Google Play Sandbox on GrapheneOS: how easy and practical is it?
I'm picking up a new Google Pixel and want to put GrapheneOS on it. Heard about Graphene since before their splits at CopperHead, but I havent had the chance the try the OS out. So I searched around and GrapheneOS allowed Google Play sandbox.
Does this function similar to a "Private Space" on newer Android or "Secure Folder" on Samsung? So I can enjoy the Graphene stuff but whenever I need Google Play specific apps, I use the sandbox environment?
Mostly, I will be using bank apps under the sandbox. Are there problems with OTP in this environment? In Samsung's Secure Folder, my bank app will have problems sending OTP unless I send it outside, i.e. out of Secure Folder.
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Gaza officials say children killed in strike as Israeli military admits 'error'
Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza on Sunday, emergency service officials say.
Their bodies were sent to Nuseirat's al-Awda Hospital, which also treated 16 injured people including seven children, a doctor there said.
Eyewitnesses said a drone fired a missile at a crowd queuing with empty jerry cans next to a water tanker in al-Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Israeli military said there had been a "technical error" with a strike targeting an Islamic Jihad "terrorist" that caused the munition to fall dozens of meters from the target. The incident is under review, the military added.
Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, emergency officials say
The Israeli military has not yet commented on the strike, which witnesses said hit a crowd queuing to get water at a refugee camp.Rushdi Abualouf (BBC News)
Irrigazione Efficiente per Climi Caldi: 5 Soluzioni Moderne
Coltivare con Successo nel Caldo: Sfide e Soluzioni Moderne per l’Irrigazione Industriale
L’agricoltura industriale in climi caldi e aridi richiede strategie d’irrigazione intelligenti. Con la crescente scarsità idrica e temperature in aumento, ottimizzare l’uso dell’acqua non è solo una scelta sostenibile, ma una necessità economica. Ecco 5 soluzioni tecnologiche all’avanguardia per trasformare queste sfide in opportunità:
1. Irrigazione a Goccia di Precisione: Massima Efficienza, Minimo Spreco
Come funziona: Tubi o ali gocciolanti rilasciano acqua direttamente alle radici delle piante, goccia a goccia.
Vantaggi per climi caldi:
Riduce l’evaporazione del 95% rispetto all’aspersione.
Previene la salinizzazione del suolo (critica nelle zone aride).
Fino al 60% di risparmio idrico rispetto a metodi tradizionali.
Ideale per colture ortofrutticole e serre industriali.
2. Pivot Centrali: Automazione su Vaste Estensioni
Come funziona: Sistemi rotanti automatizzati che irrigano grandi campi circolari.
Perché sceglierli in aree calde:
Copertura uniforme anche con vento moderato (comune nei deserti).
Programmazione notturna per ridurre l’evaporazione diurna.
Scalabili fino a 500+ ettari con telecontrollo integrato.
- Micro-Irrigazione ad Aspersione: Flessibilità Mirata
Come funziona: Erogatori a bassa pressione che nebulizzano acqua su aree specifiche.
Efficacia in ambienti aridi:
Adatta a terreni irregolari e colture a file.
Riduce il consumo energetico (-40% vs aspersori tradizionali).
Opzione “cooling” per proteggere piante da stress termico estremo.
Micro-Irrigazione ad Aspersione
4. Subirrigazione: La Rivoluzione Sotterranea
Come funziona: Tubi interrati che idratano le radici senza bagnare la superficie.
Benefici chiave per il caldo:
Elimina quasi completamente l’evaporazione superficiale.
Riduce le infestanti (+20% efficienza fertilizzanti).
Soluzione ideale per aree ventose o con acque saline.
5. Pompe Solari: Energia Sostenibile per l’Irrigazione
Come funzionano: Fotovoltaico alimenta pompe per pozzi o bacini senza costi energetici.
Perfette per regioni assolate:
Fino all’80% di risparmio sui costi operativi vs diesel.
