Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
Alien,
the original 1979 one.
Imo it really aged well,
recently rewatched it and was amazed by how good the special effects looked, especially for that time.
It’s also a really good movie,
scores 8.5/10 on IMDB,
kept me on the tip of my chair for the full 2 houra.
Hahahahaaa omg OP so funny I can’t stop laughing /s
For real though, I am aware of, understand and even stand behind a lot of your concerns.
However for my mental health I’ll be blocking you.
We already get pummled by enough depressing media since it generates more clicks and thus shareholder profit, and I already block most of that out.
When I’m scrolling through meme communities though, I just want to be humoured, not become depressed.
Huh, if your parents are the blocking factor,
how about trying to educate them a bit about F-Droid and data privacy?
Software from F-Droid really is much more privacy/battery/storage friendly. Just open source software, no spyware services bloating up the apps.
Perhaps after some convincing, they’ll at least allow you to use F-Droid and Aurora Store! :)
3xodus can help with convincing them:
It shows known trackers (= spyware) in applications.
ClassyShark does it by de-compiling the apps and scanning them on the fly.
Their website shows reports by other users that scanned applications.
Nearly everything from the PlayStore contains trackers, while nearly nothing from F-Droid does.
Ufff sad to hear.
What you could do:
Also interesting, but annoying that you can’t install apks from outside the PlayStore :/ No way to circumvent it?
Not really imo,
however doing good taking small steps OP! :)
Suggestions I’d make:
I’d suggest LineageOS4MicroG:
https://lineage.microg.org/
It’s vanilla LineageOS,
with MicroG + F-Droid pre-included.
Afaik no alternatives yet,
but I can offer some de-googling friendly additions which I developed/contributed to :)
https://github.com/Rikj000/Android-Auto-XLauncher-Unlocked
^ Allows to use 3th party apps on Android Auto
https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg
^ Allows to use Android Auto with MicroG (open source implementation of the GApps)
Hornet slapping NPCs! :D
Check the changes,
they’re quite funny :P
As many pointed out, lack of apps.
Don’t know how much it improved over the years,
but battery life wasn’t the best either.
What Linux mobile needs to gain traction imo,
would be Android app virtualisation.
Kinda like Waydroid, WSL, WSA, WinApps, WinBoat…
But then specifically for seamless Android apps on Linux mobile.
That could close the gap of lack of apps,
resulting in more users/devs,
resulting in more native apps,
eventually resulting in less need for Android apps on Linux mobile.
I’ve noticed this too.
My assumption is that it might be mostly Chinese instances being hosted, configured to return such results, but it’s just a hunch.
How do you use SearXNG btw?
I use instance randomizers,
so each query goes through a random SearXNG instance, e.g:
GimmeASearX could help here,
since you can white/blacklist instances you want to use, but that can become tedious.
Searloc + Neocities are great for mobile devices and other places where you can’t self host GimmeASearX.
I had the same issue with the native Linux version.
The solution for me was to run the Windows version in Wine.
The performance was good,
and DS4 controller worked without any hassle.
“bUt wE nEEdeD iT tO pRoTeCt tHe cHiLdrEn”
No you lying politicians, you needed it for surveillance reasons and now you harmed everyone instead… -.-"
Same for the chat control which keeps getting put on the table in Europe, there aint no thing like a backdoor “only for the good guys”, bad actors will find and abuse it eventually.
Hit up your politicians, tell them to start actually caring for your best interests instead of speedrunning towards a surveillance state.
Sure the client is open source,
server code is closed source.
So if proton enshittifies or ceizes to exist,
the open source clients will be useless,
since you or someone else can’t host the server, since that is closed source.
But whatever man, good for you if you like them and want to remain oblivious of the risks! c:
No, I mean their email server + protocol.
The thing you’d use to self-host a proton mail email server.
What you linked is the source to the client,
which interacts with the proprietary server code to fetch your mail from them.
If you can’t self-host / switch to a different server if they enshittify due to being closed source, then it’s not “open source” nor “portable”
Then please do link me the source code of their email protocol.
FairEmail’s FAQ is the 1st thing that popped up on Github when searching for “proton”, mentioning that it’s proprietary:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#faq129
2 words I want you to keep in mind:
I purposely do not use the whole Proton suite for those reasons. It would be quite bad if one is entranched by their whole suite if they went on the enshittification route, which large companies eventually tend to do.
DuckDuckGo has a “NoAI” subdomain:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
Works like normal DDG,
except, you guessed it, no AI :)