I’ll be honest, most of the crypto/security jargon flies straight over my head, but Tim Henkes’ reply at the end, for fucks’ sake man. I don’t suppose xmpp has an alternative encryption to use instead of omemo?

It does suck if you do a lot of filesharing, since files only stay in the servers for 2 days

XMPP also supports federation, or server-to-server communication, but it’s whitelist based from my cursory read

You’d be surprised. There are also people who will go into debt just to watch some of those games

For the opening match, you get to watch the opening ceremony as well, so there’s that

Also happens with some apps on fdroid. “Update available” - click to see, nothing there

Had that problem on linux, haven’t tried dolphin on windows, but I wouldn’t expect it to be different in that regard

I prefer Geany 🧞‍♀️

Lighter and faster

The thing that really annoys me with Linux file explorers is that none of them have a “sort by extension”. They have sort by type, but it’ll mix .jpg, .png, .gif and .webp together, for instance.

See, that’s what I’m talking about, there are real images that could’ve been used in the OP, not old 3D renders

Middle one looks like a generic cyberpunk wallpaper, right one looks like a futuristic city 3D. The top left one looks fake because of the giant crane

Please name the 2 cities on the bottom right of the OP image, then

Would’ve been better if real images were used for China

Also, Gearbox only got involved like last year

Having an account won’t solve the problem with A, since spam accounts are a problem even in the fediverse

Any idea of what’s the package? Or what it’s supposed to do, like a library for other programs, a specific program?

Imagine it’s the 90s again, everyone has a phone number, but one person will only talk to you via ham radio. Same energy.

For communication, people will prefer what everyone is using, simply because it’s easier to reach someone else. Herd behavior. You can try to get them in, but pressure will mean that it’ll be you who will have to either give up and cave in to use Discord, Whatsapp, etc, or get removed from the talks for refusing to be where they want to.

I wish I could leave whatsapp, but it’s a literal case of “everyone uses it” in Brazil. Even the short, justice mandated wpp blackouts couldn’t keep people on telegram for more than 2 days.

Google has continuously faced bad press for having a nearly non-existent quality control for their play store. Apps loaded with malware, or updated to become malware, are super common. The majority will attempt to inject ads every-fucking-where, like press back, SURPRISE AD! Press home, AD TIME! Close the ad, HERE’S AD 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!

At this point, the “best” solution might be buying one of those SBC (single board computers) that also has an android image, like orangePi or ODroid and “build” the rest of the phone on top of it. Might be the only way people can get a screen smaller than 6" as well. I say Android in this case because it has access to all the apps without needing emulation or Waydroid

OOOOORRRRR, just buy an used older phone that you know is easy to unlock and install a custom rom. Did that with a motorola G6, am happy with lineage. Not the fastest phone by a long shot, especially as newer versions of many apps just introduce more bloat because fuck you, but perfectly usable for messaging and video watching. Also has a headphone jack!

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