Calls - sure.
Texts - sure.
Signal was laggy and inconvenient to install. Other, native, messengers are better, but if you require Signal, you may need to accept lags during startup. BTW, audio (in other messages) with wired headphones was perfect.
Also, battery’s gonna be somewhat of a pain most likely. At least without battery optimization, which IDK if it exists; I never did.

I’ve used it with my PP + “convergence” hub, it worked, but I don’t remember for sure if it was Phosh or Plasma… It was Arch-based though, IIRC simply Arch? Otherwise Manjaro.

Try this setting, I think it may be relevant to your case:

Android -> open Signal (or Molly) -> Settings -> Privacy -> Phone number -> Choose who can see your phone n…

Though you can cycle for free ^^
And that’s most frequently the fastest and easiest transport between two points in a city, by a margin.
(I’m still envious about the rail prices.)

I’m envious. In the Netherlands, you can only buy a train pass for 376 Euros. And that’s just the train: no buses, no trams, not even those faster “intercity” trains.

Agreed. Besides other things like non-old games on “old games” website as you say, they were also caught not enforcing DRM, even though their biggest selling point is DRM-free games. Nevertheless, with some exceptions, you generally get good stuff, and it’s a good and reputable store overall.

Pretty biased and low-quality article TBH.

1. They’re talking about this news from GOG, yet they don’t even link the official announcement. Only their own old news. Meh.

2. What GOG really introduced is a way to financially support GOG, for various small perks. Yet the article somehow infers that GOG is doing bad financially, without providing any links to that conclusion.

3. The view is quite capitalistic to be honest. Everything is looked at from the prism of money. Money this, money that. “Epic Games … burn money … decline … purchases …” (Yes, the news is for GOG but they’re discussing Epic Games.)

Anyway, GOG remains not an ideal place, but by far the best for-profit game distribution company I think. I have 10-20 games from that store, and I’m quite happy that my games are from there and not other platforms. All DRM-free.

I’ve tried it out of curiosity, it works for me. I had a link where they recommended clicking though, to fix it and to make it work. I don’t see it on your screenshot. I think I got a (slightly different) warning with a link when I tried to open Silence as an app.

Regardless, it was essentially to open Settings > Apps > All Apps > find Silence > click somewhere (I forgot where exactly) to enable the potentially very unsafe thing of full SMS access. I think it was on the top right where I needed to click in the last step. Afterwards, Silence can be selected as the default SMS handler.

That being said, I personally mostly use Signal and Matrix nowadays. The phone lasts for… 2 days probably? IDK. I’m not really happy with either messenger BTW, but it’s the best shot for now, for me

Grok this grok that…
I’m sorry, but ***k grok. Stop posting about it.

disroot is quite decent. I like their (privacy) vibe and the set of semi-independent services they provide.

Yeah that’s a great idea! I use that too. An encrypted USB drive makes sure you can trust the data not leaking, and spaced repetition can (should) be practiced to memoize the password. Then you’re good I’d say.

Technically KeePass can “merge” and has some sort of conflict resolution, but you’re right that forgotten and unaddressed conflicts can lay around for unlimited time without you noticing. It’s the main problem with keepass + syncthing.

It’s a bit sad that you’re downvoted so hard. You obviously have good intentions, just not having a good grasp yet if I may be frank. The solutions in this post are what you should follow IMO. In short, USB thumb/hdd drives with your important data. Encrypt the whole USB if your devices are under Linux if you wish. Use a proper password manager like KeePass to secure it additionally, with a strong master password of course.

Darn, first I see something fun and interesting, and then I read that the hardware is no longer for sale (available only to the original backers). Uh-oh.

Well, OK I guess. Maybe they’ll be selling again once they start shipping.

I have never had a TikTok account. Occasionally people send links, and those work just fine in the web browser

FYI, they work even better with yt-dlp 'YOUR_URL'
It’s not a silver bullet as yt-dlp also relies on people’s hard work, so generally I’m absolutely not on the platform either. Downloading from TikTok only happens once in half a year maybe.

While I appreciate the well thought out comment, I can’t help but note that they should’ve used the Transporter Room since you were around!

I mean my message as a joke. The idea of “Desire Paths” is that you note how people work, frequently against “rules”, when they simply walk around on grass. Above I disagree with @merde@sh.itjust.works’s point about the safety of this street, because in my mind, if the desire path is as on the picture, then there are good reasons for it to be this case. I then go on and suggest to embrace it and not consider the street so safe maybe.

Actually re-reading my message, I think I’m wa-a-ay too aggressive and pushy. The OP just notes his opinion, and their message wasn’t mandating that it’s the truth and the final truth. I guess I should be more chill

If you know the details of this war, you know that the Russian military is not driven by “motivation”. Instead, it’s beatings, threats of death, humiliation etc.

Wrong question. It doesn’t matter who was “first”.

If the first group stops, the problem is gone.
If the second group stops, the problem is not gone but likely growing.

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