You can check yourself. If the Android Developer Verifier App is installed then you have it

Nura is currently in the process of setting up a non profit to coordinate the development of the OS. One of the stated goals of this is to enable hardware partnerships, with German phone maker shift being floated as a potential partner.

That’s not the reason. The app verification daemon is part of the Google Services, not of AOSP. Even if Graphene and Lineage wanted to ship it, they legally couldn’t for the same reason they don’t ship the playstore. But as soon as you install the playstore manually, which is possible, you’ll get the verifier service, too.

It also couldn’t be trademarked and was misleading for hardware like the PinePhone that shipped with the OS pre-installed.

And that repository is flathub. Stable base for the OS, bleeding edge rolling release for the apps

And if you need an app from a third party repo, pick one that includes at least rudimentary sand boxing such as flatpak/flathub

Happy to help. One further point of clarification: Netbird traditionally was a VPN solution that required client software on the end user device, that’s what you were thinking of presumably. However they recently-ish expanded into offering reverse proxy services as well: https://docs.netbird.io/manage/reverse-proxy

So if you are looking for a cloudflare tunnels alternative and don’t want to go the fully selfhosted route, then Netbird can do that. I can’t speak to it’s reliability though, because I run a selfhosted Pangolin for my setup, and Netbird themselves mention that the feature is currently still in beta.

That’s what pangolin is. Your users don’t need to use anything special. The VPN is used internally to connect your server and the VPS. It’s not actually public facing. For the enduser it’s the same as if you used cloudflare tunnels.

One word of warning if you choose to go with Cloudflare: Using their tunnels for streaming video is technically against their TOS. It’s not really enforced most of the time, but you might run into problems, if you plan on really high usage.

An alternative service is Netbird. Open Source, based in Germany and as far as I know they don’t have this limitation

Won’t really help. We’ve also got bearded Lex Luthor

Yes, and then they filed a DMCA notice against the game for copyright infringement (or rather Tracer.ai did on Microsoft’s behalf). Literally two weeks after the blog post.

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/?ref=anyfeeds

The notice has since been withdrawn, but still…

There are third party clients for a lot of streaming services as kodi add-ons. Here for example is the add-on for P+: https://www.matthuisman.nz/2021/06/paramount-plus-kodi-add-on.html

Please keep in mind that I haven’t used these for years and can make no comment on whether they still work. There are also some inherent limitations. Quality will be caped at 720p for example because widewine Linux bullshit

The reason is simple: we want to get you security updates faster, and give you more control over your own machine.

Security work has sped up across the entire Linux world; vulnerabilities are found faster than ever, in packages and in the kernel itself. A Fedora base lets patches reach you more quickly, and on your own terms.

And their installation is almost always illegal. But they stay up as long as nobody complains. “Normal” security cameras tend to be big and you can see where they point at. Doorbell cameras are small and easy to miss, so they fly under the radar

It is basically already illegal everywhere in Germany. German law has these things called “the right to your own image” and “the right to your own voice”. Basically if I want to film or photograph you, I have to ask for permission first, even and especially if you’re out in public. There are exceptions for if the person is incidental to the image (I photograph a building and you just happen to walk into the shot) but these don’t really apply when riding the bus. So using the glasses is already illegal. This is about wearing them.

Side note, this is also why Germany doesn’t have as many private security cameras. Because you need to place them in such a way that you don’t film the sidewalk, which is complicated. And it’s also why German media doesn’t use secret phone recordings. It’s always a “recollection from memory” re-enacted by a voice actor.

Have you tried Lightworks? The free version is less than useless because it limits export to 720p, but it includes all the codecs. Available as a deb, rpm and flatpak. And it’s European - sort of (originally based in the UK, now owned by an American parent company) It’s the other Hollywood tested editing program for Linux

• Geary for Linux (https://flathub.org/de/apps/org.gnome.Geary)
• Wino Mail for Windows (https://github.com/bkaankose/Wino-Mail)

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-apologizes-for-emailing-nazi-runes-to-its-followers/

It’s not a problem if you’re into

• (leftist) US politics
• Linux and other IT topics
• Star Trek
• German Memes

As soon as you try to talk anybody else, you might find you struggle to have a community large enough to sustain a conversation

The US copyright office for one

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2025/02/copyright-office-publishes-report

Human authorship is a bedrock of copyrightability, and thus works entirely generated by AI are not copyrightable. (…) Where a work includes both human and AI-generated content, only the human contributions are potentially copyrightable.

From what ive seen the phone providers are using googles backend software called “Google Jibe”

A lot of them are. But Google is not the only option. There are carriers that roll their own solution, rater than using googles white label solution. Chinese carriers are for example offering RCS under the name of 5GMessaging and they aren’t using Jibe.

Also by the fact that it doesnt work on degoogled phones you can surmise that google has the ability to disable or limit the feature on any device with google play services.

but that’s a client problem, not a server problem. There are providers in some regions who offer their own apps that still work with custom roms. It’s just the Google Messaging app that does play services attestation. Almost everyone uses this client, but it is only almost everyone.

I don’t disagree that there is some open washing going on, but that wasn’t your original claim. You stated that Google needs to approve any client and that’s just factually wrong.