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magguzu

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  • Anyone using a Linux Smarphone?

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  • Surprised no mention here yet of a Pixel 3a? Both Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS seem to run best on it, so I've had it on my eBay search notifications for a while hoping to be able to toy with one. I really don't expect it to be daily driver material though.

  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • If you have a Mac, have you ever tried installing an app and have it refuse because it's not signed by Apple, and then you had to go into settings and click "allow anyway?"

    This is that, except without the allow anyway feature, like iOS. It doesn't matter if it comes from the play store or elsewhere, as this story originally had us believe.

  • Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes

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  • surely there will have to be "no smart glasses" rules

    They have this rule for ebikes at the lake I love to walk and the kids are zooming by anyway. I think we'll struggle to enforce it and that really sucks. I hope this fails. It's hard not to be pessimistic about it, as much as I can see some legitimate use cases. I just don't trust big tech with it, least of all Meta.

  • Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes

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  • Heh...these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I'm a software engineer.

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  • Buy refurb then, it's what I did and it's super fast. Returns are diminishing these days and your money will go further.

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • Someone else had mentioned Magic Earth but I was under the impression that it was another big tech thing (I guess I was thinking of Google Earth) but you saying it again made me check it out.

    Seems like not OSS but their claim of privacy focus actually makes me interested so I'll try it out! I'm even okay with the small fee, I know servers cost money to run. Glad to see they're working on a non-Google or Apple payment.

  • Plex got hacked.

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  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • haha I'm with you here, though tbh this is something I would have cared about some years ago but these days with tech fatigue I don't even mind the Stephen Hawking guidance (I usually have it off anyways).

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • Thanks for sharing this! I just started using OsmAnd for biking and missed this nice detail.

    Google Maps would take me through some awful stroads pretty regularly, so I'll be glad for a safer route even if it takes longer.

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • Oh I'm aware of the "Osm" meaning.

    I still think it's a bad name 😅 how does someone unfamiliar with OSM pronounce it? Why is there a tilde?!

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • Hey thanks for sharing this! I'll try Bimba. I'm planning on switching to GrapheneOS soon so the less stuff reliant on G services the better, as much as I like the Transit app.

    Edit seems like it's a bit limited on its coverage, with little to speak of in the US :(

    Was hoping to get Chicagoland metro area transit.

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • I'm not sure this is possible without crowd sourced data

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • The transit app is for public transit. Trains buses etc. I probably should have specified sorry!

    But yeah there really isn't a way around reviews I think I'm going to have to come to peace with that.

  • Important Notice of Security Incident

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  • By your logic the *arr suite isn't self hosted either since they rely on metadata cache servers.

    In fact Jellyfin relies on external services for their metadata too!

  • Wife of Ex-Nepali Prime Minister Burnt Alive, Parliament Set on Fire

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  • Bit weird to pin it on an age generation

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  • Hate to say it but it honestly doesn't sound crazy hard to just block any instance that pops up. Yes it's whack a mole but if it's an automated script, it can just crawl through a backdoor instance and ban any domain it sees.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • Like you, I value my relationships and by extension my mental health more than which messaging app I use.

    I hate Meta with a passion and them acquiring Whatsapp is probably the most disappointing acquisition of all time to me, but I'm going to continue using it because my wife, family in Latin America, and world friends all use it. And being lonely and out of touch isn't worth the satisfaction of knowing my data isn't being scraped to me. Others in these threads always seems to disagree here, and they're free to do that but it's not a lifestyle I'm interested in.

    I'm making changes where I can; I self host a server for my media, photos, files. I'm going to install Graphene on my phone soon. I'm interested in picking up a cheaper older phone to try a Linux mobile OS on. I have my phone auto connect to my pihole to block trackers when I'm out of the house, etc. But I know as soon as it's something I have to inconvenience others with, it's not going to work.

    Pick your battles.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • I'm on Mint.

    T-Mobile acquired them, per the usual bullshit, but I get 15GB a month with unlimited talk and text for "$20" a month. The catch is that you pay yearly in bulk for that price. Had it a year and change. Been solid.

  • Petition to stop Google from blocking sideloading

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