iturnedintoanewt @ iturnedintoanewt @lemmy.world

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How about Lemmy.World?

Here's to hoping that GrapheneOS will expand their support to devices like the fairphone.

Wow, busy download... Downloading at 150KB/s, uploading at 15MB/s

Just in case, NewPipe is a super complete YouTube player without ads (and there is a fork also without sponsor sections). It can also view comments of the videos and it can keep your own subscribed videos feed, all without using a YouTube account. You can also download them, and play the audio only, also in the background. All in all, my complete YouTube replacement.

You mean, like TrackerControl? You still need special settings to block your own phone system apps from reaching their Samsung, etc tracking addresses. Like, how do you block Samsung keyboard from sending all their tracking data otherwise? These apps have limited versions in the Play store that won't block system apps.

OpenBoard has actually a working swipe-typing implementation that catches most of my typing incredibly well (and which is incredibly infuriating at the moment to correct when it doesn't... You'll get it when you use it). You need to use this other fork: Openboard

There never was a way to use it without a meta account, right?

I find sad that this restriction (and other closed drivers gripes) limit a lot the access to android with jailed profiles. I wish this was a more common feature on other android phones so it would be a easy to use feature.

Sorry, but Signal is still a messenger app. They didn't set to make a keyboard app. You are barking at the wrong tree.

Sorry, but Signal is still a messenger app. They didn't set to make a keyboard app. You are barking at the wrong tree.

Signal's duty never included input methods. Moreover, if you force a keyboard that doesn't cover everyone's keyboard tastes AND language AND typing methods, you suddenly are blocking people from using their own choices. Suddenly you are force-feeding a possibly bad keyboard implantation to many, and taking away interest from the app.

And, finally, there's already plenty of free open source and privacy-friendly keyboards. There's no need to reinvent the wheel for one single app. This is, all in all, a really poor idea.

I don't root my phone these days anymore. It makes a whole host of other issues with banking applications and the like, plus a nasty app might take advantage of the elevation as well. Either a full rom, or going the path of adb disabling system apps. Not pretty. Using GrapheneOS these days.

I don't root my phone these days anymore. It makes a whole host of other issues with banking applications and the like, plus a nasty app might take advantage of the elevation as well. Either a full rom, or going the path of adb disabling system apps. Not pretty. Using GrapheneOS these days.

While this helps... If you have any Google software, it tends to call home anyway by using hardcoded IPs into their apps. Samsung does likewise. The solution being, not only a DNS server, but also a serious firewall in the router. And, even better, a ROM you can trust, such as LineageOS.

Turning off your history in Google is about as useful as using the incognito mode in Chrome. It just hides it from you, but you can be sure Google is keeping their own copy. Don't use Chrome, gmail, Google docs.... Use custom ungoogled roms (GrapheneOS, LineageOS). Switch to Linux, use privacy friendly dns, or even your own... The path to privacy is a long and arduous constant fight, full of inconveniences.

Install Virtualbox with a virtual windows inside. Join and use THAT virtual Windows for work. Install work software only inside the VM. That will keep everything inside/outside of the vm compartmentalized. I use this approach on my Linux only PC. More than because of compatibility with Windows, I rather do this than give unknown work software full access to my hard drive.

My question is, what happens when you try to interact with subscriptions that are located on the overloaded server? Those will still crap out, right?

What was that thing he said about a public town hall? Doesn't look all that public to me.

What was that thing he said about a public town hall? Doesn't look all that public to me.

What was that thing he said about a public town hall? Doesn't look all that public to me.