Qualcomm has historically been one of the most closed chip vendors. Unless they publish full specs, datasheets and open drivers, that’ll be a hard ‘no’ for me.

Mandatory overtime? The games industry is slavery, unionize NOW for fuck’s sake.

Hmm. OK, I’ve been using AdAway (not AdGuard) as DNS and/or VPN, experimenting with both) under Pixel 9 stock OS, and it mostly works… but some apps and websites still get ads through.

LineageOS w/Adaway root /etc/hosts blocklists was 100% perfect on my older phone… that’s my main quibble with trying LineageOS vs. GrapheneOS.

I know some people recommend against rooting, but I’ve never had security issues doing it and it seemed to offer more bulletproof ad-blocking.

Can you tell me how the ad experience is with GrapheneOS? As in, do apps which try to insert ads in screen transitions (or anywhere) still do so? Or websites which put in AdSense popups?

GrapheneOS doesn’t recommend AdAway or other adblocking solutions, so does it do so itself?

Yes, and they used the name first, not google. Arseholes.

Palantir, which the US gov is now (let’s not kid ourselves, has been for some time illegally) contracting, probably already has your face either from street cams, security cams in various company buildings, or from social media at this point, so letting you ‘opt out’ is probably just theatre to avoid angering people at airports.

Madagascar’s always the hardest to wipe out in that Pandemic game, if that helps :P

If you go to New Zealand, you’ll have to deal with the shithead billionaires there who will have moved there a few days ahead of you, (since they’ll get extra warning of course), who will have moved already into the fortress-bunkers they’ve been making for a decade or so there.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaires-are-building-luxury-bunkers-to-escape-doomsday/

https://www.massivemagazine.org.nz/articles/9ifugmdie5ofe1utd1bgsw4zascn61

It should be a life mission of anyone in New Zealand, when the time comes, to find out where their air systems reach the surface and throw a few grenades down the ducts. For the good of humanity (whatever’s left).

Your comment prompted me to search and I found this util: https://github.com/fumiyas/qrc

Obviously results in a larger ASCII blob than a shortened URL, but would allow use on any terminal.

I’ll look into those, thank you!

(I currently set up my APL keymap via .Xmodmap with xmodmap, and setxkbmap for X11 terms, and with ‘loadkeys’ for console.)

Great info! I will try it when I decide to trial-run Wayland again, thank you!

(Some things I had read online suggested that Wayland did not use the x11 configs. If it does, that’s good news.)

As someone who hasn’t yet moved to Wayland, how good is support these days for alternate keyboard mappings? Is this something that each individual window manager needs to support, or does Wayland itself manage them?

Not just “international keyboard” support, but truly arbitrary keyboard/symbol mapping support. I muddle in programming with APL, which needs its own key mapping with Unicode symbols.

I recall KDE had its own mapping support which used some system APL layout but I’d rather not have key mappings tied to a specific window manager.

Xerox?! In my day we only had those faded-ass mimeographs, stinky sheets of blurry purple letters :P

…and we learned phonics in Canada in the late 70s.

Hercolobus Or Red Planet, by V. M. Rabolou… it’s ‘interesting’.

https://archive.org/details/en-hercolubus-or-red-planet

Are there any minor failures in your Tesla that you can claim warranty against? I wouldn’t begrudge anyone stuck with one now who bought in the past, but a sort of civil disobedience, aimed at costing the company as much as possible, would be an ethical imperative here. Claim any warranty repair you can. Be a ‘picky’ customer. Make support and sales spend extra effort and money in any way possible for your property. After all, you paid for it, make them spend as much money as possible.

Let the mods flow in (as in game mods, not moderators…)