Just checked the website. VoLTE is not supported at all, and there’s no aGPS, so I don’t see much of a reason to use this as a phone operating system. Maybe for just a mobile data device.

Good questions, particularly about the LTE. If you’re in the USA and not running a stock ROM, and not using a Pixel phone, there’s a good chance that VoLTE is not going to work. So you’ll have 4G data, but no voice calling.

This is helpful. Thanks.

Good. I hope SMS Messenger happens next.

It’s a fork of LineageOS. Not sure how excited about it I’d be. Willing to give it a try tho.

First choice: Get a used new(ish) Pixel and flash Graphene OS. Second choice: Get a used older Pixel and flash Lineage OS.

I love it. Used it for years. But it really hasn’t worked properly for the past maybe three years now. Read some of the reviews on Google Play. The F-Droid version misbehaves the same way. I’ve considered forking and working on it myself, but I don’t know enough.

This is particularly bad because there are really no reliable open-source SMS apps anymore.

If hosting NextCloud is your problem, you can purchase a hosted instance for less than $20/year. Woelkli even has a free tier.

I’m curious what use case your trying to solve. What’s wrong with Electron? Too slow?

Are you aware that you can purchase NextCloud hosting for very cheap? I think I’m paying less than $25 USD per year.

Exactly.

There are clearly ways around HIPAA. I’ve had advertising displayed to me that clearly showed they knew that not only had I been to a doctor, but they knew the results of a specific blood test I’d just taken. It’s the fucking patient portals. They’re clearly harvesting data.

Yeah. Sad face.

We need a government-run medical records system, so there is one source of truth, which would be illegal to sell or share with anyone other than a patient’s doctors. My hospital has changed records systems twice now and my own doctor didn’t have access to key information from ten years ago that I remembered but he didn’t. It’s 2023, for fuck sake.

Pretty sure nation-state actors are breaking things at a much lower level, like the encryption layer, which would enable a much greater harvesting of info. To me, this seems more like incompetence. If the standard is so broken that it’s obvious to an outside observer, I’m guessing an MBA did a cost-benefit analysis somewhere and decided the OSDP standard was “good enough” for its intended purpose.

How do things like this ever make it into production? Rather than a failure of the tech, it’s more like a failure (or feature) of design-by-committee.

Happy to say I’ve never used Zoom because it was a privacy threat even before all this. Not happy that people always treated me like I’m some kind of space alien for not using Zoom. Also not happy that those same people won’t care about any of this, and will keep right on using Zoom.

I personally never touched a Chromebook, and have no idea how hard it is to get Linux onto them, but it sure proves Stallmans old argument about freedom.

In some cases you have to physically modify hardware to get a different OS onto a chrome device. It could be anything from removing a write-protect screw from the motherboard, all the way up to flashing an EPROM.

See here: https://mrchromebox.tech/

I had an email conversation with this guy a few years ago. In his book, there were pictures of him and his bikes and also a woman. I asked what happened to her. That’s where our conversation ended. I suspect his story contains romance and heartbreak in addition to technological nomadness. Someone should write a screenplay about his life.