They Live called it in 1988!

Installing GrapheneOS is actually ludicrously easy if you're expecting some kind of root exploit nonsense like you used to have to do with custom ROMs! Full instructions here, happy to answer any questions if you need!

Yes, you have described the concept of a troll, well done.

Proprietary fast charging < USB PD

Having a flashy name for a charging protocol which requires a specific charger and only works for your phone is overrated. A standard which allows me to safely use the same charger for my phone, laptop, steam deck, and almost every device that anyone brings round is underrated.

I understand that your comment makes sense in context, but wash your mouth out with soap for speaking such vile heresy

Because SMS has zero security and including it in a secure messenger gave some people a false sense of security. Basically Signal is for secure messaging, SMS is insecure, therefore it has no place there.

That is absolutely classic Gygax

You really should state up front that this is USA only

Doesn't SSO undo the decentralised nature of the Fediverse? What would it even add? You can already access a lot of different ActivityPub platforms from one (e.g. Lemmy can access kbin, Mastodon can access both) and that will only increase as development on these platforms increases.

It's a bit weird to see Threads being referred to as Facebook's version of Twitter - wasn't Instagram already Facebook's version of Twitter, just with the gimmick being images of text rather than just the text? This seems like it's basically the same social network with a different interface - all the users are the same and the list of banned content is the same, people are coming in thinking it's the same thing so it will end up being the same.

Essentially you're giving away a lot more info about yourself than you might realise. If someone who takes an unfriendly interest in you wants to, they can probably find out a lot more info about your habits, likes, dislikes, interests, political views, waking hours, etc than just what you've publicly commented!

"piracy is a service issue" - if a product doesn't cost much and saves you time/effort then it can be worth paying a little versus essentially paying yourself less than minimum wage if it's hard to pirate (depends how valuable your time is though!)