Without any kind of internet connection, it’s a pretty safe bet.

Both of those are funded by the French government, a government that is open in its support for the Chat Control proposal. I have no reason whatsoever to believe either of those is secure in the slightest.

It sounds like those features mean a lot to you. Especially brightness, apparently. But they mean little to me. I have no use for fast charging so long as the battery has enough capacity to last between charges. Smaller bezels mean nothing when the camera leaves a massive hole in that larger screen. I already own a high quality DAP, so I don’t need top of the line audio, just something I can listen to quietly on my studio-spec headphones. And despite brightness being so precious to you that you felt compelled to name it twice, I work nights, am nocturnal and my eyes are sensitive to light. Additional brightness means nothing when I never need it above 50%. I need utility, not boardroom-approved statistical refreshes.

Sadly, the Signature is yet another victim of ‘innovation’. I have no use for a device that is doing the exact same as everything else at that price range. I’d sooner grab the Edge 60 Stylus, despite the significantly worse CPU.

Basically everything privacy focused. NobleROM is just One UI from newer devices back-ported so I have modern Android without losing everything that made the Note9 so great. There are the standard problems with banking apps and such that I’ve seen Graphene users able to get around. I’m also hoping Graphene will have an answer for the installation limitations Google is pushing on Android. I see what they’re doing as going the way of a death by a thousand cuts and further their monopoly until they’re no different from Apple.

Same for the excitement. I’m just hoping they don’t release an ‘innovated’ device no better than a Pixel. There’s been a growing trend of even Motorolas coming with less and less. It’s more than a little alarming.

I can do without the innovations

I’d love to be using GrapheneOS, but I refuse to lower my standards to a sub-par device, and certainly wouldn’t pay the Google tax for the privilege. So I’m currently using a Galaxy Note9 with NobleROM while hoping against all logic that the Motorola + GrapheneOS partnership doesn’t spit out another useless wet fart of a device.

More importantly, how do they go to the bathroom mid-patrol?

To be fair, I wasn’t trying to get banned at the time, but I certainly got the message that honest opinions aren’t allowed on that site quickly enough.

I said #FuckSpez and it worked like a charm.

Hmm. I’m sure that illegal invasion was completely unrelated…

Most likely fuel stations will retreat to outside of city borders, and obviously a lot being shut down and even more people being laid off along the way. It’ll happen slowly but there’ll be three or four local ones suddenly disappearing practically overnight, the last few being the ones clinging on for dear life due to having no better options until the inevitable closure.

Oh shit. No idea how I managed it, but my comment was supposed to be a response to the original post, not your comment. I didn’t bother looking at the context the last time I responded to you so I didn’t notice. Sorry about that.

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC. It’s the long term support version of W10. It’s made for company so it receives minimum updates and is set to receive updates until 2032, if memory serves. With some minor tweaks, it works just like standard Windows 10, allowing you to keep using everything you’re accustomed to without giving in to the telemetry bullshit.

LTSC

I live in a city. I live 15 miles from where I work and I can drive it in about 20 minutes. If I wanted to take the bus, it’d take 3 hours and just as many changeovers because there’s no direct run. Not even close. I already work long hours so there’s no way in hell I’d spend 6 hours commuting, even if I could. For the record, I couldn’t even if I wanted since my office is nice enough to leave me with only an hour to get home, eat and get to bed before starting all over again. Sadly, it’s one of the failings of public transport even when it does exist.

As a semi driver, I can confirm that pretty much everything to do with the vehicle is legally the driver’s responsibility, including times when it’s unreasonable. Snow and ice on top of the vehicle is one of them. Yes, I know how this sounds but those trailers we pull don’t come with ladders or anything and we commonly have to park up in the middle of nowhere, so also consider it from the angle of “How the fuck do I get up there to get rid of sheet ice?”

Carriers always technically can unlock a phone. They often don’t want to help.

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy?tab=readme-ov-file#operating-systems

As for devices, take a look on GSMArena. You can filter by features so it’ll show you what’s possible and you can work from there. Or you could poke around forums and such. Lineage has a wiki for supported devices. See what tallies up with GSMArena’s spec sheet.