smiletolerantly

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Ah, too bad! But thanks, that's good to know.

Not gonna lie, I'm a tiny bit jealous of you πŸ˜„ It's gotten to a point where having to use Android is a constant, low-intensity source of stress just because of how closed and privacy-unfriendly it has become.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks, that is a very kind offer!

The secific app is xdrip+. But it's probably not possible to test it out, because starting/working is not the issue, the issue is making sure that it has a 100%% stable background connection with my blood glucose sensor, recovers from failures, restarts in the background on closure,... Eventually, I'll get my hands on a linux handheld and try for myself :)

That being said - how's your experience with Sailfish been so far?

Ah, true. I honestly think we need to get to a point where smartphones intended for use with linux are profitable / widespread.

But that's a catch 22 with UX and HW both being required for companies to invest in the other.

Again for Germany, it's handled by a single provider, and they absolutely do utilize CoCo tech. (Source: I work at one of the involved companies, sorry, not going to be more specific)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In the case of Germany: confidential computing tech ensures all data is encrypted in storage and in memory, shielded even against data center employees / hosting providers. I imagine that's become the standard for most countries.

IDK man. AfD are the ones raging against "political correctness" here. Dude decided to not be politically correct and label the Nazis Nazis.

Make sure you choose a proper open source one, else the app might collect data as well...

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They don't let you anymore, do they? There was a whole controversy about the Zenfone 12

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Just waiting for the pain to be enough to switch to Linux on a phone.

Main drawbacks right now:

  • I have one health-related (open source) app that I NEED to work flawlessly
  • Navigating the various UIs seems incredibly awkward and inconsistent
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When we need to know each others location, we share it via element / matrix. Our own server, so no third party.

Happens maybe four times a year.

(Also, do you just always have location services enabled?? IMO it's a battery drain, I pretty much only enable it for this and while I need to navigate)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair. Though also, english isn't my first language.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It might, very very slightly go down. But the way you have to think about a media is this:

Put all 342 million Americans in a single line, sorted by net worth from west to east in increasing order. Find the person standing in the middle, i.e. person 171 million. That's the median net worth.

Now remove the top 10 richest people, i.e. ~~behead the snake~~ politely ask the 10 people standing easternmost to leave the line. Now to find the new median, go back to the original median person and move five to the left. That's the new median.

Most likely, you'd have a negligible amount of change. Maybe a couple of bucks.

ALso note that for this it does not matter just HOW rich the richest persons are.

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