yagni3

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by yagni3 10y ago
My phone is way more battery light since getting off Google Services completely. Conversations uses a similar solution, I think, and I have way more battery at the end of the day than when my phone was stock Google Android.
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by yagni3 10y ago
Some of these are solved by setting up their own repo (though you can't force users to update in F-droid). Some of the tracking things can be handled, I believe, if they were built out and opt-in. https://f-droid.org/wi
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by yagni3 10y ago
You can host a server, but you can't talk with people on the official Signal server or any other Signal server, as far as I am aware. This is not federated, just allowing of other isolated centralized clusters.
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by yagni3 10y ago
I use it, but feel like XMPP is dated and complicated. All the extensions and whatnot are awkward to get setup and you can't make assumptions about how well they're implemented or built on the server you're on or communicatin
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by yagni3 10y ago
I'd buy that. I'd go further and say a dumb phone that doesn't allow complex apps would be fine with me too. It has built in apps for a set of open protocols like the web, email, matrix/irc, vcard, ical etc. Updates thes
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by yagni3 10y ago
I still like Matrix' federated first approach to the server over Signal's, but this is a welcome change. Now we just need an F-droid build (official repo or built by the F-droid team).
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by yagni3 10y ago
Ehh. Git is decentralized, if you're that worried about uptime, self host a git-http/GitLab/Gitolite/Gogs/Gitea/(getmydrift) etc instance and call it a day. Or do GitHub if you want, but even Github has outages
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by yagni3 10y ago
+1 for nix. _nix-shell_ is a great way to get stuff up and running without having to wrestle with the container boundry.