Worst case scenario where Google makes it extremely difficult going forward, what is the hard part about just never rebasing onto future work from Google?

From what I’ve seen there hasn’t been significant core work on Android for a long time. It’s been mostly changing from rounded corners to square corners to rounded corners, or shoving AI into every nook and cranny.

I’d think a small dev team like Graphene could maintain their AOSP fork moving forward.

IDK, I’d think the best path forward would be to just fork Android and move on from there. That’s what Graphene OS already does. Just standardize on Graphene OS for everything and get them more devs / resources.

Would Mullvad even legally need to comply with UK laws if they don’t have a server in the UK? Maybe they could allow UK user but just not operate out of UK?

Why do banks need a hardware attestation, out of curiosity? I’d assume that banking apps are just clients so all that matters is if they have creds or not.

That amount of money is one developer full time maybe

$564,000 / year??? I’d think definitely two, maybe three.

traction with Graphene

What kind of traction? Is it missing something? Or do you just mean more developers behind it?

Personally I’d be very heppy if Graphene OS continues long into the future without those features anyway.

Where’s “you should use Graphene OS”, which you should do anyway?

I’m not even sure what incentive they would have. We already have a huge problem with citizens not voting because they think their vote won’t change anything. Is anyone going to think “I’m going to risk going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for me to spend my free time filling out a ballot box which will have a 0.000001% chance of having any effect”?

I’ll check those out!

Flower (video game): https://youtu.be/0IS9sGGuvYo

Akira Kurosawa’s lesser known works. He’s most famous for films like Seven Samurai or Yojimbo, but his other films like The Bad Sleep Well are super amazing too. It’s a film noir movie with a strong anti-corporation message I bet would resonate with a lot of people here.

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What’s awesome about it?

Why not use Mullvad?

What’s the difference between the two?