Man Lemmy is so much better than Reddit.
From a pragmatic standpoint, yeah it would accomplish that goal. However, that discounts the intended purpose of the stars, which is to represent an individuals attribution of personal value and trust. They lose significance and become misleading if you can buy them, which holds true even for good software. When we see a github star is should represent someone who has used the software, finds value in it or who respects and trusts the project.
This interview with the developer of MicroG might be interesting if you’d like to learn more about it’s benefits (or downsides) over sandboxed Google Play services. It debunks a lot of misconceptions or rumours about MicroG.
MicroG collects very little information about the user. It does less data collection than sandboxed Google Play despite it being a system app. MicroG is a more transparent, community driven piece of software that distances people from Google to a greater degree in my estimation, though I don’t have developer level understanding of the software. Just basing my thoughts on interviews and published information like the video above.
Personally I prefer the privacy/open source oriented approach of MicroG, but I also run GrapheneOS so haven’t been able to use it for a few years.
I think saying it’s just as bad is an overstatement. MicroG sends fake data or no data in the majority of data calls from Google servers and only interacts with Google when it needs to in order to make a given app function. Sending drastically less data to Google is a win and fits many people’s threat model just fine.
I’ve never used Shazam but did use the music recognition app on pixels when I was the stock ROM. Audile seems that it gets about 80% of what the Google app would get. I’d imagine that would change depending on the kind of music you’re often trying to identify though, Audile is probably working with a smaller database of some genres.
I can’t totally remember when I found these, but they’re relatively fresh on my phone. Couldn’t live without them now.
Any recommendation for an awesome tool like syncthing is worth it! Pile it on 🥳
If you want to manage your own password vault, KeepassXC for desktop and KeepassDX for mobile, using syncthing for syncing. Vaultwarden is a option for a more involved self-hosted set up.
If you want someone else to manage your password vault, Bitwarden for desktop and mobile.
Those are the only meaningful options that I’m aware of if you want an open-source solution.
Those are strange issues, I personally haven’t experienced any of them.
If you’re interested in malware detection, you might try Hypatia.
A reinstall might be helpful, but if you’d like to go back to the original Pixel firmware you can do that pretty easily. First, go to this GrapheneOS installation page and scroll to the bottom for the instructions on removing the non-stock boot key. Then you can use this link to install the stock firmware: Google web flashing tool. It uses a similar web flash tool to what graphene uses for installation.
Development is pretty rapid too. I didn’t track the features on the updates, but new versions were getting pushed regularly. No mobile app which was kind of a bummer, but the progressive web app integration was pretty good. It felt like a mobile app.
Edit: I forgot to mention the note sharing function, it shares a URL of the note that allows the recipient to view and edit the note through the URL. It was a little janky when compared with sharing a note between two users using themselves app, but it still worked pretty decently.
You might like Blinko. It seems similar to Keep to me. I set it up for awhile, but it didn’t give me anything beyond what I already have with Joplin, so couldn’t justify keeping it or transitioning to it. Here’s a video from DB Tech on the set up process: Self-host Blinko with docker
Awesome, thanks. I’m going to give it a try. It seems like the best FOSS find my device type service available by far.
I’ve been wanting to spin this up myself, but the fact that the Dev says his example docker-compose.yml is incomplete has stopped me in the past. Did you have to add anything to get it functional?
It worked on me 🤷. I always have the intention to donate, but life is busy and stressful. If they put a button in front of me that takes me to a donation portal, I’ll do it in a second.
I haven’t made that same transition myself, but I have moved calendars around with .ics files and it went super smoothly. All events get moved, past and future.
Not often, and usually not while accessing YouTube.
I’ve never had NewPipe present me with a sign in prompt or any bot challenges, that’s a very strange scenario to be facing.
Not the OP, but I believe they’re talking about the upgrade from 128 bit AES to 256 bit AES. It created some compatibility issues between clients for a few days as the ones that weren’t updated yet couldn’t decrypt the newer 256 AES encrypted notes. That was my experience anyways. It’s a great app/server from my personal experience.
It does, you can turn it on in the YouTube plugin settings.
I do see a mention in that post about instead supporting the jellyfin client developers. They give this page as a reference for who to support based on which client you use.