Devil’s advocate:

These cost far less to maintain than having a team or two dedicated to upkeep for the trees.

That said, I also think trees are the better option. These are an eyesore.

The important thing to remember is that Canonical keeps making poor decisions, so Ubuntu and it’s derivatives are no longer recommended nor used by me.

I like Linux Mint, and since they have a Debian-based distro, I went with that.

I’m with the other guy. My phone is a touchscreen while my computers (my dual monitor gaming PC, especially) are not. The ways we interact with each of them are fundamentally different, and their interfaces reflect that.

In fact - my laptop and my gaming PC both have LMDE installed, but their DE setups differ from each other because of the simple fact that I use them differently. Both use Cinnamon, but customized for each computer’s specific use case.

Thank you for proving my point:

every thread the devs get involved with just seems like they’re sniffing their own farts

Dont get me wrong, I think you guys make a great ROM. However, no advice was requested here, yet you tagged me in multiple consecutive comments chock full of unsolicited advice. Plus, in the first comment, you suggested “RethinkDNS”, which depends on their own DNS servers. How do I know that this service, which I have literally never heard of in my 14 years of fucking with Android devices and ROMs and adblockers until maybe 6 months ago, isn’t just a honeypot? Or will even exist after Trump is done raping the USA? I see they use DNS over HTTPS, but I defer to my previous (rhetorical) question.

I wouldn’t think a security and privacy-focused ROM should be recommending anything but a locally hosted option. But as others have said, this is your guys’ project and you’re free to implement it how you see fit. And it is a solid ROM. But apparently it’s not for me.

Nowhere did I criticize the work they put into their ROM, nor demand that they add features (Volte when sir?). I have looked into modifying a stock ROM for my own tastes, and frankly, I simply don’t have the skills for that kind of thing. I absolutely respect the work that goes into FOSS projects and products, and donate when I am able.

That said, it’s entirely possible to both recognize the effort that goes to creating a custom ROM of this caliber, and also point out that the Graphene devs are, in fact, pompous assholes about it. Especially whenever someone brings up rooting it (and yes, I am aware of the security implications).

I’ve got to ask you something here and it’ll probably sound weird, but here in the UK if you did that you’d probably be in for a hard time, legally standing recording others without informing them.

Not weird at all! I did my homework before implementing it. I’m in a single-party consent state (Utah), and so is my ex-wife (Idaho). No consent required as long as one party (I.e. me) is informed.

But I’m more curious how often you listen back to these phone calls since you say you record each one, and do you keep lots of them/off-site etc?

They’re recorded in .opus format, so a 5 minute call, for example, is barely 500 kilobytes. And yes I have reviewed many of them, especially during my divorce some years back. They are stored on my phone which 1) syncs to my NAS via Syncthing and 2) uploads to Google Drive tied to a Workspace account that I pay for.

I don’t hide the fact that I record my calls, everyone who knows me knows this fact, including my wife (I am happily remarried). I also back up my texts, going back almost a decade now, which came in handy during the divorce.

Tram! That’s the word I was looking for…

Honestly?

Dockge

Set it up according to the dev’s recommendations (and Docker, of course), then you can configure pretty much any application that uses Docker and docker-compose within Dockge. It’s far simpler than Portainer, and runs within Docker’s limitations instead of yoloing your configs in random locations (like Portainer does). Plus it’s free, and made by the same dev as Uptime Kuma.

You want it to auto record every phone call?

Yes. That’s how my phone is currently set up. My ex-wife is a psychopath, so everything gets recorded and backed up.

I want to love Graphene. I really do. But Jesus fucking christ, every thread the devs get involved with just seems like they’re sniffing their own farts over blatant refusal to implement a feature in any sensible way. System-wide hosts-based adblocking (DNS/always-on VPN is not a reasonable solution) and automatic call recording should be basic-ass features on a custom ROM of this caliber.

It was mostly the street car systems that got ripped up, not the stuff that carries freight.

It’s always the fucking accountants.

Maybe 2 or 3 single rail lines across the country.

You guys gotta remember that the US is double the size of the entire EU. I will say that I don’t disagree in that more rail would be nice, but you have to think about this logically.

Except it’s not automatic

I couldn’t do that on my 49cc scooter 😅.

I’ve got a 1980 Honda XR500 as well, but it needs some work (and tires, badly) before it’s roadworthy again.

The GPS, cell tower, and wifi info wouldn’t give that away first?

Heh, I got hit by that stupid thing today. Luckily the crosswalk button was right there, so I ran over and smacked it before the traffic signal cycled again.

While I don’t necessarily disagree with you, trains are used here all the time specifically for long haul stuff.

Have you checked nocode platforms/databases?

I can’t say that I have, honestly. It never really clicked until now that a database platform is essentially what I’m looking for 😅

NocoDB looks promising! Doesn’t look like they have any live demos to try out, but I can work with that. Thanks!

So…CCC seems to be a very basic inventory management solution. What this generally describes is a system compromised of a database with a front-ends that makes sense of whatever the particular project is (car repair), and provides an easy to interact with the database.

What you’re using now is simply for workflow management of projects in a simplified way, which is probably not what you want.

Yeah, that about sums it up. Planka is a great kanban board, but kanban boards lack actual project management features in the way i would prefer to use it.

Nocobase looks promising. I fired up a demo to poke around with.

I’ve come across Odoo a few times, but I don’t remember if I actually went for a demo or not… I’ll check it out again. Thanks!