It’s the same way with Fish & Wildlife in Washington. A subset of the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board is its enforcement division, which are cops, with many of the usual cop powers, but they enforce specifically laws relating to regulating sales. Believe it or not, just like game wardens dealing with people fishing too much or trafficking animals or killing wolves; liquor stores, tobacco shops, and cannabis stores can get in shady deals, and while it’s totally overkill, I agree, they approach it the way any cop would. They’re just operating under the State Liquor and Cannabis Board just like the game wardens are at Fish & Wildlife. In Olympia, Fish & Wildlife is even located in the same building as a bunch of other environmental governance with no police powers like the Department of Natural Resources. But the bottom half of the DNR building is swarming with Fish & Wildlife Officers.

So, if I haven’t overexplained this, the licensing board are the police. It feels overkill for them to be armed officers, but I guess they justify it or whatever. Maybe there’s more shady liquor, tobacco, and cannabis businesses than I expect and when they’re busted they’re more violent than I expect but I doubt it.

https://lcb.wa.gov/enforcement/enforcement-and-education

The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) Enforcement and Education Division is responsible for enforcing state liquor, cannabis, tobacco and vapor laws and regulations. Officers provide education to liquor, cannabis and tobacco licensed businesses, communities, and local law enforcement agencies.

Enforcement officers are limited-authority, commissioned law enforcement officers. Enforcement operations include premises visits, compliance checks, undercover operations, and complaint investigations, while educational efforts include liquor and cannabis law briefings, technical assistance visits, and “Responsible Alcohol, Cannabis, Tobacco and Vapor Sales” classes.

Division headquarters is located in Olympia, while captains, lieutenants, and officers are based out of offices located around the state.

For instant messengers, I would also add Wire and Matrix/Element (Matrix is the protocol, Element is the messenger that uses the protocol).

https://wire.com/en

https://matrix.org/ - https://element.io/

Both good open source secure messengers. Matrix is made by a type of non-profit foundation made to guide the development of the core protocol, and Wire is a Swiss company staking their future on how secure their messenger is for Enterprise applications. They both have different philosophies on how their operations are ran, but they’re both open source and secure.

They’re not as privacy respecting as Briar or SimpleX, but they’re also more aimed at organizations and groups that plan on self-hosting and potentially not federating with the rest of the network to help silo their organizational data. Wire obviously aims towards Enterprise customers, but Matrix does as well, despite a different approach. Matrix has had growth with both German and French governments for various secure communications systems within their government bodies based on the matrix protocol. So good messengers, just aimed at a different group of people as Briar/SimpleX.

So maybe they could have their own “Enterprise Chat” section? I dunno, just my thoughts.

For LineageOS at the very least, you might be able to find an unofficial ROM for your device over at XDA developers forums. There are often ones built for less popular phones, but they don’t have as much frontline support as the supported devices listed on the LineageOS site.

https://xdaforums.com/f/lineageos-questions-answers.6082/

…but it’s exactly as I said earlier. There are technical walls to scale, including whether or not you even have access to the right hardware to start the process to begin with. It sounds like you learned a bunch today, which is good, and hopefully you can either find an unofficial ROM that works for you, or you can eventually invest in a phone that fits one of the ecosystems that you would like to pursue.

Good luck!

He’s got that look because the loaded gun with the safety off that he just threw on the ground triggered and shot his dad.

damn had not heard of that and I have so many friends fucking with OPNsense. Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_a_gun

The phrase potentially has its origin in a Royal Navy direction that pregnant women aboard smaller naval vessels give birth in the space between the broadside guns, in order to keep the gangways and crew decks clear. Admiral William Henry Smyth wrote in his 1867 book, The Sailor’s Word-Book: “Son of a gun, an epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree, and originally applied to boys born afloat, when women were permitted to accompany their husbands to sea; one admiral declared he literally was thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage.”

Checks out. Very interesting.

Since its naval, Jimmy Buffett comes to mind.

