Governments are crowd sourcing their problems instead of hiring someone qualified to solve them.

I thinks there's a bit much doom and gloom right now.

If new pixels don't support GrapheneOS that will suck.

If Motorola comes thru with GrapheneOS support next year, we will be back to where we are now. 1 manufacture, but at least it won't be google anymore. Yes, its only on their flagship, but hardware trickles down within a few years. I'd be surprised if the whole 2030 line up isn't supported (assuming they don't drop the ball).

In my option, if anyone has an older phone, they should consider getting a new or used 9 or 10 to get through the next few years, while we wait and see what happens.

"You were doing that an hour ago."

If some random guy had a 24/7 mic, camera, and GPS access to my daughter, it'd be obligated to go shoot him. Why should a company be treated any different?

Another reason I give, that's less "boogyman gonna get your kids", is we close our windows when talking about money so the neighbors don't here us. Not because we're doing something bad, but because its none of their business. That's what privacy is.

And both are red meats too.

Sorry, no. Just a human.

That explains McDonald's slogan (and their app).

I know two simple words that would explain the demon's horror.

They might allow the browser's built in manager. Good chance if they're a Microsoft shill, edge's built in would be better than nothing....although it's Microsoft so a text file might be better.

IT probably bans them because they can't access the data. Keepass files are some kind of container, you can store any file with in it. Great when you want save a txt doc with 2fa recovery codes or something and also not a bad way to send a payload that's impossible to scan. "I'm going on vacation, please use this keypass file for vendor XYZ, open the file within for the vendors contact info".

Not sure a user's brain is secure either. A lot of hacks are through phishing schemes.

In the long term, yes it would be better if it shipped.

However, if someone went to a phone store with a stock graphene on display and anything else next to it, which one do you think they'll choose?

Until Graphene's stock experience (i.e stock apps and launcher) mature enough to not look out of place next to google and apple, the average Joe will pick the more polished phone. I hope improving that is a task Motorola will be able to help with, while graphene keeps doing their thing.

Additionally with the app/play store dualopoly, Motorola would be shooting them selves in the foot if they didn't ship with the play store.

Getting an option beside a pixel for Grapheneos is pretty cool and a big step forward. I hope new demand will be high enough to show the decision makers that its an endeavor worth continuing.

A lot of programs have an export button for settings a such. Useful for your launcher and whatever else has a lot of settings.

I don't like doing a full restore, new phones are a good time to clear old system files and crap.

For syncing stuff, I don't use most of the default phone folders for docs, music, etc. I make my own for everything, so if some update or app decides to do some shenanigans to those folder none of that is backed up. Only folders I don't make are downloads and photos, and dcim, which I still backed up.

If you don't want to deal with a syncthing or something automatic, you could try "Back In Time" on Linux.