nottheengineer

This is nothing compared to echo "alias np=new_program" >> ~/.zshrc

People who preorder a phone are out of their fucking mind, simple as that.

I wouldn't call that weird. Microsoft's track record for anything involving security is absolutely atrocious, to a point where you now have to assume everything in azure and every single windows computer is compromised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095

Classic Microsoft. They regularly use defender to harrass users of software they don't like.

You can use custom ROMs with google apps, they just generally ship without any. It's just an extra zip that you need to flash after the ROM.

Agreed, there's enough room to go two lines down and many up. Android can already go up/down without issues if you have a keyboard with arrow keys, so keyboards would just need to implement the gesture.

IOS also has contextual tab buttons that are very nice. I wish other companies would copy the things apple does well instead of the bullshit they actually copy.

It has both by default. If you hold, you get the language selector but if you swipe, it moves the cursor. Gboard also has some acceleration on the swipes which makes them wildly imprecise, now I use florisboard which doesn't do that.

That was originally a Gboard feature but it's great, so every decent keyboard supports it now.

It still supports the pixel 4, which was released 4 years ago. Google stopped supporting it a year ago.

If google does maintain their stuff properly for 8 years, that means grapheneOS will also easily do 8 years, maybe even more.

They better be trustworthy, otherwise my eyes will be very unhappy.

Amd what do they do if the battery runs out? Suspend to disk?

That's honestly one of the best parts about it. Reading error messages and thinking logically is boring compared to trying to guess how this stupid LLM got the idea to spit out what it did.