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by nani8ot 2y ago
Being locked into the eco system is my main reason for avoiding Apple products. Switching from an iPhone to an Android phone was painless for me because I didn't use any of the Apple services (iMessage, iCloud, Passwords). If I had to
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by nani8ot 2y ago
Is there no bank with their own mobile payment app where you live?
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by nani8ot 2y ago
It's not possible to do push notifications for proprietary apps without making some requests to Google. The location services of microG support other providers and don't use Google. microG even replaces the Google map some apps in
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by nani8ot 2y ago
I just noticed your requirement for no Kotlin and libraries. I'm still posting this because they are otherwise pretty simple and solid apps. Some examples available on F-Droid I've been using for a long time: - Fossify Gallery - F
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by nani8ot 2y ago
F-Droid Basic, a cut down version of the official F-Droid client, supports the Android 12+ unattended app updates [1]. This allows for a store to update apps without user confirmation (if it was the store which installed (or updated?) the a
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by nani8ot 2y ago
Last I used Telegram, creating an e2ee chat with someone added an encrypted chat in addition to the unencrypted chat. This means if your not careful in which chat with a single person a message is sent to it's easy to accidentally send
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by nani8ot 2y ago
The crypto payments have to be manually enabled under Settings -> Payments, which is the correct way to handle such features imo.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
> Because it's really hard to take away something that is legal. I agree, it is really hard to take something away that is established. About 10% of germans consume Cannabis at least once a year even though it is illegal. [1] Keepin
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by nani8ot 3y ago
> [...] if you set [Firefox] as a default browser you will many apps open content in a Firefox powered webview. (Activity) This is great because the Firefox webview allows to break it out in to a proper Firefox tab in the app. Also, the
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Some banks have their own contactless payment app, which can be set as default in GrapheneOS (or any Android). Most banking apps work, as long as they use AOSP's hardware attestation feature instead of Google's SafetyNet, which re
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Yes, because your not the only one driving four miles in a car and thinking it doesn't matter.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
This makes me consider using VirtualBox again. Having to install and update a kernel module is annoying. Especially on some immutable/image-based distros like Fedora Atomic.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
It's highly unlikely that any F-Droid versions are going to be released by the ad-ware company. This company doesn't publish code as open source, and tibbi (original creator of SMT) is of the opinion that relicensing the code isn&
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by nani8ot 3y ago
> While the reported practices have long been legalized in the US and Germany, they are very likely illegal in Switzerland and are therefore subject to legal challenge. It would not be entirely surprising if this got overturned by the co
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by nani8ot 3y ago
In my experience ChatGPT learns from those 11 out of date blog posts, and merges it all into a totally wrong mess. At least I didn't have much luck with solving nix problems with chatgpt.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
NewPipe Extractor [1] can be used independently, e.g. the piped web front-end [2] also uses it. [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor [2] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
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by nani8ot 3y ago
As an Android user I'd rather use iMessage than WhatsApp, if I have to choose between proprietary messaging apps. Meta isn't a company I want to rely upon, but I'm forced to because of almost everyone using WhatsApp where I l
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Gesture support on iOS feels natural because it's implemented by the application (?). On Android back gestures usually aren't 1:1 because they behave like a back button. Swipe and let go, then the back action is executed. Firefox
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Only Google Messages supports end-to-end encryption. E2E is not part of the official RCS spec, instead it's Google's extension.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
tl;dr Most people in the US use iPhones. They also like to use the default messaging app, which most of the time is iMessage. Some people like to use Android phones (privacy, cost, freedom), but still want to message their peers who use the
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by nani8ot 3y ago
No, F-Droid builds almost all apps from source. Even some open source apps don't make it to F-Droid if the F-Droid maintainer doesn't manage to build it themselves on their build server. Additionally, F-Droid signs every app thems
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Proton is wine + dxvk/vkd3d + more patches.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Once everyone has an iPhone to not be perceived as poor, the only people still using Android will actually not be able to afford an iPhone. At least it sounds like that's what happens across the oc
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Given how many large chat systems are based on XMPP, it should be possible to select a set of standard extensions to interoperate with each other. Sadly, I don't see it happening.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
I'm not so sure about email being more reliable than a phone number. I believe more people have a contract with their cellular provider than with their email. Free email accounts could be banned with no recourse.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Beeper's clients never were open source. They were based on Apache 2 licensed Element. The new client won't be open source either, given how they don't even open source their server part (contrary to their matrix bridges).
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Nothing/Sunbird lied about how their bridge worked, while Beeper has an open source matrix <-> imessage bridge implementation with docs. Technically they are similar with both using macs in a server farm for their hosted offers.
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by nani8ot 3y ago
I don't believe third parties maintainers packaging software on flathub is a big issue but I'm also not familiar with how other distro repos trust their maintainers. Hopefully more developers maintain their flatpak themselves (or
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Apps that are published by their developers themselves can verify to get a blue checkmark. E.g. https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox > Flathub has verified the developer's identity using the app id and
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by nani8ot 3y ago
Agreed. Just looking at the Steam Deck and how well flatpak works as a distro independent way to install apps is great. Flatpak supports mutliple remotes (repos), everything is open source and apps are partially sandboxed. Locking down netw

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