Affidabili anche in aree remote senza rete elettrica.
Tecnologia plug-and-play.
SORELLA DI PERFEZIONE di Giuseppe Iannozzi è disponibile in tutti gli Store online e nelle librerie
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Arlecchino nei sargassi, l'astuto micro-predatore del sommerso groviglio - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Arlecchino nei sargassi, l'astuto micro-predatore del sommerso groviglio - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
La vita e la morte permeano l’immenso ammasso di vegetazione, che come una nube tempestosa viene trasportato su un tragitto non del tutto prevedibile dall’energia incessante della Terra.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Introduction - Steve's Tutorial on Jujutsu, an alternative front-end to git
Jujutsu is essentially an alternative front-end or "porcelain" to git, both magnificiently simplified and powerful.
I tried it after using Emacs Magit for about six or seven years, and jujutsu is really easier to use than git and useful if one wants a tidy public history of changes (with "tidy" and "public" as Linus Torvalds recommends). Plus it is fully compatible to git as backend - other contributors will not even note you are using it.
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Hrm... It looks interesting but it seems too dedicated to crafting "the perfect commit".
Changing our description changed the commit ID! This is why we have both IDs: the change ID has not changed, but the commit ID has. This allows us to evolve our commit over time, but still have a stable way to refer to all versions of it.
I don't want to "evolve a commit" - I want to capture my changes over time. If I decide later that I want to prepare the commit for merging I will.
I hate it because it's different - but even trying to give it a "benefit of the doubt" I really can't see this as better. It's not like it's difficult to create a "tidy" commit with git as is.
And as far as "easier to use goes"... well... Here's how you get a list of anonymous branches
jj log -r 'heads(all())'
And since they eschew branches with names you get to memorize hash strings instead of branch names that describe the thing you were doing?
jj new pzoqtwuv yykpmnuq -m "merge better documentation"
# vs.
git merge my_branch_Name
I'm unconvinced. Though
jj undo
looks neat (and also crazy dangerous unless you can undo an undo?).
And since they eschew branches with names you get to memorize hash strings instead of branch names that describe the thing you were doing?
No trouble, you can still name branches if you want. And no, you don't have to type the whole changeset hash, the first one to three letters are usually sufficient.
Also, branch names are not a permanent thing, they disappear after you merged them.
If you want, to can put an empty commit with the description of what you want to do at the top of your changes, and then use "jj split" to move changes to different commits before it.
There are several common work flows which are explained in Klabnik's blog post.
Yeah you can undo undo and also resurrect undone states.
If the readability of the commit history really does not matter to you - for exsmple, nobody needs to read this code again - it's possible that jj does not give you enough advantage. Everyone works different.
If the readability of the commit history really does not matter to you - for exsmple, nobody needs to read this code again - it’s possible that jj does not give you enough advantage. Everyone works different.
I mean... It does and I will use git to manage commit histories as necessary. I don't see jj
as solving that problem or even making it easier. Doing a single squash-commit or a rebase -i
when I merge a branch is relatively trivial.
And from what I can tell it's much easier to do a git pull upstream master
than to do jj new skdfsld dskfjas
since you'll likely have to lookup those hashes? I mean I wouldn't remember them.
And from what I can tell it's much easier to do agit pull upstream master
than to dojj new skdfsld dskfjas
since you'll likely have to lookup those hashes? I mean I wouldn't remember them.
One takes them from the last commit log and uses the first few letters. Steve Klabnik shows how they are used in practice. It makes no sense to repeat it here.
One takes them from the last commit log and uses the first few letters
So - it's not the length of the random garbage that is the issue it's the fact that it's random garbage that I have no chance of remembering after 5 seconds and switching between branches. All my branches are instead random hashes that I'll need to lookup or remember.
