smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 129 points 1 month ago (19 children)
  • if your skill is so great that you would never cause the kinds of bugs the rust compiler is designed to prevent, then it will never keep you from compiling, and therefore your complaint is unnecessary and you can happily use rust
  • if you do encounter these error messages, then you are apparently not skilled enough to not use rust, and should use rust

In summary: use rust.

Nice, that's great to hear!

Ah, too bad! But thanks, that's good to know.

Not gonna lie, I'm a tiny bit jealous of you 😄 It's gotten to a point where having to use Android is a constant, low-intensity source of stress just because of how closed and privacy-unfriendly it has become.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, that is a very kind offer!

The secific app is xdrip+. But it's probably not possible to test it out, because starting/working is not the issue, the issue is making sure that it has a 100%% stable background connection with my blood glucose sensor, recovers from failures, restarts in the background on closure,... Eventually, I'll get my hands on a linux handheld and try for myself :)

That being said - how's your experience with Sailfish been so far?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, true. I honestly think we need to get to a point where smartphones intended for use with linux are profitable / widespread.

But that's a catch 22 with UX and HW both being required for companies to invest in the other.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

Again for Germany, it's handled by a single provider, and they absolutely do utilize CoCo tech. (Source: I work at one of the involved companies, sorry, not going to be more specific)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In the case of Germany: confidential computing tech ensures all data is encrypted in storage and in memory, shielded even against data center employees / hosting providers. I imagine that's become the standard for most countries.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Make sure you choose a proper open source one, else the app might collect data as well...

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They don't let you anymore, do they? There was a whole controversy about the Zenfone 12

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Just waiting for the pain to be enough to switch to Linux on a phone.

Main drawbacks right now:

  • I have one health-related (open source) app that I NEED to work flawlessly
  • Navigating the various UIs seems incredibly awkward and inconsistent
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When we need to know each others location, we share it via element / matrix. Our own server, so no third party.

Happens maybe four times a year.

(Also, do you just always have location services enabled?? IMO it's a battery drain, I pretty much only enable it for this and while I need to navigate)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair. Though also, english isn't my first language.

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