When XavDub contacted the German car maker, the company responded that GrapheneOS “is not an official Volkswagen offering” and advised them to contact their OS provider instead.
This is the only official word from Volkswagen in the whole article. To me, this reads less as "We are blocking GrapheneOS users" and instead "GrapheneOS is not something we give any official support" which I think is a key distinction.
It's not clear what's different in the update that doesn't work with GrapheneOS, whether it's an API call that doesn't work or if they've implemented the Play Integrity API - but I think this article is a bit sensationalist and everyone's reacted only to the headline.
A thousand thousand people have said it before me, but it is still fucking insane to me that OEMs can just mandate what is installed and not installed on your device.
I had gone from a Galaxy S5 to a J7 Pro, to a Pixel 4a and now to a 7a. All of them only ever had custom ROMs while I owned them, so I completely skipped out on both this shit, and all other OEMs locking you out from the bootloader.
Late to the party but I'll chip in my anecdotal evidence of the local Hungry Jacks that looked like this up until circa 2021:
It was then fully renovated and my immediate reaction was just, what have they done... I don't have a picture of that particular HJs post reno but they all literally look the same seldom floorplan, so here's one with identical design language.
The old one almost felt like an American diner with the red glistening seats, the ceiling neons, the diamond tiled floors.
Yeah okay, that makes a lot of sense and isn't as extreme as I thought the original post to be. I suppose that for me, I used to push Linux way too hard on my friends and when I saw what I was doing, I hard pivoted away from pushing it to hardly even mentioning it unless it comes up in conversation.
But clearly there's a very agreeable and respectful middle ground where you can bring it up as a legitimate tool to solve a very real problem for people putting up with the woes of Windows 11.
That's a fair way of doing it I think, and I think you're right in that I did have a negative bias towards "converting" as I tended to imagine something more extreme akin to a cult.
This is a detraction from the point of this post, but I wanted to express my feelings on this anyway.
I don't feel great about that suggestion because Linux (anecdotally) has a serious problem of fanboyism and the community is notorious for driving people away from Linux because they're too pushy. I feel that veganism has the same issue.
Sure, you might do this in a more constructive way like up cycling or refurbishing old machines to run Linux and donating them out to people in need, thus introducing them to the world of Linux and normalising an alternative OS - but is that "converting" them?
If you are converting people, then you must have them also ditch Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android with Play Services. That, to me, is unreasonable and not the approach the Linux community should be taking.
For me, I tend to show, not tell. I'll use Linux casually as I would any other system, and if anyone asks me about it or expresses interest, I'll answer their questions honestly. If they do want to move to Linux, I'll help them where I can, but I wait for them to want to do it.
I think the work of saving and preserving these files en-masse is important, but spamming on random threads isn't the way.
All it serves to do is detract from the original discussion for those this appeals to, and frustrates everyone else, watering down the very message you're trying to put out there.
This could be a post on many relevant Lemmy communities and probably do well on the majority of them, thus achieving that mission without polluting Lemmy with spam that adds nothing to the current conversation.
No, this is victim blaming - Samsung does something very anti-privacy and anti-consumer and you blame the user because of the way they use their phone? You are detracting responsibility from the company that has started doing this.
That's what my previous job did exactly - I put my application in and answered some custom questions they had. My future supervisor calls me and we talked for about 10 minutes, then he asked me to come in for an actual interview. Did the interview and next week found out I was hired.
Can confirm. Study laptops are on Linux Mint Debian Edition, gaming PC is on CachyOS currently but it changes all the time, had Bazzite on it beforehand
This is the only official word from Volkswagen in the whole article. To me, this reads less as "We are blocking GrapheneOS users" and instead "GrapheneOS is not something we give any official support" which I think is a key distinction.
It's not clear what's different in the update that doesn't work with GrapheneOS, whether it's an API call that doesn't work or if they've implemented the Play Integrity API - but I think this article is a bit sensationalist and everyone's reacted only to the headline.
A thousand thousand people have said it before me, but it is still fucking insane to me that OEMs can just mandate what is installed and not installed on your device.
I had gone from a Galaxy S5 to a J7 Pro, to a Pixel 4a and now to a 7a. All of them only ever had custom ROMs while I owned them, so I completely skipped out on both this shit, and all other OEMs locking you out from the bootloader.
Late to the party but I'll chip in my anecdotal evidence of the local Hungry Jacks that looked like this up until circa 2021:
It was then fully renovated and my immediate reaction was just, what have they done... I don't have a picture of that particular HJs post reno but they all literally look the same seldom floorplan, so here's one with identical design language.
The old one almost felt like an American diner with the red glistening seats, the ceiling neons, the diamond tiled floors.
Yeah okay, that makes a lot of sense and isn't as extreme as I thought the original post to be. I suppose that for me, I used to push Linux way too hard on my friends and when I saw what I was doing, I hard pivoted away from pushing it to hardly even mentioning it unless it comes up in conversation.
But clearly there's a very agreeable and respectful middle ground where you can bring it up as a legitimate tool to solve a very real problem for people putting up with the woes of Windows 11.
That's a fair way of doing it I think, and I think you're right in that I did have a negative bias towards "converting" as I tended to imagine something more extreme akin to a cult.
This is a detraction from the point of this post, but I wanted to express my feelings on this anyway.
I don't feel great about that suggestion because Linux (anecdotally) has a serious problem of fanboyism and the community is notorious for driving people away from Linux because they're too pushy. I feel that veganism has the same issue.
Sure, you might do this in a more constructive way like up cycling or refurbishing old machines to run Linux and donating them out to people in need, thus introducing them to the world of Linux and normalising an alternative OS - but is that "converting" them?
If you are converting people, then you must have them also ditch Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android with Play Services. That, to me, is unreasonable and not the approach the Linux community should be taking.
For me, I tend to show, not tell. I'll use Linux casually as I would any other system, and if anyone asks me about it or expresses interest, I'll answer their questions honestly. If they do want to move to Linux, I'll help them where I can, but I wait for them to want to do it.
What in the fuck did I just read?
Anyway the disclaimer at the bottom of the page is gold
I think the work of saving and preserving these files en-masse is important, but spamming on random threads isn't the way.
All it serves to do is detract from the original discussion for those this appeals to, and frustrates everyone else, watering down the very message you're trying to put out there.
This could be a post on many relevant Lemmy communities and probably do well on the majority of them, thus achieving that mission without polluting Lemmy with spam that adds nothing to the current conversation.
Gonna need a lot of our help to have it go across the country
I'd say in this context it means just kidding, but could be a well done play on words
If you need any further clarification, please don't hesitate to let me know 😊
That's the way I fully got into it - started off on an old laptop and
manifestedcontinued from there.I feel it always has been rigged, it's just that the rigging has always been so incompetent
I'll add to this too, taken a while ago of my old car in an Australian shopping mall, and Nissan Patrols aren't even the most egregious here.
No, this is victim blaming - Samsung does something very anti-privacy and anti-consumer and you blame the user because of the way they use their phone? You are detracting responsibility from the company that has started doing this.
I thought you were going to link to a Trabant, but I'll also be with you that any vehicle in Robert's fleet is more durable and better designed.
It was posted to the Reddit thread (I too reached into the depths to find it).
That's what my previous job did exactly - I put my application in and answered some custom questions they had. My future supervisor calls me and we talked for about 10 minutes, then he asked me to come in for an actual interview. Did the interview and next week found out I was hired.
Can confirm. Study laptops are on Linux Mint Debian Edition, gaming PC is on CachyOS currently but it changes all the time, had Bazzite on it beforehand
I imagine you could filter it with uBlock right?