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Ah. That’s nasty, what a pain.

Forgive me but what is intune? I did a quick search and just found some Microsoft endpoint protection thingie – there is mention of a Managed Google Play but I have no idea what that would mean.

I haven’t yet tried – planning to do that in the next day or so when I get the time.

Others already replied with promising results, I sure hope they work for me as well (Scotiabank in Canada is particularly annoying in this respect in my experience, with LineageOS I had to use Magisk and define stealth rules specifically for their banking app).

Edit: As for camera, I’ve only tried the GrapheneOS builtin/default camera app. It’s pretty basic, but I should see if I can get the Pixel9 official camera app on there, it would be nicer to use if possible but the basic one is probably good enough for my purposes.

I took the jump and installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9 this weekend. Easiest alternate OS load I’ve ever done, didn’t even need to see a command line. (I’ve put LineageOS on many a phone and GrapheneOS’s web-based installer is amazing).

Loving it so far. I have three profiles, the main ‘Owner’ with NO google services/app store at all; and two more ‘Personal’ and ‘Work’ profiles that have Google stuff that I alone chose to install.

Amazingly GrapheneOS even lets you deny Google App Store itself permissions to install from untrusted sources (in this case, Google App Store itself) – I was suprised to see installing just App Store triggered attempts to then load: My Pixel, Google Photos, Fitbit(!!? WTF), and a few others, without any confirmation first. Was able to shut that shit down immediately. (I had never, ever installed Fitbit on my previous phones, so there’s no excuse to install it “from my previous device” or whatever…)

I hope GrapheneOS spreads to other phone models. And I’m sure Google has a team planning on how to strangle it before it does…

It has occurred to me that a group of resistance people could intentionally seek to be hired in these orgs and sandbag them. Do a decent job for a bit, gain trust, then turn and leak stuff, make poor decisions, slow things down… Would require a lot of dedication and support though, before and after – plausible backgrounds to get hired, and later on, since it would at some point involve getting fired or quitting, a need for somewhere for these people to land afterwards, career-wise.

Colombia’s next… someone snapped a photo of one of the admin’s goons with an open folder and pics of both Venezuela’s and Colombia’s leaders on the same page. I don’t have the link but it was posted a few days ago.

Very good point… it would have been uncomfortable for many to cling to more foreign forms of their surnames during & just after WWII I suppose.

Yeah, you’re right there, that one makes more sense as it isn’t a common sound in English.

Good catch, yes.

…and she apparently (allegedly) is musing a run for President in the future. So she has to take on a new mask … for now.

Ya know what grinds my gears? This American penchant for pronouncing Germanic names incorrectly. Like ‘stein’ as ‘steeeen’. EpstEEN. WeinstEEN (even more frustrating, that last one, as the ‘ei’ is pronounced how it ‘should’ be, but not the second occurrence!).

Even the people with these names often insist themselves on these pronunciations. I mean it’s their right ultimately, it’s their name after all – but why/where/how did this pronunciation take root in the USA?

I was taught in German class that ‘ei’ is always a long ‘i’ – hence ‘schtIne’ not ‘stEEEn’. Hmmph.

Same with Robert ‘Muller’. His name’s spelled Mueller, so by German language rules it would seem it should be pronounced ‘Müller’ (‘ue’ in English being a substitute for the umlauted ‘u’).

I guess it falls out of what appears to be an American myopic view that everyone else has ‘accents’ and they must be purged from American speech since it’s ‘foreign’…

Grumble grumble… OK, I am done my little rant now.

Somewhere, somehow, those bunkers will need air intakes. Some potatoes to plug tubes, or mustard gas packets down the hatches … the problem is, bunkers make excellent prisons and/or tombs.

Indeed, just to prove the point they should be pressing for perjury charges.

Holy hell, wasn’t expecting that many downvotes. Wow. I wonder who I pissed off more, systemd or Wayland folks? :P

That’s fine, this is why Linux distros should always be diverse, to allow users to build their system using the tools of their choice. And why one project should never be in a position to unilaterally obsolete entire subsystems by fiat. Which is what I fear is being attempted here – that was my point.

Debian has a lot of sway, but if they make moves some of us don’t agree with, we have the freedom to go elsewhere. Thank you, Devuan maintainers, for what you’ve done so far.

Sad though, as I was an OG Debian fanboy, using it since the late 90’s.

Unless they absolutely guarantee feature-parity with the existing C-based utils, this smacks of Wayland-ism.

Debian is really losing the plot IMO. Glad I switched to Devuan some time ago.

“Lather, rinse. Repeat.”

That last word by itself ballooned profits immensely when added to the label on bottles.

Think about the typical toothpaste picture on the box, a big long snake of paste, too long in fact to fit on the brush, it has to curl up and back a bit. That much makes one look like a rabid animal overflowing with froth, and is just excessive.

That last one was a Sumatran Rat Monkey. :o