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By the way, "Foxy Droid" does the same job as F-Droid but is much less annoying. Available on F-Droid.
Off topic, but since you brought it up: what is annoying about f-droid?
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Pinephone for a cheaper, less performant alternative: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/?v=0446c16e2e6...
Unfortunately (since otherwise I’d be using one) both are unusable as practical replacements for Android or iOS.
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Unfortunately (since otherwise I’d be using one) both are unusable as practical replacements for Android or iOS.
Once calls/texts work with 100% reliability and it isn't slow as hell I'm going all in :)
Texts, not slow as hell, decent battery life, would do it for me.
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That’s not what I was replying to. There are legit uses is terms and conditions... so where should they go? The GP said software should be bought like everything else... but everything else can’t be easily duplicated and shared... so how will that work?
If I buy an apple, maybe I want to eat it. Perhaps I'd like to smoosh it under my boot. Maybe it goes up me bum. Now what does a magic apple copier have to do with me putting apples up my bum?
So the problem is: you break capitalism, hard.
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I imagine if you wanted to 100% stop buying or using products from FANNG (+Microsoft & Twitter) it would be impossible without doing anything short of living completely off the grid. Imagine, you ditch your smartphone. You switch to Linux. You stop using _search engines_ because all of them use Google or Bing in the backend. You abandon Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, GitHub, and Gmail. Before you go to a websi…
I don't believe in "vote with your wallet" kinda dogmas. I mean watch the news right now.. We need regulation and government investment in open tech and software. The App/Play Store are anti-competitive, but Apple and Google have a Duopoly in the mobile market. There can and should be rules regarding this. I don't see how they should be even allowed to profit off these markets. Like at all. Every app there increases…
I do however tend to buy products and services that align with my values and shy away from products and services that go against my values. For example, I’d be more inclined to buy a Tesla and install home solar panels then I would be to buy a VW because Tesla is emissions free and VW lied on their emissions tests. VW lost some long term customers because of that incident and Tesla is continuing to attract new buyers that are concerned with climate change. Due to this trend we are able to deploy more electric vehicles then government regulations require.
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I think the situation is probably more interesting than deliberate anticompetitive evil. I bet that there was indeed some policy violation, and some minor bureaucrat is reasonably applying the policy, but in a way that misses the big-picture impact of doing so, for example threads of outrage high on Hacker News. The policies back them into being a monopolistic heavy whether they mean to or not, because they're so big…
> The policies back them into being a monopolistic heavy whether they mean to or not That only happens because they deliberately put themselves in a position of market power. If they didn't have such crazy amounts of power nobody would care about their "policies" misfiring. None of this is accidental in the big picture, we're well past any window of plausible deniability with Google. They can't perpetually claim inco…
Don't forget that F-Droid is a thing, and Android still has at least that much freedom - to install your own software. Who would have thought 30 years ago someone would be saying "People can run any code they want on their computer" as a shocking thing.
F-Droid bans apps for “hate speech” too[1]. Any mastodon app that refused to blacklist Gab got banned from F-Droid or something like that. It is the perfect example of why I don’t even bother with federated projects. It’s just “wouldn’t it be great if _I_ were in charge?” If that’s the situation, I’d rather Big Tech be in charge because at least they have some name recognition and hierarchy for decision making. Nobod…
The "build your own if you don't like it" answer is often absurdly impractical, but not here. Someone who feels it's important can put up an alternate repo containing clients preconfigured to connect to Gab and even an alternate build of F-Droid preconfigured to use it in an afternoon.
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This seems like a classic case of Hanlon’s razor and I don’t see any evidence to the contrary (yet). An NSL would be handled a lot differently than removing an app from a single app store for sexual content. Every indication so far points to it being a mistake by Google. From less than a week ago: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/googles-bots-decide-...
Maybe. But if you always discount such events as coincidences, you risk remaining blind to emerging patterns.
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Signal, for instance, does this: https://signal.org/android/apk/
Signal doesn't. They give you a hash not a signature. I.e. if you have control iver their site, you can push a malicious signal application and change the hash.
On Android, APKs are almost always signed by default (even if they're only self-signed).
Oh wow, this chat has blown up with messages and I doubt anybody will see this message at this point, but here we go. During these weeks of being at home and having lots of free time after work, I've been doing _projects_. For a while, I've been reading how people rant about Matrix always on HN, and I finally decided to suck it, install my own home server and try it out by myself. The installation for sure requires a…
You forgot to link the Ansible playbook you're talking about :)