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It's sad that Pis are now so overpriced. They used to be fun little tinker boards that were semi-cheap.

I used GrapheneOS for about half a year as my primary phone OS. It does not scramble your GPS in any way (it has the same course/fine-grained GPS permissions as regular Android), but it does allow you to block a lot more app permissions. It's more likely that they haven't set the correct permission(s) for that information to bubble through to emergency services.

I would also be surprised if there weren't cell phone system-based fallbacks for emergency services. The carriers have a good idea of where you're at based on the towers you're connected to. There are plenty of situations where GPS doesn't work.

So what phone manufacturer should we go to? Apple, who has always heavily restricted software installation on their devices?

It's frustrating and sad to see the road that Google is headed down with Android and Pixels. The recent AOSP changes were a big red flag, now this.

I've had many Nexus and Pixel devices because I like the freedom that they offer me. I don't use Apple devices because they're so locked down and I can't use the hardware and software in ways that I'd like to use it. Google's about to be added to that shitlist, and there aren't really many alternatives.

I was running k3s locally for all home infra stuff because I too enjoy containers (and some of the things that Kubernetes provides.) Recently I found NixOS and am greatly enjoying that. The container dance gets tiring after a while and having a declarative system is extremely powerful.

The worst are forms that don't tell you there are complexity requirements until they're submitted.

I've only used it through RDP on Wayland and it's been fine visually. Downloading it can be a challenge if you don't know where to look (Github, not Microsoft's App Store...)

I haven't used Putty since I stopped using Windows for anything serious (in the early 00s.) It was my favorite quick and dirty SSH and serial client before then though!

Cool, but hachyderm.io also is not a trusted/recognizable domain for me. Trust issues all the way down!

What does "Dey well" and "Yarn me" mean at the bottom of your comments?

This really doesn't seem like something one would want to mess around with if they don't know what they're doing (fire hazards and all...)

If he was a "ski bum" I'm guessing he wasn't commuting to Denver, but to get to the mountains up there he'd have to drive the extra distance sometimes.

This is ridiculous ignorance and akin to Canada's near ban on the Flipper Zero. We might as well ban cars because they can be used to transport drugs and dead bodies.

I have run Graphene on my phone for some time. I'm not doing anything illegal with my phone or using it for nefarious purposes. I'm just not comfortable with Google (or any entity) having so much data about me.

Amazon is not the place I'd go to for electronics parts. Mouser and Digikey are my go-tos.

I'd say a small (single digit) percentage of people are able to accumulate $1.5 million over "a few" (2-3) years of working, but maybe I'm out of touch.