Mostly on Lemmy with Voyager, and sometimes check Reddit with Libreddit (until it lasts).
Best of both worlds.
loki
joined 4 years ago
Wow, Linaro. that's a name I haven't heard in a while. They were the ones to optimize Android builds during the IceCreamSandwich days and just last day I was wondering if there were any third party optimization project still out there. All the best to them.
Gadgetbridge lets you connect and get data from supported smart or fitness watch without manufacturers app. Completely local.
Google claims to do some processing on their own tensor chip locally so it might reduce some data being sent to Google, but it doesn't limit them from tracking you. With Pixel, you are only being tracked by Google and not Samsung or other manufacturer
They say it’s to stop people from stealing iPhones to sell for parts.
There's an easy fix to this. Allow users to mark their devices as broken/dead in their (icloud?) system, so its parts can be extracted and used for genuine repair. Put it behind 2FA, email confirmation, and require purchase invoice, or whatever to make it happen. To counter edge cases, give a month for appeal, only then mark it safe for usage of its parts on other phones. A trillion dollar company should be able to implement this, but they're trillion dollar company for a reason, so yea...
Thiefs don't have access to the accounts inside a locked phone, let alone the invoice of purchase.
clicks. everyone likes more views to their ~~content~~ ads.
"I'm not antisemitic, Kanye is one of my best friend"
Competition is always good for the consumers. Having two authoritarian country competing means you can at least diversify where your data goes. Both will be trying to be at the top of the pyramid and products will get cheaper.
People will figure out a way to use them without the backdoors. Like how people currently buy cheap chinese phones and install LineageOS, or how people de-google with e/os/ or Graphene OS. Hardware backdoors will be a problem as they always have been but even they can be reverse engineered and patched.
If West or China is hostile to your country and threat model, use tech from the other side, and vice versa.
The west and especially US likes to sanction countries that don't bend over for them and everyone joins in because they are afraid of the same retaliation. Every country is realizing that it's not in their best interest to be a lapdog for a single super power. This opens up opportunities for bargains and not be on chokehold as it is now.
It'll be worrying if a single entity becomes the sole global leader in tech.
It gets worse on Fediverse as there are multiple threads to the same link on multiple instances. can't get rid of reposts anymore
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pairdrop.net maybe?
It's mainly for local network, but you can do internet transfers.
https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop#features