WhyJiffie @ WhyJiffie @sh.itjust.works

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not just that. with a jack, you can use your phone as a perfect mic for your PC. its also better in terms of privacy as you don't blast "IM HERE" signals that every other shop has a tracking device for logging them. I would guess majority of bluetooth audio devices don't even support mac address randomization

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If I want backups, I can use something like Syncthing.

syncthing cant backup your device. that is a file transfer app. for backing up the device you need either appmanager and root, or good old dd and root (and a half shutdown system)

I don't put anything critical on it, so why would I need to restore from a snapshot?

1. because not everyone uses the device the same way as you
2. snapshots are always complete. file based backups are not because of metadata changes. seedvault even less because it picks apps except this and that, and an unknown subset of the settings, and shared storage for the files that you have enabled

If you want those features, it's not the ROM for you.

currently there's no ROM on which you could execute a real backup, thanks to encrypted storage with keys stored in TPM. TPM sees a change, and now your backup is a useless blob of practically random data

I just want a simple device with a long support cycle and no spyware, and GrapheneOS delivers.

as does calyx os

I have Google Play Services on a sperate profile, and my main profile is completely free of that crap. I want a Linux phone, but every phone has serious limitations, like missing audio, sketchy calls, or completely broken camera.

with microg, this can be done on calyx too. there's even a few options on how much you want google to know.

and if your point is that not all apps work with microg, then you would never actually move to a linux phone because that will never have google play services (hopefully, else something has gone way wrong), probably not even microg or apps that would depend on it

afaik their device-to-device mode should be able to workaround that. it can still be saved to storage

no other manufacturer than google ever will have graphnene os support. their requirements cannot be met unless you are a tech gian, and with exceptionally good connections to the hardware manufacturers

why does a poor stock os matter if you will replace it anyway? did the same thing on day one

You can do the same with aurora store. That's available on just about every phone.

not if the app attempts to verify its license through the play store. you need microg for that, or patch it

its done that way because at a reboot all memory is lost, and it can't happen that something slips through because there is a bug or some miscalculation

even just accessing the device yourself is slow as you have to wait for the whole system to decrypt and start up.

that's not true. the system does not decrypt itself in one go. it'll just wait with part of the bottup process until you unlock your device, and then keeps the encryption keys in memory so that it can encrypt and decrypt anything when needed.

and the purpose of the reboot is just to make sure that both the encryption key, and any data crumbs left in the memory get lost from there

While in this locked down state, nothing can run.

that's not true either. for instance the system definetly runs with a couple of its components. but apps too can request to be able to work before unlock, like your alarm clock. but of course, apps that store data in the compartment accessible before unlock is not secure, however they can selectively store there only the most essential things needed to work (alarm time database and maybe used ringtones)

I seem to recall it being mentioned some android devices did this already when iOS added it last year(?)

calyx os (it has better timing options still), graphene os, and it seems from another comment that oneplus too

I was thinking, not on my data! (as I'm not a user of theirs)

But that's probably where I'm wrong. Fuck facebook, go out of business!

you can. by having a lemmy instance that hosts synchronized content from select subs

other than redlib as the other commenter said, you could also just write a userscript for violentmonkey. easier to maintain

especially with their anti-vpn bullshit they're on now.

I've been a happy libreddit/redlib user for a few years now. sometimes an instance has a temporary block but then I click redirect in libredirect and the next instance works

I'm on it, but my hard drive is overheating!!

entirely free markets result in facebook, google, amazon, but worse, where they have absolutely no restrictions. a. iddle ground is needed, that we don't have currently

ntfy can do that too

https://docs.ntfy.sh/publish/#phone-calls

off topic but do you know about this app for find my phone purposes?

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice

I use molly's unifiedpush edition, with ntfy, and that works for me. ntfy never crashed on me yet.

also, it's not signal that handles waking up, but firebase when you get it from the google store, none I think if you install the apk, and unifiedpush if you get molly unifiedpush edition

9 out of 10 hairdressers agree, what explanation is there needed