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Hey everyone! I'm making this post just to share my experience switching from iPhone to grapheneos. My experience may be a little different than others, because I was already using all open source apps if possible, so moving apps wasn't horrible.(only took me like 2 days.) Moving my imsg contacts to signal fucking sucks though. Especially when they say no, and you gotta coax them ugh.

To be honest apple's iOS 26 HORRENDOUS FUCKING DESIGN LANGUAGE in conjunction with a recent exploit that forced me to update or I would get malware was the primary reason for updating. I can't even express how badly iOS 26 fucked up my phone. Along with that i was tired of dealing with issues from side loading. It felt so delicate, and it broke at any minor change. The amount of issues I had with sidestore were absurd.

The general iPhone to android switch wasn't too bad. I prefer material ui over ios 26 and maybe a little more than iOS 18's. Back on my iPhone I had icloud, so deleting apps wouldn't wipe its data and it pissed me off so much sometimes. Being able to press clear data or cache was such insane peace of mind. The large app selection(even considering FOSS only) is also super nice.

The one thing that annoys me a lot about grapheme is alarms. All my profiles can't run in background, so I have to switch to owner so I can set an alarm before sleeping. (I have auto restart, so it always goes to owner in the morning.) Oh wait actually I think of more. Lower battery life than my iphone, notifications being used for persistence, file transfer troubles over cable, and having to use 3 Mullvad VPN devices, 1 for each of my profiles. If anyone knows how to use one Mullvad device across all my profiles, please let me know. Also I'm not used to the keyboard at all.

As said earlier, me not being apple pilled or being anymore than one layer into their ecosystem made switching easy as pie. Man I remember the first time I saw that graphene boot screen on a fresh pixel I felt so cool; the first boot home screen is genuinely so clean. Just staring at that black wallpaper with 4 apps is just so calming i don't know. Although I switched to kiss launcher(its fucking perfect), I still like going to that original homescreen to look sometimes.

I would say in general the greatest boon of switching was peace of mind. My phone did what was documented and what the apps I chose did. On my old phone I couldn't trust anything. Gosh, its so nice! If anyone was interested in purchasing a device I hope my experience was interesting to you. Attached is a photo of my homescreen, if anyone is interested.

Sorry about messy grammar or ordering of information. I kinda rushed to make this post

Hi everyone just wanted to share. I just lived my first pride!

I feel like I have a hangover, I didn't even drink. My voice died too. (I need to recharge battery now)

I lived the pride as a volunteer. (I can see myself in the local journal - and I look exhausted to not say worse 😅)

My voice today is tired, and I feel like I have a hangover even if I didn't drink any alcohol. 😄

I helped decorate during the morning, helped selling merch before the march for the association who organised the pride.

During the march it was something festive and we protested for our rights in music and political speech. It was quite big considering how small we were compared to a big city. Lots of beautiful people too. Happy to see such a big community here.

First time too as a barmaid from 5pm to 2am (still volunteering), we barely had enough time to breath until 1 am.

Note to self : I should have never wore boots and nylon leggings for 17 hours, it started to hurt before the march. I never knew I could a have a blister on above a toe with the size of that said toe.

Anyway it was a sensory overload but it was awesome day. I would have loved seeing all the spectacles and drag shows, but I'm really glad I could help make this event successful.

Take care you beautiful people 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, wishing you a happy pride month! And most importantly be yourselves!

Thousands of students gathered in more than 20 cities across Iran to protest a controversial university admissions policy that they say deepens educational inequality. Demonstrators called for educational justice and the repeal of rules giving final high school exam scores a decisive role in university admissions.

Gegenüber dem Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) hat sich der Drogenbeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Hendrik Streeck (CDU), für den legalen Verkauf von Cannabis in Modellprojekten ausgesprochen. Dabei könnten auch die Apotheken zu Verkaufsstätten werden.

Source release soon, I made this as my final project for a course I am currently doing(pretty overkill for a 1 credit course but i digress), I am planning on hosting the project on codeberg, but I am deferring for now as final grading is still left.

for those who are interested: Its written completely in C, with SDL_GPU as the graphics api.(I didn't want to make it in openGl as its pretty clear its dying)

Its deeply integrated with a companion C extension I wrote for python, this allows me to write game scripts in python, and crucially allows the game developer to leverage existing popular python libraries. Because of Python's recent proposal to drop the GiL, I feel that choosing python as the scripting layer is the right call for wider adoption

I was pretty prudent with my design philosophy regarding what python is allowed to do and what the engine handles(limiting my use of creating PyTypeObjects for everything for instance, even game objects are just integer handles in python).

Whats not here yet is multithreading, a collision system and a physics engine, but because of python support I was able to demonstrate physics using the pyBullet library, its quite performant and was able to handle about 300 physics object on screen with collisions without dropping frames.

I am planning on opensourcing it under a suitable license that is not MIT, something like GPLv2 but I might change my mind.

I am looking for contributors, this was the culmination of over two months of research, scrapped code and sleepless nights, it took me a solid month of experimenting and headbanging with various existing rendering libraries like bgfx before I finally bit the bullet and wrote a renderer based on SDL instead, but i am still new to graphics programming, hence the default shaders are a bit wack.

I hope this generates enough interests to garner some momentum, and if you have any questions regarding this project, how an object script looks in python etc feel free to ask.

My dad gave me his DSLR but I would never look at the photos I took or cared for it.

Now that the number of photos I can take are limited I can't wait to develop those photos and actually feel it.

I was looking through my YouTube recommendations and in them was a sub-1k views video from a channel called "basedcon" titled "Ayn Rand and Science Fiction." Now I guessed that I was not going to enjoy the video but out of morbid curiosity I did open it to read the description, which was in praise of Ayn Rand.

Clicked on the channel and saw such wonderful titles as "Has Publishing Forgotten About Men?" "Real American Heroes," and "Has the Left Lost the Plot?"

Nearly all these videos have less than 50 views. Many are less than 15. They've been uploaded over a two year period and they all seem to take place in a small venue (none of the thumbnails have a clear shot of the audience but I'd be surprised if the room has even 50 seats in it) in a kind of shitty hotel.

I decided to open a video titled "Dispatches from the Culture War" in a private window so that hopefully this doesn't ruin my YouTube algorithm. After a minute of the moderator shilling his shitty mil sci-fi book he introduces the first guest on this panel and that guy says "my book is an illustrated courtroom drama of transgenderism vs biological sciences bringing the Scopes Monkey Trial up to date for the 21st century." And when I heard that I just burst out laughing. It's incredible that these dipshits managed to organize a half-assed convention, or that anyone thought it was worthy of taking the time to film the panels let alone immortalizing them by uploading them to YouTube.

The only notable thing about this con is that the co-creator of DOOM went there to fight against wokism. And his video only has 1.2k views, the most on the channel, and based on the thumbnail is a 70 minute long recording of a zoom call projected onto a screen because even he couldn't be bothered to go fucking Michigan to attend something called BasedCon.