More of the UK being bought up by the US. It's relentless

> and I'm getting GOS news directly, not from HN

And from a director themselves! strcat is one of the directors in case you didn't know (Daniel). Which makes his reply quite bizarre

That is a pretty poor and disappointing reply to be honest.

They asked a reasonable question and you barely even responded to anything they asked. The community deserves a response to the question.

What with this new chapter, it might be better for someone else to handle PR and comms for the project

(Signed, passionate GrapheneOS user of a few years)

> Everything gets synced automatically

That's not true though, is it? "Everything" kind of implies an iPhone-style backup. You can't do that without root AIUI

Maybe you can give us more details about how you achieve a full up-and-running restore "in minutes"? I run GrapheneOS so very interested.

(Syncthing for Android is deprecated, too)

Well everything you chose to sync gets synced. Like photos, documents etc. You can also set up apps in such a way where they make automatic local backups on your phone in the folder that gets synced. There are multiple android apps for syncthing

> A year ago I got a "10 month old flagship" Moto,

Model name?

it's edge 50 ultra

it's hilarious how this was considered by "youtubers" an outdated model when I was buying it.

It's because the 8sg3 is a terribly botched chip, to the point where it requires comically overengineered cooling to function properly.

Yeah... and it's still a great cpu. What are consequences to the user? I failed to find a use case where it makes a sweat. It's insanely good price to value ratio.

Once again: are there any known problems that are not theoretical? I'm having 1,5 days+ with screen on time that I feel ashamed to admit, plus as I wrote before, never had it overheat despite gaming on external devices etc.

Thanks! Looks decent (60 Pro does too)

> youtubers

marketers ;)

It is. I only wish it wasn't curved screen. It's a gimmick with no benefits and several negatives.

> pixel screens had extremely low Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) rate for screen dimming, apparently as a cost saving measure

The PWM issues are inexcusable. Cost saving measure on a £999 phone. Ridiculous!

It’s not just a cost saving measure. PWM has some benefits like better accuracy and linearity in the lower brightness ranges.

No, Lenovo owns Motorola

Google owned it 2012-2014

(not OP but been on Grapheneos for a couple of years).

I don't. I transfer any important data like photos to a real computer weekly

Mail, Calendar and Contacts are handled by IMAP and DavX. Passwords are in 1Password

I have minimal apps so setting up a new device wouldn't be too much trouble

Pixels are far from rugged

iPhones are nice but all that iCloud data is a privacy nightmare especially without Advanced Data Protection, which the UK Gov caused Apple to stop offering in the UK (and I can see that extending to the E U).

Friction can be good in life. Good food takes effort etc. When it comes to phones, there is the issue of privacy, security and phone addiction.

When the mobile is hard to use (eg Grapheneos - no offence), it can force you to use a real computing device for most of your needs