If those are deal breakers for you, that's fine. Most of the apps on my phone aren't open source and I already accept my phone is a device I don't control. I focus on running open infra and controlling my data, and don't worry as much about the phone save for a few key items (e.g. password management).
And, frankly, as far as user experience and featureset goes, Symfonium is second to few or none, at least IMO.
Hate to be that guy shilling for other projects but if you're in the market, Symfonium is also worth looking at. Hands down one of the best subsonic (among other things) compatible clients available for Android, updated very frequently with a developer who's very responsive.
Yeah, but... think about it for a second: we're now in a world where a Linux-based OS is, in certain contexts, better for playing games built for Windows than Windows.
As a person who's been running Linux on his devices for almost 30 years now, that's incredible and I absolutely understand why folks would've initially been skeptical.
Echoing other comments, my backup strategy for all our devices is: Syncthing to replicate data to my NAS, restic to generate encrypted backups, and then cron+rclone to offsite those backups to Google Drive.
I absolutely love this setup.
It works anywhere. Syncthing takes care of firewall punching and all that so whether I'm at home or on the road, I know the data is being replicated correctly.
It's immediate. Syncthing doesn't run on some schedule. It's constantly replicating so I know at minimum there's a copy of all my data if something catastrophic happens.
It's private, encrypted, and entirely in my control.
The setup is built of composable parts that can each be understood, modified, and debugged easily.
Normally I'm a little cautious about rolling my own infrastructure for something critical like backups, but this setup is so simple and robust that I just don't worry about it.
Other use cases I've come up with:
I use Paperless as a DMS. It has a watch folder for automatically ingesting documents. I set up Genius Scan + Syncthing on my phone, syncing scans to the Paperless drop folder, so I can scan from my phone and automatically upload to Paperless without any additional app. Just scan and off it goes.
For a while I was playing Subnautica on my Steam Deck and my gaming rig. Subnautica doesn't support the Steam Cloud so I used Syncthing to replicate the save data across my gaming devices.
Not particularly weird or outlandish, but of course I also use Syncthing to replicate my keepass database across devices as well.
I also have a personal wiki of Markdown notes that I sync between my laptop and phone using Syncthing.
Oh, and I use it to replicate my Calibre library between my laptop and my calibre-web server.
Basically it's my swiss army knife of "I have data over here, I need to get that data over there" and it's amazing!
Or pass new legislation. The government tried to use existing environment legislation to ban single use plastics by listing them among other toxic substances. That that didn't pass judicial review isn't actually that surprising (depending on how the original law was drafted).
The alternative is just to amend that law to add additional powers to ban bioaccumulating and/or biomagnifying substances, of which microplastics are just one example.
It's just more work, obviously, than using an existing legislative tool.
Both Saskatoon and Regina are around 250k people and have reasonable CoL.
Also worth looking at Edmonton, which, with the surrounding areas, is well north of 1M with a sizable Ukrainian population, while being comparable to Saskatoon in affordability.
Of those who say they receive more than they pay, support for the carbon price reaches 79 per cent. Among those who believe they spend more than they get back, the results are flipped: 82 per cent oppose the tax.
Got it. So people who don't understand the policy don't support it, and people who do support it do. That tracks.
Fix the messaging and the problem is solved. This isn't rocket surgery, but for some reason both the NDP and Liberals are piss poor at messaging (to wit: the Alberta UCP going on an advertising spree about their assinine Alberta pension plan idea while the silence from the opposition has been deafening).
100% agreed. Minority governments ensure far more Canadians are represented since the aggregate population represented by a minority coalition will almost always be larger than that represented by a single majority party.
Yeah in my build I have a short length of micro USB cable with a usb connector on one end and a 4 pin socket on the other that attaches to a usb breakout board mounted on the edge of the bottom plate. This let me place the usb port in a comfortable location while putting the teensy in a logical place in the case.
Anyway, one of the joints connecting the cable to the 4 pin socket broke. Super easy fix. Other than that it's been remarkably problem free, and as you say, even if I run into issues into the future, repairs are very easy (unless I ever have to replace the controller... that could be more of a pita).
Honestly, the multiple profile feature seems like a total afterthought to Google. Even before 14, I experienced endless bugs running a second (work) profile, including the inability to receive incoming phone calls and text messages, odd crashes and freezes, and the launcher hanging fairly regularly.
Let's not forget random pulling of content so that you can never tell if what you want is actually on any given service at any given time. This was the final straw that led me to rebuilding my own media collection.
Very nice, succinct example of exactly what I was talking about: by blurring the line between Judaism, the Jewish people, and the Israeli state, folks like you can paint any kind of criticism of Israeli government action, their supporters in media, or allied governments, as antisemitic, thereby shutting down reasonable discussion. Truly a thought terminating comment. Well done.
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The article was published today so: no?