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Makes a bit of sense, since their Mazda 6e is a rebadged changan, but compliance driven design obviously only makes automakers search for loopholes. It basically ends up creating even more waste, as manufacturers only create cars that are not meant to seriously compete in the market. It's a lose-lose situation for everyone but politicians, who trick the public into thinking they are addressing the carbon problem, while at the same time taking money from manufacturers. We need solutions that work, not temporary, pretend solutions.

No, I mean, both graphene and lineage are based on aosp. But graphene supports only one vendor. Lineageos supports many, including google. Why invest in a vendor-locked os and risk loosing it all? I think lineage is a lot more logical choice. And I'm currently running Graphene on a pixel 8, after pixel 7.

If google restricts access to its os, like they have already started, all you'll have is pixel up to 10/11 still supported 10 years from now. They've already started by no longer providing device trees in aosp for their phones, so graphene has to work harder to obtain them now. Whereas if you work on lineage, you potentially have a greater number of vendors and potentially new ones ready to open up to draw in new userbase.

Yes, you make a good point. Even the hardware is locked-down. Not something I would buy at this point. Perhaps as my first printer, but then, it's not cheap exactly.

Whaaat? Drop the OG free Android distribution that has already supported hundreds of phone models across decades for a Google locked hardware with unknown future support from a vendor just announcing locking down everything they can? What is your logic?

Tom Sanladerer pointed some disqualifying flaws at least. Not just praise. But still - as far as I'm considered - no Tux, no Bux. I'd rather buy an inferior or more expensive printer that I can thinker with for as long as I own it, rather than relying on faith to not get locked out of my own printer.

He's OK, but he's still in it to make money, not just for fun.

A lot of my development experience is actually about handling people. Both management and other developers. Ego is indeed a big problem. I wish my job would be just programming/designing/debugging/testing, but this is not the nature of most of the jobs. Instead it is managing expectations, estimations, negotiating specs, features, explaining what is realistic, what is not, what is possible and what is not and why. It gets tiring quickly and is also thankless as often arrogant people who aren't actually helpful or working in the best interest of the company get mistaken for rock stars and get to do even more damage you need to fix. You also need to deal with that from time to time.

Wtf? So nobody even pretends Kosovo is a normal place anymore?

On any political opinion, you will have opposing voices, but the success of Tito is of course not easy to quantify. Yes, not too long after his death, the states got into war with each other and we know what happened. In this aspect, he did fail. But compare Yugoslavia to other eastern block countries and I'd say Yugoslavia did far better. In this aspect, the project was a success (somewhat). But we can never answer a hypothetical - would it have been better without Tito - whether with Kingdom continuing or some other solution, there is no way to determine. I would say Tito and SFRJ were a mild success. It definitely could have gone better - but if we compared other Balkan countries - it could definitely gone worse as well. The exact measure of success is not clear though.

I tried it some time ago and it was pretty usable, I reckon it is only better now.

Exactly. Which is also why I use it as well :)