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You do whatever you want, but out of curiosity: how is that helping with this issue in anyway?
pmOS does not have Google Play nor the Apple equivalent. GOS has the option of having a sandboxed Google Play.

I wasn’t counting on Samsung. Indeed: Samsung already meets all the criteria to support GOS, but they cripple their phone upon alternative OS installation.

There are other phone makers left.

Per GOS: Samsung has almost all hardware requirements to support GOS except… they purposely cripple their device upon installation of a third party OS. One can only suspect they indeed make money with their spyware stack!

That’s borderline with the purity fallacy: that one should not deserve privacy and security because of one or more bad practice.

I believe not so many people give away “everything”, and many more probably don’t realize how much they give.

There are many reasons one would keep a FB account, or a Google account around. That does not mean that person abandoned all rights on privacy and even less on security.

And how would you recommend a soft transition if you’re in a all-or-nothing approach? One day on Google, FB, what’s not, and in an instant: new device, new OS, drop everything at once? Nearly no one will do that.

The reason GOS does not support more devices is not because of where other brands vs privacy and security, it’s a pure hardware requirements they don’t meet. If the Motorola devices are a commercial success, most likely other phone makers will be interested.

From an energy point of view, generating hydrogen and burning it later is an absurdly inefficient cycle. It’s also a very small molecule that is extremely difficult to contain (understand: leak very easily).

Electricity storage is an issue, but batteries are progressing at a much faster pace than electrolysis. As for transportation, it’s also difficult, but in most parts of the world, we either have the infrastructure already in place, or the place in question lack both electricity and gas. In addition to that, electricity can be generated close to the point of consumption with renewables and batteries.

There are really no good reason to stand by hydrogen in a crushing majority of use cases.

I lived in China for 6 years. I experienced smogs dense enough you couldn’t see a building 10m away.

I’ve been travelling to Shanghai on several occasions and went there again last year.

The improvement now vs 10years ago is dramatic! I’m not saying it’s all fine, but I will say this: now I live in Canada (Québec) and forest fires make the air here worse than what it is in Shanghai on a regular basis.

The trend is what matters. China: electrification is going so fast it’s hard to follow. Pollution is going down very fast. The USA: cancel all plan to promote EVs and weaken regulation on gas cars: pollution is to go up. And that’s not including public transportation offset on the cars density, where China is basically 40 years ahead…

The cross-point on air quality might be much closer than you think.

It doesn’t, but it has an unapologetic mass surveillance. In China, you use apps on your phone for absolutely everything and anything: all payments, use of public transport, shared bikes, ordering food, etc.

If you say something wrong, or if you’re just in a group chat where someone repeatedly say the wrong thing, your account can be suspended and suddenly you can’t do shit for several days. That keeps people in line, or they find other tricks to communicate, like swapping key words to trick the algorithms, or use VPN, though it’s also forbidden.

Apparently in this case he’s a Saudi agent. So it seems he’s primarily a whoever-pays-him-the-most agent. And he’s a very very worthy investment: for 110M$ of fees, Saudi got a war worth tens of billions of $ paid by USA’s tax payers.

Well, there a side-effect they probably didn’t anticipate, but you know Saudi rulers: they funded Bin Ladin, ISIS, their former king was convinced Earth was flat, their scholars still don’t believe it rotates, they thought vanishing a journalist in their embassy would not be noticed. You can’t expect a real strategy or deep thoughts…

Imagine the US forced to retreats because their soldiers start to fall sick from malnutrition.

Best military force in the world!

They’re working on an alternative device with a large OEM they’ve not disclosed yet. They’re aiming at releasing it in 2027.