I don’t have any complaints about the performance of graphene on my pixel 7a but I don’t do much outside of texting and browsing webpages. I also get about 3 days of battery life out of a charge.

I found the instructions on the website to be completely adequate.

https://grapheneos.org/install/web

You’ll still be able to use Google Play and the apps found there, if you want to. I’d heard of people having trouble with banking apps. I access my bank using their website, not an app.

Just understand going into this that the priority is privacy, not compatibility. Maybe keep your old phone around in case there’s some must-have app that doesn’t work but you need occasionally.

I’m not a person who had previously done much messing around with their phone but I have installed Linux on several computers. I put graphene on my phone nearly a year ago and I recall the process being fairly straightforward. I think I just followed the instructions on their website.

Maybe it’s not an “any idiot could do it” level of user friendliness but the examples you’ve listed as stumbling blocks aren’t exactly brain-busters.

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Hold shift while you click start and shutdown (or reboot) when necessary. This will have windows do a full shutdown instead of a hybrid shutdown.

Don’t be a pedantic dick. He was saying that the generation of the Tacoma that is pictured here as the small truck was highly capable. There were 4wd versions produced and with a lift they were some of the most versatile vehicles ever made. There’s a reason why militaries added machine guns and artillery cannons to them sometimes. Don’t act like you don’t understand what they were trying to say.

That was great. I hope the ai that made that was also ironically and horrifically resource consuming.

I see.

Well, I think that the take away message here is that, on average, the energy required for a person to ride their bike (ebike or entirely human powered) to work is so small that the signal gets lost in the noise of normal human metabolism, especially if we take peoples’ exercise routines into account.

On the other hand, driving to work has a large, easily quantifiable energy requirement. It is very obviously costly and unsustainable.

I’m still having a hard time understanding your point. Sure, becoming more fit and replacing fat with muscle may slightly increase your basal metabolic rate but I feel like were onto “I don’t use plastic straws” levels of insignificance.

If you’re biking a few miles to work each day and this ends up being such vigorous exercise that you increase your basic metabolic rate by 50 calories a day or so, you’re still using nowhere near the amount of energy and creating far less pollution than would have been required to drive to work. Small changes in basal metabolism will mean very little.

I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to say. Do you think you get energy from some source other than food?

If I burn 100 kilocalories pedaling a bike, my body will be using 100 kcal of energy that I got from food. There is a certain amount of carbon dioxide emission associated with the production of 100 kcal of food. That amount varies with what type of food I eat and what farming practices are used. If I choose to simply not eat extra food to replace the energy I used, my body will simply have less stored energy afterwards. My energy absolutely comes 100%, 1:1 from the food I eat, and that food has an environmental impact.

Now, if I ride an ebike, my body will use less energy. I will use energy generated by the power plant. The energy created at the power plant may actually have less environmental impact than the farm creating the food I would have eaten.

I’ve read that unless the person riding the bike is vegetarian, the ebike actually has a lower carbon footprint than the normal bike. They’re still both far better than the car (ice or EV).