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Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

@GrapheneOS How can one calculate that 3.25%? I'm wondering how to do it.

@GrapheneOS I see. Is there any reason why you plan to make the "Charging-only when locked, except before first unlock" into the default instead of "Charging-only when locked" then?

Edit: Nevermind, I just saw that you replied before I sent this. Sorry!

@GrapheneOS What's the recommended way to use this feature?
Good God. He wants $7 trillion to build an AI-driven biz. That is more than Microsoft & Google (throw in their Apple, too) market cap. What does this tell us? It is just not sustainable. It has a high cost. The craziness of replacing human labor with machines is priceless, tho. I now ask if this AI buzz can cure cancer and other critical illnesses. Can this free everyone to do art or travel and provide free housing and healthcare via UBI? This is pure madness.
@fedora Thank you for doing an awesome work!
@GrapheneOS I ordered the Pixel 8. Thank you so much for your work and for making a really free and secure operative system.

@GrapheneOS
I'm struggling to decide what device to buy to flash Graphene.

Today, and only today (11/11), there's an offer for the Pixel 8 for 623€ (175€ difference here that it usually costs 800€), and the 7a is on sale for black friday for 459€ (out of 509€).

I need that is lasts at least 5 years for my uni degree. What would you recommend? I'm price sensitive so I can't afford something more expensive than 620€ (and even this is a lot for me).

@GrapheneOS
Now that's been almost one month since the 8 released, I've been looking for the best deals and in some sites they offer the Japan/Taiwan/US version cheaper. I'm from the EU. Would I be able to unlock the bootloader and flash Graphene?

Also some network/telephony providers here in the EU also offer it but same price. Can the devices they offer be vendor-locked and not unlockable?

Programming in 2023 be like … 😒