Yup it’s true. He was a rapist and ephebophile.

Senescent cells emit growth factors. Hair cells divide. More hair in your ear.

It’s just aging. Not advantageous per se, but species’ lifespan is adapted to their ecosystem.

Yeah I very much like dislike the culture of Gnome… maybe I’ll try something else someday. KDE isn’t for me but Cosmic maybe.

It won’t affect you in any way directly. The issue is it very well may affect what apps are available and regularly updated on Fdroid and other app stores or repos.

Just use a custom ROM. This sadly will affect app developers. But if you are on a custom ROM without GMS it will continue to work just fine.

What am I not seeing? How does this improve datamining capabilities?

The issue isn’t that. It’s that devs may juat abandon projects if they’re too naughty for Google cos the custom ROM crowd is so tiny.

Right so think torrent clients, idk, Pornhub app, that sort of thing. Yeah, it doesn’t affect your phone. But it absolutely will affect what software is available at all should Google clamp down on this.

Tale as old as time.

Is there any brand that does want to be the Framework of phones?

For sure. One or two super paranoid banking apps but literally everything else works great with microg.