Will this be mandatory or can one turn it off say in developer options?

If your in the US or the west in general, geopolitics kind of suggests that buying any Chinese tech product is kind of questionable. What could go wrong.

What is hard about side loading apps. Just download and install the F-Droid apk. Am I missing something?

I share the concern about the reliance on the Google supply chain though.

Lot of angles here. My first reaction is another set of parents blaming tech for their lack of involvement and their sons personal actions.

I also think too the personification of chat bots at all levels is kind evil. Some people are just really suseptable to that and the bot training and AI field itself encourages this miss-conception.

There are lot of other issues with these bots too. I wonder how many people are really up to using them properly with the appropriate skepticism or if our society is ready for all of the missuse.

You over estimate the importance of computers. Computers primarily resulted in editable documents, and provides for faster less error prone and more precise computation. It meant these thing now take less manpower and are less costly. Not so much else.

Internet and telecom. This is separate. Communiction has gotten faster and cheaper. The mail service less used and less reliable though express services like Fedex faster. Frankly these changes are a mixed bag.

Do not forget too that compuserve, bullitin boards, usenet, and forums go much further back then most people think. Think 80s and some sruff before that. Computers go further back. I used them in the 70s and my dad in the 60s though the costs were a lot higher. Electronic computers go back to the 40s and before that there were mechanical computers and relay logic too.

This were not as big of and issue. Pensions were better. You stll had brokers but investing was more costly and fewer people did it.More use of banks. PE ratios were far lower and dividend payouts higher. It was a lower risk less volatile time. You could still reseach investments either you could go to the libraray, your broker woyld send you photo copies, and stock prices were in the paper. You could phone and mail order mutual funds and information. There were investing magazines. Geopolotics was more stable too but no less scary. Jobs were more stable too and the wealth divide less.

Also do not forget Compuserve had forms and etrade access in early 90s well before the internet explosion.

GrapheneOS gives several features not in other ROMS at the cost of requiring in support Pixels. These include full update support including binary blobs, locked boot loader, and device attestation support to the extent possible, It prorities security over most other things including lomg multi-device support which of course would be nice.

You may or may not have 7 years of support as the binary blobs are only updated for a limited period and this is often a lot less then 7 years.

The big deal is how long a phone gets updates. If you divide Pixel a-series pricing by the 7 years of support, they are not that expensive.

What is expensive is buying a new phone everytime they go out of support. My old LG had maybe 1 year of updates when I got it years ago and it was a $250 phone. Still ran it for 6 years but most of that time had no updates which is not great.

My point is cost depends on how you measure it.

Google phones are pretty widely available in many countries not just the US. But sure good point, there are many exceptions too.

Lemmy has diy and gardening. I know Beehaw has these for example.

The current conflict is not about multipolar world. It is about autocracies, and land grabs relating to China, Russia, and friends and expansionism. There is no negotiation about Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, or eastern Europe possible unless the west just surrenders.

There is also a huge attack on democratic systems world wide. Lot of powerful interests in the west are actively undermining demcracy with the support of Russia, China, and friends. This frankly is an even bigger issue. The result is maga and post truth in the US and autocratic tendencies and incompetence.

Generally too one should not be using same hardware for work and personal use anyway for so many reasons.

Plus it kind of goes without saying, choose the OS based on the apps and the hardware based on the OS.

Does what work? If you mean GMS sandboxing, that is ROM specific. Up to what the ROM supplier does.

Why would one need another ROM. GrapheneOS is one of the best. So is Google hardware in terms of lifetime cost, capability, and security. What other supplier gives 7 year support?

Generally with android it is best to choose the ROM and then the best hardware for it anyway. The best ROMs often have limited hardware support. There are not that many reasonable ROMs anyway. Nor are there many hardware choices that aupport most ROMs fully.

Equal rights and opportunity sure.

Feminism to the extent that it is intrinisically sexist just no.

Keep in mind GMS does not need to run as a system app. On GrapheneOS it does not.

At least for me only about 15% of my apps need GMS and I only run GMS in my private space which most of the time I lock.

So yes I do not like needing GMS but it is not so doom and gloom.

My experience is financial, tax, medical, and legal where I have to go elsewhere.

If they are public, why wouldn’t they be.

Fields from magnets can, just depends how strong and this applies to spinning hard drives not SSDs. We had an idiot at work once that decided to store a bunch of magnetic bases on the top of a tower PC. Corrupted the drive. This case there were quite a few of them maybe in a half dozen to a dozen range and they were the strong lockable ones for breadboards.

About 5% of the male population died in that war. Shermans march through the south was particularly guesome. The south is a different culture then the north then and now. The cival war is still part of the south. Then there is the racism piece.