Yeah sort of. I think they’re working with an OEM so they do get security patches early, but yeah. They stopped publishing the reference device tree or something and now it’s harder to support new pixels AFAIK. Yes. I imagine graphene is going to try to switch to a new OEM phone they can have more control over, but we’ll see. Really sucks and fuck google. They’re just trying to lock android down like apple to ensure they get a % of all profits. (IMO)

Still sucks for the OSS community as a whole though.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/26337-android-developer-verification-are-we-screwed-no-doesnt-apply-to-gos

Won’t impact gos.

I like the article, but agree with so many of the comments here as well.

Ultimately I think one thing I’d love for would be a way to simply provide services (like Immich) for people but where the client is end to end encrypted, and neither the user nor the service has to worry about the how.

Example: how can I share an Immich with my family and friends, but where I don’t have access to any of their data. I.e. what signal does, but immich or any other service. I want to share my server with friends/family, but I don’t want access to any of their data. It isn’t a lack of trust, it’s that I don’t want that as even something they have to worry about

That same concept then extends here to community hosting. If we can solve the problem for a few, it should be scalable to many.

Just provide a way to self host searx instance and then provide nightly backups of the DB so you don’t have to run the crawler

Tailscale with self hosted headscale

Thanks for the rec. Ngl for something like sms though, maybe not maintained isn’t a problem. Heh as long as it doesn’t have any bugs, not like the protocol is changing

My… Guess is that it’s still another data point attaching your IP to you. I haven’t really dug into how true that would be, but there is def fingerprinting stuff that could be shared without location permission. I.e. just a web request gives them your phones ip. Now that might be your cellphone wan ip, That might be your home ip etc… still identifying info.

Imo this isn’t so much about tracking your literal location (though, that too) but also in tracking you across websites without permission.

That means you’re clear and don’t have any offending apps.

Had no idea Textra was on here. I guess back to stock graphene OS messenger.

done.

Sure sure. Hahah a fair point.

Yep. It’s def a trend of, take over and then price gouge everyone.

In a word, enshitification. I’m currently on a de-googling journey and it feels so good every service I cut.

Lol all good and fair points.

I just focused on premium because that’s what I had prior to cancelling. So totally just focused on what directly impacted me. I should have included both and called out the removal of ‘basic’ and forcing users to either pay more for standard or accept ads

Frankly, across the board it’s just standard enshitification.

I think my other thought is I don’t think you should have to be rich to be able to stream a higher bitrate. Sure maybe it costs more storage / bandwidth but I don’t think it should be something only rich people can afford.

I’ll turn this into a corporate selling point!

“Hey look, we decreased the price of premium by 17% over a 12 year period. (as compared to our standard plan)”

As kbal pointed out, the standard plan has increased 125% as well. So your original statement really doesn’t track with that.

Yeah, which is even more insane. Probably should have graphed that.

I don’t or at least didn’t read your original comment as “eat the rich”, but I agree. Rereading it I can kind of see the sentiment a bit, but ultimately Netflix 4k isn’t a “rich” kind of thing. Call me crazy but I think their profits show the price increase is just greed. And sure, make it be more than the standard plan, but that doesn’t account for the meteoric price increases.

It’s a banana Michael, how much could it cost…? Ten dollars?

I had family members getting blocked when they were legitimately travelling for work. (Travel nurse) It’s really bad and makes it so hard to use even when you’re paying for it. Which. Is. Insane.