Pi Zeros sell nowadays for 13 EUR. I don’t know when you got yours but it might be just regular inflation since then.

That is just one of the possible uses and not the most important one. Pi’s have two things that regular PCs don’t have. They have a direct integration of an GPIO port where you can easily connect individual wires as needed and they have a huge community and a lot of tutorials and also software support for all kinds of tinker jobs that can make use of that GPIO port.

These two reasons have not gone away and for many of those, you don’t need the most expensive PI with 16GB of RAM. A Pi Zero for 14 EUR or a Pi Zero 2 for 22 EUR are perfectly fine for that. The platform has plenty of life left but those high end Pi are increasingly crazily priced, mainly because of insane RAM prices.

That’s not how Android and AOSP work though and that is the foundation for both, firmware and GrapheneOS. You already have a disadvantage from moving away from the source, which is Google, so that even increases the effort react very rapidly to make up for that. All of that is not cheap.

I would assume you don’t need to go crazy expensive like with that phone now but to see that happening in the budget segment, where they probably invest next to nothing in software and security, just to get by, is naive.

And how do you finance the high and long lasting firmware maintenance required by Graphene OS, to stay secure? Is there any anouncement even suggesting that in a reasonable timeline or are you merely engaging in wishful thinking. I’d be surprised if they ever went below midrange with a GrapheneOS device.

I think rather of journalists, dissidents who can afford it etc.

That’s pretty ridiculous. For some it might be still a great option, staying clear of Google hardware and true hardened security for jobs where you need it. But they really plan to sell it as if it were made from gold.

Well, they are the first AI business that are doing it as prominently, aren’t they? So if it is obviously why is that so? I don’t want to give them too much credit for it either but it is certainly a clever strategy.

But look how cute that avatar looks like. It couldn’t do anything bad, look at it …

No seriously, dressing it up as something happy and cute was an evil genious decision.

My phone is on 4G Volte all the time, it supposedly is capable of 5G but I have never seen it, others have. Not sure if that has something to do with my provider which is a budget one. I really don’t care enough about 5G to figure that out. What I have heard is that some phones show 5G even when they are currently actually using 4G because there is no need for the bandwith, while sailfish OS only showd it when it is actually used.

Regarding battery life, I cant really tell how long it survives on idle. I never have that phone idling for that long. The most recent system update did improve power consumption though, by fixing some background process cpu waste. At medium use battery holds 2 days.

Sailfish OS on my Jolla Phone 2026, fully natively. It is as “Nokia” as you can go today, given it is the successor of Meego, the last in-house Nokia OS, which was fully gesture based before iOS and Android. Nowadays it feels IMHO refreshingly clean, certainly different from the duopoly but also from other Linux phones.

Just use DuckDuckGo with all AI stuff turned off. If google thinks it is a great idea to remove itself from pupils and schools, their choice.

Google won’t scan my private photos. Neither do I have Android (nor iOS) on my phone, nor do I use Gmail and certainly not Google Photos.

I guess that’s why the EU is using Ariane 6 and its own space port.

If they can refinance their own customers to buy their own products without getting caught in the middle that would be even more scandalous than the circular financing itself but then, the financial system has been completely broken for a good while.

That extortion has an end date, hopefully 2030, when the EU’s Iris2 gets operational. Until then however Elon can play his nasty game, at least for the higher quality level of the service.

Yes, it is. Their costs aren’t going down, only what they can charge and they struggle to be profitable already now. Their only hope is outlawing open models from frontier applications and coding.

You do, however Nvidia got greedy and started to circular invest in the billions if not trillions into those buying the shovels. Now, when the bubble bursts, Nvidia will be hit massively as well.

Is this finally the crack, or will they manage to paper over it and keep the bubble growing even further?

They are really making an increasingly strong case for local open weight models, run either on local infrastructure or rented data centre infrastructure. How long until they are going to try making those local models illegal?

All the tech bros were constantly looking down on ESA, Arianespace and Ariane 6. Demanding that this perfectly good but slightly more costly platform should be thrown away and that Europe should make itself completely dependent on SpaceX+Russia instead. ESA and EU did not. Surely SpaceX would have gladly launched Iris2, the sovereign strategic alternative to Starlink. Right? Right?!