Good project/idea, promises of blockchain and free speech attracts may of the wrong people, so I stopped actively using it at some point cause there were only three channels I actually watched (and a lot of alt right/neo nazi/conspiracy shit)

800k!!! 🥁

From their blog:

As you probably know, Session is decentralised. There are currently over 2,000 servers around the world working together to deliver your messages. Each one of these servers is an Oxen Service Node, and together they make up the Oxen Service Node Network. These are specialised servers that stake OXEN cryptocurrency to register on the network; and nodes receive OXEN rewards for performing particular services like routing Session messages.

(They are now switching from OXEN/the Oxen network to their own to be able to better control the features of their hosting network)

Why do you think so? We still don’t have proper support for the Fairphone 4 on pmOS, why’d the 6 be any better?

https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/ 🤣 (rare case of a valid usecase for this emoji)

This fits into Google tying Android closer to them, same with the recent move of only making release source publicly available.

They’re regretting having started Android as an “open” platform and want to gain control fast, maybe preparing for the current anti-trust trials they are facing in the US.

It’s so crazy (technically understandable, but still crazy) to me that reliably receiving calls is still such a major issue

Now more than ever we need more work on PostmarketOS, Mobian, Gnome Mobile etc…

Bummer that it’s still so hard to find a somewhat modern, affordable phone that is Linux compatible

Summaries for complex Wikipedia articles would be great, especially for people less knowledgeable of the given topic, but I don’t see why those would have to be AI-generated.

Öffi has been a joy, it took some time, but I now like the idea of a special app for public transport a lot

I agree this feature should be enabled by default so people tech literate enough can just turn it off would be great for several people I know, just not from Google.

Always a 50/50 of someone either actually being very fluent in English or just a fellow German who also thinks its funny to just sprinkle in the occasional allowed German word here and there…

Could you share a link to those great looking icons you got there?

I don’t think it’s odd, because LLMs are just way faster than any junior (or senior) Dev. So it’s more like working with four junior devs but with the benefit of having tasks done sequentially without the additional overhead of having to give tasks to individual juniors and context switching to review their changes.

(Obviously, there are a whole lot of new pitfalls, but there a real benefits in some circumstances)

Took me some time

Currently using Chrono, but looking towards moving to Clock You , because I can’t stop alarm clocks from the lock screen for whatever reason.

Yeah I completely get that, I took a week to get to a rudimentary working state and about a month to be content with my configuration with everything else going on in life.

I would recommend making a plan beforehand with what you’ll need to do and then starting on a Friday and battle-proofing everything till Monday if you really depend on it for work. Our life situations unfortunately usually expect us to have a fully “working” smartphone with us with like, a clock app (which GrapheneOS hasn’t pre-installed) that just works etc.

Stuff like this was incredibly annoying, because with e.g. the clock or map example, just not having a “just works” solution pre installed leads to bad situations, like an alarm not ringing when it’s supposed to and stuff like that.

But honestly, this should be easier for you than it was for me, because you already got your go-to open source Android apps– unlike me making the switch directly from iOS.

Do it now rather than waiting even longer and amassing even more personal data on device

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say”

Snowden

You’ve just sent me down another rabbit hole. Thanks man…