I've read through the blog. It sounds like they've taken the minor inconvenience of doing a git merge --squash
and distributed that pain across every-single-commit you're ever going to make instead. All to get "tidy commits" which were possible before anyway.
I was actually rather interested in the idea of jj being something that made history-rewriting easier (e.g. for removing bad commits with passwords and the like). But the fact that it almost completely throws out the entire concept of working on named branches (yes you can have them - but "One interesting thing about branches in jj that's different than branches in git is that branches do not automatically move." - genius) is just ridiculous. And to claim that it's now simpler just seems like gaslighting.
ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33127927
Natasha Lennard
July 12 2025, 7:12 pm"ICE agents detained over 200 people in militarized raids on two large farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo, including a number of US citizen workers and protesters who gathered outside the facilities in response to the raids. As of Saturday morning, at least two of the abducted citizens were still reported missing by loved ones and colleagues.
“Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more,” the United Farm Workers union said in a statement. “US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones.”"
ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33127927
Natasha Lennard
July 12 2025, 7:12 pm"ICE agents detained over 200 people in militarized raids on two large farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo, including a number of US citizen workers and protesters who gathered outside the facilities in response to the raids. As of Saturday morning, at least two of the abducted citizens were still reported missing by loved ones and colleagues.
“Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more,” the United Farm Workers union said in a statement. “US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones.”"
ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths
Natasha Lennard
July 12 2025, 7:12 pm
"ICE agents detained over 200 people in militarized raids on two large farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo, including a number of US citizen workers and protesters who gathered outside the facilities in response to the raids. As of Saturday morning, at least two of the abducted citizens were still reported missing by loved ones and colleagues.
“Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more,” the United Farm Workers union said in a statement. “US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones.”"
ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths
Jaime Alanis’s death shows the horrific consequences of a secret police force behaving with utter impunity.Natasha Lennard (The Intercept)
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Looking for a music player
I'm looking for a music player on Pop!_OS that supports playlists, repeating a single track while still being able to swap tracks in the playlist, and also supports fading between songs and when stopping playback. And ideas on what to try?
So far I've tried VLC, Audacious, and Rhythmbox, but none of those seem to support all of those requirements. (Rhythmbox was close but the repeat one from the toolbar plugin doesn't work.)
Edit: Got it working in Rhythmbox after toggling the repeat options a few more times. Still curious if there are other options out there though.
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Exclusive: Gaza talks at risk after Israel refuses to withdraw from Rafah
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33127244
By David Hearst
Published date: 12 July 2025 14:39 BST"Hamas negotiators are increasingly sceptical that a Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel could be reached in the current round of talks in Doha, Middle East Eye has learned.
Sources close to Palestinian negotiators said talks remain deadlocked over at least two of four key issues.
The first is the extent of the proposed Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip during the 60-day truce. The second is the method of aid distribution."
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Exclusive: Gaza talks at risk after Israel refuses to withdraw from Rafah
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33127244
By David Hearst
Published date: 12 July 2025 14:39 BST"Hamas negotiators are increasingly sceptical that a Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel could be reached in the current round of talks in Doha, Middle East Eye has learned.
Sources close to Palestinian negotiators said talks remain deadlocked over at least two of four key issues.
The first is the extent of the proposed Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip during the 60-day truce. The second is the method of aid distribution."
Youtube Embedded player acting weird for anyone else?
Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer
Cops in this country think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer (Updated) - Android Authority
Pixel phones are criminals' top pick in Spain's Catalonia for their strong security and mod-friendly design.Adamya Sharma (Android Authority)
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I'm not looking at strangers' phone screens close enough to figure out if they're using GOS but I've noticed strangers using GOS a fair few times. Likely would a lot more if I were looking for it but I'm not trying to read everyone's phone screens...
