While degoogling is accessible right now, what worries me is that all of these projects are 100% dependent on Google's whims because they use Android as the upstream. Same reason why I don't use Chromium browsers: yes, they can patch over things, but they can't fight the direction of the upstream project and they are powerless if the upstream stops publishing commits / source, like Google seems to be moving toward. Additionally, what "the big distros" aka stock ROMs do to prevent FOSS apps being installed means a much much smaller potential userbase for them. I develop an Android app, and (while I don't have analytics) I don't find it unlikely that at least half my users are on stock roms that would lose access to my app with this policy. It's much less motivating to develop something when I know less people will benefit, and especially knowing I'm supporting only custom roms that are 100% beholden to Google. Degoogling is a good first step. I've been on Lineage for many years now. But I believe that the step that will truly make us independent is moving to Linux phones.
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What kind of collective action are you thinking of?
Cool! Perhaps I'll give Qwant another shot. Thanks for sharing :)
Very cool, but this is old news from 2024. I wonder how they're doing now.
Cool! Hope it works out.
Gah, Nextcloud is missing all the features and is frankly unusable (mobile apps are slow, can't make or view albums, and can't "open with" links on Android at least). My family uses it and my biggest project right now is importing all our stuff to Immich when I finally get the NixOS server ready to replace Ubuntu.
I did not enjoy finding out only at the end that the images in this blog post are generated/made using AI.
Tuwunel had intentions to build a Synapse migration tool, but I haven't heard anything about it since. Was waiting for it so I could bring over profiles and most importantly chat history for myself and my family.
Sweet, perhaps it will run better than Whisper (according to the graphs at least) on my poor phone as voice input method. Whisper works great if I give it 20-30s to think :)
Ah yes my favorite Country, the European Union.
I had a ROG Zephyrus G14 "AMD Advantage" laptop with a AMD GPU in it that suffered from these "ring" crashes (according to dmesg). They came and went every few months sometimes with several weeks between crashes. When it would happen, audio kept playing but the display was frozen (can't even go to tty) and I had to force poweroff. The crash could also happen on Windows (I installed it just to test repro) but Windows handled restarting the GPU so it wouldn't freeze unlike Linux. The conclusion, at least in the community of people with that laptop, is that it was a hardware defect and the laptop needed to be RMA'd. ASUS wouldn't do anything for mine though despite explaining the issue to them and showing it happening on Windows.
Either way, I now own a Framework 16 with a 7000 series GPU and am very happy :)
I'm personally really excited for Linux phones and want to move to one relatively soon. They've done amazing work on the experience of using them. What I'd really miss, based off of talking to folks and trying them at conventions, is: