Lmao it’s you again, I could immediately tell. So now I see you’re just a hypocrite GOS anti, because shilling for microG but then saying GOS isn’t “truly deGoogled” in the same post is crazy lol.

I mean, that’s the reality of using an Android phone. 95% of apps are built to use play services in some way, and while most of that can be ignored, apps using push notifs are almost always going to be play instead of unified push. Make the choice of either living with no push notifs, or having push notifs.

You can use GrapheneOS without push notifs, it’s just inconvenient, and the average person wants convenience. This isn’t a Graphene problem, it’s a big tech influencing Android problem. The original comment makes it seem like Graphene is the issue, but other ROMs are going to encounter that same issue anyway (as I said, Android problem). So therefore I didn’t lie, asshole.

Maybe you can use microG to get around notif issues, but that does require logging in. Use a Linux phone at that rate if you’re not gonna use push notifs and don’t need Android.

That’s a lie, you can totally avoid Play Services if you truly want to with GrapheneOS, as it literally isn’t installed by default. If you only use Fdroid apps and have no need for push notifs, then you can truly use GOS with no Google.

But the average person probably needs those things mentioned, so you can download a sandboxed version of Play Store and Services instead.

I thought Fennec was the continuation of Mull, but I checked and you’re right, it’s IronFox. Am dummy.

They’re all bad.

Yeah, it was definitely more effort than any other Fediverse service. Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Misskey? Have an easy, immediately noticeable join or severs tab where you can search for pretty much any instance and by categories.

PeerTube? Doesn’t have a Servers/Instances tab, only shows a quick 6 platforms on the main page, have to go to the “Browse Content” (Blank sepiasearch page) to then click the “Go Here” link to search instances. Other issues:

• Only language filter is English. Which is weird considering Framasoft is French
• Many of these promoted instances don’t even allow sign-ups
• If you’re trying to upload videos now you have to look for instances that allow a lot of video uploads
• In addition to that there’s video quality, live streaming, transcription, etc to worry about

I signed up for an account, but I’ve barely used it due to lack of content I want to see on there, plus search isn’t that great. Just far more hurdles than the other services.

Still shopping around for a cheap enough Optiplex or ThinkCentre that has bare minimum encoding (HEVC 10-bit) and RAM (16 GB), but once I find my baby I’ll be running Nextcloud, Immich, and Jellyfin in Proxmox. I want to leave Google behind very badly, especially for my files and photos I got in the cloud, but also for music streaming since I’m a daily YT Music user.

I know I sound dumb, and forgive me for not having work experience yet, but…

Why doesn’t your company pay for any license they need for you to do work? Like I get if someone was a freelancer, then they’re gonna have to pay for their own stuff, but like, a professional, in-house employee pays for their own license?

Am I missing context here?

Ok, I heard about their app store being closed, but I thought it was for all devices, not non-amazon devices. Thanks 👍

Yeah, I’d probably let go of the app and just change the settings, saves space.

Furthermore, I saw you have OpenVPN for Android. I’ve never heard of that app tbh, so it makes me wary. If you need a free, open-source, and audited VPN from the play store, then I’d stick with Proton. If you can pay money, then Mullvad.

Yeah, saw that on another comment. Then just stick with plain Firefox and download the uBlock extension. Seriously, ditch Brave. It doesn’t do anything FF with some settings turned on can’t do.

Unrelated note: I see you have NextDNS as an app. You can’t just change the DNS settings on your phone? Is that blocked by parental control?

Well, whenever you get the chance to use developer options, you can try Permission ManagerX instead. Does the same think Shizuku does but isn’t outdated and can be downloaded from the Google Play, Fdroid, and the repository (and Amazon app store??? If that’s still alive???).

Can verify, it’s super easy to do and I nuked the Gmail app from my phone afterwards.

Try IronFox or Fennec (Firefox forks), both are privacy focused and aren’t bad like Brave.

GrapheneOS has shown FF does have some security issues, so if you prefer Chromium then use either Vanadium (GrapheneOS only) or Cromite.

For desktop I do use Librewolf, and Ungoogled Chromium when a website refuses to work on Firefox.

My main focus is that I have the choice to donate to them, and that there’s not some third party I’ve spent money on donating to them, hence my Framework mention. I can choose wether or not to donate to Lemmy devs, or an instance that supports them. But, if I buy/support something, especially something OSS or in the spirit of small tech, and then they turn around and donate the profits to Nazis, I’m gonna be sad and stay away from the project after that. I couldn’t make the choice of where my money goes after they got it, so I have to place my trust in them to not fund shit I hate.

It’s like how people are dumping Spotify because they’re investing in drones for Israel.

I’m just trying to minimize my dependency and connection to bigots as much as I can, service by service, step by step.

Yeah, but at least Lemmy devs aren’t getting money from people. I feel really bad for people who bought Framework laptops, only to see their money go towards Nazis.

Maybe I shouldn’t give up on SimpleX Chat then. The dev sucks but at least they don’t get a penny out of me or many others. Although I never found any groups I wanted to stay in anyway…

Man, I knew about the Omarchy and Hyprland stuff, but with how much people praise and look forward to Ladybird, I had no idea the project lead was an asshole too. I guess I’ll spread the word then.

Here’s a Mastodon post featuring some screenshots of his shitty tweets last month.

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist.

Wait, are we talking Tesla named the AI therapist Aura and added it to the car? Or that he personalized his Grok to be called Aura? I’m leaning towards the latter, and I’m laughing at how pathetic it is.

MAGA chuds can’t respect a living, breathing queer person, even if it was their own flesh and blood, but will name change their fucking clown car AI, inform people on its pronouns, and praise the damn thing for regurgitating Reddit threads. A car. Can socially transition. Meanwhile Muskrat shits on his trans kid every day.

Then maybe the comprise is preaching to both crowds, until the desired platform becomes bigger. Yes, FOSS devs and projects should promote on FOSS services to make them more lively, but they should also acknowledge that many of those who they need to bring over probably are unaware on the main service.

Either that or just try your best to convince people in real life, although many of us don’t have enough charisma for that…

Sorry, I have dummy noob moments 😔

I use KDE Plasma