Whenever someone would publish their experiences with AllArk on Reddit, the thread would get “downvoted into oblivion”, with some people raising concerns of them themselves using bots to do so.

I also remember seeing an email log of a user “losing” a couple of hundreds to that same entity. I thought that was on monero.observer, but cannot seem to find it now.

Maybe someone else feels inclined to dig something up, but in general, just be very careful with what people recommend in the space. Most of the time they saw it mentioned somewhere and, with best intentions, just pass it on.

This is bad news for those of us who were not only looking to give old mobile hardware a longer lifespan, but simultaneously obtain privacy and security while doing so.

The arguments provided in the blog post are rather faint and give a vibe of “holding on to last straws”, as other distributions and even BSD’s have managed to run both GNOME and KDE fine, even before pmOS.

For readers unfamiliar with systemd’s drawbacks, these resources can serve as good starting points:

without-systemd.org // nosystemd.org

Out of curiosity: Can you point to a log of the communication with the Alpine team?

My concierge-service test as mentioned in the interview at ~13:40:

https://safereddit.com/r/Monero/comments/eb0iie/how_i_bought_a_3d_cam_anonymously_and_got_it/

When one opens a camera application (like millipixels), the screen should show what the camera points at and capturing color photo and video of that content should be possible. It should run in a stable manner (meaning no anticipated crashes) and the required changes should be accepted into the postmarketOS edge branch.

As for devices, please refer to the linked wiki-page. It names one Shift device and one OnePlus device (and a variant of it). If only one device were to be chosen, it should be Shift.

I understand your concern about cost - maybe the company could be bothered to sponsor a device for this development.

You are right.