As a physicist, my favorite referee comment ever was [That my claim was wrong] “should be obvious to anyone who has ever sat through an elementary electromagnetism course.” He was wrong BTW, and the paper was finally published in a different journal.

I am from a decidedly different field, so I don’t know if I can vouch for you in any meaningful way.

This! If you have good hardware that works, it’s good to keep it if possible.

My smartwatch/activity tracker is indeed a Garmin Instinct 2s with Gadgetbridge. It really does most of what the proprietary app does, and gives you near absolute control over your data.

Can’t really anyone read? Poster above said Portugal or Poland cost 1/10th of the budget above.

And plainly no. In Poland you might get away with spending half.

Has anyone here considered that he simply may be funding subversive groups in a few countries?

Yes, that’s reasonable. That’s what e.g. mailbox.org does. And they publish periodic reports on how many requests they receive, how many they successfully reject, and how many they have to follow.

15000€/year gross? In Portugal that’s slightly above minimum wage. Might be okay in the middle of the countryside. There should be plenty of skilled programmers racing to live there, right?

The cost of living in cities is quite inflated by digital nomads and wealthy retirees and is starting to be unaffordable for Portuguese.

Edit: 15000 USD is 12800 EUR, that’s a few cents an hour above minimum wage. And Poland costs already more than that BTW.

Having read my share of early Soviet era sci-fi, I think you’re wrong.

Hell no. It’s nowhere near 50/50. In my experience the great moments are far more frequent than the one where you want to defenestrate them.

The relationship with them is however massively unequal, in that you basically owe all the support and they owe you next to nothing (at least at the start).

And unlike with partners and friends, you are supposed to have and maintain authority over them, and foster their growth, often against their whishes.

So it’s a lot of work. But I for instance don’t understand why people get dogs.

Cowabunga!

Stock has been continuously going down for at least 6 months.

It is also largely questionable.

/e/OS has MicroG, and that runs as a system service. You can disable most of it, and if you’re not using any App that needs Google services, I doubt it really does much.

It is possible to use Graphene without using any Google at all. However… Doing so will break almost every app out there. Anything that needs push notifications, AndroidAuto, a thousands more things. So you end up using Graphene with Sandboxed Google services.

And we get into the debate. Is it better to take the official Google Play Services, which we all consider malicious, and run it in a sandbox, or take an open source private, and trusted implementation (MicroG) and run it as a system service?

It is at the very least largely debatable.