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/e/OS is not fully degoogled, as DNS connectivity checks, hardware attestation provisioning, and eSIM activation all go through Google.

They are working on some of this, at least eSIM activation. Also do you have a source for DNS connectivity checks? AFAIK they have used their own for a while

It is often many weeks or months behind on security updates, especially in the WebView, which makes it easy to exploit.

This is a serious problem, however their update speed is comparable to a lot of default ROMs

It doesn't support bootloader locking on many devices, and if you lock the bootloader on a phone that does support it, it could brick if /e/OS is on an older security patch than the stock ROM was

/e/os supports boot loader relocking on most official devices, however the community builds don't support it. The bricking part has nothing to do with /e/os, it's a hardware security feature of some devices. This would happen with any ROM including the official one

And finally, /e/OS's text-to-speech sends what you say to OpenAI, despite local options being available.

I assume you mean speech-to-text? Anyway the feature is opt in and they have since updated it to include a prompt to inform you about what it will do. Their reasoning for a cloud option was that local options either are bad or have too high ressource usage (important as /e/os supports a lot of underpowered devices). Overall a stupid move, but they adjusted the feature to let users make an informed choice

If you can't get a Pixel then iOS in lockdown mode is the next best option, however if you can't replace your phone, LineageOS is much worse than Graphene although it is still much better than /e/.

Lineageos might have quicker updates, though it is even more connected to google, except for not including microg. However a lot of people will need google play services so they will have to install it anyway

I do as well, however that represents only a small part of f-droids userbase. A lot of people aren't financiallt in the position to get a new device that support GrapheneOS/lineageos/eOS etc or need some apps that will only work on google verified devices

Zapstore would also have to verify itself and all its apps as Google verified will block any unverified apps, no matter the app store.

I played, the modern version is decent but you do notice that it ain't no Doom quality game

I [...] explicitly instructed Claude not to base anything on LGPL/GPL-licensed code

Did you even say please? Seriously what a great idea, use a model trained with code and then tell it to not use that code

Not OP, but /e/os has microg and for me signal is working fine (also /e/os on Fairphone 6). /e/os also has Unifiedpush integrated, so if you are willing to spend a bit of time you could use Molly (Signal fork) without google services

Personally I am using /e/os, but I think GrapheneOS is technically superior. I would first research whether the apps you need (EG banking) work on either one and then decide

I got Brotato for free on epic, no DRM there either

It's called copyright/patent trolls. Looking at you Nintendo

You can't install google play services as microg would block the installation. You would have to install FPOS to get official google play services

Here is a list of apps that (don't) work with /e/os. Here is one for banking apps specific. I'd check here before

Fucking as the adjective or the verb?

Not sure. Here is the issue tracker

AFAIK Tusky can display quote posts but doesn't allow you to make a quote post (yet)

Newpipe + autoplay off

This is one were you just see the thumbnail and know it's gonna be good

This suggests that a bunch of AAA games could easily be more optimized and run on lower end hardware but developers specifically say fuck you

Is the grain of salt with the jungewelt because of its "special viewpoints" of certain topics or do they have ties to a international Goliath?

I looked at Welt once (their largest newspaper that is considered to be the less right wing populist one compared to Bild), and the second or so article was from the editor and boiled down to: The conservative party not working with the Nazi party (AfD, and Nazi as in literally using Nazi slogans, talking about replacement theory and differentiating between immgrants with German citizenship and real Germans) is really a ploy by the left wing parties to force their ideas on Germany and force the AfD to become more radical.

They are at least at the edge of pro democracy