this is the dark theme variant

I had some fun with Pop two-ish years ago. it felt very smooth, until it wasn’t. everything collapsed very quickly after that lol

part of the problem is that its not actually out of active development as you noted, which is definitely a communication issue from S76

their github is absolutely slammed with issues, many of which are problems that would be common for casual desktop usage https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues

I have a lot of hope for the future of pop and cosmic, there’s a good community around it. it just has a long way to go, and is not typically something people who are looking at Debian (renowned for its stability and reliability) would be interested in, in my opinion.

PopOS is in active development and I would strongly recommend NOT using it, especially if you’re not an experienced Linux user.

System76 makes great hardware but their OSs leave a lot to be desired right now.

even worse: I brought up flock cameras to an aquaintance and their response was essentially “why is that so bad, they already have all our data from our phones, what’s one more set of cameras”

makes sense that they’d remove it from their forums if it has nothing to do with graphene. not a single point relevant to the OS

not necessarily. if ‘you’ are sending traffic, i (someone interested in your data) don’t really care where it comes from. Em is correct that it’s trivial to filter out, but it’s also another data point that is interesting and potentially relevant for them, so in practice they won’t.

tracking has gotten to the point where they can infer connections based off of users that have no interaction but otherwise share a location for a period of time (think coffee shop wifi, work). you have things in common with those people. maybe not a lot, but enough to be relevant in someone’s dataset somewhere.

so no, it doesn’t have to be running on your primary device to be relevant. i’d argue that it simply being on your home network would be enough.

Github has zero 9’s so at this point just use Arch for everything fuck it

(I would personally recommend Debian)

If the post is getting deleted on one forum, they should post the findings somewhere else. that thread smells FUDdy to me

hey there, this is really cool. please keep us updated if you have any developments on how you solve the problems, and what else you discover

I checked gadgetbridge and it doesn’t look like there’s a solution for omnipod. That’s about as far as my knowledge can take me.

As far as workarounds: does the app require an internet connection? Could you buy a used android, go to a place with public WiFi to make a throwaway google account, download the app, never reconnect the phone to WiFi again?

I want to read it. Go write it.

this service exists mostly for people who can’t purchase a pixel directly. nitrokey ships internationally

hardware vulnerabilities undoubtedly exist, whether intentional or not. its simply the nature of designing these complex semiconductors.

that said, if one company intentionally creates a backdoor, won’t they all? what phone do you buy at that point?

any startup or small phone company may not have intentional backdoors, but I can guarantee their hardware security on all other levels pales to what apple and google can accomplish. I think the question then becomes are you more worried about google having a backdoor, or about third party compromises?

im not a fan of our choices, there is no silver bullet.

personally, my bet is that they don’t have anyone qualified enough to pull off an exploit like that (on me).

the problem with my bet: what we’ve seen is that they won’t care, and accuse individuals of terrorism based off the color of their clothes.