Lineage is not about providing a google free version of Android. It does not contain google apps, for licensing reasons, probably also to let the user choose. But it does not go further, all the other stuff like captive portal check, agps, dns etc still uses google servers. It's not "degoogled" in any way. Love lineage btw but we need to be aware of what it is and isn't.
"See when I slap you in the face that's actually a really nice thing of me to do. Because if I don't slap you in the face I'd kick you in the groin really hard instead. Do you want to get kicked in the groin? No? That's what I thought."
German here. It's weird, isn't it? Israel did not exist when Hitler had the power and millions of Jews were killed. On the other hand, a Russian Jew would have been a prime target for the Nazis. Strange that the German government still feels like it has to be more supportive of the state Israel than of Jews themselves.
just?!?
Don't do one of those "5vs1" interventions! All it will do is make your friend think you are "ganging up" on him. Talk with him one on one, make your other friends do the same with some time in between.
Title is a bit misleading. Those channels are not blocked on Android in general, but only on the play store version of telegram. Download from F-Droid instead and that's that.
Yes please and just call it what it is! "Brutal" and "sexual" feg. Because I for one work in a sex fight fetish porn production studio so to me all of this is very sfw.
Interestingly, the commentary on Article 85 of the Third Geneva Convention includes “the wearing of civilian clothing by members of the armed forces for purposes of disguise” as an example of a war crim
Bonus points because guess where I read that?
https://en.idi.org.il/media/6191/combatants_dressed_as_civilians.pdf
It seems like some things just don't change.
Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".
Unix philosophy. 50 years old idea. Imo devs would love to work that way but they are never the ones making decisions. And every CEO wants to have the new everything app ala wechat.
Iirc this is phrased in a slightly misleading way. What they actually want is apps on the play store to be allowed to use their own billing system. And they want to be allowed to offer alternative store apps on the play store.
Android itself or more precise AOSP is open source and of course anyone can do anything with it. This is about what is or isn't allowed in the context of google app ecosystem that comes with 99.9% of all devices running android.
Closed source? Cringe.
Ah you are on of those antisemantics everyone keeps warning me about!
Most brands allow relocking bootloader. But after that you with be only able to use stock rom. Pixel lets you lock the bootloader with a different signature, so in this example you are basically able to lock it to only boot grapheneos and nothing else.
Yes and it's incredibly annoying to me. More. Some houses cost more than Indian space agency spent on getting to the moon.
Idk which third party apps are compliant which aren't? There is this one feg: https://f-droid.org/packages/it.belloworld.mercurygram/ Unlocks the premium app icons for free. https://f-droid.org/packages/nekox.messenger/ This one surely has a few premium features no? Unlimited accounts feg?
Personally I just use Telegramm-FOSS since years. Not sure what the actual differences to official client are at the moment, but this one is just fine and I'm never annoyed by premium feature ads like it seems to be the case for you.
I highly doubt that F-Droid team removes third party telegramm apps when they are against tos of telegramm. They are actually out there defending our freedom, even and especially when proprietary services do not want us to use Foss third party apps. Google does not want you to use third party apps for their services. F-Droid still out there publishing foss YouTube clients. Give them some credit instead of just assuming they suck up to big companies.
No. Everyone can use Signal technology for free in their own products. They are not selling it to anyone. Yes, some time ago moxie helped to integrate their encryption algorithm in WhatsApp and that's that. Very likely that he / the foundation got paid for that service, but it's not like Signal is funded by selling their technology to anyone. And for sure it's not like they can't match WhatsApp features because then WhatsApp would go down the river and they run out of funding...
I don't know what to say but stuff like this makes me kinda angry. You read about moxie helping implement their encryption in WhatsApp at one point, and then came up with this story that Signal is somehow mainly funded by meta and Microsoft and can't compete with their products because it would put ms and meta out of business and endanger their own funding this way. Like, please don't make up stories like that, OK? It's not a nice thing to do.
If you are really interested here are some actual facts on the matter:
On February 21, 2018, Moxie Marlinspike and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton announced the formation of the Signal Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The foundation was started with an initial $50 million loan from Acton, who had left WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook, in September 2017. The Freedom of the Press Foundation had previously served as the Signal project's fiscal sponsor and continued to accept donations on behalf of the project while the foundation's non-profit status was pending. By the end of 2018, the loan had increased to $105,000,400, which is due to be repaid on February 28, 2068. The loan is unsecured and at 0% interest.
Source: wiki. Took me five seconds to google that. Again please don't spread made up stories, thanks.
This is not an issue of Bluetooth itself. Some audio devices include too large caches (because in the early days not having interrupted audio was a bigger deal than having video and audio synchronized), but you get Bluetooth audio devices just using the default SBC codec that don't have any noticeable delay. Using codecs like aptx adaptive fully solves the problem.
The reason you don't see BT gaming headsets is not latency, it's Bluetooth missing a proper mode to submit audio in high quality bidirectionally. Long story short: when you got high quality sound on your headphones, the mic of your headset is not in use. When the mic is in use, the quality of the headphones is reduced to basically telephone call quality.
There have been technologies trying to work around that, most important would probably be faststream, but it never really caught on. It's pretty
obscure still, you have to take care that all the devices and software you want to use support it, so I guess it's just easier and cheaper to get a dedicated wireless gaming headset with dedicated USB dongle.
At least since BT 5.0 I read stories that BT will be able to support gaming headsets aaaaany day now but well, nothing for now.
Why would you expect someone to understand a group of people just because they like a song they made? Art being misinterpreted, or interpreted in a way the artist never intended, is the oldest story in the book. Long story short it's not at all "odd that the singer doesn't understand his fanbase".
