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NOTES / LINKS:
Samsung removable bloatware
https://www.minitool.com/news/list-of-samsung-bloatware-safe-to-remove.html
Canada getting a hyperloop
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/fluxjet-transpod-canada-hyperloop/index.html
Xcel Energy proves they own “smart” thermostats
https://www.theepochtimes.com/colorado-utility-locks-22000-customer-thermostats-amid-heatwave_4705705.html
El Salvador BTC experiment, a year in
https://theconversation.com/one-year-on-el-salvadors-bitcoin-experiment-has-proven-a-spectacular-failure-190229
US bans exports of chips to China, per nVidia
https://www.reuters.com/technology/banned-us-ai-chips-high-demand-chinese-state-institutes-2022-09-06/
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Hey, Sir Bemrose!
Sorry to hear about your Galaxy Android phone issues. I decided to de-Google my life a few years ago by getting a cheap Motorola phone, enabling the devtools and voiding the warranty so I could install the LineageOS on it. I’d rooted older Android phones before, so I was comfortable doing that, but a new OS was an entirely different undertaking. Nevertheless, it was the best thing I’ve ever done with a phone.
LineageOS is simply a stock install of the open source Android package with all Google code removed. You don’t have to go through any setup questionnaire, just a few account creation prompts that take you to a normal Android phone layout with just the basic features installed. You can’t access the Google Play store, but F-Droid has all the apps you might need to install. If you really need to get to the Google Play store (for example, to install a Podcasting 2.0 app like Fountain that is only available there), the Aurora Store can create a temporary bridge to authenticate you to that repository without prompting you for your Gmail credentials. And of course, it’s available via F-Droid.
I have no idea how LineageOS differs from the GrapheneOS, except that Lineage packages are available for an astonishingly wide variety of phones, not just the Pixel.
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