It's a fairly common OS and it's fairly widely acknowledged that GOS is a big driver for Pixel sales.
machine translation of a paragraph of the original article:
The police's solution: It's none other than a Trojan. Unable to break the encryption, they infect the traffickers' phones with malware, subject to judicial authorization. This way, they gain full access to the device: apps, images, documents, and conversations. Obviously, GrapheneOS isn't capable of protecting itself (like any Android) against this malware.
::: spoiler original text in Castilian
La solución de la policía. Esa no es otra que un troyano. Ante la imposibilidad de romper el cifrado, infectan los teléfonos de los traficantes con software malicioso, previa autorización judicial. De esta manera, consiguen acceso total al dispositivo: apps, imágenes, documentos y conversaciones. Evidentemente, GrapheneOS no es capaz de protegerse (como cualquier Android) ante este malware.
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"Cada vez que vemos un Google Pixel pensamos que puede ser un narcotraficante". Es el móvil perfecto...
Los Google Pixel son los máximos representantes de Android, con permiso de Samsung. Es por ello que convencen a los usuarios entusiastas del sistema...Pepu Ricca (Xataka Android)
Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer
Cops in this country think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer (Updated) - Android Authority
Pixel phones are criminals' top pick in Spain's Catalonia for their strong security and mod-friendly design.Adamya Sharma (Android Authority)
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Back at it!
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It’s kind of hard to tell for this image, I think the background is probably real, or at least, created separately. but there are a couple sus features in the foreground. Superman’s right hand, the green jacket, and the apparent facial features of children I mentioned before.
It does have a signature in the bottom right, so I guess you could track down the artist to find out for sure, but with my first comment, I was just pointing out the comedy of kids with facial hair.
Delta Air Lines Skirts Tariffs By Repurposing Airbus Engines
The carrier has taken an unconventional approach to avoiding tariffs.
Air Belgium Will Retire All Airbus Aircraft Leaving Just 2 Boeing 747-8Fs In Its Fleet
The airline will not renew the leases of its two remaining A330-200P2F planes.
US Investigators Threatened To Withdraw From Air India Crash Probe Over Slow Progress & Lack Of Transparency
Families of the victims are angry at delays and a lack of information.
$180 Million: Emirates Buys 4 Airbus A380-800s
The Dubai-based carrier continues to buy up its leased A380s.
Ken Klippenstein | I Triggered Another Federal Investigation
The Army’s keystone cops are on the case
Recommend a simple, small cheap laptop < 15" I can chuck in my bag for use in coffee shops!
- I'll buy used, so don't want latest and greatest. It won't be my main laptop.
- to run linux obviously.
- good battery life, light, not too small to use, but large enough to type on (obviously can do without numeric keypad). not too fragile!
- I'll be doing some light python work, perhaps some c/c++ but I'm not after a workhorse, just something for quickly fixing bugs, or making notes on
- sub 200 GBP / 250USD I guess
I'd be interested in hearing recommendations, and also what to avoid!
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I got myself an old EEE PC for exactly that purpose. (Except, substitute python with lua).
8h battery life, cost me €20 and does what it's supposed to. Just make sure you get one with an Atom N280 or better. The popular N270 is 32bit only, and more and more programs are dropping 32bit support. Some of them you can DIY compile for 32bit, some you really don't want to.
(For example, compiling Node on an Atom N270 takes around 3 days.)
I had one with an N270 first and replaced it with one with an N450 to get 64bit.
Maxed it out with 2GB RAM, a cheapo €10 SSD that maxes out SATA and overclocked it to 2GHz.
It's not fast by any stretch of the imagination, but it's totally ok for editing text files with Kate and compiling with platformio.
Aylo Sues 'Pirate' Site PornXP, Wants Domains Transferred or Blocked
Adult entertainment conglomerate Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, has filed a lawsuit against the as-yet-unidentified operators operators of PornXP. The company accuses the website of widespread copyright infringement. After obtaining an early discovery order to unveil the operators through various domain registrars, the case moves forward with site blocking as part of the requested remedies.
