Meet GrapheneOS, a More Private OS for Your Android Phone

Did You Know?: In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, the mugshot of Morgan Freeman’s character Red as a younger man is uncannily realistic for a good reason: it’s a photograph of his son Alfonso. [Read in Browser]( [How-To Geek]() March 23, 2022 Did You Know? In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, the mugshot of Morgan Freeman’s character Red as a younger man is uncannily realistic for a good reason: it’s a photograph of his son Alfonso. [🎮 Steam arrives on Chromebooks (in alpha form) 🐧]( Have you noticed the golden age of Linux gaming is upon us? Valve recently launched the [Steam Deck](, and now the first alpha version of Steam is publicly available on certain Chromebooks. It’s no huge surprise that Chromebooks can run Steam. Chrome OS is built on Steam, and it includes support for [running Linux software](. Soon, it’ll be easy to run all those Linux PC games on a Chromebook. 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