deadcade
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- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 month ago:
I have used Waydroid, mainly with FOSS apps, and although it has some rough edges, it does often work for just having one or two Android apps functionality.
Linux on mobile as a whole isn’t daily driver ready yet in my opinion. I’ve only tried pmOS on a OP6, but that seems to be a leading project on a well-supported phone (compared to the rest).
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 1 month ago:
The Steam Deck is a PC. The most console-like PC experience you can get, but still a PC.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 1 month ago:
The Steam Deck is a PC. The most console-like PC experience you can get, but still a PC.
- Comment on I Tried CalyxOS For 3 Months (So You Don't Have To) 2 months ago:
Not only is comparing these not the point (CalyxOS has a different purpose than GrapheneOS), the chart is heavily biased towards Graphene. Take for example the whole section on privacy. They list Graphene specific features, note that Graphene has them, and make other roms look bad for “not having them”, or even provide incorrect information. “Storage Scopes” and “Contact Scopes” for example, two Graphene features, intended to make closed source apps “happy” with giving them fake permissions. Although there’s definitely a use for this feature, being much more FOSS focused, Calyx provides the option to isolate non-foss apps into a work profile. This is effectively doing something very similar, although more limited to the user. Or the “Tracking through Android Advertising ID?” column, which lists only Graphene as “Not part of the system”, and everything else as “Randomized ID”. Graphene runs the official Google play services “in a sandbox”, without modifying or patching anything significant. This also means Google’s implementation of Advertising ID is being used. This is not randomized, and worse for privacy than anything using MicroG. Calyx MicroG and Graphene Google Play Services are both opt in, yet the chart favors Graphene by claiming it doesn’t have the anti-feature.
- Comment on I Tried CalyxOS For 3 Months (So You Don't Have To) 2 months ago:
This person does not understand open source or Android whatsoever. They talk a decent bit about “default installed apps”, without properly understanding what most of them even are. They complain about some apps “being out of date” when installing CalyxOS, calling it “concerning” that they’re not on the latest version out of the box, as if they couldn’t update the apps themselves. The whole “review” feels more like an iPhone user trying to switch to Android for the first time, being confused because it’s different, and complaining about it because they don’t understand it.
The main benefits of CalyxOS lie under the hood. It’s built to be more secure out of the box, and doesn’t connect everywhere without consent like most other Android ROMs. If you’re fine with the privacy and security of using something like LineageOS, CalyxOS doesn’t have much extra to offer.
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
share/
- Comment on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 4 months ago:
While it might seem interesting for your usecase, please be careful which specific distro you use, especially when it comes to “windows-like” distros. Wubuntu (previously LinuxFX) has terrible security for your payment info, and the developers have made a ton of questionable decisions.
- Comment on As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction 5 months ago:
Gemini, the protocol is built on never adding new shit, so it’s only basic pages
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
“But it looks bad and could be bad for the battery!”
Every other wireless mouse has it in the front, Apple has no valid reason to leave it at the bottom.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 5 months ago:
Was yes. They have introduced an “internal sdk” into all their clients with no available source code. That’s what everyone’s complaining about. They call it a “packaging bug”, but in reality Bitwarden clients are just no longer open source.
- Comment on 10001 5 months ago:
As in, 0x11 is 17 in decimal.
- Comment on Clipped it blud 6 months ago:
No, this is Patrick!