FutileRecipe @ FutileRecipe @lemmy.world

Posts

9

Comments

400

Joined

2 yr. ago

Yes, but I'm pretty sure that Google users their own proprietary model and their own servers. So they took RCS and built on it. Not to mention that Google Messages is a Google product...till they kill it or rebrand it, like they did with Google Allo. From Google's FAQ page on RCS (everything mentions "Google's backend"):

How RCS chats work? When you use RCS chats by Google, messages are sent and received through Google’s RCS backend over the internet. Messages can either be delivered to or received from users on other RCS service providers. If RCS chats are provided by Google, but your recipient’s RCS service is with another provider, your messages are routed through Google’s RCS backend and then routed to your recipient's RCS backend.

Have you enabled notifications for it? I use Proton with GrapheneOS. I keep the ProtonChannel notifications disabled normally as I don't need to see it. Enabling it, I see the persistent notification as expected.

For YouTube, NewPipe is an anonymous...

Not quite. From LibreTube's GitHub page on their differences:

With NewPipe, the extraction is done locally on your phone, and all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you're connected to, which doesn't use a middleman server in between. Therefore, Google can still access information such as the user's IP address. Aside from that, subscriptions can only be stored locally.

LibreTube takes this one step further and proxies all requests via Piped (which uses the NewPipeExtractor). This prevents Google servers from accessing your IP address or any other personal data.

Either way, I use a VPN for both.

Get v0.19 or higher

Thanks for that. For some reason I thought it notified on updates automatically like NewPipe does, and I was still on v0.16.1. Oops.

From the TL;DR portion at the top of the article (handy things, you should try reading them on occasion):

1. eSIM transfers are finally here, letting you easily migrate your eSIM from an old Android phone to the new Pixel 8 series.
2. You will also be able to convert a physical SIM to an eSIM, which will be required for dual-SIM functionality.
3. However, these features will not work on all phones across all carriers, so discretion is advised.

When not using ProtonMail, I use FairEmail: "Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android."

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail

No need to uninstall. Just go into Settings - Apps - Gboard - Permissions. You can deny or grant any perms (including Network) there.

Instead of having audio and usb-c, now you have usb-c port, usb-c headphone dongle, the finally audio port and usb-c port again. Unless you want to intentionally buy a usb-c exclusive set of headphones that won't work with whatever next "revolutionary port technology" comes out.

Standards change as they get developed and better, sorry. I don't see the "new revolutionary port technology" coming out in the next couple of decades, especially with the EU forcing USB-C on all (which is a good thing). USB-C is still fairly new and not adopted everywhere. And I'd bet money that most people don't keep 40 year old headphones. Like, I said, sure it sucks now because we're in the middle of it.

Yes, technically every line of code is increased attack surface, but it's a huge assumption that USB-C audio is in any way more secure or less surface.

Except the USB-C is here to stay for a good bit...unless you're proposing making it a power only connectors? Some secure devices do that, but why handicap the new port on mobile device that has limited space? So yes, removing the audio port code portion on a device with no audio port makes sense, when we get there.

Space is at a premium in phones as they are already fairly small and cramped. And why duplicate the ports (have two audio ports) simply because you don't want to buy a dongle or a new headset to replace 40 year old devices that have drastically been improved?

Condenses the ports to one standard. Instead of an audio and a USB-C, you just have a USB-C. So now you can fit more/different stuff in the internals or streamline the device to make it slightly smaller or thinner. Far enough down the line when most everyone is on board, can remove support for it from the kernel, minimizing the code footprint, attack surface, and code maintenance.

Sure, it sucks now as we're in the midst of it and people are resistant to change, but fast forward to when it's universally adopted and accepted, it'll be better.

And above all, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

This is actually terrible logic and stifles innovation. The flip phone wasn't broke....but now we have smart phones with screens.

Have you read their page about sudo? Gives some pretty good insight. For bonus points, at the bottom of that page are links for security and administration.

https://wiki.debian.org/sudo

Supply and demand, pandemic, chip shortage, scalpers. That pretty much covers it.

we are both Android

Then Tile.

Having a smart home hub means you can't take it away and use it to surf the web.

Easy fix: get two tablets. Better yet, get the number-of-people-in-the-household plus 1 tablets, so everyone has their own plus one to be the hub.

specifically the shortened version FUD

Here's from the '70s:

"The search for self". Clothes. New York, NY, USA: PRADS, Inc. 10 (14–24): 19. 1975-10-01. Retrieved 2011-06-10. […] One of the messages dealt with is FUD—the fear, uncertainty and doubt on the part of customer and sales person alike that stifles the approach and greeting. […]

How do you install a lite app without the browser badge in the corner? Every app I install has the hermit logo in the bottom right as if it's a bookmark.

I don't know if you can. I dont see an option to disable it in Hermit's settings. However, I did notice that badge when I installed the Voyager PWA in Vanadium (GrapheneOS Chromium variant), so I know it doesn't necessarily mean "bookmark" nor is it unique to Hermit.

You could always ask in !hermit@lemmy.world

terms like FUD that originated with Crypto

Just because you first saw it in regards to crypto doesn't mean that's where it originated from.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt

setup adguard as my DHCP server

To be fair, Pihole can also be setup as your DHCP server, and it's not exactly complicated either.

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-use-pi-holes-built-in-dhcp-server-and-why-would-i-want-to/

On Android, I use Lemmy via the PWA with Hermit (to keep it out of my browser history) which is an "Advanced Web Browser for Power Users, optimized for Lite Apps & Privacy."

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chimbori.hermitcrab

If you run, your own Pihole, any reason why you're not just doing unbound? That's what I usually suggest to most people who do.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/