Congratulations!!!
I wish I had friends to use xmpp apps to text…I’m a whatsapp hostage
To be fair, I only have a few of my friends and some of my family on XMPP. I’m also guilty of having WhatsApp on my work phone for colleagues and the rest of my friends.
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Quite the kinky lineup; WiFiAnal, Wetter, QuickDic… 😏
I love the mandatory Super Tux Cart anyone of us has installed but played like 4 times
Lol. Last picture at the bottom third. “WiFiAnal” xD (Sorry, I’m childish)
Hey, that’s the only safe way to let others control your buttplug.
Stop, you’re gonna make me cum
WifiAnal
Try CoMaps instead of Organic Maps. It’s a fork because Organic Maps is starting to enshittify
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.
I just ran the two apps side-by-side and barely found any differences otger than some subtle UI changes. How exactly is it different? And how is Organic Maps being enshittified?
I haven’t been keeping up with Organic Maps updates to see if they differ but I’d assume they’re basically functionally the same, except for potentially Kayak results.
https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c
Thanks for the link. I just made the switch to CoMaps because I’m tired of enshittification.
The only Organic Maps controversy I’m aware of was the presence of certain closed-source elements on what they claim to be a FOSS app, and that the main developer refused to open up, then partially did, then backtracked and never fully released.
Maybe that’s what that user is referring to? Not sure.
Man, I had hoped they fixed the search.
Those apps are fictionally useless for me. Does anyone know how to use it?
you mean comaps? Search is just a bit slow but not a big deal at all. I’d rather that than having Google spy on my ass everywhere I go.
Of course, I don’t mean speed, I meant the search format. On Google I can search for an address with the usual format of 123 Street, City. If I search that way on Organic/Co, it doesn’t pop up results the same way. I just never understood it besides being an offline map for my reference.
I don’t know about other countries but here in germany I just type the street and the number of the house and it takes me to it. (as in Street 123, City)
You could add addresses to Open Street Maps
I see you have freetube. Grayjay is also a great addition as it has plug ins for lots of sites
Unfortunately FreeTube and Newpipe never worked for me. Only NewPipe works, but I have to disable my VPN.
They said it couldn’t be done…
It still can’t be done 100% unless you make significant sacrifices to the usefulness of your smartphone…there’s plenty of really useful (and sometimes necessary) things with no FOSS or open source alternatives.
Not to mention drivers… many driver blobs are proprietary and if you can find an open source one, there is a chance it works partially or not at all. I have a spare phone and I’ve been hesitating between flashing either PostmarketOS (all FOSS drivers but without the android ecosystem) or LineageOS, or maybe both if I can achieve that.
Even if you fixed the issue with drivers…
…your modem runs it’s own firmware with a lot of extremely shady behavior, and you can’t touch that regardless of which OS you install. Even your SIM card can arbitrarily execute Java applets and fetch from the network without your command, but at least it’s somewhat contained. Your modem though, it can do a lot without your control and people like Qualcomm have been caught doing nasty stuff with it (plus, of course, giving the US the data whenever they ask for it).
This is why people like Stallman and Snowden often talk about teaching users how to use libre software on their computers, but rather than pushing for the same with smartphones, they tell you to not touch these at all instead. They’re fundamentally anti-privacy devices, built this way.
Of course I carry one, it’s fairly hard to live without a phone nowadays, but we must be aware of the impossibility of fully containing the data harvesting they do.
Quite impressive choice of apps, usually when I look at screenshots of privacy enthusiasts they look more or less like my own phone, and with you I share 3, maybe 4 apps only
Attack surface who dis?
That is the way! Excited to flash my phone to LineageOS. Thanks for sharing the apps !
Whoa, I have like half of these, nice!
Honest question: I see a lot of people here use their mobile phones as a computer platform. I have a general uneasiness about doing so. Not throwing any shade whatsoever, I just feel there is too much out of my control on a mobile phone, for me to trust it more than I do. My general policy is not to use my phone as a mobile computing platform even tho I have a VPN installed and use Firefox as a browser.
My local network for instance. There is one pipe in and out. I can easily see what is coming in and what’s going out and I can control that with the granularity of a gnat’s ass. I know what my software is doing or not doing. I can allow or disallow anything I want. On a mobile phone, I feel that the control I have on my PC is not equal to the control I have on my phone.
How have you come to terms with what you can’t control on your mobile phone?
I definitely agree with you on this. My pet theory is that phones have been getting uncomfortably big, at least from my perspective, since the average consumer is expecting it to serve as a computing and productivity platform, while all I want is a nice little digital Swiss army knife. I’m only logged into my messaging apps and personal email, and don’t expect to do any sort of “productivity” on my phone. When my friends and colleagues assume I’m logged in to this-or-that on my phone, all I can think about is how afraid I would be if I were logged in to so many things on my personal phone. It’s so much harder to inspect what’s going on in the background of mobile devices.
One of the compromises I’ve had to accept is the closed, yet exploitable nature of the baseband and firmware. Also how much more spying it could do compared to any PC if an exploit were to get through. Compiling Coreboot and neutering the Intel ME taught me a lot about who’s really in control - and how much control we all lose to smartphone manufacturers and telecom companies.
How have you come to terms with what you can’t control on your mobile phone?
Threat level analysis.
I run an older android version, no google apps, rooted, and use AFWall/AdAway. I’m sure it’s not as secure with root and older software but I can mostly trust it to not send weird network packets etc.
What do you do when you leave the house?
Touch grass? Not OP, but when I’m out of the house, it’s because I need to do something, so I’m barely on my phone except for navigation, the occasional text/call, and paying for stuff. Otherwise, I use my laptop most of the time (at home and at work).
On occasion, I do leave the compound, but it’s usually to get staples I don’t grow/produce on the farm. Rarely does that process need a mobile computing platform. (I guess that’s what you’re asking)
