When I’m a billionaire (and no longer temporarily embarrassed), I’m going to fund so much tasteless art. And by art I mean mostly pornography. But I’ll hire the best advisors to make sure it’s a classy positive influence on society.

It may not be true but it’s accurate.

Yeah. I’m sure it predates Rust by the simple evidence that it doesn’t take any cheap shots at Rust.

Shit. You got me. Well played!

But for anyone looking for an answer: Is this loss

It does make sense to setup the carrier first on stock Android to prevent GrapheneOS security from causing headaches.

But I have setup my phone service after installing GrapheneOS.

I just had to be aware of all the necessary permissions my phone carrier’s app needed, and grant them all.

Basically, I granted it all the available permissions, to get through my phone carrier setup. Then I let GrapheneOS’ automatic removal of unused permissions take all the permissions back. (And it removed basically all the permissions. It seems like my carrier’s app does extremely little or nothing, after initial setup, unless I open it to check my billing information.)

Edit: I also have not see the rejected call situation, except maybe once on a weird public wifi network. I think I recall I forced my wifi list to forget and never reuse that wifi, to correct/prevent the issue.

• You can change the default icons color (black and gray-ish in the image) or is based on the wallpaper

Sort of. There’s a selectable “highlight color” that sets the vibe for the phone. I enable the feature that makes it pick a prominent color from my current phone background image, and I find it really nice.

• The camera app is good. Not going to make professional pics or videos but I still want to use it to take pics and a good quality is important. Tried their camera on a phone and the bottom menu to switch mode (picture/video/night mode/etc) was buggy

The camera app is the least buggy, and fastest to load, that I’ve had on Android in a long time. The picture quality is fine. The features are pretty standard - nothing fancy.

• Battery life is better/worse than stock Android (if anyone tried that)

My battery life on GrapheneOS is waaaay better. I assume this is thanks to GrapheneOS having great defaults for restricting apps from running in the background without explicitly getting my permission.

• How the sandboxed play services work

I have more idea than a lot of folks, but I’m not in the headspace to articulate that today, sorry. Fundamentally, it just dumps the “phone home to Google” calls into nowhere, while telling (lying to) the app that the call was a success. Annecdotaly, this works perfectly for 80% of apps I care about, including my bank app.

• Anything else that I should know about. Some people say it’s good, some it’s bad so I’m curious to know.

Profiles were still clumsy last time I used them, and overkill for most users. In my informed non-expert opinion, many folks underestimate how much the default permissions scheme in GrapheneOS protects them without enabling profiles. That said, if I absolutely had to use a work nanny app with extensive permissions, I would enable profiles for that, if I was somehow absolutely unable to buy a dedicated separate phone to install it on. Otherwise, I think profiles cause a lot of folks to give up on running GrapheneOS, in cases where they would have been fine without profiles.

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I think it’s both, and they’re both into that.

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Context: I’ve written several games that no one cares about (anymore). My free games have had small happy player bases in the past. I have no real idea their reach, because last time I had a runaway hit it was passed around on physical media copies.

My tip is to play the game until you find it fun, while developing it.

Like any art, you can only be 100% sure you can please one person - yourself.

To take more advantage of the work of others, I’m now learning Lua to allow me to modify existing Luanti plugins, then eventually create my own, then eventually port some of my past games to the engine.

So there’s that option as well, if you don’t know where to start.

Yeah. Tomb Raider is wayup there.

I remember being relieved when I survived the encounter with the bear, knowing that it was definitely going to be the scariest creature I would encounter. Lol.

Only downside is Microsoft’s greedy ass owns it

I feel compelled to mention Luanti here, just in case it’s not on your radar. Also VoxLibre.

It’s uh, well it’s done.

And it’s fully open source so it continues to grow.

And it’s lighter and faster and has cleaner network code than MineCraft.

And it doesn’t have M$ enshitifying it.

Disclaimer: I love this game and want to see the community grow and grow forever. It’s so good and I want to keep playing it until I die.

Edit: I forgot to mention it’s completely free and runs great on Windows, Linux, SteamDeck and Android.

They think we’re ignorant of how the world works, condescending, and irrationally judgemental.

Lol. Yep Though in fairness, I am genuinely judging them so fucking hard.

Yeah, seems like “woke” is anything we’re not supposed to approve of this month.

I do find the word “woke” incredibly useful.

The moment the word exits someone’s mouth (as a complaint), I save a ton of energy on how to handle any further information they share (highly suspect).

Edit: I’ve actually discovered some great art and culture by being warned away from it’s “wokeness”, too.

Also the first half of “Tribute”, of course.

That’s a great write-up. Thank you.

Nice. Lol.

It’s weird that they’re all in sleeves, though. He’s not exercising our “right to bare arms”.

Yep. That’s the delicious irony here. They could probably release a Linux or Windows based clone next week, if they wanted.

The years of work they’re putting in is probably 90% to avoid leaking their game engine on non-proprietary hardware. Which is the same choice that will make it an unprofitable market flop.

What is the language that is used to interpret the button presses and send signals to the various components?

I don’t know, but I’ve always assumed it was C code. C code just runs everywhere and anywhere.

Damn. This is interesting.

I was pretty sure there wasn’t any further market for my VBscript skills. Turns out I’ve been turning down breaking bad money?

The mirror universe evil version of me must not talk about his work much. I would die of embarrassment. I’m almost impossible to embarrass, but I draw the line at VBScript.