i was going to recommend this; a couple that loves doing something together is bound to be much more rewarding than the cost of one of these machines.

BATTAAAL!!!

woo loo loo

i didn’t know that jmp.chat was a thing!

THANK YOU!!!

i appreciate your attempt to help, but i really meant the word quagmired.

porting the google number requires a phone plan w carrier; but i only use prepaid accounts between multiple carriers that change roughly every 6 to 12 months or so, depending on the price and whether or not they’ll support the unlock phones that i buy online. also: my current carrier will not accept a google voice number per their technical support people.

and those companies rely on some sort of multi factor authentication and my experiences with forwarding teaches me that the forwarding doesn’t always go through in a timely enough manner.

that seems to spell doom for linux as it’s share is larger according to this report.

i’m quagmired in more ways than just the OS with things like: i need to figure out how to move paid subscriptions based on my gmail address to organizations/companies that refuse to let me change the email address on my account or that everyone that i’ve ever known for the last 20 years knows me by google voice phone number.

that makes sense with my data, however i bought the pixel and either helped them make a profit with a new one or helped increase the resale value with a used one.

do you know if this will be recorded so that i can watch it later?

Don’t use eos if mobile security matters at all to you. It’s also not nearly as private as GrapheneOS and frequently phones home to Google.

my primary reasoning for an android alternative is to get out of google’s walled garden and security is 2nd.

the only aspect of mobile security that matters to me is that which protects me from national gov’ts & police and working as a software engineer & systems administrator for the last 20+ years has taught me that i’m hopelessly outclassed. so i chose to focus my efforts in the arenas where i can have any sort of impact and not financially supporting google is the only impact i can have. buying a pixel (either new or used) goes against this because i either give google the money for a new one or i help google with future sales by boosted pixel resale values with a used one.

i’ll be in line to buy a graphene device as soon as it’s available for something other than a pixel.

What do you mean by give Google more?

i’ve been stuck in google’s walled garden since the early 2000’s because i foolishly bought into their old “don’t be evil” motto; so they have all my text messages, phone calls, contacts, emails, location data, pictures, etc. and i don’t doubt that they’ve made a lot of profit from knowing all the details of my life and i don’t want to give them any more.

i’ve also never had good luck buying personal electronics second hand and buying one second hand helps their resale value.

i want to use graphene, but i don’t want to use a pixel (nor any new google offering) more.

i learned the hard way that tmobile won’t allow chinese phones on their pre-paid plans so be sure to account for that.

I was like “Rogan?”

chopperan

it is but it’s a proven successful strategy most of the time anyways since it’s cheaper to pay to fines than the lawsuit and 95% of the time the union doesn’t have to funds to pay for capable legal representation to force the issue so that they result in those fines in the first place.

eBay was the final straw for me. Lol

I bought a phone from them and it got stolen because FedEx put the package outside the building (instead of inside like usual) and neither eBay, nor the seller, nor cash app will cover the loss so I’ve excised all 3 from my life permanently.

in your shoes: i would take a look at the file and delete it if it’s empty or if you don’t have a need for openvpn.

be warned, though, that openvpn might be a dependency for something else; so it may be smarter to rename it and see what breaks. (then restore it if it turns out to break something needful).

eos looks the most likely to me because of the partnership with murena; but i still hesitate because my sub-part experience using international brands within the united states and all of the lineage phones are either prohibitively ancient or international.

do you have any information on movement with any oems & graphene?

maybe not in this form, but potentially so.

people used to criticize james watt’s efforts at electricity and locomotion an impractical; but no one today doubts them.

it looks like /usr/lib/sysusers.d/rpm-openvpn-sysuser.conf has some customizations made to it and if you don’t know why, it warrants looking into it.

these are warning messages, so your packages probably installed fine, but it would do that part that touched the file.

my collegues pay $$$ more apps that can do this and you should consider it; it reads like a shit ton of work.