Aylo Sues 'Pirate' Site PornXP, Wants Domains Transferred or Blocked * TorrentFreak
Adult entertainment conglomerate Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, has filed a lawsuit against the yet unknown operators of PornXP.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies: An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes.
Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies | Quanta Magazine
An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes.Erica Klarreich (Quanta Magazine)
You can get LLMs to say almost anything you want
You can get LLMs to say almost anything you want
Yes, Prime Minister has a sketch demonstrating how asking a series of leading questions can get a person to a particular conclusion: “Are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?” “Yes.www.greaterwrong.com
Are there any local LLM GUIs with conversation branching like ChatGPT?
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GPT4All – The Leading Private AI Chatbot for Local Language Models
Experience true data privacy with GPT4All, a private AI chatbot that runs local language models on your device. No cloud needed—run secure, on-device LLMs for unlimited offline AI interactions.www.nomic.ai
Incontri dal vivo di gruppo di etica digitale
Ciao a todos 😀
Mi chiedevo se ci fossero incontri dal vivo di gruppo tra persone appassionate di etica digitale su Roma. Parlo di incontri informali in cui ci si conosce e si scambiano chiacchiere dal vivo.
Se non ci sono, vi piacerebbe crearne e partecipare? :four_leaf_clover:
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Projectivy Launcher: launcher alternativo per Android TV
Projectivy Launcher: launcher alternativo per Android TV
Projectivy Launcher è un launcher alternativo per Android TV che può sostituire l’interfaccia ufficiale di Google, è super customizzabile e non contiene pubblicità.Me (Pietro Cyber Journal)
Projectivy Launcher: launcher alternativo per Android TV
Projectivy Launcher: launcher alternativo per Android TV
Projectivy Launcher è un launcher alternativo per Android TV che può sostituire l’interfaccia ufficiale di Google, è super customizzabile e non contiene pubblicità.Me (Pietro Cyber Journal)
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Blender HDR and the reference white issue | About Blender's HDR support on Wayland
From Sebastian Wick’s Mastodon
Blender is getting HDR on Linux via Wayland before Windows! This isn't by accident, but shows how creating a system with a different design creates better results for users and application developers.
Firefox is in this same boat too. It will get HDR support on Linux* sooner than Windows. Firefox currently only supports HDR on MacOS.
Blender HDR and the reference white issue
The latest alpha of the upcoming Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for Linux on Wayland which will, if everything works out, make it into the final Blender 5.0 release on October 1, 2025.swick's blog
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Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did
Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did
Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
[ANSWERED] Should i use KeePass* instead of Proton Pass, for privacy?
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I think I've done the opposite of most. After using keepassx for the last 4 or 5 years I switched to ProtonPass.
I value security and privacy but Ive realized some of my processes have become too complex, like using syncthing to keep my keepass on my phone and PC aligned. I'm not confident that older man version of me will be able to keep up so Ive stared valuing simplicity.
Im sure many will argue that it is simple but between backups and keys and passwords it really is a lot, especially with a new device each time.
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I think I’ve done the opposite of most. After using keepassx for the last 4 or 5 years I switched to ProtonPass.
Me three.
proton pass vs simplelogin - aliases
I'm trying to migrate off gmail and apple services and ended up getting a domain and going to proton and using simplelogin for making aliases. But now I'm looking at proton pass, which comes free with my plan and lets me create aliases and wondering why I did that.
Ideally, I want nobody to have my main email address. everything gets an alias and dumps into the main. if the main address is found out, I just kill it and get another and point all the aliases to that. if an alias gets spammy or sold off to obnoxious marketing boobs, I kill the alias and create a new one.
I got started with migrating a few things over today into the aliases I had on my domain with simplelogin. I started to wonder what would happen if I replied to any of these and unlike apple hide-my-mail, it looks like these expose my actual address, unless I go through the trouble of going to simplelogin and getting an reverse alias link through them, which is an annoying pain in the ass. looking to see if there was any integration like apple's icloud had, I find proton pass is included in my mail plus plan and lets me do what simplelogin already was doing, complete with my domain being in the alias address!
