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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh I am using openvpn but that's good to know!

 

I am following the linked guide for protonvpn to try to get soulseek to work and the soulseek port test tool keeps on saying the port is closed. However when I run natpmpc it seems to be successful - anyone have ideas how to get it up and running?

 

Super easy to use and setup - I currently use it to share between my android phone and my linux laptop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Stealth never has had account integrations because its only a reddit viewer, and I think recently its also switched over to just web scraping old.reddit.com

Most likely this won't work forever - just like fritter (open source twitter reader) they will patch the scraping into oblivion

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've used Stealth client andits's still working on reddit, crossing my fingers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No problem!

I got a pixel 6a (you need a pixel for graphene) and it comes with 5 years of hardware support from google which means it will be fully supported by graphene for at least 5 years. All pixels from 6 on come with 5 years while earlier ones only had 3 years

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

With graphene's sandboxed play services, mostly no - if you need to use play store apps, it has the ability to install google play services in isolation with a compatibility layer on top that allows you to restrict google's access to everything while letting you use play store apps as normal, granted you may need to sign in with a google account for functionality like paid apps. Everything for me has worked well so far app wise.

The one thing that has been not exceptional is location services. At the moment, graphene uses gps/glonass for location while stock android uses a combination of GPS, cell towers, WiFi and Bluetooth scanning which it sends to google servers to get precise location. This means graphene's location is much worse/unusable indoors and isn't quite as precise outdoors, so while google's location services are invasive they are also quite useful. You can configure it to use google location services but I find this counter productive, and the website says that they are working on bringing more precise location services locally.

I've used lineage in the past with MicroG and was both excited to try to degoogle but also realized how much I relied on play services. MicroG is a package of apps that mimic play services but I found it to only sometimes work. Notifications were broken on apps that rely on play services until I realized I needed to sign in with google, but signing in with google ended up causing multiple problems. When you need to sign on to gmail on a new device it will automatically try to use your android device as a two factor sign on. Because I hadn't yet set up a two factor authenticator app and MicroG doesn't implement this feature, I was locked out of my gmail account for a few days. Additionally apps that wanted you to sign in with your google account did not work. This was all frustrating enough that I ended up switching to lineage with google apps, which worked but kind of felt like it defeated the purpose.

Just to round it out, a few nice to have features of android won't work out of the box like "what's playing". Android auto nor google pay will work either. I've never really used these features but others will definitely notice them being gone. At the same time there are so many awesome things to discover while having graphene or lineage like all of the privacy respecting apps on F-Droid, and I feel way less about my phone sharing everything I do to google

 

Hey all! I'm looking for a solid and somewhat inexpensive US-based vps provider and it seems like all of the top 10 lists from media sites are focusing on beginner friendliness and web hosting which I don't really care about

Any favorites?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I run Graphenee and it is an awesome user experience - most of the conveniences of stock android with the peace of mind of privacy and security

 

If content on the fediverse is federated and copied to local instances, then won't instances have to hold onto a forever increasing amount of data?

 

I was wondering if any of y'all had favorite games to play on lemuroid, the awesome retro game emulator for android! I've enjoyed playing warioware there in the past but was looking to play more - some games work better than others of course with thephonwe tapping interface