Netto Hikari @ NettoHikari @social.fossware.space

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I think the reaction to government requests makes them trustworthy. There was virtually no useful data to hand out on their users.

However, I personally don't like Signal, because to me, the UI / UX is bad. I use Telegram, which is not a messenger for privacy-minded individuals and I know that. But the UI / UX is just so much better and most of my friends and family are on there, so yeah...

I went from GApps to MicroG a couple years ago. Noticed that I don't really need it. Went from MicroG to nothing and here I am.

Hey, thanks for your list! Very interesting. I used to use ACCA, too. But due to me not using that many apps (especially only very few closed source apps) and therefore not having many background processes, my batteries are always very healthy. My phones usually last around 4 years and never once has a battery failed on me, despite me regularly charging and discharging my phones almost completely every 1 1/2-2 days. ACCA is a good piece of software, but I feel that I don't need it. Funny enough, my old phone (Xiaomi Mi MIX 2) still works the whole day when charging it during the night, but what made me ultimately get a new phone is that the screen had burn in issues and the volume and power buttons acted up from me using it so much.

I also used to use GadgetBride for my Mi Band, but after some weeks, I usually take my band off and then it collects dust for months. Don't know why that is, though.

I wish I could use OpenBoard or any other keyboard. I need Japanese input and I want to have it in one single application. Right now, only Microsoft SwiftKey is able to do that for me in a convenient way, which means, I have it installed and completely cut off from the internet, due to it being closed source. Another thing is that I use Insular for closed source apps in a work profile and a second installation of SwiftKey there has native support for syncing settings and dictionaries with the one on mainland.

I personally don't care for Signal at all. I know, Telegram isn't private, but I'm making a compromise here. I really like the UI / UX of Telegram. Something where Signal lacks. It's all a matter of taste, but I just don't like it. Also, all my friends and family are either on Telegram or on WhatsApp.

Regarding me using no Google Services Framework or MicroG at all: I don't need them. No truly FOSS app will utilize that. They all handle notifications on their own. The few closed source apps I use (including banking, etc.) are on my Insular space and they don't need GSF also. If I try to use a closed source app that straight out requires it or crashes when no GSF is present, I uninstall it immediately. Simple as that.

For anyone else wondering: This is an alternative YouTube frontend, nothing federated.

You can't log in with Google, you can log in with your Piped account.

Content is scraped from YouTube's site the same way NewPipe does it.

I used to run a private instance of SearXNG, but it wasn't for me. I don't really know exactly why.

I switched to Kagi now and I'm pretty happy with the results. However, there are some things to consider:

• Kagi costs money
• They claim to be privacy-friendly and that they don't build a profile of you
• There's no proof on that
• There's no private way to pay, credit / debit card only
• Like that, they could totally build a profile of you
• They're US-based, so what happens when one of the 3-letter-agencies asks them for user data?

Anyway. I'm trying to be positive and I really hope that I'm funding something good here. So far, I really like it.

I can't find any source code for that through a quick search. Please note that this is a community for free and open source Android software. Many of us here don't endorse closed source software at all.

This is just a heads-up. I'm not going to remove this.

I'm not 100% sure, because I didn't use both in a while. But I think there was some weird "functionality" where you have to move the map somewhere near the adress you want to go to before it'll find it when you type it into the search bar.

Why that is? I don't know at all.

LibreTube. Uses Piped as backend and has pretty much all the features that NewPipe has, including SponsorBlock.

You can create an account on one of the numerous Piped instances and log in with LibreTube, to have things synced. Since Piped is open source, you can even selfhost it, if you know how. My Lemmy instance (FOSSware) also has a Piped instance.

May I just ask how VB.NET code isn't maintainable? Not attacking you here, just out of curiosity. My board game server and client together amount to multiple thousand lines of code, as they're very feature rich and at the moment, it's not really hard for me to maintain things. It's not public yet, though. Still active development phase.

I can use both VB.NET syntax and also C# syntax just fine. I'd even go as far and state that, apart from the syntax, VB.NET is just as good as C# (after some settings adjustments, like Option Strict On, etc.).

I do understand that Visual Basic syntax is kinda alien, though.

Why not just create the community on another instance?

Phew, you shocked me there for a moment. I have an eye on that project for a couple years already and I think it's very promising. I wanted to buy the Mark 1 back in the day, because it looks so cute, but I was too late.

Arch. It's a "build-your-own" distro without the hassle of compiling everything from source, like with Gentoo (still love Gentoo, though). Also, it has pretty big repos with the AUR on top of that.

And no, it's not unstable, if you can read. My oldest Arch install was 5 years old and even then, it didn't break. I just wanted to do a fresh install for no particular reason.

Just chiming in to say that the subreddit isn't private. However, a few changes will be implemented soon to get people to migrate to Lemmy.

Organic Maps has a more simple approach and is more like Google Maps. OSMAnd~ has a much broader feature set.

I too lean left and I absolutely agree that the constant bashing from both sides is really annoying. This also doesn't apply to american politics only (I'm from Germany).

Removing means things are only flagged as deleted and can be restored. Purging means things are actually deleted.

Banning is denying someone access to a community or instance, temporarily or permanently.

Just so you guys know, /c/androidporn is now a thing.

I use GNOME.