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Honestly ratings from reviews should just be “would you recommended reading this book y/n?” at least until people learn how to write reviews subjectively and about the actual content not something unrelated such as shipping issues. We all vote far too inconsistently as a whole for more granular ratings to mean a damn thing might as well reduce that down.

I do like your point, but do believe we need far more criteria to make sense of these reviews. Yes we should remove the fluff reviews of users who wouldn’t have liked the genre to begin with, but why stop there? There’s so many variables that need to be considered where typical genre is one, but what about a person’s intellect? If they disliked a book because they simply could not understand it from any angle would that apply to myself or any one of us? How would someone convey that in a review? How likely are these individuals to be that self aware? We can move to other areas too like political affiliation, one’s culture, ones preferences in life in general or their experiences. The list goes on. While I do think removing the low hanging fruit such as “I hate romance but I read this because of a book club and yep I hated it” or review bombs or whatever else that isn’t actually an issue with the book itself. Determining this sentiment without a significant amount of false positives would be rather difficult, and at what point do we consider a person to be a fan enough of a genre? What about new people to resding or a new account?

Sadly that is AI of the present. A few of the leaders have already mentioned and have implemented “suggested results” in their responses, and surveillance is well… I assume we all know that was baked in from the start.

At this point I’ll settle for that as long as it works with graphene, and more reliably than android auto. Even on my non graphene pixel android auto is less reliable than github.

Oh yeah new place is great! You’ve hit the nail on the head with your guesses it’s a combo of these tbh. The one thing about that old house is it was wrecked two years later by a hurricane. Was completely under water and torn apart. So the rich def ate themselves there. Even more so because three insurance company didn’t pay them out.

Beach side Tampa FL. Was pretty crappy. Craziest part was that was with the employee discount of the rental company too.

When I moved to the house it was worth 325k which was about 20k more than the immediate house next to mine was worth and was sold for in 2018. Post covid that same home sold for $50k over aksing value in cash within a day of listing at just under 1.5 million. Many people moved that year after selling.

The market isn’t quite so insane anymore but still wildly expensive sitting at those values when I moved. No one is buying at those rates anymore but no one is willing to budge on selling price either.

The tale of one rental

2016 - $800

2017 - $875

2018 - $900

2019 - $1100

2020 - $1100

2021 - $4800, and I left that city and moved to another one to halve my rent to $2400 in a one bedroom.

Depending on what you value and expect from a “more” private device than the main hardware brands and their software these are not particularly secure physically, and to some extent via software. It’s somewhere between pixel flavor of Android and grapheneos. Steps in the right direction. I will be watching for future versions especially as they come to be viable in the US.

Little reading on what I’m referring without a deep (and albeit opinionated) dive by the graphene team on the hardware, and similar but done by other teams for sailfish specifically.

https://hivesecurity.gitlab.io/blog/jolla-phone-privacy-threat-model-2026/

Edit: That is opinionated as in the architectural decisions and trade offs made to reach a certain level of protection not as in bias or “opinions”. Aka software usage of opinionated in the way that a framework might be.

Edit Two: Listed graphene as the high end of security for our current offerings in the consumer space that are still considered full featured smart phones. iOS is also a contender, but they aren’t as concerned with privacy as grapheneos is. They are a business first. Privacy for them while it does exist is a means to an end. Marketing doing it’s thing.