It works for all DRM free games. A bunch of Steam games are DRM free so they will work, just not all. Here is a non complete list of DRM free Steam games

The price only has to be paid if you don’t want to be subject to Googles advanced flow for installing non verified apps and want to access their catalog. Aurora will likely require the advanced flow and gets the apps through scraping, meaning they wouldn’t be subject to this, however they might gain access to some APIs that make the process easier.

Third-party app stores will have to pay google an upfront service fee of $5,000 for security review during onboarding, as well as $5,000 every year to maintain access to the Play catalog of apps. They will also have to meet a lengthy set of requirements, the most important of which is that their store must target users in the US. In fact, they legally can’t use the Play catalog to distribute apps to users outside of the United States.

I was almost excited for a moment. Hey, maybe it will make the work of projects like the Aurora store easier

You might want to check out Kazeta, it’s a project with similar goals

Wouldn’t the LGPL make more sense for an engine? Otherwise it would be hard to make a proprietary game (read almost every game) even if you publish any changes you made to the engine.

The Devil technically didn’t win if you don’t leave heaven

Someone already claimed Sephonie

I had a look at the original report by BYD as the site linked by the other commenter didn’t include the information and seemed AI generated (some numbers were actually a bit of, though not by much). According to it the 1.86$ billion are the only directly paid subsidies BYD received in 2025. All other subsidies were loans with favorable conditions, which aren’t directly relevant (The report is 300+ pages long I may have missed something) Source. Currently Germany supports all EV purchase, so the 2.4$ billion should not be counted, but according to the BAFA this is planned/considered to be made exclusive to EU made cars. Source (German). The 6.4$ billion should IMO be counted against the 1.86$ billion as they are both direct founding, and apparently the only direct. While a bit lower this still places VW in the about a billion dollar (925$ million). Additionally, even though the subsidies are universal the EU has placed a tariff on Chinese EVs since 2024 that ranges from 27%-47% depeding on the manufacturer. Source. The working conditions and wages at BYD are of course lower than at VW, even if this is partially countered by the lower standard of living in China, however we don’t no how much of the final car the companies actually produce (how much of it is done by them and not just bought premade, likely in China).

Anyway I don’t think this comparison could ever be 100% fair as China and Germany have different economic models, Germany already established its car industry while Chinas is still relatively up and coming etc. I do however think that it is not accurate to say “they are cheaper because government subsidies” as there are many more factors.

Many countries subsidiese their car brands. In Germany exact numbers are not known, because the government works for the companies I guess, but most experts assume that brands like Volkswagen receive about 1 billion euros (or 1.15 billion US dollars) a year. Source A Source B. I’m no expert for other countries, but a quick research lead to the claim that until 2015 Tesla and the adjacent businesses (SpaceX etc.) had received 4.9 billion US dollars in subsidies Source. I don’t think its fair to say that they are cheap just because they receive subsidies, they are just getting what everyone else is.

Not on my device (/e/os). You can only disable WiFi and connect to a paired Bluetooth device. Maybe this is only in AOSP?

Most of that is a one time process, which you can do with the RG35XX when you connect it to a PC. But I have to agree retro achievements is quite nice

Have had the Anbernic RG35XX for a while now. It is the pseudo predecessor to yours, meaning it has no Wi-Fi, which is kinda nice. Nowadays it’s rare to have a device that just does it’s thing, no internet, no subscriptions, no updates, no tracking

I started reading and thought that it isn’t that bad, just what I expected from closed source software but then came this:

Team Memory Sync, an unreleased internal project. There’s a bidirectional sync service (src/services/teamMemorySync/index.ts) that connects local memory files to api.anthropic.com/api/claude_code/team_memory. It provides a way to share memories with other team members within an organization. The service includes a secret scanner (secretSanner.ts) that uses regex patterns for around 40 known token and API key patterns (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc). But sensitive data that doesn’t match these regexes might be exposed to other team members through memory sync.

This seems like a great idea!

Murenas statement on the ids used for OTA updates:

For context, and I agree that this feature can be perceived with mixed feelings, especially because it was stupidly called „licence ID“ at the beginning of its implementation, we added it because we suffered from not having good statistics on /e/OS usage.

Of course we are not interested in tracking users at all, but we do want to know how many devices are running this or that build of /e/OS. This is very useful for making some decisions about device support and setting priorities for future development.

Just running statistics on OTA server request logs along with the device model didn’t give good results.

Now, and this is still part of our internal discussions, if we are able to find a way to get good quality stats without this OTA anon-unique identifier, we will consider it.

However, we sincerely believe that this anonID probably has no impact on user privacy (tracking IPs or device fingerprints would probably be much worse).

You can reset the id via ADB:

adb shell settings put secure ota_anon_hash <new value>

/e/OS is not fully degoogled, as DNS connectivity checks, hardware attestation provisioning, and eSIM activation all go through Google.

They are working on some of this, at least eSIM activation. Also do you have a source for DNS connectivity checks? AFAIK they have used their own for a while

It is often many weeks or months behind on security updates, especially in the WebView, which makes it easy to exploit.

This is a serious problem, however their update speed is comparable to a lot of default ROMs

It doesn’t support bootloader locking on many devices, and if you lock the bootloader on a phone that does support it, it could brick if /e/OS is on an older security patch than the stock ROM was

/e/os supports boot loader relocking on most official devices, however the community builds don’t support it. The bricking part has nothing to do with /e/os, it’s a hardware security feature of some devices. This would happen with any ROM including the official one

And finally, /e/OS’s text-to-speech sends what you say to OpenAI, despite local options being available.

I assume you mean speech-to-text? Anyway the feature is opt in and they have since updated it to include a prompt to inform you about what it will do. Their reasoning for a cloud option was that local options either are bad or have too high ressource usage (important as /e/os supports a lot of underpowered devices). Overall a stupid move, but they adjusted the feature to let users make an informed choice

If you can’t get a Pixel then iOS in lockdown mode is the next best option, however if you can’t replace your phone, LineageOS is much worse than Graphene although it is still much better than /e/.

Lineageos might have quicker updates, though it is even more connected to google, except for not including microg. However a lot of people will need google play services so they will have to install it anyway

I […] explicitly instructed Claude not to base anything on LGPL/GPL-licensed code

Did you even say please? Seriously what a great idea, use a model trained with code and then tell it to not use that code

Not OP, but /e/os has microg and for me signal is working fine (also /e/os on Fairphone 6). /e/os also has Unifiedpush integrated, so if you are willing to spend a bit of time you could use Molly (Signal fork) without google services

Personally I am using /e/os, but I think GrapheneOS is technically superior. I would first research whether the apps you need (EG banking) work on either one and then decide

Not sure. Here is the issue tracker

AFAIK Tusky can display quote posts but doesn’t allow you to make a quote post (yet)