From the article:

And at this rate, these won't reach non-Pixel OEMs at all until Android 17 QPR2 ships later this year in December.

I thought OEMs got the fixes also.

Worth noting that when you buy a pixel from a carrier in the US the bootloader is typically locked anyway, at least for the big ones. This even includes versions where the SIM is unlocked to support other carriers

Almost every non-Google Android device already runs a custom fork maintained by either the manufacturer or the operator, if not a third party.

And those people are trained, checked, registered, need a license retrain every so often, etc, etc..

Sloposhop

Why? Several countries in the European region don't seem to have an issue allowing guns... Switzerland, Italy, Czech, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania etc.

Now that is a name I haven't seen in a minute. I spent a lot of hours on LORD and LORD2. Dink Smallwood was pretty great too.

I think that GIMP is only appearance (relevant for muscle memory). This claims to support filetype and "workflows" (no idea what these are)...

Why the downvotes? Because AI = bad?

I think the report tries to show that opensource is preferable to closed AI, as regards performance, monetary cost, and access among others.

It doesn't mention environmental concerns, sadly. But nonetheless, at least from my understanding, good opensource models can be run by people or institutions that choose to power them responsibly, not to mention the fact that more eyes on the models mean they can be optimized for resource use faster perhaps than closed models which are incentivised to increase raw performance.

In my view, any efforts that keep AI open at all levels should be worthy of support, no?

More open source software isn't bad, if it weren't for the vibe coding

Arent there mods for gimp to resemble photoshop?

other than firearms obvs

Which is ALSO a good thing, obviously

Not really. I mean the reliance on pixel hardware will be, but the issue here is that Google provided security fixes to pixels without fixing those same security flaws in AOSP. It's a software thing, not hardware.

From a consumers point of view, Europe has more options in pretty much every department (other than firearms obvs).

Yeah no fucking shit, that doesn't change a goddamn thing though, does it?

Europe does have more options, luckily.

Probably, but not just on the market, picked up and sold by the carriers.

Currently Pixels are the only phones where you can unlock the bootloader (ironically) that are also freely purchasable from carriers (which is how most people buy their phones here) in the US

This will be solved once the Motorola devices are on the market, right? Pixel devices can then be replaced and money can stop going to another US big tech company.

I can only hope that Graphene working with Moto will eventually lead to a fork of Android by Moto.

Of course I think that would require Moto absorbing Graphene first, as the Graphene team lacks the management/leadership capability (and the funding, legal teams, etc) to do this (no criticism of Graphene intended, it's just a huge thing to attempt, and Google will certainly attempt to "dissuade" such things).

there exist people in the world who don't speak english

all of the download links are outdated

I'm glad you wrote that last part after you calmed down 👍 I had a similar reaction.

After reading the other comments, this is a good summary.

That's a way different (and more well-suited) use-case because the edges are already there and you're just doing region selections and flood fills and whatnot. It's drawing the edges in the first place -- especially if they're geometric -- that GIMP isn't particularly good at.