I just have my Xfinity modem in bridge mode. They looked at me like I had two heads when I asked if they could tell me how to do it at the counter but it was trivial by searching the model number.

Debian testing on a MacBook Air 6,2 (2013). I guess that’s kinda weird. Works fine as a netbook: Firefox, Thunderbird, TigerVNC (handles the low resolution well) and SSH. That’s all I ask of the thing and it works fine. The only hardware that doesn’t work is the webcam, everything else is 100%

It was a free hand-me-down and I put a $45 battery in it so I can use it on the couch. I think what will kill it is when the proprietary charger dies, they cost more used on ebay than the battery did.

The OS is in between the service and the bare metal. Something like OPNsense can be said to be running on bare metal because the OS and the firewall service are so intertwined. However, something like firewalld isn’t running on the bare metal because it’s just a service of the operating system.

That’s how I understand it anyway, I’m not a pro

but the UI is substantially better than Android

For children and drunks, maybe.

For someone in Russia, the impermanence might be a desirable feature. I mean, there’s always still IRC but Discord is all the rage these days.

Get off my lawn.

Colorado House Bill 21-1229 is law here now, maybe your state can pass a bill like it too?

Great marketing in the leadup to Xmas. It worked on me, I wanted to get my wife an apple watch for the holiday and when I saw this news I pulled the trigger instantly.

Nice timing, Apple. You dicks.

cat killed it. get a dog

… but you had a cursor?

iMessage is supposed to be encrypted? I had no idea.

Is there a self-hosted alternative to SMS push? That’s my main push notification, I can’t think of another “service” I use on my phone. I’m an edge case though, already degoogled and don’t let much push to me. SMS is a necessity for work and personal.

To turn that question around, what incentive do the corporations have to encrypt that data? Whole bunch easier to just not care.

Oh, that’s silly as hell, I love it.

Some skinny dude in a Guy Fawkes mask sneaks in through the dog door and turns up the heat while you’re at work

log into your google account in aurora

Yeah, no deal. Google login does not touch this phone. It’s just how I like it.

USB C Port is a little looser than I would like

Maybe yours is one that barely passed QC. That’s one of the replaceable modules though right? Might be worth contacting CS about.

Also I have not been able to purchase any paid apps

It’s the same on my Pixel 6a with CalyxOS and the Aurora Store (anonymous access to Play Store). We simply cannot get a paid Play Store app to work without logging into Google. I can get my bank app, local transit app, firefox, bitwarden, etc from there as well as what I’ve settled on for driving nav, HereWeGo.

That’s TomTom’s free nav app and it appears to get it’s traffic info from the commercial solutions TomTom provides to truckers (paid service for them). It’s good enough, but I do miss Google Maps sometimes. I like it better than Apple Maps.

Most everything else is handled through FDroid and the apps are decent to great, no show stoppers. I don’t use it for much that would leak privacy on the app side besides banking, browsing and navigation though. It’s not for everyone.

The only way I can think of to use paid apps is to pay the developer directly and then sideload. I don’t even know if any devs do that.

As long as /e/os hangs tough my next phone will probably be a FairPhone, I really dig the philosophy and repairability.