I wish I could use Matrix on my phone without it eating my battery 🫤

I essentially did this with Facebook. People still fucking contact me on Messenger.

I’m am ex web dev/des and still maintain some websites for non-profits. I think you underestimate the human stupidity factor. I already have to front an infuriating level of stupid questions and problems that people have caused themselves by not following the most simple of directions. Do I like JavaScript? No. Do I wish I could completely ditch it? 100%. But people are stupid. And without it’s use, I would be handling even more CS than I am now. The average person expects a website to act a certain way and without that they lose their minds.

Oh look, I can get Google search results without using Google. And my privacy and sanity is protected.

This is such an underrated comment for such an important point.

And Obtainium for open source apps. I use Aurora only for apps I can’t get via Obtainium.

Replying to this excellent comment on a refurbed (no money to Google) Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS.

Setup was definitely more complex than a spyware android phone (I went from a Samsung Galaxy) but once its set up, it just works and there’s no way I’d go back to anything else.

I wouldn’t play with settlements just yet - wait for the hotfix patch. I (and many others) have hit showstopping bugs both with current settlements and the new autophage settlements. e.g.

• No Overseers office
• Missing settlement terminals
• Settlements with no inhabitants
• Autophage settlements missing roofs and other structures
• The new autophage items missing textures or looking low res
• Settlement event countdown timers running out but does not complete or trigger new event
• Cannot add materials to constructions projects

Even the commercialisation of space flight bothers me. I mean, I know its inevitable but when the point of crewed space flight currently is still overwhelmingly for science, there’s just something gross about for-profit companies making a mint off human endeavour. But I also grew up in the 80s when science and the future seemed bright and exciting and not a capitalist dystopia.