So my question is why did I set up two seperate services for this? can I reply to incoming emails from the aliases created in proton pass without them revealing my address?
I have needed to get away from google for a while and am finally getting off my ass to do it, but apple hide my email was so simple to use whereas proton seems to have these weird oversights.
So my question is why did I set up two seperate services for this?
Unfortunate side effect of buying someone else's product instead of just making your own.
can I reply to incoming emails from the aliases created in proton pass without them revealing my address?
Yes. It's called a relay for a reason. When you receive an email it will come from a relay address, not the actual sender. You reply to that relay address and then the other party receives your relay address (alias).
Check out DuckDuckGo, they also have an email alias forwarding system like SimpleLogin. I have a different email address/alias for each account that I have and they all end up in my Proton inbox.
Also, you’re able to reply and send email with the DuckDuckGo address from Proton mail.
@Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines
Created a Post/Group about how to De-Google. The details about my set-up is also there. Hope it helps:
I thought OP wanted to de-google. I use DuckDuckGo because of their duck player; it opens YouTube on a separate window without all the extra stuff you don’t want (just the video you wanted to see). I guess OP can use PeerTube?
I’m quite happy with my Proton Unlimited but it’s not for everyone.
And yeah, I’m a browser hopper.
Yes, you can have multiple duck addresses at the same time. There’s a personal and private duck address.
Composing email:
duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help…
About duck addresses:
duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help…
I also used SimpleLogin and loved it until I subscribed to the Proton products. Like you, I haven’t needed to use SimpleLogin because of Proton Pass. Haven’t used iCloud since 2021 and have no regrets.
Can I create multiple custom Duck Addresses or Email Protection accounts? - DuckDuckGo Help Pages
You can only have one Duck Address enabled per browser, and only one associated with any given forwarding address.DuckDuckGo
Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10
Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10 - 9to5Linux
With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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If you like working in slow motion, yes, sure.
Source : I have a Banana-Pi SBC banana-pi.org/en/banana-pi-sbc… and... it works, running Linux proper, with a desktop environment, which is in itself pretty cool IMHO but damn, you have to be patient. That being said "just" already being at that stage on economically affordable hardware is amazing. We are probably not far, say few years at most, with usable RISC-V chips for mundane tasks, e.g. text authoring, coding, Web browsing, but don't expect compilation of a browser, Blender, or gaming on this for few more years. IMHO it will go fast because it's catching up so the path is rather well laid down, which is much harder than innovating and pushing the envelope.
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I guess it depends what you mean by "chip production".
AFAICT mostly via Chip War (2022) and reading a bit on the topic there are few bottlenecks, e.g chip design IP like ARM (UK) or lithography machines like ASML (NL) or high efficiency chip production like TSMC (Taiwan) but overall the grip from the US is mostly on democratization and scale with AMD, NVIDIA, Broadcom or even Intel, namely making a LOT of chips, not necessarily high end (some are) or mobile (also some), for a relatively low price. What I mean is that China is already claiming that they are producing about on-par IPS with e.g. Loongson.
So yes there are for sure incumbents based in the US that do not want RISCV and overall open architectures to make significant progress but is it fair to call them "the US" I'm not sure. Are they heavily leaning on US lawmakers to get their positions strengthened? Maybe. Maybe they do not yet do so simply because they don't believe it's a threat yet, nor it might be ever be.
I believe that in chip production you can lock production via innovation but also, like in other sectors, solely with the supply chain. ASML is powerful because they basically own their markets but also because who would contract with newcomers versus a very well established company that can provide all the insurances imaginable that they will indeed deliver on time a specific amount? Why risk it when you are already contracting with the leader?
