I'm curious about the battery and reliability effects of push notifications without FCM. Using a single service for notifications allows a single wakeup across the device when fetching notifications. Last I checked, the minimum interval for coalesced timers in android is 15m and that's just in time for most telco NATs in the US to have silently killed your connection.
[Source: I used to run a 3P push network on android]
De-Googling my phone
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Re: De-Googling my phone
#132For who ever is interested.... I live in China and have lived in a "google free" microcosm for some time forced on me by the government. Generally do not miss anything at all - at least I dont miss anything i dont know about. FTR i dont game or media watch on my phone. For me a phone is a mobile device for getting things done when im not at my desk. I use a Blackberry DTEK60. The apps I use: APKpure for getting apps…
I think you aren't missing anything because there's always a proprietary alternative, but unfortunately, for true freedom, very rarely an open-source one.
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#133i stopped reading after claim that Firefox is fast on android. it's objectively one of the slowest browsers freeotp is also crap compared to andotp and name other alternatives are questionable and seem author has no clue about android/apps
Firefox for Android, and Firefox Focus have been my go-to browsers on Android for a while now. Zero complaints.
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#134I am adopting a different approach. It seems likely that I may not be able to de-BigBrother myself without tremendous efforts. There are all kinds of devils out there, why not at least sell the soul only to a single devil? So I am going all Google. Nothing else. I exclusively use all their products (even Google+). I don't have FB, Twitter etc. Google is the devil I have sold my soul to.
I'm pretty much same. I don't like it, but I won't use anything else either. It's bad enough that one company has so much data. I kind-of like the analogy someone told to me at some point that I prefer to shoot myself once in the chest instead of three times to the leg.
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#135I've been running LineageOS (and its predecessor Cyanogenmod) for 6 years now across three phones, currently a Moto G5 Plus. Have also set it up for several other people. Subjectively, the overall stability and quality has improved drastically in the past few years. It's almost certainly better than the stock build of Android on most phones. Performance and battery life is improved without Google Spy Services always running in the background. It feels great to run a (mostly) surveillance-free smartphone that answers to me, and only me.
If you do need an app from the Google Play Store in a pinch, Yalp Store gives you access to that, and most of them work well enough. For the occasional app that really needs Google Spy Services, I keep an older 'burner' phone around which runs the factory-default build of Android.
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#136Isn't it ironic that lineage is still basically Google? I get a bit of solace knowing it's open source... But I certainly won't be crawling through the code and compiling. I hope others do...
To be fair, it's tremendously difficult to even know what gets compiled in to the final package you get. Fun fact, Lineage, without GAPPS still phones home for network connection checks.
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#137I am adopting a different approach. It seems likely that I may not be able to de-BigBrother myself without tremendous efforts. There are all kinds of devils out there, why not at least sell the soul only to a single devil? So I am going all Google. Nothing else. I exclusively use all their products (even Google+). I don't have FB, Twitter etc. Google is the devil I have sold my soul to.
I do the same and with youtube as well. I bookmark video timestamps by leaving comments and liking videos to see if I've watched the entire thing.
I do the same with stackoverflow too(upvoting comments if it was helpful). Later i can browse my likes across many platforms to refresh what I was looking up.
Might as well apply data capturing to yourself and reap its benefits
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
iOS Safari
That's your problem. iOS Webkit has buggy scrolling behavior if you use fixed position elements or iframes. Unfortunately, Apple won't allow non-buggy browsers on their platform, so there's nothing you can do about it.
What you are describing was a problem with inconsistent scrolling behaviour, and it was fixed. On this site scrolling is just completely broken and it's dev's fault.
Edit: problem is overflow-y: auto
Re: De-Googling my phone
#139I'm curious about the battery and reliability effects of push notifications without FCM. Using a single service for notifications allows a single wakeup across the device when fetching notifications. Last I checked, the minimum interval for coalesced timers in android is 15m and that's just in time for most telco NATs in the US to have silently killed your connection. [Source: I used to run a 3P push network on andro…
In my totally subjective experience, the reduced power consumption of doing away with Google Spy Services exceed whatever background drain I've suffered with 3+ apps doing their own messaging for notifications. My phone (Moto G5 Plus) has been off the charger for over a day now and is still at 65% battery.
As for reliability, I have notifications for email (using K9 Mail and IMAP idle), XMPP (Conversations), and Signal. Emails (using IMAP idle) always reach me within a second or so. Occasionally, Signal messages will take hours to reach me, but I suspect that's not a problem with the websocket connection to my phone, as others running Signal (on a Google-laden phone) have had the same issue.
Re: De-Googling my phone
#140I've been running LineageOS (and its predecessor Cyanogenmod) for 6 years now across three phones, currently a Moto G5 Plus. Have also set it up for several other people. Subjectively, the overall stability and quality has improved drastically in the past few years. It's almost certainly better than the stock build of Android on most phones. Performance and battery life is improved without Google Spy Services always…
Agreed, a 5 year old one plus one runs very smooth with the latest oreo 8.1 on LineageOS.