GraphineOS seems to set the benchmark for secure de-googled android phones and has a very short list of supported devices. I think I’d suggest starting with one of those, and once support eventually drops, if you’re comfortable with a reduced security capability, looking to lineageOS or similar. I think if Graphine supports a phone, it’s pretty much guaranteed to have support on the more general OSs.

For a while I looked at ruggedized smartphones (some with removable batteries!) that were supported by lineageOS and others. I didn’t find one I was convinced would hold up as long as I wanted, and I had security concerns so I ended up getting a decent secondhand phone with guaranteed security support for a few years and putting it in a good case.

Sometimes I check in on various raspberry pi smartphone projects. I love the idea and think it’d probably be able to last the longest (or be turned into something else after an upgrade) but I don’t think any feel reliable enough to me yet.

That beats connecting the speaker jack to the mic jack and recording with audacity.

Seems like refusing to tip only hurts the people who have no power to change the system (and less savings to survive it than the bosses). We need to affect the business owners not their employees. Refusing to eat at restaurants who don’t pay their workers a living wage would be more effective, but it’d have to be coupled with lots of communication about why it’s happening so it’s not passed off as economic trends or something. Unfortunately in the US, there aren’t really many/any non-tipping alternatives to give your business during the strike.

Legislative action, starting in a few smaller test locations, might be actually be more effective at this one.

I’d forgotten they had storefronts and thought you meant the distribution centers. 'One last heist, then we retire ’

I looked this up to see why gas pumps would have bluetooth capabilities and found a fair bit of argument over whether the article is accurate. The linked article says it was identified as a bluetooth hack by the gas station operator based on security cam footage of the thief fiddling with a device near the pump, but I haven’t found anything discussing computer forensics yet. One post speculated that if they do have bluetooth capabilities it might be an unused feature included on cheap multipurpose chips, but I haven’t found any info stating that gas pumps utilize bluetooth for x reason. The pumps apparently often use the same physical keys (and have done for decades) so a tampered pump seems possible to me too.

Thanks, I’d missed that one somehow - just signed up! https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/607237425340447357

I’ve tried posting the image as a response to this comment (I’m guessing you don’t want to turn off noscript or whichever adblocker you’re running) but it won’t upload, possibly because this thread is on lemmy.ml? The good news is I’ve also uploaded it to a few other places:

• https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/2023/09/11/repurposed-parking-garage-photobash/

• https://www.artstation.com/artwork/w05GWO

• https://writing.exchange/@jacobcoffin/111048596538451682

Hopefully one of those will work. If you know of a more fediverse-friendly image hosting solution I should be using, let me know!

I’ll look them up now! Thanks for the tip

Thanks! I think there’s a wonderful opportunity in this kind of art to demonstrate alternatives! I’m planning one involving a city street next, and I’m happy to try to incorporate any ideas into what I’m planning. Hopefully it’ll include a parking garage that’s been filled in (kind of ad-hoc and colorfully) with living space, and a street that’s been replaced with a bike path and forest, with market stalls in the spaces between the trees. I’ll try to hint at a farm or park on the roof of the garage if possible.