Not speaking to the viability of GOS's opinion of Motorola's pricing on this having any effect or their options for influencing that price, but I do think you are giving the GOS devs far more credit than I have ever seen them earn when it comes to business savvy.

As much as I support the projects mission and their willingness to call a spade a spade, the people that run the project would get eaten alive in an actual board room discussing things like gross revenue and per component margins. Which is where these kinds of decisions are made.

I was really hoping to pay Motorola somewhere around $800-$1200 for a legit option for GrapheneOS that doesn't involve Google's hardware.

But at $1600, I don't think I can justify that.

Yep. Jeffries's hasn't even gotten the official promotion yet and he is already putting in the work to make sure the Democrats are the minority party again in 2028.

It might not be the top priority, but it better be A priority or the Democrats are probably going to be out again in 2 years. The people want to see those in the GOP that have run so much into the ground pay for it.

Get rid of all of the current Democratic leadership that have spent years being door mats.

What do you use for your phone, out of curiosity?

Lets wait and see how well the DSA and the Democrats in general manage to do in the midterms and with keeping their promises if they get majorities again before we start making any lofty 2028 Presidential plans.

I wish I could just throw out email and calendars as a service and still live in the modern world. I really don't like my only options for them being having to host it myself with all the pitfalls that can come with or using services controlled by data brokers like Google, shit heads like this guy apparently is, or our way or the highway gatekeepers like Apple.

I just want to give someone money to let me point my domain at it for email services and host my calendar without any drama or BS. Why does that concept have to be so complicated these days?

I have less of an issue with his desire for more AI use at the company than I do for the whole "you are an idiot if you disagree with me" vibe and making everyone re-interview, seemingly for a job they already have and have been doing successfully up to this point. That sort of way of managing and doing business is just immature and childish.

Since my multi-year membership isn't up for another year I am not planning to completely pull out yet. But the CEOs actions have put a stop to my willingness to further entrench myself in their offerings for now. When renewal time gets closer I will decide if I want to walk away completely or keep the mail and calendar services and pull back on the service plan I do end up renewing.

If Scientology can get a tax exception as a religious institution, then this guy can get title 9 coverage to not use AI at work as far as I am concerned.

If it was anywhere but a university I would have also expected him to be on the short list for layoffs next round for such a choice as well.

They are going to end up burning the whole thing to the ground in a bid to make investors money on something that never had hard quantifiable monetary value to begin with in a way that you could easily turn up the dial on "line go up" enshitification like Google can with ad impressions.

Its a fancy web forum, a big popular one for sure, but there are God knows how many similar options out there already competing for users. There is a very low ceiling on just how profitable it could ever be as a business all on its own.

There is a reason a lot of these websites, like Gamespot for example, ended up consolidating into holding companies that own a bunch of them.

Are you nuts, those robots are expensive. We don't want to get them dirty.