This. Any open website with the notification service described in OP is a potential anti-piracy honeypot. And if setting up RSS feeds is too complex, how is it any more so to wait for a ping and then manually download the film?
halm
joined 1 year ago
Ah, tech journos...
Ubuntu Touch [is] a great choice if you seek an alternative that prioritizes privacy and open-source ideals.
But
One area that has improved is Google account synchronization. While it's not flawless, it's easier to sync services like Gmail and Calendar than it was before.
🤦 I don't think he fully grasps that Google is the main reason to use a more private OS than (stock) Android.
Nope. He explicitly only praises battery life in that parapgraph. He experienced some performance issues in his (old) test device:
Ubuntu Touch shines in battery life (at least in my experience). Since the OS is lighter and uses fewer system resources, many users report better battery performance than on Android. Ubuntu Touch is optimized to reduce unnecessary background processes, making your phone last longer on a single charge. However, if you push the OS with more demanding tasks, you may still run into performance issues, especially on older hardware.
Yeah. Be very, very afraid of people using search engines or "AI" as some Magic Eightball oracle to give them answers.
Oops, added a suggestion of Simplex before I saw your answer. +1, I guess 🙂
Simplex chat has a default "private notes" chat which is essentially chatting with yourself as you describe it.
Simplex is available for a lot of platforms and devices, and easier to install and maintain than Nextcloud. I'm not sure if it ticks all your boxes, though?
Oh! Thanks for reminding me! 😆🎂
Same. Didn't know about labwc, will look imto it when I switch to Wayland someday!
Did you come off a Crunchbang distro as well? 🙂
None. Openbox WM with Tint2 as a rudimentary system bar, Rofi as launcher.
I've been looking at Vosk, but haven't found a good client for their API yet. Anyone else?
Ah yes, the anglocentrism of software development. I gave up on Google translate years ago because it clearly only catered to English speakers. The other way around was such ham fisted mistranslations with English syntax, it was basically useless.
Such odd choices here. Why should the EU make its own version of Linux when they could invest in existing project and kernel development? Given the recent sacking of Russian kernel developers, do we want further politicisation of Linux development?
Just no. There are way better solutions than /e/, and suggesting device and OS lock-in like this doesn't exactly inspire trust. In my eyes, that idiosyncracy detracts from the generally positive suggestions of getting public administrations away from corporate platforms and OSes.