Everyone take a step back and take a deep breath. Now, do you really believe elon removed an emoji from the built-in keyboard of your smartphone?
On a side note, in germany we call the middle finger "stinkfinger".
Psst those Brands are not your friends and might lie about their reasons to make batteries non-removable.
Exactly, why insult the fine people of Moronistan? Most Moronistans I met are really nice people. Been there on holiday a couple of times.
Did you already tell them there is a problem with the floor dampening and you hear every step very loudly? Surely you would not just expect them to know that they are not supposed to walk around in their own apartment and instead of talking to them tell everyone on the internet how bad they are? Because that would be pathetic.
Stick to old fashioned paper tea bags and you are fine. Don't use those pyramid shaped silky ones.
Honestly I thought it was an abbreviation for "for example" and probably used it one gazillion times 😅 now that I google it it seems like "e.g." is what I was going for.
The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It lies on the international border that was confirmed by the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty and the 1982 Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. The Rafah Border Crossing can only be used for the passage of persons. All goods traffic must use the Kerem Shalom border crossing on the Israel-Gaza border.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Gaza_border
The Rafah Land Port became the primary border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, managed by the Israel Airports Authority until Israel had dismantled its settlements in Gaza on 11 September 2005 as part of a disengagement plan. It subsequently became the task of the European Union Border Assistance Mission Rafah (EUBAM) to monitor the crossing.
In the 2023 Israel–Hamas war that began in October, the crossing was again effectively sealed. The Egyptian government refused to allow either Gazans or foreign nationals to exit Gaza via the Rafah crossing, despite intensive international efforts to secure a window of time for the Rafah crossing to open to foreigners who want to exit the Strip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing
The Philadelphi Route, also called Philadelphi Corridor, is a narrow strip of land, 14 km (8.699 miles) in length, situated along the entirety of the border between Gaza Strip and Egypt. Under the provisions of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty of 1979, it was established as a buffer zone controlled and patrolled by Israeli forces. One purpose of the Philadelphi Route was to prevent the movement of illegal materials (including weapons and ammunition) and people between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphi_Route
Tl;Dr: Europe, Egypt and Israel all play a part in managing that border. The only party that has zero control over this border is Gaza.
Well technically it's still $25 registration fee for the developer. Also, more apps being available on a platform increases the value of that platform, so google benefits even if an app is free. But I get what you are saying.
But this is where the whole monopoly argument comes into play. Just paraphrasing the issue quickly: No app store works even almost as well as play on android. And google is doing that on purpose. First issue is installing the alternative store in the first place. You have to download apks and accept scary warning how this is very very unsafe and you will get hacked and lose all your money and it's your own fault. Then after that it still does not really work as a store should, you have to manually check for updates and approve every single update individually. Only way to get around that is to unlock bootloader and root, which 99.9% of users can't and won't do, and then we have safetynet put in place by google that btw does not check for any actual safety features but only checks if you modified your system, aka tried to escape google hell, and causes all kind of issues.
So in short if Android was a platform where stores and billing systems could compete in a fair way your argument would absolutely make sense. The whole point though is that it's not, that google made damn sure that the only viable option for any company creating apps for android is to use their store and their ecosystem. Sure, if you ask google of course it's all just for your safety and surely has nothing to do with them making a shitload of money. The jury decided on exactly that and their verdict is very clear, understandably.
Don't worry though, there are still decades worth of appeals and other legal moves google can pull off to slow down any potential change. And by the time this case is won by google in 2040 everyone will fully accept this as normal and have already forgotten about the case in the first place. Just like with Microsoft some twenty years ago. Surely they don't bundle their OS with a browser anymore, right? Wasn't there a lawsuite?
Long story short I'm pretty sure Google will keep it's monopoly. They got unlimited amount of money to throw at lawyers and for out-of-court settlements. Epic doesn't stand a chance, they are on a whole different level.
Also, I'm going to bury it. Yes I know previous poster said us pack animals don't do that but who gives a shit I am not part of your system. I also know this deck is built out of solid wood planks so of course I am not actually burying anything, I'm just scratching up your deck really badly. But this I will do and nothing can stop me.
Yet another problem the free market will surely solve aaaaany minute now.
Yes, same, this is the way to go! Way better than the screen itself being matte. Just get the matte screen ptotector.
Ah so you found yourself in the old conundrum of not wanting to do drugs but also not wanting to seem boring, not cool and weak.
The solution is simple: just tell your friends that their drugs are shit and you are way more hardcore. Weed?! I mainline brown brown bitch.
Plesse don't let it be wireless charging...
Tough titties.
What, related nonprofit that can not legally fund Firefox development? What are you talking about? It's literally developed by them.
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.
Really not trying to be an asshole here... But why would anyone be proud of being disabled?
Nothing it's like they don't even care about me :(
Yes and the drop is only a couple of years ahead 💀 rip China
But also gives you the options to increase security.
Yeah tbh I went full contrarian with that comment don't take it too seriously 😅 apologies for being so confrontational. Kudos for working on your issues!
It's astonishing what kind of annoying asocial behavior people sometimes show while being absolutely unaware! We are all caught in our own stories sometimes and don't always have good awareness of our sourrounding. The way you describe the situation it sounds like yes, they should be aware that they are loud, but it's still very likely that they just aren't! We've all been there!
Really astonishing what kind of stories people come up with here...
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate
Look at "annual % change" for 2020/2021 and you should quickly realize that this "historic drop" is actually just a slow recline from the historic rise we just had.
And the framing of this article is just as astonishing. The whole "does anyone even notice" spiel! Amazing.