Hey, check out this 2€ coin I am holding on to:

I use a few of the google apps via the sandbox google-play services on GrapheneOS and it works fine (Maps, Android-Auto, Camera, Playstore).

A bit better maybe, but still the worst phones you can possibly buy, in my humble opinion.

I had a Samsung A50 for some time. Worst phone I’ve ever see in my life. Terrible build quality, the thing came apart all by itself, and it’s my work phone that I really use at a minimum. And the worst is how slooooow this phone as always been.

Last year I got it “upgraded” to a A35 5G, it’s a little faster, but the build quality still seems to be rubbish and the bloatware is through the roof !

Yes ! I’ve got the exact same experience, it was mad ! Pop-up to update a bunch of baggage apps I would never ever want, I dismiss it for it to appear again exactly one week later. I untick everything and press next. It installed the stuff anyway ! This should be illegal.

My SO has had several and really liked them until they broke or got lost (the phones’ quality really aren’t to blame here). I’ve offered the Sony Xperia 10 VI to my dad last Christmas and it doesn’t come with much bloat at all, I would call it good.

But if you want a completely bloat-free phone, you can’t beat Google Pixel flashed with GrapheneOS.

These taste the best:

My personal experience with Samsung phones is that they are rubbish, slow, full of bloat you can’t remove. Maybe the high end are good, but the A-series have no business being so bad for the price.

Interesting device at a reasonable price (300€). Specs are not amazing but it has some nice features: dual SIM, micro SD and 3.5mm audio jack.

Having to pay 5€/month for keeping Sailfish OS up to date after the first year is a hard pill to swallow. It’s nice to support the developers this way, but it’s a hard sell, even for a tech enthusiast.

Source: Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham

Every time a meme is posted, his face shrinks a little bit.

You can use 7zip to archive files into a .7z and protect it with a password. 7zip is cross-platform, it’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Edit: sorry, I see you have already evaluated this option. I don’t know another method that would me more transparent.

Politicians often argue that we need to increase security to protect our liberties, but it’s a scam. Ever-growing security policies quickly turn to suppress all liberty.

Not this brand, but I find them very easily in Germany. At least 3 different brands are available at the grocery stores near me.

I haven’t measure precisely, performance is not a major concern to me. But I remember seeing local write speed around 350MB/s (reading from SSD writing to HDD RAID array).

Yes, that’s right BTRFS RAID10

These 4 I bought used, with around 4years of uptime. 1 was defective and I replaced it with another used one that works fine.

Six Feet Deep in my ass

NAS is at 48TB raw, 24TB effective.

From LukHash ?

Aqueous Transmission in my ass