It's part of /e/os. Basically it attempts to roll the functions of FDroid and Aurora store into one. I dont think it's made for distribution outside their OS. For anyone on other platforms, Fdroid and Aurora will fill the same roles just fine.
Not really. Their CEO has said that privacy and keeping data away from big tech is their priority and security, while important, is not the tip of the spear for them.
He phrased it poorly ("we're not developing a phone so a paedophile can evade justice") but people immediately misrepresented it as "The only people who care about security are paedos and crims". Graphene went hard on them with a big FUD campaign that got a lot of people upset. All he meant was that people with very extreme threat models would be better looking elsewhere.
Then the treatment from reactions to ADHD behaviours gradually calcifies throughout childhood and adolescence to arrive into adulthood with trauma as well! Hooray!
He wants to be a Temu Rogan but ends up as a Temu Dave Rubin. He's horrible and happy to platform extremists and broadcast their views, but I don't think he's a true believer, more likely he is just too stupid to understand the issues.
This is what I'm really worried about. The Facebook feed is seriously a never ending stream of concentrated propaganda. I know my mum and one of my siblings are both slurping it up on the daily and it's making them crazy, and they're far from unusual cases.
By transcribing, do you mean describing what is in a picture, or transcribing text in a picture?
For the former, I can't really imagine an image you couldn't describe for accessibility within a sentence, and for the latter, OCR could do the job equally well.
I'm not saying this to just push the view that neural networks are no good for anything btw. For translation, for example, or text to speech/speech to text, I genuinely think they're a revelation, and they need very little compute to perform those functions.
The first Cure song that really grabbed me was Watching Me Fall, it was on a trailer for the new Alone in the Dark game at the time of all things. Then I had to google the lyrics years later, got a hold of Bloodflowers and then Disintegration and Pornography and my transition to angsty Goth teen was complete.
I've been daily-driving it for several years. I think it's very good, generally, and am happy to stick with it for the foreseeable future. Murena asks you to sign up for their cloud services on first boot, but if you say no, they'll never bother you about it again. I don't use them, so can't comment on whether they're any good.
I have found their App Lounge app (Google Play Store/FDroid alternatives rolled into one) to be spotty. Sometimes I've found I had to reboot the phone to get it to download/update apps. They have made updates recently that improve this a lot and I haven't seen it presenting these kinds of issues over the last couple months, but I won't say they've definitively fixed the issues. You can always fall back to Aurora store for Google Store apps and FDroid for FOSS apps if the App Lounge gives you big headaches.
I use FOSS apps where possible over Google apps. Organic Maps is excellent, often better than GMaps. Banking apps work fine for me. Haven't tried NFC for payments, I don't use it.
There's no instances of Murena and related orgs doing anything shady about data collection or anything afaik, their big conceit is privacy and they'd be sunk if there were any scandals around that. If you have a threat model that requires an extremely high amount of security however, you may prefer to steer clear as /e/ freely admit they make trade-offs in hardening for convenience and ease of use. While they incorporate the latest security patches from LineageOS, GrapheneOS continually allege that /e/'s modifications can make their OS less secure than stock Android. How true that is, I don't know. Assume your phone can be hacked at any time if it were specifically targeted.
If you're in the market for a phone that's just good for everyday use but doesn't have all the Google tie-ins, I can recommend it.
It's part of /e/os. Basically it attempts to roll the functions of FDroid and Aurora store into one. I dont think it's made for distribution outside their OS. For anyone on other platforms, Fdroid and Aurora will fill the same roles just fine.
Not really. Their CEO has said that privacy and keeping data away from big tech is their priority and security, while important, is not the tip of the spear for them.
He phrased it poorly ("we're not developing a phone so a paedophile can evade justice") but people immediately misrepresented it as "The only people who care about security are paedos and crims". Graphene went hard on them with a big FUD campaign that got a lot of people upset. All he meant was that people with very extreme threat models would be better looking elsewhere.
Very much a storm in a teacup.
This is so correct. Australia tried the ban and it's done absolutely nothing. Put the restrictions on the ones causing the harm.
Then the treatment from reactions to ADHD behaviours gradually calcifies throughout childhood and adolescence to arrive into adulthood with trauma as well! Hooray!
No! I will check it out, thanks!
Love these guys. Got into them after looking into side projects from ex Anathema members!
Paradise Lost went from death/doom to synthpop and then all the way back again, if that counts
Do you mean Paul Allen?
I laughed at this
He wants to be a Temu Rogan but ends up as a Temu Dave Rubin. He's horrible and happy to platform extremists and broadcast their views, but I don't think he's a true believer, more likely he is just too stupid to understand the issues.
It already supports realtime audio plugins now, which are non-destructive.
This is what I'm really worried about. The Facebook feed is seriously a never ending stream of concentrated propaganda. I know my mum and one of my siblings are both slurping it up on the daily and it's making them crazy, and they're far from unusual cases.
By transcribing, do you mean describing what is in a picture, or transcribing text in a picture?
For the former, I can't really imagine an image you couldn't describe for accessibility within a sentence, and for the latter, OCR could do the job equally well.
I'm not saying this to just push the view that neural networks are no good for anything btw. For translation, for example, or text to speech/speech to text, I genuinely think they're a revelation, and they need very little compute to perform those functions.
Vanilla Gnome is best Gnome
Correct, there is extremely scant evidence for it being a backdoor in the video
Yes, it starts with a C... oh, I remember!
Coincidence! /s
Let's just see how long he waits before he ditches PHON, now they've served their purpose for him
The first Cure song that really grabbed me was Watching Me Fall, it was on a trailer for the new Alone in the Dark game at the time of all things. Then I had to google the lyrics years later, got a hold of Bloodflowers and then Disintegration and Pornography and my transition to angsty Goth teen was complete.
I've been daily-driving it for several years. I think it's very good, generally, and am happy to stick with it for the foreseeable future. Murena asks you to sign up for their cloud services on first boot, but if you say no, they'll never bother you about it again. I don't use them, so can't comment on whether they're any good.
I have found their App Lounge app (Google Play Store/FDroid alternatives rolled into one) to be spotty. Sometimes I've found I had to reboot the phone to get it to download/update apps. They have made updates recently that improve this a lot and I haven't seen it presenting these kinds of issues over the last couple months, but I won't say they've definitively fixed the issues. You can always fall back to Aurora store for Google Store apps and FDroid for FOSS apps if the App Lounge gives you big headaches.
I use FOSS apps where possible over Google apps. Organic Maps is excellent, often better than GMaps. Banking apps work fine for me. Haven't tried NFC for payments, I don't use it.
There's no instances of Murena and related orgs doing anything shady about data collection or anything afaik, their big conceit is privacy and they'd be sunk if there were any scandals around that. If you have a threat model that requires an extremely high amount of security however, you may prefer to steer clear as /e/ freely admit they make trade-offs in hardening for convenience and ease of use. While they incorporate the latest security patches from LineageOS, GrapheneOS continually allege that /e/'s modifications can make their OS less secure than stock Android. How true that is, I don't know. Assume your phone can be hacked at any time if it were specifically targeted.
If you're in the market for a phone that's just good for everyday use but doesn't have all the Google tie-ins, I can recommend it.
Yeah fr!
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