unknowing8343

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[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Gmail is the first app that anyone should uninstall with Universal Android Debloater Next Generation and then one should install Thunderbird and live happy.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All patents are stupid. Seriously, I've written one, although of course only the boss gets credit for the property. It's a disgusting process where you try to destroy any chance of innovation in the name of money.

Well, Signal can do it. That's where the argument ends. If Signal can do it, XMPP should too. But it doesn't.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's a terrible UX. If you have a protocol independent from clients, at least the chat database backup should be standardized. It's not.

That means you'll forever get stuck to one client. This is absolutely terrible for any organization.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You don't even need another device. You might just want to try another client app. You'd be screwed. That's very, very sad.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because SMS costs money everywhere else and the world is not the US.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

XMPP does have something that breaks my heart: it bounds encryption to a very specific client. So forget about migrating to something else and keeping your history somehow. Which is very sad for supposedly interoperable protocol.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I did.

Hardware is amazing. I broke the screen after a month (my fault) and the replacement part was official, 40 €, and literally 3 minutes of repair time, no glue, no fancy equipment needed.

BUT Software support is non-existent. Not even security updates. Seems like this is something typical for Unihertz, which is really sad because these guys would become top sellers if they opened up for community contributions to software (Lineage OS or something), because, as I said, hardware is excellent and fairly repairable.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Critical Raster Angle Protrusion

What they are trying to say is that open source and libre solutions have rendered their investments shitty.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is Geo Share on F-Droid, which converts Google Maps to geo: links which can be processed by any mapping project that respects the standards (such as OsmAnd).

 

The other day I switched Linux distros, wiped disk, and somehow realised that OMEMO is a weird freaky thing and now I cannot see any message from my computer, even though I have everything visible on my Conversations Android app.

I don't want to get angry again, but... yeah, this is terrible, terrible UX. Seems like OMEMO somehow encrypts for each device differently, and now all messages are "locked". Which is weird, because messages are still there, just "locked".

Can I somehow import a backup from my Android app? Is there anything that can be done? My guess is that, probably not, otherwise I would have gotten a popup or something in the login process, "would you like to sync your messages?", but nothing happened.

XMPP supremacists, please! Give me a solution! I was organizing important projects with multiple people. Getting locked out of all that information is terrible.

Otherwise, then I really feel I can see XMPP disappearing now... and for a very good reason.

 

Is the loss of pacman and AUR that bad?

What things are to be gained? I expect that SELinux and Redhat backing should really make fedora way more secure.

 

I have a feeling it must exist. Some kind of search-engine that's got all the major trackers right there for you.

 

That's basically it.

 

It could be the thing that makes Home Assistant suddenly interesting for many ""normies"".

 

Or can I hard-reset the device into the default configuration again?

 

I know how to do it in the battery section through the GUI, but I'd like to set it up through a command, for automation purposes, and particularly for KDE Connect commands.

 

When I read about Overture Maps like a year or 2 ago, it seemed to me that basically they were going to create a whole new thing from scratch.

Let's be honest, with enough resources, it's easy to see that they could pull off some kind of OpenStreetMap 2.0, where all the issues from OSM are modernised and cleaned up.

What's really going on? Are we getting something soon from these people? What's the relationship with them?

On their website, they say "coming this fall". Are you excited? Scared? What should I think?

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21298994

I'm trying to feel more comfortable using random GitHub projects, basically.

 

I'm trying to feel more comfortable using random GitHub projects, basically.

 

They don't need to be brilliant, just decent enough.

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