The GrapheneOS developers had this to say about Fairphone back in 2021:
“It's not possible for GrapheneOS to support @Fairphone devices because they're far from meeting even the most basic security requirements. They haven't come close and it doesn't appear to be a priority for them.“
I also would love a Fairphone-like device running GrapheneOS, but I don’t think Fairphone is going to be the company to deliver to GrapheneOS’s high standards.
I think a classic iPod touch wheel feels more polished, but the Tangara wheel is like 90% of the way there. In previous firmware versions the middle button was too sensitive but that was fixed. You can adjust the sensitivity but I find the default setting to be perfect for me.
I love my Tangara! I even made some custom themes for it. The regular ol’ headphone jack is perfect and it sounds great too. I wouldn’t wait for the Echo R1 unless you really need Rockbox or the different I/O.
Seconded! And the Subsonic-compatible API means that I have Android/iOS clients (playing music through the browser on mobile devices isn’t great). The web interface works well on any desktop.
> Software engineers types are often pretty ignorant, without really realizing it, and often assume their superiority because "intelligence" or some dumb shit like that.
It’s clearly on display here. He made me skeptical when he pooh-poohed the importance of reading books and writing about them in school, and lost me when he casually claimed that all people think in bullet points. These things are incredibly egocentric and stereotypically engineer.
Is there a name for the genre of writing that gets so, so close to magical realism without actually incorporating literal magic? Because this story is the epitome of it.
Kafkaesqueness doesn't require magical realism. It's about a sense of being powerless in the overwhelming and opaque machinations of a larger system, usually a bureaucracy.
I find that it brings a lot of context into view when I remind people Kafka read his stories to crowds with a dry sense of humor. Consider The Burrow - there’s certainly something funny about trying so hard to perfect your bunker that you end up not using it.
I didn't get any sense of magical realism from this story. It seemed to delve a lot into the internal thoughts and reflections of someone dealing with the absurdity of the outside world, so Kafkaesque seems the best description.
My password manager has an emergency access feature[0] which allows my spouse to gain access to the vault (and all the passwords, passkeys, PINs, etc. in there) after 7 days. I also set this feature up with my parents so I will be able to handle their digital legacy too.
> From an implementation point of view, I'm not sure how this could work
This could probably be a plugin for Cobble, the new Pebble companion app, which is capable of performing bridge tasks (like checking the weather or a to-do list).
This was my introduction to conlanging, a hobby that has been incredibly rewarding for me over the years. I still haven’t found a better introduction to the scene.
“It's not possible for GrapheneOS to support @Fairphone devices because they're far from meeting even the most basic security requirements. They haven't come close and it doesn't appear to be a priority for them.“
I also would love a Fairphone-like device running GrapheneOS, but I don’t think Fairphone is going to be the company to deliver to GrapheneOS’s high standards.
Source: https://x.com/grapheneos/status/1448394015242604551