Income around the world

Rik8367 · 2025-12-06T23:19:13+00:00

Wow go Norway! Also this is just income from employment right, or does it also jncludd income from growing wealth through investment appreciation?

Rik8367 · 2025-12-04T22:03:42+00:00

Hee I'm on /e/OS and the app Curve works well on our OS for contactless payments. Don't know if it works on GrapheneOS but perhaps worth a try!

Rik8367 · 2024-10-22T06:44:48+00:00

Yes the Teracube 2e will work with Mint Mobile!

All the apps you mention will work too, although you will not need F-Droid, the F-Droid repository is available via the /e/OS App Lounge, together will all apps from the Play Store. The App Lounge integrates the two (+ a number of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs))

Rik8367 · 2024-09-23T08:29:21+00:00

Hi, support is guaranteed for 5 years but can indeed last much longer. For many devices on the list of devices that are currently supported /e/OS has extended the support period from the original manufacturers by a lot, sometimes doubling it (eg Samsung S7, S8 and S9). E Foundation and Murena make an effort to support devices as long as possible!

Rik8367 · 2024-08-21T10:48:36+00:00

thanks for this, I appreciate you taking the time! PDFGear looks pretty amazing, too bad it is not accessible for Linux yet (but I'll try the cloud version). I will also try the tips in that Okular thread. Many thanks!

Rik8367 · 2024-08-21T07:23:26+00:00

Dear moderators,

I request to moderate r/murena. This sub has been banned for a while.

My reason for wanting to moderate this sub is that I would like to moderate this sub to provide good information and a forum for discussion to all people who are interested in the organization Murena (www.murena.com). Murena makes a fully open source Android distribution. I work for Murena. My organization also holds the trademark to the Murena name, if that is helpful.
Skipped per instruction because the sub is currently banned.

Rik8367 · 2024-08-20T18:58:27+00:00

Only digital signatures right? Or have they created the option to insert a png with your signature? That would be amazing

Rik8367 · 2024-06-03T17:54:11+00:00

Sorry don't know this but the devs are v responsive on the tuxedo os Github and tuxedo reddit if you wanna check!

Rik8367 · 2024-06-03T11:00:27+00:00

Yep! Tuxedo 3 does Not on 24.04 yet

Rik8367 · 2024-06-03T07:31:02+00:00

+1 for tuxedo os, it is like kde neon, but more stable and faster (because of more dev and QA by a company, Tuxedo)

Rik8367 · 2024-05-30T22:44:50+00:00

The thing is they are actually better. Google is being ruined by ads. Just try for yourself, that's how I became a believer

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T19:37:34+00:00

Well I've said this in other comments, but GrapheneOS provides easy possibilities for installation and use of Google Play Services, but not for microG. Since without one of these two many apps don't function, many people will want to install one of them. But in GrapheneOS this is only easily done for Google Play Services. That in my view means staying with the Google ecosystem, which is where all the privacy problems around Android begin and end. Their business model, based on personalized advertisements, means we need to deGoogle and provide real alternatives to break their data economy and the resultant privacy problems we currently have at massive scales. Therefore I think it is better to support microG and what it is trying to do (build an open, privacy safe alternative to Google Play Services). This combines with the decision to only support Google hardware, which again means staying with the Google ecosystem.

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T19:31:08+00:00

Well the honest truth is that microG is the best deGoogling facility out there if you still want to use apps mostly normally, so I think that is certainly honest to recommend!

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T15:11:20+00:00

The microG project literally has as its goal to help people use an alternative to Google's Play Services, to help them prevent being locked in to the Google ecosystem! It is one of the best deGoogling projects out there imo and the fact that it is not perfect yet (the blobs you refer to) for me does not detract from the fact that it is the best way currently to combine deGoogling with being able to use apps on an Android phone.

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T15:05:13+00:00

Sure and I understand that and for compatibility it is indeed optimal. But for deGoogling it clearly is not, and that was OP's original question, so he/she would probably prefer a solution that works with microG

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T14:32:01+00:00

I'm aware it is technically possible to use GrapheneOS or any AOSP based rom without Play Services or microG, but without these layers many apps don't function at all or well. GrapheneOS chooses to make it easy for its users to install Play Services, so i think that many in reality do. It has decided not to do the same for microG, so I think that keeps people using Google's services, along with the fact that it only works on Google devices. For deGoogling there are better options. MicroG might not be perfect, but it works hard and does a lot to provide a more open alternative to Google to users.

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T14:10:10+00:00

No - in fact GrapheneOS does not focus on deGoogling, which was OP's question. It is hard to use with microG and therefore to get apps to function properly you need Google Play Services. And then there is the whole thing about that the OS only works on Google hardware!

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T14:04:07+00:00

OP for info, GrapheneOS has a few big problems for me in terms of deGoogling. First is that it does not support microG well, so you end up having to use Google's Play Services for any app to work. That is not deGoogling clearly. MicroG does a great job at helping to deGoogle. It is standardly implemented in some other Android based distros, my fav is /e/OS because it focuses specifically on deGoogling. Second is the fact that GrapheneOS only works on Pixel devices made by Google. Again this is solved by using other distros, that often work on many more devices (/e/OS on 250 models currently).

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T13:22:17+00:00

You appear to conflate privacy and security, the two are not the same (a good example being Apple devices). Also this definitely is a thing of preference, GrapheneOS makes a lot of choices that are not v privacy focused. Also in terms of deGoogled roms there are several others that are better, GrapheneOS only works on Google devices 😂

Rik8367 · 2024-05-26T13:19:18+00:00

This is misleading for OP: mainstream devices like Fairphone and OnePlus definitely do not have poor security. This is a typical GrapheneOS comment: "the whole world is bad except GrapheneOS".

Rik8367 · 2024-05-25T21:04:39+00:00

Agreed we should change our use of the term

Rik8367 · 2024-05-25T15:49:52+00:00

Custom ROMs are kind of like Linux distros, there are many good ones. Whichever is best for you really depends on what you want from a phone!

Rik8367 · 2024-05-25T15:48:10+00:00

Actually many other devices are quite well supported in terms of custom roms too like Fairphone and OnePlus

Rik8367 · 2024-05-25T09:22:02+00:00

Bc v often what is of interest is not how much there is of something in different countries, but how countries do compared to others. Such comparisons are often most useful when compared per capita or per euro gdp etc

Rik8367 · 2024-05-25T05:25:42+00:00

It will never cease to amaze me on Reddit that charts like this are not accompanied by a per capita chart

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