Son of a son of a gun.

EDIT: too much time was spent on this

My partners software development teacher, who was also a woman, told her in respect to the men who were being hostile to her “get used to it, because it will be the same in the workplace.”

Sadly, some women are reluctant to help each other.

Yeah, that’s what network-level blocking is for.

“the cup of a carpenter coder”

Greed is good.

Possibly a perfect use of this.

You’re welcome, I have been lucky enough to be around a lot of people with an attitude like mine, which is how I got my knowledge to begin with, as well. If it hadn’t been for open minded people being willing to help, I would have never achieved the level of knowledge I have today. I stand on the shoulders of giants who were kind and giving enough to bend down and share knowledge.

No one is trying to water down the niche spaces that are important to people or deny the hard work that was done by people in decades past.

Exactly, the gatekeeping isn’t helping anybody. The fact that things don’t work perfectly on their own and just aren’t as polished in the open source world gatekeeps people on its own, without the actual knowledgeable people also gatekeeping.

Isn’t it enough that the knowledge is esoteric enough to do the gatekeeping for us already? Why do we need to gatekeep when there’s technical walls to scale to begin with!

This is why you just fucking lie and say “Arch btw”

It’s probably more familiar with trashbat.co.ck

My partner is trying to break into open source and I keep suggesting that she tries to focus on making and producing quality documentation for existing projects.

Documentation on most projects sucks donkey balls and if you aren’t used to reading through 16 seemingly unrelated forum posts before you even start, you’re gonna have a bad time.

The real problem with Lemmy’s tech communities/users is a lot of us having been living in Linux-land for decades and some folks are cranky about having to come out of their caves and help folks who, in their eyes “won’t help themselves.” A lot of them came here to try to find the early internet they lost from their youth, and they don’t want the corporations or people who they might consider corporate muckity mucks here (I mean, I get it, I feel it, too, I don’t want corporations here).

It’s a bad attitude, because not everyone is born with/able to grow that specific technical skill level which encompasses research, understanding, and application of computer science.

I agree, as someone with a bit of a higher level of skill here, we really really do need “define every term” hours because these are devices that everyone has to have in their daily lives whether they like it or not, and they deserve a level of understanding of the things they purchase and own, and they don’t deserve to be mocked for not already knowing or not knowing where to start.

One of the things my old professor used to tell me that the biggest skill in the tech industry is actually being able to do your own research, read documents, make sense of them, and put them into practice. The reality is that this is a skill that is developed deeply over a lifetime and not everyone chooses to max out that skill. We all have limited time and resources and the world still needs hairdressers, doctors, and all kinds of professions where they have spent way more time learning their profession than learning computers. They don’t deserve to be looked down on for simply investing their skills in things they’re actually good at.

Cheers and I really hope you find the info you need here.

First off? Do you have a current Pixel phone?

Because GrapheneOS is only available for Pixels, and current ones at that. I’m still on a Pixel 4a, and GrapheneOS considers my phone end-of-life and support for it will eventually stop. So unless you just got a brand new Pixel… kind of a waste.

Secondly, since you’re less tech savvy, you’ll probably want to use the official installation via WebUSB but as a point of warning, Firefox purposefully chooses not to use WebUSB or WebSerial because of security risks.

Google built WebUSB and WebSerial because Chromebooks are a useless fucking joke of a computer without them, since it doesn’t have a real OS, and just a glorified web browser. This is fuckstupid, pathetic, and absolutely a security risk.

That being said, the WebUSB install is definitely going to be the “easier” path for you, but you’ll be forced to use Chrome to do it.

Are there any known issues with it like slowness or not being able to use the camera, etc?

No idea, I always went LineageOS because it supports more devices, has better support for Google services, and isn’t quite as obsessive about privacy. Unlike GrapheneOS, updates for devices will come as long as maintainers are able to make new versions of Android run on older hardware. With LineageOS, I’m looking at likely years of security updates for my Pixel 4a.