Sure there is a potential innovator dilemma but what could prevent e.g. NVIDIA or Intel to switch to RISC-V if somehow they can dominate there too thanks to both their existing expertise but also supply chain stronghold?
Risc v is an instruction set architecture not a chip design, the actual hardware implementation of any given risc v processor won't necessarily be open source and available to all, it's just a guarantee that if the spec is implemented then code compiled for risc v will run on a RISC V processor.
China has had access to x86 for years, they've not been able to implement a chip on par with current gen AMD or Intel chips.
US sanctions massively setback RISC-V.
We would have had the Milk-V OASIS last year , something better by now, and the answer to “as good as ARM” would be yes.
But Sophgo, the company making the SoC was accused of helping Huawei get access to restricted technology. So TSMC refused to make their chips. And the Milk-V OASIS was cancelled.
Massive blow to RISC-V.
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in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •It works in a container under the hood. You can separate two profiles: one personal, and the other for everything else. When you install apps from Google Play, they are also installed in this container with Google services.
A cool thing is that Google services run in user space, like regular apps, and don’t have the elevated permissions they usually have on standard Android, where they operate almost as root with hundreds of permissions. This means you can delete them anytime, just like any other app.
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in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS
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in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •No. Unlike those, you dont have to unlock the app nd use them, the sandbox is just a normal apk but it dosent allow gservices root access and blocks most telemetry, leaving only the necessary APIs
If you want a total user sandbox, you create another user and install gservices there.
There are like 30 ways to send/generate an OTP.
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in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •It isn't really an environment. You can install the Google apps without granting them a single permission and it will still work. What the sandbox does is trick it into thinking it has full root access like it's supposed to have. While remaining like any other installed app: you're in control.
You could make a second profile and run it solely in there if you like none of that.
An alternative to the Play Store to install apps from is Aurora Store which is basically Google Play but without needing an account. (Though some have pointed out this is insecure and unsafe, but I find that to be over the top. It really depends what your security thread level is.)
You can use banking apps in the private space included only in the stock launcher (which I ditched because it lacks customisation). Not sure if you can put the Google sandbox in there though. Why not make a second profile on the phone only for banking/google use? It's practically the same as secure folder and you can even apply 2FA if you want to login to the profile.
As someone else mentioned: do check for your bank app's compatibility here.
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in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •While you can setup a second profile to put the Google services into, I don't recommend it.
The version of Google Services on GrapheneOS thinks it has root, but it does not.
So there's no dramatic need to setup a second profile, unless you want it for other reasons.
I personally think the second profile feature is one of the things people think they want/need from GrapheneOS, but really are happier without.
(Sure it's safer, but GrapheneOS is already so much better than other mobile OSes - and I hate to see someone quit GrapheneOS just because they didn't like the optional profiles.)
An exception I have seen is for apps mandated for a job. I'm happy to bury that stuff deep.
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in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •Strongly recommend reviewing the compatibility of apps you can't live without, especially finance ones. And you won't be able to use Google Wallet with tap to pay. Those are often not happy about you having any amount of security or privacy in the name of security, but really usually because they're too lazy, or want to violate your privacy themselves.
I never really used it so it was fine with me. And the few apps I had to dump I mostly found open source alternatives for other than finance ones which I just use the websites instead now.
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in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •Create a private space. Install sandboxed google play in there. Install banking app or any other google play dependant app in private space.
That's the most reasonable and less hassle method in my opinon. Lock it down when not in use. Cons? no push notification when locked down.
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in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •Play services work great, even Android auto works.
Personally, I don't bother with seperate profiles. I want push notifications for somethings. However if you only want bank apps, a separate profile may fit your use.
There is a "compatibility mode" you can turn on for apps that don't work. This relaxes the restrictions the app has and sometimes works.
OTP works fine for google account 2fa and MS authenticator.
I don't think you'll have an issue with an app's 2fa as long as whatever other app needed are also part of the profile, be that SMS, email or notification.
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