can dfo just about everything with the Self Service terminals

  • Adding Plasma Discover to Bazzite via Systemd Sysext

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  • But why tho? Bazaar (the few times I use it instead of cli) actually works without randomly freezing while loading, searching, downloading, deleting, just about everything, unlike when I tried using Discover on Arch, Opensuse, Kubuntu, Fedora, and Fedora Atomic.

  • If Anubis is so great, why isn't it everywhere?

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  • 10 websites have deployed.

    Source?

    Because many already have solved the Problem via cloudflare, etc.

  • NSFW

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  • 1/10

    Im not really one to think twice before doing something. My Homelab is literally „dont move, break things”, im lazy as fuck, I even left my TrueNAS mirrored pool as degraded for a week now because I can't bother to read the manpages for zfs and read why my newly bought drives are getting checksum errors, and I backup anyway to Hetzner and Synology anyway. I broke at least 3 opensuse PCs trying to update without checking my available space first, and didn't bother to switch to leap afterwards (since they can go with less updates, they're just Netflix and IPTV clients). My record is 4 times in a row. Luckily fedora Atomic removed my competence from the equation. And I won't even mention the many times I sloppily migrated my PCs from Ubuntu, Opensuse, to Nobara because I was anti Atomic distros, to arch, opensuse again, arch, artix, Gentoo, and now back to Bazzite.

    But to be honest, that was when I was between 13-16, but now a month later I already feel the responsibility in me. (Except that Zfs thing, I got those drives for my birthday)