Gogo Sempai @ gogosempai @programming.dev

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Indeed. Simple Dialer is I think the only FOSS dialer app that is actively maintained. And Simple Gallery Pro is fairly advanced for a FOSS app, even having a video editor!

I had recently gone to India and Magic Earth and Organic Maps both had pretty weak coverage. Outside major cities, even roads aren't mapped. Works better in Europe and US imo.

Getting a Pixel 7 and installing GrapheneOS on it was another option but I just don't like the low performant and inefficient Tensor G2 chip. 8+ Gen 1 is an excellent chip, both in terms of power and efficiency.

My experience: I got a Nothing Phone 2 recently and decided to degoogle it. Using ADB commands, I removed every google app from my phone, from the Dialer all the way up to the PlayStore, apart from just 2: Play Services and Maps. Both work fine without a Google account. I did take away all permissions of Play Services and it still works fine. Without this app, you will stop getting notifications from most of your apps so it is necessary.

Open source alternatives that I turned towards:

1. Google Dialer -> Simple Dialer
2. Google Contacts -> Simple Contacts
3. Google Photos -> Simple Gallery Pro
4. Google Play Store -> Aurora Store and Droid-ify
5. Google Messenger -> QKSMS
6. Google Calendar -> Proton Calendar
7. Google Drive -> Proton Drive
8. Google Chrome -> Mozilla Firefox
9. Youtube -> Youtube ReVanced (Not FOSS, I use a throwaway account here with Vanced Microg)
10. Google Translate -> Translate YOU
11. Google Files -> Material Files
12. Google Docs/Slides/Sheet -> Collabora Office
13. GMail -> Proton Mail
14. GBoard -> OpenBoard fork with glide typing

Everything works fine :)

Another fun episode. That shark with legs really made me chuckle. Also liked the dynamic between Akira and Shizuka, hope they team up soon.

FYI, there's a fork of OpenBoard that enables swipe/glide typing! Literally was a game changer for me!

There's a fork of OpenBoard that enables swipe/glide typing. It's pretty darn good!

Yeah it's not on F-Droid so word of mouth it is!

It's not on F-Droid, likely because the swipe implementation that they've injected doesn't have an OSS license. There's a whole discussion on it in this thread. There's no privacy issue here as the fork also doesn't have network permissions or anything, but I can see why they'd be skeptical adding this piece of code to the main repo which has a proper FOSS license.

+1 to Mattermost. It's like having an open source Slack which can be self-hosted. There are a number of companies that use it including NASA and Samsung.

I've found this fork of OpenBoard quite useful. It enables glide/swipe typing which works perfectly imo and has great word predictions and autocorrect as well. Do try it out and see if it changes anything for you.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Horizon Zero Dawn would be my recommendations.

That was just an extra step to fit this 4 layer meme format. fdisk -l on the first would have been better instead as others have pointed out.

I know. I was going to buy a Pixel 7 for it but the G2 processor runs pretty inefficiently thanks to Samsung's 4nm process, as compared to something like the 8+ Gen 1. It's pretty weak in comparison as well. So I ended up getting a Nothing Phone 2 and manually degoogled it, swapped everything with their open source counterparts. Not full proof I know, but my threat model is escaping big tech surveillance and living an ad-free life which is more or less getting satisfied xD

1. Education regarding advertising ID and its deletion presented during setup (consent).
2. Addition of internet permission on per-app basis. Just like notifications now, every new downloaded app must get your permission to use the internet, else work in offline mode.
3. Give permission to only selected media to apps rather than everything. This is such a security risk, one bad app and it can steal whatnot.

Shhh let's pretend we are for Groo's sake here.

Although in all seriousness, my desktop has both: a 512 GB NVMe where the OS and apps are installed and a 2 TB 7200 rpm HDD where I dump data and some slower games.

Not their browser or VPN. But I do like and use their search as default on Firefox. Other popular search engines leech off big tech's index (DDG: Bing, Startpage: Google), at least Brave maintains their own index. Their AI summarizer is pretty good.

Much better, didn't think of that at the time.

Not needed, just an extra step to fill up step 2 in this meme format.

Not needed, just an extra step to fill up step 2 in this meme format.