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  • How often do I have to buy a new pixel if I fully degoogle with GrapheneOS? A support question

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  • This has not been my experience, at least on a 4G device. My internet/data still work fine on a 5 year old device.

  • How often do I have to buy a new pixel if I fully degoogle with GrapheneOS? A support question

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  • As an owner of a 4a, I can tell you with confidence that my device has not received an update in any form for many, many months now. It is effectively unsupported, and certainly is insecure in comparison to a Pixel 6 or newer.

    The GrapheneOS developers themselves have stated in their forum that they will no longer provide extended support beyond the Pixel 5a, and that the extended support it has is already effectively insecure:

    You should already be treating it as if it's not receiving updates anymore, since that's largely the case already.

    Providing extended support doesn't fit with the way we do things at all and is ending after the Pixel 5a. It's a temporary compromise for harm reduction through existing users at least getting some of the patches despite not moving to a secure device. When this topic comes up in this way, it hints to us that we may be doing more harm than good through people continuing to use an insecure devices. We'll certainly stop doing it with the 5 and 7 year support devices.

    A day ago, a GrapheneOS dev said of the Pixel 4a:

    It's unsafe to continue using the Pixel 4a. It lacks basic security updates. Pixel 4a was launched August 2020 so it's at the 5 year point. It was a budget device, not a flagship. It was launched with 3 years of support, unlike 8th/9th gen Pixels with 7 years of support from launch or the prior 6th/7th gen Pixels with 5 years of support from launch.

    So for the Pixel 4, it effectively received about an extra year and half of tenuous support. The Pixel 5 will receive a few more months of tenuous extended support, then there will be no extended support for any future devices, meaning users will have to upgrade at the end of Google's official support cycle for each device.

  • How often do I have to buy a new pixel if I fully degoogle with GrapheneOS? A support question

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  • From the link:

    GrapheneOS aims to provide harm reduction releases for devices which only have a minimum of 3 years support. Extended support updates at minimum will be done until the next Android version.

    Emphasis mine. That quote does not imply they will provide an additional 3 years of support, only that they will offer the harm reduction updates from the end of official OEM support until the next version of Android is released.

    I have personal experience with this, as my quite old Pixel 4a received harm-reduction updates from GrapheneOS for an additional few months into 2024 until the next version of Android was released, but that did not result in years of support. It is now completely unsupported, and has a warning on every bootup that says as much.

    Further along they then say:

    It is likely that we will make a decision around harm reduction releases for other devices with longer lifetimes in Q4 2024.

    This implies they may actually stop doing post-support harm reduction updates for the newer devices that have longer support lifetimes from Google.

  • How often do I have to buy a new pixel if I fully degoogle with GrapheneOS? A support question

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  • There's nothing in that link to indicate 15 years. OEM support means Google's support, not graphene's. GrapheneOS does usually offer a few harm reduction releases beyond the official support timeline, but that's a few months of extra time, not years.

  • How often do I have to buy a new pixel if I fully degoogle with GrapheneOS? A support question

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  • GrapheneOS supports a phone model for as long as Google officially does. You can see the support lifetime of each model here: https://endoflife.date/pixel

    If you want to keep an updated phone constantly, you'd have to upgrade every 7 years.

  • Community to ask for community names, like a directory

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  • Hi, mod of Buyitforlife here!

    The rule you quoted only applies to people self promoting their own products to sell there, they do not apply for recommending something or asking for suggestions for something. Feel free to make a post there about earbuds!

  • Just had a donations round

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  • I try to donate to projects I use the most.

  • Bringing Back the 20's! ✨

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  • No worries! Slrpnk.net was down until a few hours ago, perhaps that broke the alt-text from showing up? Last time it went down, I noticed a banner and community icon I had uploaded from slrpnk to a community on a different instance broke. I was surprised to learn that it had been pulling those images from my instance the entire time instead of it being stored on the outside instance, so maybe the same thing happens with alt-text?

  • Bringing Back the 20's! ✨

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  • It should already have a quite detailed alt text. Does it not display when the image is hovered over with the mouse?

  • Bringing Back the 20's! ✨

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  • I agree syndicalism is not the answer today.

    While I advocate for unionizing with syndicalist unions like the IWW, it's not going to provide a long term solution on its own. I see it as one piece of a larger puzzle.

    It helps gain some people a bit of breathing room with something closer to living wages, helps educate people of the power they can wield collectively, and pushes the needle forward in regards to realizing a general strike.

    I think what holds it back from being able to achieve victory on its own is that a lot if collective effort us expended toward simply gaining back what is stolen by corporations, and less on community prefiguration. It's also hard to keep members in such a politically diverse umbrella focused on revolutionary class warfare, instead of being satisfied at a certain point of reform or concession from the corporations.

    It'd still a useful tool, and one method I haven't really seen tried or described, is the idea of a worker coop actively funding syndicalist unions for their capitalist competitors to make it easier to compete.

