Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
by Zak on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:05PM
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That's gatekeeping/snobbery. VSCode won't tell you you're not allowed to install extensions that aren't blessed by Microsoft. If it started doing that, most people could trivially switch to Codium.
Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
by eikenberry on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:59PM
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VSCodium does tell you your not allowed to install some extensions that are blessed by MS. (I.E. it's open core and switching might not be trivial if you rely on any of the proprietary extensions.)
Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
by array_key_first on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:37PM
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There are actually wrong answers. We, intuitively, like to think in tradeoffs. No free lunch and all. So more open phones must be harder to use, they must be X Y and Z. But theyre not necessarily.
It’s a tool, a means to an end. I just want my tool to be easy to use and work.
Another analogy would be cars: do you tune and modify, or do you want a transportation appliance?
There is no wrong answer. Maybe your hobby is tinkering with your tools. If that’s you, more power to you.
I want a phone, editor, and car that are easy to use and “just work.”