It’s a fair distinction to make. There are AOSP ROMS that make enough changes to the code that they are no longer legally considered to be an “Android” distribution, GrapheneOS for example. I don’t know where LineageOS falls on that spectrum, but its a real possibility that the code may be drawn from AOSP, but it no longer can call itself Android. Maybe Android-based, but thats it.

That seems like a possibility. Yeah, LineageOS has some great stock apps, I wish they were more possible outside the OS itself.

I just use the stock clock app on GrapheneOS 😕. Its not pretty, but it works. The two below both look pretty good, maybe its time for me to reevaluate what I’m using.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock/

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.vicolo.chrono/

I both agree and disagree. I agree that people are often unswayed by pro-privacy arguments. I disagree that it is the fault of the arguments themselves. The problem is that people are uneducated regarding the repercussions of abdicating their privacy to a government or corporation. They don’t want their neighbors to be able to see in to their bedroom, but they find no issue with allowing Google (or any data-miner/government) to create complex and nuanced profiles of their habits, tastes and psychological tendencies that is full of identity rich data. It’s tantamount to handing over your fingerprints “because why not.”

Man’s reach has excedded his grasp with technology, and most of us in the general public have no real understanding of how it all works. Perhaps a bit like the north American Natives not understanding the significance of selling their land to european settlers until it was to late.

From an informed perspective, it isn’t logically consistent to be ok with Google having unfettered access to your phone’s data but not so with your neighbor. One is a person, someone you may even have real reason to trust, and the other is a profit driven corporation that has repeatedly shown that it will violate civil rights in their pursuit of dominance in their field. People have lost their ability to value the right to privacy because the corporations have conditioned them to do so. The book 1984 has many good depictions of what it is like to symbolically “live a life with no curtains,” and it’s a hellscape. However I think people are just not informed or educated enough in the significance of privacy to see this clearly in our current setting. That’s not really something we can address in the short span of a conversation. It’s just beginning to dawn on some of my family members after almost a decade of me sharing info with them, and usually it comes after they see some piece of media that dramatizes the invasion of digital privacy on TV. Sad that our world view is so dependant on media like that.

There’s some good answers in the other replies, but basically asking them questions like “Why do you have curtains on your windows?” Is generally pretty effective. People just don’t seem to realize that our digital lives are as personal as our physical lives, and just because we’re not breaking a law doesn’t mean we don’t still have a need to hold a private life.

🥳 glad to help!

Try going to the settings for the specific feed and toggle on “fetch full articles by default.” I tried turning that off on mine and I got the same thing that you’re describing. Turned it back on and back to business as usual.

Hmm, I’m subscribed to their RSS feed and I get full articles out of each post 🤷 I use Feeder in case that’s helpful for context.

I love this 😂🤩. The KOTOR games are the foundation of philosophy and lore that I measure all other Star Wars by. Really great stuff.

+1 for Tuta. I have a free account with proton but I pay for premium Tuta. They have deeper ideological connections to the open source world and release many of their apps on F-Droid. Proton has only released their VPN app on F-Droid and seems to have no interest in any further activity there. Basically I think Tuta edges ahead in the morals and heart department, though they are a smaller company with less resources.

Not for me, I’ve had an increase 🥲

Has some Lovecraft vibes 🥳

Haha, yeah time travel strays in to deus ex machina territory pretty easily. It can make for an interesting story if done well, but usually ends up feeling cheap and lowering the emotional stakes.

Interesting, I’m working my way through Voyager now, I’ll keep this in mind when I run in to those episodes. It makes me think of Stargate Universe too, lots of time travel in that show. They seem to always give you the perspective of the successive version of the group and the “originals” get sloughed off pretty regularly.

I don’t know man, those are some strange behaviors. Can’t say I’ve experienced any of them. There does seem to be a common theme of slow and delayed responses, that is almost certainly a hardware issue from my experience, but that doesn’t line up with the specs you mention.

Regarding the privilege issues, running a general user without superuser privileges is a standard practice for Linux. You can change your user to a superuser though, there are plenty of walkthroughs available to accomplish that. That will keep you from having to run sudo, doas or enter your password as often. Some things will always require a passcode though, as that’s just what the best practices of the tech landscape indicate.

+1 for that Jeff Geerling video. Excellent tutorial.

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There may be a few others that handle RCS besides those two, but their ties may be just as unsavory as the first two.

That’s pretty awesome that there are at least some laws about telecom provider privacy where you are! Here in the states they can basically do whatever they want with whatever you give them 😓

If you want RCS, you have to go with one of the corporate apps like Google Messages or Samsung Messages. It’s sad and I hope the situation changes eventually because RCS is much better than SMS and more ubiquitous than signal.