unknowing8343 @ unknowing8343 @discuss.tchncs.de

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Gmail is the first app that anyone should uninstall with Universal Android Debloater Next Generation and then one should install Thunderbird and live happy.

All patents are stupid. Seriously, I've written one, although of course only the boss gets credit for the property. It's a disgusting process where you try to destroy any chance of innovation in the name of money.

Well, Signal can do it. That's where the argument ends. If Signal can do it, XMPP should too. But it doesn't.

That's a terrible UX. If you have a protocol independent from clients, at least the chat database backup should be standardized. It's not.

That means you'll forever get stuck to one client. This is absolutely terrible for any organization.

You don't even need another device. You might just want to try another client app. You'd be screwed. That's very, very sad.

Because SMS costs money everywhere else and the world is not the US.

XMPP does have something that breaks my heart: it bounds encryption to a very specific client. So forget about migrating to something else and keeping your history somehow. Which is very sad for supposedly interoperable protocol.

I did.

Hardware is amazing. I broke the screen after a month (my fault) and the replacement part was official, 40 €, and literally 3 minutes of repair time, no glue, no fancy equipment needed.

BUT Software support is non-existent. Not even security updates. Seems like this is something typical for Unihertz, which is really sad because these guys would become top sellers if they opened up for community contributions to software (Lineage OS or something), because, as I said, hardware is excellent and fairly repairable.

What they are trying to say is that open source and libre solutions have rendered their investments shitty.

Wake me up when it releases on F-Droid

There was a similar post about Android 16 releasing """"today"""" a week ago and nothing happened

The fear of doing a major release is crazy here.

Yeah, I mean, if I was Unihertz, I'd give all my drivers' code to LineageOS and sales would skyrocket. I don't know why they don't do this.

Unihertz never updates their phones. It's amazing, fairly repairable hardware, but software support is terrible.

It's sad. They could let the community handle it, but they won't.

Is it worth a try or is it just a rebrand for now?

Yes, I was thinking... How much tax on Google will force it to get out? I'd say it's definitely a lot more money.

Also, what's interesting is that... If Google got kicked out... Nothing would happen. There's libre software for everything Google does.

Please stop with these useless articles. Yes, every world power likes gathering metadata. And no, USA is not a "better place" for metadata gathering.

Well, you fell on the sad trap of the "default flavour" of many distros.

I think GNOME only has that presence because... It's american. Otherwise... No one can beat the possibilities and features of KDE Plasma. Truly a complete desktop, so good you could downgrade it to work like GNOME if you wanted.

Let me stop you right there: the chances of Jellyfin going rogue are much smaller. It's libre software. It's GPL. It's copyleft. We are pretty much safe.

You are not a Plasma user it seems.