I love the mandatory Super Tux Cart anyone of us has installed but played like 4 times
I see you have freetube. Grayjay is also a great addition as it has plug ins for lots of sites
Stop, you’re gonna make me cum
WifiAnal
Quite the kinky lineup; WiFiAnal, Wetter, QuickDic… 😏
Lol. Last picture at the bottom third. “WiFiAnal” xD (Sorry, I’m childish)
Hey, that’s the only safe way to let others control your buttplug.
They said it couldn’t be done…
It still can’t be done 100% unless you make significant sacrifices to the usefulness of your smartphone…there’s plenty of really useful (and sometimes necessary) things with no FOSS or open source alternatives.
Not to mention drivers… many driver blobs are proprietary and if you can find an open source one, there is a chance it works partially or not at all. I have a spare phone and I’ve been hesitating between flashing either PostmarketOS (all FOSS drivers but without the android ecosystem) or LineageOS, or maybe both if I can achieve that.
Even if you fixed the issue with drivers…
…your modem runs it’s own firmware with a lot of extremely shady behavior, and you can’t touch that regardless of which OS you install. Even your SIM card can arbitrarily execute Java applets and fetch from the network without your command, but at least it’s somewhat contained. Your modem though, it can do a lot without your control and people like Qualcomm have been caught doing nasty stuff with it (plus, of course, giving the US the data whenever they ask for it).
This is why people like Stallman and Snowden often talk about teaching users how to use libre software on their computers, but rather than pushing for the same with smartphones, they tell you to not touch these at all instead. They’re fundamentally anti-privacy devices, built this way.
Of course I carry one, it’s fairly hard to live without a phone nowadays, but we must be aware of the impossibility of fully containing the data harvesting they do.
Attack surface who dis?
Try CoMaps instead of Organic Maps. It’s a fork because Organic Maps is starting to enshittify
I just ran the two apps side-by-side and barely found any differences other than some subtle UI changes. How exactly is it different? And how is Organic Maps being enshittified?
The only Organic Maps controversy I’m aware of was the presence of certain closed-source elements on what they claim to be a FOSS app, and that the main developer refused to open up, then partially did, then backtracked and never fully released.
Maybe that’s what that user is referring to? Not sure.
Man, I had hoped they fixed the search.
Those apps are fictionally useless for me. Does anyone know how to use it?
you mean comaps? Search is just a bit slow but not a big deal at all. I’d rather that than having Google spy on my ass everywhere I go.
Of course, I don’t mean speed, I meant the search format. On Google I can search for an address with the usual format of 123 Street, City. If I search that way on Organic/Co, it doesn’t pop up results the same way. I just never understood it besides being an offline map for my reference.
You could add addresses to Open Street Maps
Whoa, I have like half of these, nice!
That is the way! Excited to flash my phone to LineageOS. Thanks for sharing the apps !
That’s how my GrapheneOS phone is zero proprietary apps in the main profile and then my own separate Google profile. Essentially get to carry two cell phones with one device.
I nave ho learn how ho do these two profile things. How do u switch between them, and IS it on the fly?
Pull down your notification bar twice. In other words expand it all the way. There is a small person Inside of a circle icon. That is how you can select the other profile. It’s super fast and easy.
Then when you are done inside the profile. Hold the power button and select “Lock Out” and this will completely close down the second profile and put you back in the Main profile with the other completely shut down.
Downside is you wont get notifications in one area or the other from the opposing profile when it’s not in use.
An alternative that is pretty secure too instead of profiles is to do the same thing in Private Space. This is found in the settings under the Security tab. This WILL get notifications to your main profile and when you shut down Private Space all apps stop completely including Play Services. But it’s not as isolated as profiles
What does maintaining a separate profile for Google stuff buy you? I’m familiar with GrapheneOS, but haven’t internalized the separate profile thing yet.
It keeps Google 100℅ seperate or vice versa.
