not sure about price and speed, but their subscription model is designed such that you may not need to give away your info. E.g. pay with crypto and even cash in mail.

could just replace it, no? Unless your keyboard is weird, the size of window key is pretty standard right?

depends what you do, tbh. If you try to get a 3D program (that works well in Windows) to work on Linux, or try to get a game running as smooth as it is on Windows, then you are in for a lot of work.

But if your usage involves: simple web browser / email, codes, file operations. Then Linux is just plug and play, even much simpler than Windows. No ads, no constant updates nagging.

Linux just leaves you alone, if you mess some thing up it is you fault. On my Win 11 laptop, I got logged off by the damn OS just for it to display a popup with something bullshit like “Sign in to OneDrive to protect your PC”

I had the original Pixel (codename Sailfish) and eventhough it was 1st gen, it was one of the best if not the best experience I had: clean software, camera is great. Google did some wizardry with their camera via software at the time. The downside: absolutely terrible battery life.

awwww shiet I wonder why

if you keep turning left, you’ll arrive at exactly where you started.

Which is what this entire show is: moving in circles and never progressing. War in Ukraine is still on going, economy is fucked, trade war is on… etc.

apparently this piece of shit is gonna get a funeral service at football stadium. What a fucking joke

been living in Samsung’s garden for many many years lol. I hate the bloatwares that came with the phone, yes you can use adb to delete some apps but some still stay (core Samsung apps). The one feature that really gets me into GOS is separare user profiles. So I can compartmentalize my stuff + a dummy profile.

Fuck this guy

definitely inside job. The dude who failed to shoot Trump was around 160 yards away. Whoever shot Kirk was around 150 - 200 yards away and he only needed 1 shot. Definitely pro stuff, maybe a hit order from within the gov.

yeh right. I bet whoever did this is not a democrat. With that distance and only 1 shot? That’s pro stuff

OP, I am in the same boat. The features shown in GrapheneOS are very nice and I want to buy Pixel just to put it on. Is there a reason you go for the 9, beside price? I’m really keen on the 9a due to its flat camera and low price. I dont like phones with bumped camera. However, recent JerryRig video shows that the 9a is very very difficult to replace the battery, so not sure if it is good in the long run lol.

i like that plane analogy lol

Started at low for 6 months , then I travelled to the valley of despair.

I lost my mind and stayed there for a long time. 1 year? 3 years? who are you? who am i? (send help plz)

A traveller names Fedora rescued me. Now I am further down on that curve: Fedora silverblue.

Would a pixel phone running GOS be future proofed, or one day Google can just push out some hidden updates that prevent you from running it at all?

Its been a while since I used LineageOS on my OG Pixel (sailfish). I remember you have to install the custom bootloader like TWRP to flash the ROM and there was this thing with A and B partitions. Not sure if things change…

With an unlocked bootloader, whoever gets your phone can do the weird Vol Up + Power button combos to flash enter the TWRP bootloader. I couldnt recall correctly, but it is possible they can view / delete your data right within the TWRP screen. Not sure about transferring them off of your device.

OTOH, a locked bootloader wouldnt allow you to do this. There is no way to enter a flash a different ROM.

The thing with unlocked bootloader like LineageOS, especially in my case an OG Pixel, is that you can still flash the official Pixel OS in case Lineage starts to mess things up. LineageOS leaves the bootloader unlocked, so you can still flash.

I’m talking about the case where your phone is completely bricked, i.e. cannot open phone. So you can just use platform-tools to reflash. With Graphene, i guess it is more difficult in this case?

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FUCK THESE GUYS

What if I dont use M$ account? So it is just a local user, then where does Word back up to?

Writer and Impress should cover Word and Powerpoint perfectly. Even if your colleagues use Windows, you can still open them just fine.

Excel though is troublesome, especially those with coded VBA or some plugins from companies. But for basic Excel? Calc can do the job ok too.