You’re probably not going to like this, but I think a lot of your best options are Pixel phones of various kinds. A lot of the phones with unlocked bootloaders are indie phones that are quite expensive (largely because they don’t have the benefit of economy of scale that, say, Samsung or LG or whoever enjoys) and the significant majority of regular consumer phones are really locked down and nearly impossible to replace the OS with anything not signed by the original manufacturer. But Google Pixel phones are some of the few counterexamples – phones that have unlockable bootloaders despite being made by a big evil company.

I wouldn’t recommend the stock firmwares on such phones, of course. But with a custom firmware, you can still “degoogle” as far as software is concerned.

Beyond that, be sure to do your homework. In particular, make sure that VoLTE is supported on the particular phone/OS combination you want to use or it won’t be able to make voice calls.

Ooo. SIX gee. Watch out everybody, we’ve got a badass up in here.

What I’d love to see even more than that is some kind of pigment cartridge system. You’d use natural, unpigmented filament and the printer would inject pigment in different mixtures as it prints. Just seems… I dunno. More efficient?

I remember seeing a YouTube video (that I might search for and find again if I remember) where some company had developed (and probably patented) an approach that involved inkjet-coloring as it printed. I remember the colors looked pretty pale and washed-out looking. Not vibrant the way I would have hoped. But the approach might be one that could be improved on. 🤷

Took me a while to even figure out vaguely what you were talking about here. I use DuckDuckGo exclusively for search. (And I use DuckDuckGo for search mostly because they let me turn off LLM BS.) I wasn’t aware they offered a browser. (I assume what you’re talking about is the DuckDuckGo browser/app, right? Not, say, search or LLM services or whatever.)

When you say “browsing and tracking through my apps”, what do you mean exactly? Did you have the impression that having the DuckDuckGo browser installed on your phone will prevent other apps from tracking you somehow? Or are you saying that by using the webapp of whatever particular service through the DuckDuckGo browser rather than an official app, you avoid tracking built into the app? (If that’s what you’re saying it at least sounds plausible. But if you’re thinking having DuckDuckGo on your phone will prevent, say, Google Play from tracking you (assuming Google Play is installed on your phone), I can’t see how that could be the case. But I also wouldn’t think DuckDuckGo would make the claim that it would. Unless you and DuckDuckGo know something I don’t.) Or when you say “browsing and tracking through my apps” do you really mean web trackers? (Or maybe apps can interact with web stuff through the browser in ways that I’m not thinking of.)

I guess what I’m asking is what specifically is the privacy claim related to DuckDuckGo that you’re asking the veracity of?

Whatever the case, it’s entirely possible that the particular claim you’re asking about isn’t true, but that it’s also not a claim that DuckDuckGo makes nor that they’d expect people to think about their products and so isn’t any particular reason for your coworker to dunk on DuckDuckGo.

It’s the best Democrats can hope for in Missour-uh.

Apparently Trump saw the “The Secret Handshake” browser game and decided it couldn’t go unanswered.

That’s epic!

Questions for you:

• What material did you print it out of? (PLA, ABS, etc.)
• And have you had any trouble with warping or softening due to the heat generated by the laptop and/or hard drives?

If you don’t have a CR touch on one or both of those, you desperately need to get one (or you’re unlikely to be able to use more than a tiny little spot in the middle of the bed without massive adhesion issues). And getting a CR touch will probably require upgrading the motherboard on your v1.

Trump just can’t stop himself from getting into fights he can’t win, can he.

And if it doesn’t, they’ll just implement it anyway even if Missourians vote against it. (Wouldn’t be the first time they’ve done that with one bill or another.)

Lol. Was a joke. Aimed at trying not to be biased about modes of transport.

McConnel’s autopen signing things now? Low-effort spooky campfire story.

Is it too late to get on the list?