I used to really like Motorola but their lineup has really gone down the drain in the last few years. The last Motorola I had was a Moto G100 (2021) and I was reasonably happy with it until the battery started expanding in early 2025. When I tried looking for a new Motorola at that time I didn’t find anything that didn’t have completely disappointing specs, so I went with a Pixel 9 pro specifically for GrapheneOS. It was a really good upgrade. The camera is much better, the battery lasts longer and has fast-charging and wireless charging. I hope I won’t be needing a new phone for the next few years but if I needed one right now I probably wouldn’t go with a Motorola, even if I could keep using GOS on it.

huh, time for what?

I’m currently dual-booting. Partition 1 is Bazzite, Partition 2 is CachyOS. I’d nuke the Bazzite partition since I’m sure now that I’m perfectly fine on Cachy, but honestly any time I have to manually do storage stuff I mess it up 🥹 I’ll probably just have to pull a proper backup of all my important data and do a full wipe/reinstall.

Guess that’s the only point we agree on. My husband poisoned himself by eating a package of raw Runner Beans once. Kinda fucked that beans can just … do that

huh, I actually don’t remember having a specific preference

i smell slop

I hate python. Just hate it.

:(

We could just all get really fat and ugly, so that the photos aren’t representative anymore.

Alternatively, juggalo makeup:

I’ve been using a magsafe card holder ever since I switched to GrapheneOS. Been working surprisingly well - I thought I’d forget my cards way more often, but it’s actually fine.

The only two negatives I’ve had so far is that my snake got her head stuck in my card holder’s finger loop once. And the powerful magsafe magnet fried the magnetic strip on a loyalty card I have in there, so the cashier has to type my customer number in by hand every time.

The TL;DR I remember is that over a decade ago, someone who works on Gnome has decided that a machine with only a single user and a single DE does not need to have a “Log Out” button by default - when people mentioned that logging out of a user is still useful to reload settings, the response was that “just rebooting is fine in that case”. Thing is, no one actually noticed those changes until now, because with the X11/Wayland switch, every environment was technically running two DEs and had the logout button. But now with Gnome 50, the switch was completed and the Logout button disappeared for many people (as technically intended, but that feature was implemented so long ago that even a lot of current Gnome devs were confused by it)

Is this a dig at the current minor Gnome 50 drama with the Log-Out button…?

Great tip, thanks! I’ll take a look at it since I definitely would prefer it if apps didn’t just talk to Google without asking me first. Kinda crazy how hard it is to even know about all the cracks that Google creeps in through 🥲

I don’t think so! At least I don’t know what a Nabu Casa is, and I have no recollection of ever setting up any VPN or tunneling shenanigans in my home network. I know there’s services like Tailscale or that one everyone uses to play Minecraft together (Hamachi?) but they weren’t something that I felt like fiddling with yet. I only moved into that apartment like 2-3 months ago, so all the network stuff is pretty recent, I think I would have remembered it if I set up some VPN thing haha

Oh, that makes things even more mysterious! I’m running GrapheneOS and while this Profile does have Google Services installed, they’re still pretty restricted. I would have thought that they’d need some sort of notification-related privilege to relay those notifications to me :0

I like Gnome because it’s very tablet-y by default. Sure, I could make KDE look like that, but who has the time for that?! Plus, not having a desktop is the most effective way to stop me from filling the desktop with unsorted garbage

selling the faces of every one of its users to a company to train its AI face generator on

Okay, but wouldn’t it be kind of funny if every AI face generator suddenly started producing faces that look like Redditors?

Maybe try ZorinOS! I’ve used it for a bit on a Laptop with a touchscreen and it performed reasonably well. Didn’t get to try it for very long because I gave that laptop to my parents, but they’re still using it with no complaints so far :0

Oh, that’s not just a Linux issue sadly. My company uses Dell Laptops with Win11 as development machines and every single coworker has issues with their laptop overheating in their bag if they don’t completely shut it down beforehand (I say completely because if you close it before it’s fully shut down, it will still keep running and overheat, fun!)

I’ve been on it for a bit over a year now and honestly, it’s just the new normal. Can’t really say I miss anything, and things like the separate profiles are pretty neat.

Although, I have bricked myself once by enabling developer settings and accidentally changing my language to a dev-only language that made the os crash on boot. But the Graphene Devs fixed it and unbricked my phone within a week after I posted the problem to the forum.

I think TickTick has that feature!