Clearly you’ve never lived in Tick Central (anywhere along the US East Coast, or up by the Great Lakes, northern Minnesota, or down south, Alabama, Louisiana).

I mow because if I don’t I just have a Tick Farm right outside my door.

Plus I’ve had Lyme Disease once already. You can take my mower from my cold, dead, hands.

Nah, I don’t like having a tick farm right outside my door.

Lol, oh ko, this is about a foot too short.

Rich?

So only the half of the US that buys iPhone’s is rich?

Or is it they don’t know what they’re paying because it’s part of the monthly bill?

Most of the iPhone users I know are in their 20’s and make less than half of what I do… And I’m far from rich.

I’ve bought used phones since 2013. The most I’ve ever paid is $150, and that was recently for a Pixel.

You can pickup a Pixel 4 for about $100.

Surely “most people” are paying far more for their phones.

Lineage and a fork, DivestOS are very close to Graphene, and run on far more devices.

The search for perfection is the enemy of good.

I’ve run Lineage for years on some spare devices. Battery life is so much better without Google Services.

My most recent device (Pixel 5 with DivestOS) is averaging 1.1% battery consumption per hour over the last day. That included an hour of navigation, using Google maps with microG services.

One old device runs longer with DivestOS than it ever did with stock, and the battery has lost 40% capacity. That’s how bad Google Services eat battery.

Plus Lineage permits you to use a number of old devices, unlike Graphene. It’s good, it gives you far more control than Google.

My final thought on Graphene - it needs to be taken over and lead by some professionals. Those folks act like stereotypical geeks of 30 years ago, arrogant, condescending (I worked with their type 30nyears ago, and was a little like them then). They also denigrate anything less than what they deem “perfect”. The very definition of hubris.

Their attitude is “if you have a problem you must’ve done something wrong, why did you do something wrong”. Having that experience with them has put me off Graphene permanently.

Edit: I can re-lock the bootloader with Divest, so the condescending Graphene folks are just plain wrong about being the only OS that can do this.

First, don’t buy new phones. You’re paying a massive premium to be first. Especially since you’re going to flash a rom, which has a little risk anyway (I’ve bricked phones by flashing, though not for years).

I just upgraded from a 2017 flagship to a Pixel 5 (only because my cell company decided to stop it working on their network, when I can throw a different Sim in and it works fine). I was able to buy 3 Pixel 5’s for less than you paid for your new phone. Which means I have a daily driver, a hot spare, and a test device for a little over $400.

If my daily breaks, I pickup my spare and swap the SIM, since I keep both phones synced with Syncthing. I don’t even have to login to anything because that’s all done. (I had 4 functional devices of my 2017 phone, they had become so cheap).

So pick a 1-2 year old model that you like the features, and pay far less for it.

Before (finally) coming to the pixel, I would look at the Lineage device list, then check those phones out at gsmarena.com and phonearena.com to see which I’d prefer, because Lineage has the broadest device support that I’ve seen.

Today I run DivestOS, a fork of Lineage with some changes to a few things. I forget now exactly what I preferred (I’d have to pull up my comparison spreadsheet), but average battery consumption is a staggering 0.5% per hour, with microg services installed and a couple apps using it. Consumption average increases to about 4% per hour when I’m doing a lot of intensive stuff - copying files over the network, using nav, watching a video, etc.

Are you sure they’re cotton? Synthetics tend to be more stiff than natural fibers like cotton.

I haven’t had stiff cotton anything since about 1978. Companies have been pre-washing cotton since at least the mid-70’s to make it softer.

Try washing and tumble dry on low, without completely drying them.

Research has shown that for the average person, vit D supplements are practically a waste as the forms they provide don’t match what we need.

You and I are special cases.

Sun is what the typical person needs, so their body can produce the forms of D they need.

Many of us have been saying the ADL is shit for decades now.

Nah, they already have your email, and Play services could track that too. They just want to make sure they’re the only ones tracking your email.

$400 for a drip machine?

Must be a Mac user.

Well, dammit, now I gotta go try NixOS. Gee, thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole, like I have time for yet another one!

Hell, mine made crema on the first try. I probably over-pressed the coffee though.

I really like the mocha pot, but I’m a cappucino fan - if only there were a simple way to steam milk. I even have a Bellman, but it takes forever to build up pressure.

I can’t imagine how you burn coffee with a mocha pot.

Like, you’d have to go out of your way and intentionally try to burn coffee with it.

Changes by shitty apps wanting to start with windows and register for context menus.

I’ve had windows machines run fine for 10 years, and some having trouble at 6 months. The difference being the problematic machines I’ve made tons of changes, installed tons of risky apps.

I’ve also run registry cleaners as a test, and it’s made a world of difference.

In short: crappy apps make windows run poorly.

My cheap ($100) espresso machine takes less time than a Mr. Coffee/drip machine.

Any kind of breeze. FTFY

Fear of change? Hahahahaha

No, I just know what’s involved, with the unpredictable “gotcha” a year from now.

Not to mention the knowns. Holy hell switching from Windows to Linux is very problematic for typical end users. Yes, the UI is that different, even with “friendly” distros.

You say your grandma made the switch? OK, so someone who uses a browser for everything and doesn’t actually use office.

Let’s see Libre office open an excel spreadsheet with tables.

Or edit a word doc and send it back and have it not be screwed up.

Not migrating is practicing risk mitigation. Hell, I can’t change a single setting on work systems without validating that change in the lab first. And you want people to switch entire operating systems. For what?

So stop this fear projection nonsense.

(And I work with Linux every day on multiple distros).

Yep.

I have an older frame that has an email option so people can send photos to the frame.

I bought it because it supports both USB thumbdrive and connects to SAMBA shares for photos, too, which is how I use it. Never even signed up for the service, and I’ve blocked internet access for it (bastardin’ bastards designed the network stack to require DNS entries, picks).

The setup is annoyingly clunky, but once setup it does work fine.

My next one will start with a Raspberry Pi, then it’s just a generic Linux box.