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At Mobile World Congress, Motorola reveals plans to preinstall GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android fork, on smartphones starting next year.

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Last updated: 10FEB2026 (see Changelog for details) The Retroid Pocket handhelds are seemingly simple devices to set up — they run on Android, so how hard could it be? But it turns out there …

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How I rooted my Boox eReader, blocked all telemetry to China, and replaced proprietary cloud sync with self-hosted Syncthing—all managed through NixOS.

Table of Contents Table of Contents Changelog Preface KOReader Failing Problem Solving File Naming Going Further Reading List / Acively Reading Wallabag Zotero Progress Sync Shared Content Storage Reading Statistics Custom Plugins My Config Changelog 2026-03-11 Add section about reading statistics 2026-03-07 Initial publication Preface I’ve been eyeing the XTeink X4 for awhile now but the whole ’no book metadata browser’ gave me significant pause for quite some time. Historically I’ve used readers like the Kobo Clara HD, Moon+ Reader Pro and Librera Reader which provide me a good way of viewing books by tags, series and similar metadata which I rely on to filter my ’to read’ list.

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How to get started with digital privacy while avoiding friction: A guide for your first steps.

How to get started with digital privacy while avoiding friction: A guide for your first steps.

Some thoughts after a while on GrapheneOS

My experience switching to GrapheneOS, a privacy and security focussed Android mobile operating system, after 16 years on iPhone.

The Google Nexus 7, released in 2012, is the first “small tablet computer” I can recall. It featured a pleasing 800p display, a powerful processor for its time, and shipped with a “stock Android” sys

A new colour e-ink reader, now with root access

This free, open-source app can silently update apps in the background.

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