do you mean there is a known upcoming change in signal?

linux users are allowed to watch the show in compressed 720p. that’s it.

well, poettering’s new company amutable is pretty suspicious in its intentions

thats cool until you find out the reason for that is he founded a company that’s goal is to turn desktop into locked down android.

and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren’t excluded.

aren’t they? last time I checked any browser on linux had artificial problems with playing DRM content from streaming platforms

well in that case, why do we eat dessert when we do?

because that’s when you are home and maybe not in a hurry. says a lot.

in some countries it’s fallen out of fashion. in others, people are too lazy to bring a slim wallet with themselves and select the bills and coins every time they want to spend

most apps already work, and it’s been always that way. those that don’t, it’s because they depend on the google services system app (microg helps here). or they require google play integrity to pass which is not something that can be hacked around, because this is its exact purpose: denying to work on open source aosp systems. it is security, but not for you, but against you.

I’m sure there was, but I’m not sure there still is.

maybe those who still do that carry around a google infested phone.

The phone app is very useful for those functions - especially if the alternative is going into a bank and queuing.

the bank’s web portal should also work for this.

if it refuses to open on your phone, try firefox and enable desktop mode for that tab

Iiuc Open Source Android has to sandbox Google Play for banking apps to work

that’s not necessary but also not enough for it. the bank apps specifically check if you run a google/apple approved, unmodified operating system.

today it is not possible to pay with an open source operating system. somewhat of an exception is grapheneos, but even if you just build it from source for yourself, the bank’s app will refuse operation.

and on top of that, google services are required too if you want to pay with your phone in shops.

so this is not something open source os maintainers can solve. it is a result of google engaging in illegal practices which are not prosecuted.

building an alternative to Google and Apple is a high priority

Technically… afaik most banks in the EU also support current non-android huawei phones, which have their own implementation of the play integrity service to lock you into the factory os. but huaweis are not better, probably worse.

quality control of the operating system to make sure it doesn’t contain malware/spyware

if uou l9ok around, you should see that is not a requirement

that started with SELinux enabled

that does not matter, it needs to go over all of them. I don’t know how long it takes with SSD, but with HDD it can take a half an hour or more, with a mostly base system. and the kernel starts doing this very early, when not even systemd or other processes are running, so no ssh, but web console should have been working to see what its doing

you are just making yourself learn to ignore that your smartwatch vibrates. It’s a bit like breathing and blinking, you are so used to it you can completely forget that its happening. if your smartwatch, or phone, or whatever, starts vibrating all the time, you will get used to it and not notice when it stops happening anymore, but also it will hide any actually meaningful notification.

but you probably won’t notice that some of the regular emails are not sent anymore

are you sure it really bricked it? when turning it on, on next boot it needs to go over all the files and retag them or something like that, and it can take a significant amount of time

Would be awesome if it ever has a messaging section without having to make a call, still, an awesome start!

convenient in one app, but we already have briar for that

did not know that the serde developer tolnay is a military apologist. I’m disgusted. serde is a very good tool… I’ll think about what to do about this. such a shame…

how did tou migrate your existing accounts to this system? or did you just make a new account from scratch?

most fediverse software does not collect precise geolocation though, which is why this point was brought up

unless another federated instances synced them

I don’t think the homeserver tries to fetch media remotely that was local but since deleted

we often talk about how discord is a black hole of information, but this is worse than that