Installing Signal in a profile without sandboxed Google Play and granting the power optimization exception it requests is enough to destroy battery life and end up worse than the stock Pixel OS. The power efficient choices are either using Molly with UnifiedPush (Signal fork) or Signal with FCM.

While its great that Molly supports this, its extremely disappointing that Signal themselves do not support UP. Or really a hundred different FOSS apps that half-ass the “free” part.

This used to be the norm in the early days…

Doesn’t that make them speakers, technically?

There are some padding issues I can see in the screenshots as well…

This, and other games like it can be played with 1 finger:

• Brotato
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
• Megabonk
• Holocure (100% free)

The authorities are probably the ones compelling them to collect this information.

GasBuddy’s primary source is a crowdsourced user database. Kinda hard to recreate that at a FOSS level, as it will inevitably require a centralized server.

They also use OPIS, which is a subscription-based database. So who’s gonna pay for that?

Govts around the world should be funding all sorts of FOSS projects. I know they do to some degree but not much. It benefits the whole world and only hurts big tech.

I don’t know, I’m not a developer. Looking at some of those databases, some of them are obviously open and others are paid licenses that the community probably can’t afford.

https://www.magicearth.com/third-party-licenses

Pretty sure Magic Earth uses several databases.

I’m not disagreeing with you but what would happen back then is that they simply wouldn’t stop the crime.

At some point we need to decide if giving up all semblance of personal privacy is worth stopping some of that. I vote no enthusiastically. We just have to accept that some of that crime won’t be stopped and law enforcement will have to work harder.

LOL the Samsung fanboys crack me up when they try to insist there’s no bloatware on these devices. I haven’t bought one of those pieces of shit since the S6.

The process is the same, even if the file paths are different. Being different does not make it inferior, or any less “ubiquitous” or “feasible”.

Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer

That’s just not how I would describe Windows. It’s more like a digital bilboard with spyware that also runs programs. It actively prevents you from just using “your” computer.

You mod games on Linux the same way you mod them on Windows.

Might be finally time to upgrade my hardware…

and then getting sued for fixing is a much stronger political signal

It’s a crime. They can go to jail.

but instead award money to secret solutions that help nobody.

It helps them deliver a message to legislators that says “we’ve proven we can fix these problems today, if you’ll just let us”.

Not going to speak to Bandcamp, specifically but generally anytime you create an account, all of your activity then becomes associated with that account. In the case of Bandcamp? With a properly aliased email address? Should be fine.

The EU can’t even distribute their own apps without Play Integrity. Seems unlikely they will care.