is that a pinebook?

my /boot is also 2 gigs and i’m glad you shared this; thank you!

you should also know that it’s a double edged sword if you go with linux first vendors because you’ll likely never learn from resolving your own technical difficulties that arise as a result of hardware that is not 100% linux compatible.

i learned so much from putting linux on my windows & mac hardware; that it enabled me tow work on linux professionally for the last 21 years. switching to linux first hardware 5-ish years ago made my knowledge of people facing issues atrophy, so i bought windows first hardware to re-acquaint myself.

as a mac & linux user since 2002 and i had a time machine to do it all over again but correctly this time; i would go with a linux first vendor like system76 or tuxedo or any other vendor that uses 100% open source hard/software. (ie coreboot/libreboot).

linux can work on almost all hardware (including mac) but you’re mileage is going to vary a lot and only the linux first vendors can give you an experience that rivals mac and windows.

every time i’ve heard a decider state the reason why they won’t embrace linux, it’s always because they don’t believe that linux is capable at handling the same scale that microsoft can and that’s despite the fact that significantly larger institutions realy on linux.

the excuse feels rehearsed since it’s always the same.

privacy.

apple has proven time and time again that they’ll cave to the american government at any an all oppurtunities while doing theater to pretend to protect its users.

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.

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.

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?

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.

most seem to recommend graphene, but it’s a non-starter for me since i refuse to give google more than i (unwittingly) already have.

thanks graphene is a non-starter for me since i refuse to give google anything more than i (unwittingly) already have.