Too bad that whenever I’ve tried it, its eaten my battery

Obtainium. Aurora Store. Accrescent. Sideloading.

I’m typing this via GrapheneOS and I don’t at all feel like I’m living 10 years in the past lol.

Even if I was, at least the internet would be a less shitty place than it is now, there would be almost no LLM/AI crap, I wouldn’t constantly have to be as vigilant against big corps datamining my privacy as much as I am now… Actually, 2015 was a pretty decent time compared to now. Got a time machine?

My main point is

Android also runs Google play services

is incorrect as a general statement about Android. I used GrapheneOS as an example but there are plenty of other Android ROMs that also don’t come with Google Play Services or any Google at all.

GrapheneOS

I wish I could use Matrix on my phone without it eating my battery 🫤

I essentially did this with Facebook. People still fucking contact me on Messenger.

I’m am ex web dev/des and still maintain some websites for non-profits. I think you underestimate the human stupidity factor. I already have to front an infuriating level of stupid questions and problems that people have caused themselves by not following the most simple of directions. Do I like JavaScript? No. Do I wish I could completely ditch it? 100%. But people are stupid. And without it’s use, I would be handling even more CS than I am now. The average person expects a website to act a certain way and without that they lose their minds.

Oh look, I can get Google search results without using Google. And my privacy and sanity is protected.

This is such an underrated comment for such an important point.

And Obtainium for open source apps. I use Aurora only for apps I can’t get via Obtainium.

Replying to this excellent comment on a refurbed (no money to Google) Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS.

Setup was definitely more complex than a spyware android phone (I went from a Samsung Galaxy) but once its set up, it just works and there’s no way I’d go back to anything else.

I loathe going to a house when I can see they’ve got a Ring or another door camera. And the shitty part is, I can’t ask the owner to turn it off while I pick up my <insert local equivalent of Craig’s List or whatever here> item because they’ll jump to assuming that I’m dodgyor going to do something bad to them rather than the door camera service they’re using being dodgy as hell and I just don’t want to be data mined by Jeff Bezos. (Or that maybe I just don’t consent to some random stranger recording me)

Its not just about us using Linux though - it’s also users on the other end that were interacting with. If I handle sensitive information, use encryption and disappearing messages and what have you, that doesn’t mean squat if I have to send some sensitive information to someone using insecure email and Recall. Microsoft, Google and whatever other gods awful privacy invading service and companies the person on the other end now have that data.

And a lot of people just don’t even think about this stuff. They could be the type of person who will promise yo keep your secrets or sensitive stuff and actually do that, but keeping that away from privacy invading companies isn’t even on their radar.

They serve two different purposes - Gimp for image editing, Inkscape for vector graphics.

Thunderbird is independently developed from Mozilla and has been since 2020. It’s driven by the Thunderbird Council which is community elected. Its only link now with Mozilla Foundation is that it’s a financial subsidiary. But as others say, there’s also Betterbird if one still fanatically hates Mozilla.

Betterbird

Or that people aren’t talking 24 hours a day

Its moot because Affinity have already said they will not, not ever.

Too bad, its April 2nd for me lol