Unfortunately you likely still have a shadow account :(

Tell me you don’t understand GrapheneOS without telling me you don’t understand GrapheneOS.

This typed from a GrapheneOS phone that works just great, including the UI (breath of fresh simple air, no clutter, no crap, no AI).

And I’m happily using my phone knowing that not a single thing is spying on me or data mining and everything on my phone is there by my choice. And even happier that there’s not a damn thing Google can do about it.

Yes, you are wrong.

Did you have any problems with Aurora? I thought it would be perfect for my parent. But ran like a dog on their laptop and could work out why. Tried Mint instead and it just worked out of the box.

Mint for two years. Then Arch for a decade. This year I have been trying out CachyOS.

Thank you! I’ll take a look :)

My phone does not have expandable memory and storage is expensive in my country anyway.

Thanks, I’ll have a look into it! :)

I was considering doing that sort of thing if I couldn’t find anything automatic. It’s just annoying as I buy new music and have to convert along the way, especially as I have memory impairment and can forget to clean up afterwards.

I don’t want to stream at all because I don’t want to be reliant on having an internet connection :)

You are correct and I don’t normally like to listen to anything less than 320kbps. BUT, my phone does not have expandable memory so it’s hard limited. And where I listen to most of my music while travelling is in the car using the car’s speakers which aren’t going to make much difference listening to 128vs 320. Even when streaming music, I’m not going to get 320. I may go up to 192kbps instead of 128 but I doubt it will make much audible difference with shitty car speakers.

I don’t want to be reliant on an internet connection to play music. Hence, why I prefer everything to be local on my phone. I also don’t want to open our home server up to the outside world.

I recently switched from Enpass to Bitwarden and as a result decided that, while I was at it, I would delete accounts I don’t use anymore. Oh boy, some were incredibly difficult to delete. Some would only anonymise data and remove login access. And one outright refused to delete my account. Unfortunately New Zealand privacy law only covers accessing and changing personal information so I’m shit out of luck with threatening anything legal to force that company to remove my account. One company (Klarna) has taken months to respond and since stopped replying to my request to delete and I haven’t been able to find a way to escalate my request :/

Likely from now on I will check account deletion policies before making an account and it will be a hard pass if they don’t allow account deletion.

OP make sure you or a family member makes a good resolution digital scan of it. Bonus if you contribute it to something like Wikitree for future generations.

If you’re in the northern hemisphere or equator 😉 I can tell you there is nothing but cold and rain where I am in the Antipodes.

So sweet! Please tighten that collar though! Needs to be snug enough that you can fit 2 fingers underneath it.

That’s some Quality vampire scrunge

My spouse is a tech and tells me he has all the patience for stupidity because he gets paid for it. Once upon a time, I was going to go into IT but turns out that no amount of money was worth it for me because my tolerance for stupidity and willful ignorance is next to zero.

TBF, I still smile and tell family members it’s all good, no problem to fix and then vent my inward seething later on to my spouse 😅

Drives me nuts computer illiterate family members praising me for fixing the most basic, basic shit for them. They think its because I have lots of experience. But no, its because I learned the absolute basics of computer literacy and the experience I now have is grounded in that. I don’t want praise for “working magic”, I want people to fucking spend a small amount of their time learning the most BASIC of IT skills so I don’t have to waste my time fixing shit you should know.

Sorry, my frustration might be showing just a little.

The problem is its closed source and often difficult for the average user to tell what is going out. All you can do is Do Not Trust.

And not many consider the environmental impact of this either. Sure storage might be cheap (not in my country but I digress) but more space still requires more storage and across thousands of computers and then millions of computers that’s not an insignificant increase. We should be increasing technological efficiency not what were doing at the moment which seems to be just throwing more power and resources at the problems.