Then when it’s locked down it shuts down play services and apps to complete non functionality.
Go into system and create a new user. Set up that user exactly like you would a standard smart phone. And any apps you have on your main profile completely open source. That way it’s 100℅ Google free
Got that part, but what throws me is, in order to install a Google app on that secondary “google” profile, don’t you have to first install the Google app on the main profile so that you can then push it to the secondary profile?
No… You just install the play store and play services on profile #2 via the Graphene app store.
Oh, I see. I must’ve misread a tutorial at some point then. I did not realize one could install an app directly into profile #2, I thought root had all the apps and then specific apps had to be pushed to the other profiles. Thanks for clarifying that.
There is a guy in YouTube who does this. Side of Burritos? He has Google play on his main profile and then has a degoogled account for the second profile and transfers all the play store apps to the second profile. (Essentially making it his main).
I don’t do that for battery purposes.
Quite impressive choice of apps, usually when I look at screenshots of privacy enthusiasts they look more or less like my own phone, and with you I share 3, maybe 4 apps only
Fucking legend! I’m going to spend the weekend exploring these apps and see what changes I can make on my phone. 👍
Honest question: I see a lot of people here use their mobile phones as a computer platform. I have a general uneasiness about doing so. Not throwing any shade whatsoever, I just feel there is too much out of my control on a mobile phone, for me to trust it more than I do. My general policy is not to use my phone as a mobile computing platform even tho I have a VPN installed and use Firefox as a browser.
My local network for instance. There is one pipe in and out. I can easily see what is coming in and what’s going out and I can control that with the granularity of a gnat’s ass. I know what my software is doing or not doing. I can allow or disallow anything I want. On a mobile phone, I feel that the control I have on my PC is not equal to the control I have on my phone.
How have you come to terms with what you can’t control on your mobile phone?
How have you come to terms with what you can’t control on your mobile phone?
Threat level analysis.
I definitely agree with you on this. My pet theory is that phones have been getting uncomfortably big, at least from my perspective, since the average consumer is expecting it to serve as a computing and productivity platform, while all I want is a nice little digital Swiss army knife. I’m only logged into my messaging apps and personal email, and don’t expect to do any sort of “productivity” on my phone. When my friends and colleagues assume I’m logged in to this-or-that on my phone, all I can think about is how afraid I would be if I were logged in to so many things on my personal phone. It’s so much harder to inspect what’s going on in the background of mobile devices.
One of the compromises I’ve had to accept is the closed, yet exploitable nature of the baseband and firmware. Also how much more spying it could do compared to any PC if an exploit were to get through. Compiling Coreboot and neutering the Intel ME taught me a lot about who’s really in control - and how much control we all lose to smartphone manufacturers and telecom companies.
I run an older android version, no google apps, rooted, and use AFWall/AdAway. I’m sure it’s not as secure with root and older software but I can mostly trust it to not send weird network packets etc.
What do you do when you leave the house?
Touch grass? Not OP, but when I’m out of the house, it’s because I need to do something, so I’m barely on my phone except for navigation, the occasional text/call, and paying for stuff. Otherwise, I use my laptop most of the time (at home and at work).
On occasion, I do leave the compound, but it’s usually to get staples I don’t grow/produce on the farm. Rarely does that process need a mobile computing platform. (I guess that’s what you’re asking)
Where did you get super tux kart?
F-Droid
Really?? It’s not appearing on mine :(
I’ve got an old Samsung J7 from 2016, maybe that’s why
you can get it from GitHub:
https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/releases
and you can use obtanium to automatically update it (or any apps from GitHub/ the web)
I’m sorry but those are all for desktop if I’m not mistaking. There is Winlator but OP has the apk.
If you press show all assets, there is an .apk for each release as well.
its called SuperTuxKart-[version].apk, doesn’t have android in its name
Thanks for pointing that out !
Turns out the releases were just not shown in openhub
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The GOAT
