GigglyBobble

BwMessenger was launched in 2020 and Android Playstore shows 50k downloads. That doesn’t seem like mass-adoption. I don’t see anything replacing WhatsApp in Germany, unfortunately.

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Why doesn’t the screenshot show the prompt but only its title? Unnecessarirly suspicious since it wouldn’t even be hard to fake it.

Applicable and economic solutions are needed now though. The tech isn’t there and yet the moron of a Minister tries to force it, no matter the cost.

Damn right he will! Wait, who again?

You’re right, scratch that.

I’ve just never downloaded apks directly from Github and probably shouldn’t recommend it for the reasons OP gave wrt keyboard apps.

I got confused by that issue about naming conflicts with the original OpenBoard. If you have installed that one, you need make your own debug build to run them in parallel.

Unfortunately, it’s an abandoned project that hasn’t gotten updates for 2 years.

There’s an active fork but no release yet, you can only install by building it yourself: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

No, they can’t since I don’t have a Google mail address. Even if I had, they’d have a harder time building a social graph when I communicate with others outside of Gmail.

That’s the superior approach and Firefox introduced it far earlier than Google addressed the problem.

Why OP is blindly arguing in that corp’s favor and ignoring all the reasoning provided here, is beyond me. Shilling?

What a stupid thing to say.

Whatever your favorite (and probably shitty) proprietary or open source messaging service - not everybody uses it. But hey, everyone has email, so let’s kill that.

BTW since you said encryption is important to you: your walled-garden messaging service has a much easier time profiling you and your friends than they would in a heterogenous environment like email. They don’t need the content anyway, just metadata.

make sure you don’t do the XY problem.

Thanks for the link. That’s funny because translating Y to X is basically the core task when developing client-specific solutions.

To the replies in the other threads, they never see fanboys defending Apple, especially not on Lemmy: see? Whataboutism and “sideloading is automatic security and privacy (?!) nightmare” kool-aid.

More direct reply: no, alternative app stores don’t imply less security. They could be more secure even. And sure it’s all about money for Apple (and other companies = irrelevant here) but that doesn’t void criticism.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

Would be great if somehow this patent was bought out and made public domain so people outside the upper middle class could have an affordable way to track their vitals.

Apple is a strange choice as a champion for that. Their devices always have been notoriously overpriced.

at least PC gamers are largely outspoken about DRM and there are pretty popular platforms that cater to them

I fear the day that’s no longer the case. Feels like gaming is becoming more “proprietary platform first” with every year.

At least radio is free! I just have to pay a state-sanctioned forced fee and get to listen to ads. Wait…

Well, people often mean a country when they say “America”, too.

You can tell the author had tons of fun writing this.

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Also his (so far unsupported) shots against Mozilla. How does that help in a world where >90% of the Desktop world is still dominated by Microsoft and web and mobil by Google products?