The primary focus and benefit of GrapheneOS is security, and user>root privilege escalation completely undermines that securiy model. The project doesn't and likely never will support root access for that reason.
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It's the central meta-community for our instance, which has been having a lot of downtime the last few days. We tend to check in here when it comes back online.
PostmarketOS recently added support for the Pixel 3, and I'd recommend that instead of what you've proposed. That gives you a great way to tinker with it alongside an active development community, without being completely on your own.
That's what I just did with my old 3a that was collecting dust after it went EOL, and it's been a really fun project.
Excellent, now we can be eaten by a GNU grue
"Jo March becomes god, Massachusetts is consumed by horrors beyond human comprehension, and everyone dies"
Bakker's Second Apocalypse to Little Women was a pretty jarring transition already..
What do you do to winterize the garden? We don't get snow or much frost where I live, so I'm curious how it's done elsewhere.
I designed and built a very simple electric friction drive for my old bicycle, and I'm taking it out for its inaugural test ride this weekend. It's small and simple, fits the elegant utilitatian aesthetic of the bike without altering it, and should make my commute a lot easier. I'm really proud of it.
I just set up Readeck a few weeks ago, and I've been liking it. Very minimalist, utilitarian. One feature I'd like that isn't included is the ability to add specific labels or collections to the sidebar, but that's my only quibble so far.
It has an official browser extension for adding urls to it, but if you can't or don't want to use that, it has a nice api. I use the api to add bookmarks from my phone using a termux-url-opener script, which is as easy as the extension - just hit the "share" button and select termux, and it does the rest.
Navigating around supporting bad actors in the foss community is probably far easier than in the closed, commercial software space, given that all the code, discussion, and money are out in the open.
Also I think the proportion of fascists and bad actors in the foss community is probably lower than elsewhere in the first place, given that the community is based on the free and open sharing of work and knowledge.
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This isn't about the user being treated as untrustworthy or as less than an adult, it's about the security model GrapheneOS is based on. The team explains it well in this thread: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18953-why-the-stigma-against-rooting
If you want to trade away the benefits of that security model to be able to tinker with things and feel more in control of your phone, you can use something else that lets you do that by default, or patch and build a rootful Graphene yourself. Ironically, the risk there is of giving full control of your phone and privacy to a potential malicious third party anyways, but different threat models may deem that acceptable or low-risk enough.
Again, threat models. They may function fine for most people, and for most people the risk is low, but the linux desktop world is a security nightmare.