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I hear you! Hardware fragmentation is a serious issue, very difficult to deal with as a small team, so I can't hold it against them, but I really wish I had been able to put it on my old Note 9 instead of buying a Pixel 😑 (doesn't have to be a Pixel, there are other supported devices, but it's easiest and works best)

Have you tried CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/)? Review from a year ago seems pretty good (fair warning: Reddit link). I'm keeping Calyx in my back pocket in case Graphene goes tits up.

Yes, I've used all my apps pretty seamlessly. I had to turn on "exploit protection compatibility mode" for some of them like banking, but they work fine. You can get Google Play, and it runs in a sandbox, but I use Obtainium and Aurora Store (Aurora in particular would be of interest to you, it's just a frontend for the Google Play store which allows anonymous connections: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/). I moved to Aegis for my 2FA because I was looking for a way out of the Twilio/Authy ecosystem. I don't play games on my phone, so I can't report back on how those work.

Anything compatible with Graphene OS (https://grapheneos.org/); a second-hand Pixel will work best, if you can find one cheap. I use it as my daily driver on a Pixel 7a and it's great; it's the most stable and easiest-to-install custom ROM I've ever used, and I've been rooting my Android devices for over a decade now.

I was skating at the local ice rink, and tripped. I think it was an Olympic-sized rink, but that might have been the pool... it was pretty big, anyway. I bounced my head off the ice so hard I saw blue and red fireworks (only time that's ever happened to me), and slid half the length of the rink on my face wherein I crashed into the barrier. That shit hurt, I still remember it vividly 30 years later, but luckily nothing broken. My mum was simultaneously aghast, and relieved and amazed I wasn't more injured. She was convinced I'd have fractured something in my face when she saw me fall.

Hey friend. You sound like a caring dude, full of love for your family. I'm sorry you're going through this, a few months is very recent. Ten years is about how long my marriage went too, though she and I didn't have kids (and I ended up moving back to the other side of the world) so it was a much cleaner break; and it still took me years to recover. I went through a series of bad relationships because I didn't wait to work on myself first, and I got emotionally abused as a result. First silver lining: you still have the chance to avoid that mistake.

This feeling sucks, I know, but you know your boys love you so you've done a good job as a dad. My new wife and I both have bad relationships with our fathers (though not for lack of trying on our parts), so make no mistake: you could have done worse, and your boys are lucky to have you.

It sounds like you've forgotten how to live as you, without your family around to carry for. Is there anything social to do in your area, aligned with your interests, that could bring you some community? For example my (again, new) wife and I have each other, but we're in a strange state with no family or friends within 1000 miles in any direction. We recently decided to find an improv class because we both want to work on the skills it teaches, but our main goal is to make some new friends.

I just thought, as well - at least one of your kids plays games a lot, which is a golden opportunity to spend time with him. Maybe you can get a game going? Some of my best memories with my dad are of playing games together when I was little. I still have a soft spot for Gauntlet Legends on the N64 from the hours we spent playing that. Loads of great games to play together, too, in 2025 - hit me up if you need suggestions (⁠☞ﾟ⁠ヮﾟ⁠)⁠☞

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You’re basically saying that everyone that can have anything to do with the database and systems around it are corrupt and working together.

No, just the person in charge has to order it. People do what their bosses tell them. Rules and procedures don't matter if the people in charge ignore them. And again, you're not getting access to any of the data we're talking about in the first place, because the government would have to grant that access, and you're not a person as far as they're concerned in this scenario. What organisations have you worked for that would just give out information to a person they can't verify the identity of?

That’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

No, it's happening now in the US. You seem woefully under-informed to be trying to comment on current affairs. Maybe stick to your own country until you're up to speed.

Exactly. People are capable of changing and the left is supposed to believe in redemption. This purity-testing dead-to-me bullshit every time someone forgets a pronoun or whatever is a cancer that's setting our movement and message back every time we fall into the trap.

Changing yourself is hard. We all deserve acceptance and support when we pull it off, for the good of all.

Logs, eh? You know those are just text files, right? And how do you plan to get access to them to prove any kind of mistake or malfeasance, exactly?

I believe this is called an "impression".

"illegitimately" is the key word there. I'm not interested in what you think happens if everything is working as intended, or your poor reading comprehension. F-, rewrite your answer and address the question or you'll fail the class and be held back a grade.

That's a really weird way of looking at it. Without the database, there's no central ledger to consult as to whether or not you're legally a person. Like @atrielienz@lemmy.world said:

The database is the backbone of them being able to hurt or harm

Without that starting point, "the organizational structure, rules, and procedures" that rely on the data from the database are impotent.