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I set this up on my Steam Deck when I first got it. It plays really well on the deck.

They forked it

CoMaps is a recent fork of Organic Maps. So those two are pretty similar at the moment in terms of functionality. Osmand I would say has a lot more features and customisation options, but Organic/CoMaps is faster and more responsive.

No requirement to have your legal name in Signal. Though, I do wish it was possible to set a different name for group chats though. Happy to use my real name with friends and family, but would prefer an alias for group chats.

Took me a couple of times to get through it. For the same reason. Well worth it in the end though.

Ah, misunderstood your post. I think regular Signal still supports local backup. Doubt they'll remove it when they add this.

Switching to Molly won't necessarily give you free cloud backups. Someone will still need to pay for the storage costs.

I've seen posts by the GrapheneOS team about recommendations against using both F-Droid and Aurora. F-Droid had a decent sized list of issues they raised. One of the key ones they raised against both was that it added an extra person to trust. You always need to trust the code of the developer of the app. No way to avoid that. With F-droid you need to trust that their build system/infrastructure is serving you the app as per the developers code. With Aurora you need to trust the Aurora devs are giving you the app unmodified from Google.

There were other criticisms on F-Droid that they sign almost all apps with their own key rather than the developers. They do offer to serve apps with the developer keys, but it's difficult to setup and not many apps implement it. Google Play also does the same thing though, so I feel this risk isn't that big. Generally they seem to recommend getting apps directly from developers rather than via a 3rd party. They offer Accrescent in the GrapheneOS app store which is designed for this, just pulls files from Github AFAIK.

All that said. I prefer to get all my apps from F-Droid (NeoStore technically) and Aurora for anything without a F-Droid repo.

Well, still plenty of dogdy landlords who take advantage of people who don't know about that requirement and either take it for themselves or push renters towards "resolving disputes between themselves" and not involving the bond authority at end of lease time.

It's a requirement in Australia for it to be paid to the government bond agency. Typical method of paying it is a cheque payable only to the bond authority. Once you hand back the keys at the end of the lease you can apply directly to the bond agency for it to be refunded to you and the landlord needs to formally object to claim any of the bond.

How are you checking the size? Some tools will split file size based on the number of hard links. So a 10GB file may show as 5GB in folder A and the other 5GB in folder B.

Also, if you're using Docker. Its crucial that your downloads and media directories are listed as a single volume. If it's two volumes, it'll copy rather than hard link.

Grayjay had a number of issues recently too. Guessing some changes on YouTube's side. Recent updates have fixed things.

I'm using the Google Pixel Camera on Graphene OS and don't believe there's any difference in quality. It doesn't require Google Play Services to be installed and you can deny it network access to cut it off completely.

Yes, they don't work without Google Play Services. Google didn't implement passkeys in Android, only their own services.

I've been using it for several months mostly due to it's UnifiedPush notifications support and been really happy with it.

Yeah, in self hosting MollySocket and my own Ntfy server. I'm in the process of moving it all to my NAS so I don't have to leave my computer on all the time.

I really wish Signal would support it natively.

I'm using Molly with UnifiedPush for notifications and it works quite well.

Another recommendation for Proton Mail. As others have said I'd recommend getting your own domain for email so you can always migrate providers without having to change your email address.

I used to live opposite the one in Reservoir and it got me through lockdown. They're opening a new location opposite Melbourne Central soon. Can't wait to be able to grab it for lunch regularly again.

The reason that Google got ruled against originally was that they were paying and offering incentives to developers to keep them from releasing their apps on other app stores.

Google also doesn't support a user installing the Play Store themselves (and the required Google Play Services dependency). So phone manufactures have to choose to include it on everybody's phone from the get go, or their users won't be able to use it at all.