  • Bringing Back the 20's! ✨

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  • Many circumstances had to align for us to be graced with this trifecta of perfection, and I'm rather grateful to be counted amongst its witnesses.

  • Bringing Back the 20's! ✨

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  • I don't think he adopted a particular flavor, he seemed to be into standard anarchism, far as I can tell. Or at least, what he gathered from the anarchists he spoke to.

  • Bringing Back the 20's! ✨

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  • I guess the biggest difference this time is that the internet exists, and last time they didn't have a climate crisis that requires the abolishment of capitalism to survive. So, bad news is we're doing a repeat, but good news is the motivation and reasons to defeat fascism have never been higher!

    Let's hope we're able to learn from lessons of the past as we find new ways to save ourselves, and the people finally come out on top. We've a got a lot riding on it.

  • Bringing Back the 20's! ✨

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  • the 1920's and 30's were the height of Anarcho-syndicalism's popularity, culminating in an Anarcho-syndicalist revolution in the city of Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.

    All of the things in the comic are popular trends from the 1920's.

  • Bringing Back the 20's! ✨

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  • Unironically do love Art Deco aesthetics.

  • Oolite, the FLOSS spiritual successor to Elite, just got a graphics overhaul with 1.91, and it looks good

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  • Since it's a native linux game, should work a treat on Steam Deck.

  • Silicon Run - An incredible documentary from 1996 showing the inner workings of silicon chip fabs, how they work, and how CPU's are made from start to finish

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  • Ah! sorry, posted the link to the trailer instead of the full doc. Link should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up.

  • "This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven

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  • Older desktops can have a somewhat hefty idle power draw due to the overall system consumption contributing more than expected, such as the southbridge. According to this old review of the i7-2600k, the system idles at 74w, which at $0.12 per KWh, would cost you roughly $77 per year. Though you might want to confirm that with a Kill-a-watt meter if you can (libraries sometimes lend them out), since I'm pretty sure that total system power chart includes a discrete GPU, so the real number for a GPU-less system is probably around 40 or 50w at idle.

    If that is accurate, you could potentially replace your i7-2600 with a used Dell Wyse 5070 thin client from ebay for about $40 (in the US), and that idles at 5w, which would only cost you $5 a year at the same rate.

    Older thin clients and laptops tend to have much better idle power draws compared to desktops. For other people reading this, if you're using a desktop for a low-power use case, it's probably worth finding out what its idle power consumption is and doing the calculation to determine if it'd be worth replacing it with a more efficient used thin-client or office mini-pc.

  • I have about 55 hours of flights coming up. I’m thinking about the deus ex collection. Any thoughts?

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  • If you play the OG deus ex, I highly recommend modding it with the revision overhaul, or GMDX. It's very clunky without one.

    If you like stealth games, I'd recommend the first two thief games (with fan patches to run well on modern systems).

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    Transformers: The Bad Guys Won

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    Cooking Nigerian Ofada Rice | Africa Everyday

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    GIMP 3.0 combined with PhotoGIMP and Resynthesizer is stupendous (coming from a GIMP hater)

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    Limmy's Homemade Show (Scottish Comedy) - Episode 1

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    36C3 - The Ultimate Acorn Archimedes talk

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    Trilium Notes - A polished and truly FOSS hierarchical note taking alternative to Obsidian, without the bullet-point style of LogSeq

    github.com /zadam/trilium
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    The Overlooked Gothic Survival Horror RPG | Koudelka

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    KATOD: Red Planet - One of the finest uses of a Commodore 64 as an instrument that I've seen (Bonus Atari ST used as the sequencer!)

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    Bill Nye The Science Guy on Climate Change

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    Easy Crispy Baked Fish in a Walnut and Cracker Crumb with Simplified Fondant Potatoes | Atomic Shrimp

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    The Rise and Fall of Amiga Format (1989-2000) | The Retro Collective

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    Pixelorama - A serious FOSS Pixel Art competitor to Aseprite & Libresprite, made entirely in the Godot Engine

    github.com /Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama
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    Why The Ratchet & Clank Soundtrack Is A Perfect Fit | Aster

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    The Spectrum Show - EP148

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    Oddware: Cadet PC Radio AM/FM tuner card with RDS

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    Common Sense Self Defence (1977) - an instructional film about women's self-defense created by Mary Conrad, and featuring Gene Rayburn of Match Game

    archive.org /details/commonsenseselfdefense
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    LibreSprite: Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool -- Fork of the last GPLv2 commit of Aseprite

    github.com /LibreSprite/LibreSprite
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    This DEC VT100 terminal has some issues | Adrian's Digital Basement

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    Better Than OPL3? The FM Chip Nobody Talks About

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    The Story of Nicholas Winton, the man who saved hundreds of children in WWII (short version)