Yes, but not all are allowing operations that support the war on Iran

I think human lazyness as you say is the biggest obsticle. My kids school sent out a Google form the other day to collect family stats. A google form requires a google email and i had degooglised the family 5-6 years ago. My wife was concerned that not providing the info would singke out my son but i was determined to not fill that form, thus passing my data to Google. So i called up the school and sought a second method. The school secretary eventually agreed to record the info over the phone. I lost 30 mins of my day. Basically, if we don’t have the will to mske change, change will never come. But then we have no right to complain, do we?

None of these are on fdroid. Only Ollama chatta is there but was updated 16 months ago. Hugginface looks interesting. Are the model you download from there safe?

Looks like i missed this and now have 2.0.12 installed. Dangers of autoupdate i guess. What are the chances that this version is compromised? I guess if i installed it the i’ve potentially already compromised my android. When will we know when all is good to go and why has the fdroid people not blocked the app unitil there is clarity?

What i find interesting is that pubblishes have gone to every length to reduce the benefits of consumers and increase their margins. Yet, pirating is still there. The question is whethere it has reduced. I was pretty content with buying media i liked and then ripping it but nowadays there is hardly a new CD or DVD being produced. Subscriptions are not the way, especially when only a few large players are controlling the market. They just do what they want.

The more i read about these stories the more SciFi movies of th 80s and 90s appear closer to reality. Real visionaries were those like George Orwell and Isaac Asimov that saw the big brother and AI coming. Imagine what will happen once AI gets integrate into our eletric grids and power stations. The AI will “understand” that its survival depends on the grid and will exclude supply to anything other that its own. I hope I’m not around when this happens. AI should never have access to critical infrastructure.

Too bad I read this only now. I may have already updated the original app to v.1.28.1 Just seen that on Android you only have access to syncthing-fork now. Moved over to syncthing-fork and realised you cant import the config. Its expecting a zip file yet v.1.28.1 expoted loads of individual files. :-(

I would like to understand what this really means for our planet. More solar means less resilience for power grids? Overall less CO2 when considering the whole cost of life cycle? What about incident light/energy with all these panels? Where is the science?

When you say "I close city water’, sounds like you are also drinking that water? Sounds like a cool idea that I too have been thinking about. That water needs disinfection though

These look really interesting

Good shout. I hadn’t thought of the hotspot option although I wanted to relegate WhatsApp to the burner phone as I just use it for kids school.

The problem is that many banks are using mobile phones 2FA devices and they don’t allow other means. I asked why I couldn’t go back to SMS as 2FA and they said that they deem it to be insecure.

Yes, I’ve been thinking about a burner phone but difficult to find pay as you go sims these days here. You end up in some form of contract. There you go … You want privacy, you have to pay for it. Wtf! We’ll soon be screwed altogether. They’ll soon ban non-stock ROMs too … Not long till this happens …

Surely that can’t be true if you live in the EU. GDPR would screw them.

There are a couple of dependencies that I will find hard to get rid of like bank authentication. Its getting really hard to find banks that will allow 2FA via methods that don’t require the app.

Molly.im does not have a lot of documentation. Does it equally rely on a centralised server? If it does, then surely one of the downsides is that there probably isn’t a huge foundation behind it ensuring the bills are paid, etc. Or is it that Molly is piggy backing on Signal servers? And is the Signal Foundation happy to be have Molly users using its services? How long before Signal Foundation kicks Molly users off it servers?

Also I note u can download two different version: one with Google blobs and one without. What compromise do I have to make if I choose the Google version?

Its the first time i hear about Molly … Cant believe i didnt know about it

Thanks, how strange when I searched for it in fdroid it didn’t come up 🤔

Is there a reason for CoMaps not being on fdroid? I must be missing other app stores. For example, Accretium (a privacy appstore?) is not on fdroid.

Wow, this is impressive. I had heard about profiles but never got into the detail and never really understood the benefit. So, a cool way of using this it to have a FOSS only space under the main admin profile and the build up a second “big brother” profile where I stack some annoying apps that in a way or another I’m forced to use like banking app and what’s app. When the “big brother” profile is shut down, nobody tracks you. Would that be correct? If this is true I’m here asking myself why on earth people are not harnessing this more.