Is that the reason the post got such a surprising amount of downvotes during such a short time?

Dudes, this is not a fine arts sub here…

But whatever, I just changed the image. Perhaps we can concentrate on life’s essentials again: ridiculous units of measurement.

Also, a butt equals two hogsheads, which gives an interesting additional layer of meaning to the infamous “Hog’s Head” pub’s name in Harry Potter, I just realized…

Hi diddly ho, my friendly Lemmy-writo!

This might also depend on how much you want to sound like Ned Flanders… So take your pick carefully!

Dude, be careful. Don’t step into the light yet!

Great pic!

Wow, you spotted an Erlkönig painting!
Must be the new Swift model being tested under realistic street conditions!

But, now in earnest: Is there a homophone in there that I am perhaps missing as a non-native speaker? Because I don’t see any and may not entirely get the joke…

Fascinating read.
I liked learning about the “Simon effect”, only knew about similar, non-spatial ones (colours)…
And I might give non-inverted controls a try, although being a die-hard inverter.
At least it will be some brain stimulus to keep me from cognitive aging too fast. Like changing the mouse hand from right to left and back again once in a while.
And at best I will become the unbeatable Über-Player, because in truth I am a hidden non-inverter! ;-)

This is true. Until it isn’t any more and the cycle breaks again.

It just needs one stylish brand grasping the chance and offer a simple, user centric product it manages to market as desirable.
Consider what Apple did at the end of the 00s to the oligarchical structured phone market that was only selling crappy, complicated phones with features mainly dictated by network providers at the time.

Sure, nowadays Apple is on the crappy product side again, together with most Android manufacturers. Guess that is just the nature of such enshitification cycles…

Another example are the most popular WIFI routers in my country (FritzBox. Yes the name is real…). Instead of selling cheap trash with crappy update support as was common 20 years ago, they listened to their customers and offered powerful, but easy to operate alternatives with supreme support. People are happy. Although today they almost have a monopoly, and the enhitification cycle may soon restart again…

So, I won’t share your depressing view. Buyers have power, and markets work. Sometimes it just takes time and a market niche to be opening and gaining popularity. Like high-end fridges without IoT-crap but with simple, functional controls.

If you need GrapheneOS, that is right.
But if LineageOS or eOS is sufficient for you, Fairphones are a solid option with long term support.

And in the long run, GrapheneOS might also have to look for other options, as the good developer support for new Pixel devices will not be given any more.

I don’t think fairphones are directly available in the US, but in principle they should work in the local 5G networks without problems.

I totally understand and support the sentiment of your message!

But: Basically, companies are selling what customers are buying.

In effect this means, that the people who buy this touchscreen-riddled internet-of-shitty-things stuff are the ones largely responsible that

• cars ancillary functions can’t be operated without looking down any more
• microwaves have 5-level deep context menus instead of two turn-knobs and a button
• most stoves have touch sensitive surfaces that run amok as soon as some liquid spills
• my solar panels inverter now has an shitty privacy compromising phone app instead a serial hardware port
  .

I hate that development and this is the reason why I welcome the news that some of the people who are responsible for why it is spreading, now have the opportunity to perhaps learn one of the reason why it sucks the hard way. Maybe it has a positive effect.

Can’t find the homophone here… But I am beginning to suspect that she is somewhat phonephobic.

Whoever thought it to be a good idea to buy a fridge with a screen and internet conectivity honestly deserves that.

Pixel’s aven’t the first choice for custom ROMs any more anyway, as Google recently has stopped making the device trees public for developers.
So say hello to Fairphone and similar companies, that are still caring about openess!

One thing is certain:
The day the related news story got viral, champagne corks must have been flying in the marketing department at GrapheneOS…

Well, in my region it typically is already sufficient to look Arabic to become the guest of a “random” police control.

Compared to that, having a closer look at people running GrapheneOS on their phones sounds relatively well-grounded and almost reasonable.
At least not totally crypto-racist (although I have the feeling that still comes on top…)

Thanks!
Turns out that OPs heading is a little bit exaggerated, as nobody is confiscating anything.

I do know, but I also refuse to do OPs work for him.

Would be minimal effort to post a link together with a click-baity (and wrong - nobody is confiscating anything) heading.

What? Sauce?