[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Can it run problem bank apps? I need a bank auth app for work as the bank stopped fobs and it just would not run on LineageOS. It refused to run because "the phone is insecure". I tried Magisk hiding stuff and MicroG, and a number of way of tricking methods. That's why I ended up on GrapheneOS, as a compromise without feeling too compromised. Everything seams to think it's on a normal Android phone, but I've sandboxed the Google tentacles. But it would be better if mandating OS wasn't allowed. If I want to run a "insecure" phone, that's my "problem".

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Storing offline is great and all, but I hope everyone is storing on multiple disks at multiple locations....

Yer didn't think so, I'm sure photos are being lost.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

From my perspective the biggest thing wrong with FreeCAD is that it's a single threaded app in a multicore world. If you load large stuff, the app freezes and one core is working really hard for a while.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

So I've got Android as I want. LineageOS, no Google, Magisk, MicroG but with AndroidAuto with OsmAnd+.

But the outside world of WhatsApp, Bank apps, etc is putting pressure to join. Plus not everything works properly with MicroG instead of the Google service provider. Makes me cross techno-politically, but I can't always hard life tech choices when it effects others.

So, what do others do? At the moment, I've thinking I need a non-free phone and a free-phone! Then what, I keep swapping SIM?? I can't see a workable VM solution to run a non-free Android in a freer Android.

The state of the phone market is pitiful.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

The antifeature of DRM anyone? Wanting open source that you can keep running, up to date and secure, as long as you want?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe. But not all police forces and legal systems are like this. In the developed world, the US is a bit of an outlier.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm sure that is the motivation of some, those involved, but the vast majority of support will be voters who think deterrence works.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

The logic is deterrence.

I mean it's stupid, but that's what the supporters think.

The thing they are missing is that no one commits a crime thinking they will get caught. So ever increasing the deterrence doesn't help.

Drugs is a public health issue, no really criminal. Prohibition doesn't work with things done at scales like drugs and alcohol. You're just feeding the criminal gangs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I heard it rumoured it was written in 32bit x86 and was a mess. That meant porting it to ARM was basically a rewrite. There are open source rewrites. But nothing would ever play everything the same. Flash was riddled with security flaws of both format and implication. Adobe joined im killing it became it was a risk to Adobe not at an asset. Despite it's dominance at the time.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Yep. Phone have gone horrible wrong and ended up in a duopoly. It is hard for new phone platform to get started. Hell, it's a pain in the ass just have Android without Google services installed. It's such anti-competitive and anti-privacy mess.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I've been using the internet since 1996. Newsgroups is about all that was good back then. Oh and email.

Chrome has become the new IE6 and Google the Microsoft of the internet.

Today is a bit of a low point, but I don't think there was any perfect time.

Flash was a major issue during a lot of the "golden years" people are romanticizing. ActiveX was also, and still is, an issue for some parts of the world. Silverlight as well to a lesser extent

If there were any golden years, they probably were when the big three had similar market share between 2009 and 2014. But it was clear what was happening over those years, Chrome was eating IE and waning FF.

Yes apps are bad news.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

They thing to do is buy the rights to old designs, then open source them and sell them. It pisses me off no end I can't find system diagrams, schematics or source code to think I apparently "own". It keeps everyone ignorant and throwing stuff away to keep buying new. And now, with all going online, turns everything to a privacy nightmare . When the manufacture moves on to the next shiny, it will become part of internet of infected things botnets.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Argh. Fixed. Thanks.

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