I read somewhere they’d be releasing the list of witnesses on July 20th

I’m scared of clowns

I was thinking in a way similar to how GrapheneOS handles Google Play Services. But the technicalities of it being a possibility are outside my scope of understanding.

I think it would he awesome if someone could reverse engineer Android Auto and rewrite an open source implementation.

There’s also Skiff worth checking out for email. Their work is looking really good. They’re still in an early development stage but from my testing, it looks good.

Their company is in the USA however.

I am not sure. I have yet to find a good FOSS Android torrent client. I have experienced annoying bugs and crashing with all them that I have tested and LibreTorrent seems to be the most stable.

DiWhy?

Grilled cheese - American cheese is the only way i enjoy a grilled cheese. Also, Black Forest ham and American cheese sandwich with lettuce tomato and mayo on a baguette or other real tasting bread.

I have always lurked Reddit, I have never made an account. With Lemmy, I contribute instead of lurk as I feel I have a part to play in it’s early growth for it to succeed. But that being said, I occasionally check the front page and a few specific subreddits but not quite as frequently since I joined Lemmy.

Oh, and when I do, I use LibReddit to view reddit, so nothing even official.

Oh! I got some great recommendations!

I use:

• ViMusic for music (free, don’t quote me but I believe it uses Spotify and YouTube APIs for music?)
• OpenBoard for keyboard (I found a GitHub Fork that included swipe to text but can’t remember the name - doesn’t work great anyways)
• Checkout LibreTube as an alternative to NewPipe
• LibreTorrent for torrenting (kinda buggy sometimes but better than any other FOSS alternatives)
• UntrackMe for redirecting site links to privacy-friendly frontends (YouTube->Piped, Reddit->libreddit, etc)
• Quillnote for notes (its simply the best, I have tried a lot of other note apps)
• Checkout Magic Earth (it’s not FOSS but it takes a strong stance on privacy and uses OpenStreetMaps)
• Trusty ol’ VLC Media Player

I contribute where I can, nothing significant.

However, nothing beats Apple maps IMO. I have an iPhone which I hotspot data to and basically only use it as a GPS when driving. I can’t use my Android device as I prefer using Apple CarPlay and GrapheneOS does not support Android Auto.

I use Magic Earth or OSMand when I don’t have my iPhone with me.

Favorite? Hm… I would have to say Codeigniter (PHP framework) but I love these projects as well: Linux/GNU, VLC, LibreOffice, qBittorrent, VSCodium, Filezilla, GIMP, Firefox, Wireguard, GrapheneOS, Matrix, F-Droid.

If I won the lottery I’d donate to these projects or their respective foundations.

Great, more bots… Did they fix the horrible bot problem? I haven’t played in 6+ months due to this.

There’s a reason big tech companies are worth hundreds of billions of dollars yet most of their users have not paid a dime. So yes, data is valuable.

Data is very valuable. Google shows advertisements like they’re listening to people’s conversations, except they aren’t. Their data profiles and predictions are so good they know what you want to buy before you even know you want to buy it.

Search the Cambridge Analytica scandal… I am not grossly over estimating anything.

AI training and data mining. The value of data has surpassed the value of oil long ago. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil.

Check out rocket.chat

It is what my company uses. It is free and open source. Same features as Discord. Not too difficult to setup.

Really? I sure hope that’s customizable…

That is exactly why I choose to use FOSS including Linux. As much as I want to standby this principle, I have come to a breaking point after dealing with its issues, issues we have all experienced. I believe it is hands down the best choice for server use, but for work and productivity, I need something more matured that is going to work out of the box. I am glad that the community here took this criticism well but I think it’s important to discuss and understand that there are still some strides to be made. But at the end of the day, I’m just some guy ranting and who knows, maybe I’ll be installing a Linux distro after a month of using Mac OS.

The episode is called “The entire history of you”

a father was recording his kids in 3D through his Vision Pro

Didn’t Black Mirror have an episode on this? Having the tech being used in day to day seems a little dystopian to me.

I will never stop using Linux, special place in my heart. But for my primary work machine and daily driver, I need something that is just going to work.