Central server only gives you metadata. There are alternative clients if you don’t trust the official one.

Which asks for captcha.

We are already running out of fossil fuels (particularly diesel) so that’s a given. If we are going to see significant green hydrogen generation, it will likely be in advanced dirigistic economies like China.

It is expensive though, so not a self runner in a free market economy.

Well, yeah, the hydrogen solution to build out renewable overcapacity and storing production surplus as green hydrogen in natural gas caverns is dead in the water. So private households better start budgeting for sodium-ion backup for hybrid solar inverters which are island and black start capable, for when planned load shedding events start.

You need a buffer with at least 60 TWh in case of Germany. There is no economic electrochemical energy storage system for that capacity.

Except you can’t power 24/7/365 with renewable alone, so you still need gas turbine backup.

Please demonstrate working and economic terrestrial energy generation using He-3 fusion first.

Diesel generators run fine on heating oil, which is cheaper since no fuel tax and has longer shelf life.

I made sure my last car I bought had no modem in it. This is going to get a lot harder for my next. I will be probably limited to the used vehicles market.

You can only lead horses to water.

Na, 4K, even 1080p upscaled to 4K is significantly better thsn FullHD with a video projector.

GrapheneOS comes enirely Google free out of the box, including telemetry. It is also a reasonably secure mobile OS. You don’t get all that by just changing the launcher.

It’s about picking noncooperative jurisdictions.

Can you still unlock the bootloader on Xiaomis? It was always a pain, but I’ve read they have completely locked them down now?

You can use F-Droid and other install sources on alternative ROMs.

I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel tablet without any Google Play so that doesn’t affect me. On my Pixel phone Google Play is sandboxed. I expect however that Google will disable bootloader unlocking on future Pixel hardware.

The EU is no longer an ally in such matters but a bad actor.

Thanks for putting that option on my radar.

Bought a Pixel 7a new below 350 EUR last december. Buying used is also an option.