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It's relevant because you don't know billions of people.

Android is great as a general use phone/TV/watch etc OS for running apps but it's fundamentally not designed for this use case. Installing ProxMox on an old computer is going to simply work better for every self hosted use case. Most people that are remotely interested in this probably have something laying around that could be used. For those that don't, decent x86 machines can be had for super cheap second hand.

I get the point of this is hardware reuse since people have old phones laying around but it feels the same as all those "turn your old phone into a security camera!" posts. Nice idea but ultimately impractical.

Hopefully Google is promising 7 years of support will start a trend that leads to people having less old phones in the drawer collecting dust.

Samsung already had for years. Like Knox work profile

Huh? Good added partitioned work profiles in 2014...

Qualcomm has announced that it's working on a RISC-V chipset for Wear OS

Or you could have the same convenience, only when it's actually safe:

Try tapping the app icon on the app switcher screen.

Irresponsible reporting. The app couldn't be installed because the min API version of the app didn't meet the requirements for Android 14.

Google didn't "block" anything, this is fear mongering.

If the messages are E2E encrypted (which is the case here) does it actually matter?

How often does that happen?

As long as finger/face scans stay secured on device it's pretty innocuous imo. And you can quickly enter the "lockdown" state, which disables biometrics. Law enforcement cannot force you to enter passwords in any civilized country I know of.

One thing I enjoy is buying cheap xiaomi smart home products and completely cutting them off from the internet.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but from a security and privacy perspective I can't imagine buying a phone from them.

Most of the reason I wear a smartwatch is to prevent me from pulling my phone out. If I can avoid doing that and know I'm still on the (sometimes poorly marked) trail it's a win.

I've given it some time, but I just don't like the new logo. I don't really understand the need to make it so simple that it no longer really resembles anything.

That's a good callout. When I said you need a zigbee network I guess I should have specified an antenna.

My point is that you don't need the aqara hub, because sometimes people think it's required.

If you have a zigbee network the aqara leak detector is a good option. It doesn't require a hub, cloud or any setup. And if you are willing to wait you can get them on AliExpress for a lot cheaper than Amazon.

Could be worse. 25 cents in 1938 is still only worth $5.44 today.

Idk where you read that but I think you are stuck now. If you had opted out before taking QPR1, you could have waited for the official Android 14 release and updated to that without wiping. I believe you are going to have to wait for the official QPR1 in December to get back to "stable" with wiping the device. Here's an article on it.

I sorta hate it.

It's not immediately recognisable as a house anymore which is bad for attracting new users. Also the "antenna" is less interesting and used to be immediately recognisable.

The thing about "knowing just enough to be dangerous" is typically the person doesn't realize that's all they know.

That's really only true if you are smarter and more knowledgeable than the security team of the phone OEM... and you unroot after you have made changes.

I (now) understand the technical difference, but in actual usage it seems like they will behave exactly the same.