Not exactly the same scenario, but close enough for proof of concept.

https://inti.io/p/when-privacy-expires-how-i-got-access

We check criminal records from local and national databases as well as your driving record. Because my industry is working with kids, we’re really just checking to make sure you don’t have any child abuse or neglect on your record.

Other industries, I’m sure, are looking for different things based on what they’re hiring for. Where I work, there is a different set of checks we run on folks that work in our finance department, but I don’t oversee that area.

KineStop - After Apple announcef Motion Cues, I went looking on Android because I cannot use my devices in a moving vehicle. KineStop is all I found. I went ahead and bought it because it helps (doesn’t completely get rid of motion sickness). I would gladly switch to an open source alternative if one were available.

Presently, on meet.jit.si, only the moderator needs to be logged in. Everyone else can just join the meeting with no need to log in.

But that’s just the one that Jitsi runs. The Guardian Project has a Jitsi Monitor that can point you to some other Jitsi instances.

Not unlike Lemmy. If you don’t like the way things are run on one server, check a different one.

While there aren’t any new releases at this point, you could use Obtanium and point it to the repos for the apps you use. That way, you’d get notified once the releases start and you’d get them right from the developers.

One of the big contributors is forking the project.

What a waste! I would have catfished him for half that price!

It’s worth noting that Facebook regularly collects information and builds profiles about people who are not users (or are users who but aren’t logged in). The average user would be surprised what a company like Facebook can put together on individuals who have never made an account.

https://www.howtogeek.com/768652/what-are-facebook-shadow-profiles-and-should-you-be-worried/

It works really well. I’m really hesitant to give up my rear fingerprint sensor. The only thing that doesn’t work is Google Pay/Wallet. I might be able to get that working if I did a little more work, but I use it so rarely that I’ve not given much thought. I’ll be interested to see when/if the 4a gets the bump to Lineage 21.

Pixel 4a with Lineage

Are there certain features you’ve grown to rely on?

I use plaintext documents with markdown. There’s a markdown editor for the web. Markor is an excellent Android app. Take your pick of a number of text editors with markdown.

I appreciate that you included sections of the relevant privacy policies. I like your approach.

Please run what you write through spell check. You misspelled: extremely, business, advertisers, educated, and default. The word October could be capitalized, but as part of a hypothetical search query, it could be lower case on purpose.

Lastly, Qwant is struck through in your last sentence. It’s unclear if you chose that formatting because you don’t recommend it (as stated earlier) or for some other reason.

Keep writing! We need more of this!

I have a Pi 3 running Home Assistant. I also have two Pi Zeros that I have MP4 Museum installed.

I use MP4 Museum to run projected Halloween decorations mostly but it’s great to have a little box that will take a video file from a thumbdrive and dump it out the HDMI port on boot.

I think this is an important difference. The are are several services that I use, not because they’ve been able to prove themselves in the long run, but rather because they’re not Google.

One reason for deciding on which service(s) to pay for is which service do you want sticking around. I can get a wireguard VPN from a number of providers. I like the way Mullvad does things and so I choose to get my VPN from them. One could make the same argument for email from Proton or groupware from Kolab.

Take a look at the models that Gadgetbridge supports. Your data stays on your phone. There are no servers to connect to. You should have roughly the same experience on any Android device.

As for tracking sport sessions, look at what each model offers. I use it to sync my PineTime and Mi Smart Band 7.

I really like using the features that Mi Smart Band 7 has to offer AND knowing my data stays on my phone instead of going to servers in China.

Caveat: Recent Amazfit/Mi devices have needed you to set up the device in their proprietary app first to generate a pairing key.

It’s a lot more feasible than it used to be. I also use Aurora Store to fill in the gaps.

Oh for sure! Droid-ify offers a few different installation methods. The Legacy and Session install options are what you are used to. With those methods, you are prompted to download and install with each update.

With the Root install method, updates can be downloaded and installed in the background using root privileges. Lastly, and I think most intriguing, is using Shizuku. Shizuku is a utility that will give you close to root access using ADB. See link for details. So, with the Shizuku install methods, Droid-ify can keep all your F-Droid apps up to date with little intervention from the user.

Footnote: Because Shizuku leverages ADB, it needs to be started manually after each reboot.

On Android, we’re used the “Play Store” being both the app that facilitates downloads as well as the collection of apps available. With F-Droid, you can add additional collections of apps to make available for download.

You might add an additional repository to gain access to apps not in the main F-Droid repository. You might add a developer’s repository to gain access to updates to their apps before those updates hit the main F-Droid repository.

Divest is the developer repository for app maintained by Divest OS, a fork of Lineage OS.

There is safety there, but you’re just as safe using the the developer’s own repository for their apps, like NewPipe, Collabora, or the Guardian Project.