Sobald etwas ideologisch "diskutiert" wird, bin ich raus. Ist Zeitverschwendung.

#Religion #vegan #politik #Apple #Android #Windows #linux

Also kam fürs #Homeoffice ein #DECT-Headset von #Yealink dazu. Mit Basisstation, stabil, zuverlässig – eigentlich genau das, was ich gesucht habe. Blöd nur: Eine Basisstation heißt auch, dass man fürs #Büro ein zweites braucht. Also habe ich jetzt zwei davon. Die hat die Firma bezahlt. Zweimal das gleiche, jeweils mit ANC und Mikrophonen die Hintergrundgeräusche aktiv rausfiltern.

Und weil ich schon lange ein #OpenEar-Headset fürs Spazierengehen und #Fahrradfahren wollte, ist danach noch ein #Shokz dazugekommen.

Fazit: Jetzt bin ich zufrieden. Und ich habe gelernt, dass man am PC offenbar wirklich ein dediziertes #Headset nur dafür braucht – alles andere ist Kompromiss. 😉🎧

📰 New blog article

Self-host your own multi-service #music server on #Android

How to replace your music streaming apps with a setup that supports multiple streaming services, multiple devices and multiple outputs from a single Webapp.

#mopidy #platypush #termux #ntfy #Tasker #python

@Selfhosted @Android @python

https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Self-host-your-music-experience-on-mobile

Na tornozeleira eletrônica de bolso , a dica é #Fennec, também com propósito de ser um Firefox mais limpo. Está disponível na F-Droid.

Sob vários aspectos, é muito importante estimular que o pessoal deixe de utilizar apenas Chrome e/ou seus derivados.

#Firefox #Android #FDroid #recomendo

Free Software that I rely on. One per day.

Day 10:

Open Camera

I'm stuck on my phone today, so today's free software is an Android smartphone app from the F-Droid repo: Open Camera.

I use it to record the "real life" parts for my daily logs. A particularly useful feature is the "photo stamp" so I have the date and time on screen.

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/

#FreeSoftwareAdvent #OpenCamera #FDroid #Android

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Settings for Open Camera's photo stamp.

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Photo with Open Camera, since I'm here watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on the 60th anniversary. Note the time stamp.

➡️ Accédez à mon service Linkwarden public ici : 🔗 linkwarden.blablalinux.be

Téléchargez les nouvelles applications (détails dans la release) : https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/releases/tag/v2.13.2

#linkwarden #mobile #android #ios

#Android is dead and we’d better all leave the ship before it sinks entirely.

Options to unlock bootloaders on Android devices are also narrowing down. Xiaomi removed the ability to unlock the bootloader entirely in MIUI in August (after months spent making it ridiculously difficult), same for OnePlus, Samsung did so in July, and probably Google devices will soon follow suit.

And let’s not mention the nightmare of the Play Integrity API that forces all Android developers to register through the Play Store and use Google’s signing keys, even if they don’t intend to distribute their apps through it.

Sure, officially Google has taken a step back and has pledged to provide a way for developers and power-users to bypass those restrictions. But we can all expect it to be a cumbersome and change-prone process filled with ridiculous amounts of frictions at every step - and I wouldn’t even expect such a morally bankrupt company to keep maintaining this “sideloading” option.

Google once competed with Apple for customers. But in a world where Google walks away from the biggest antitrust trial since 1998 with yet another slap on the wrist, competition is dead, and Google is taking notes from Apple about what they can legally get away with. And the EU, the biggest opposer of its anti-competitive acts, is also becoming softer with Big Tech - both because Vestager has left the job, and because being soft with trillion-dollar monopolist tech titans is seen as a sign of being “technologically competitive”.

Your best bet is to purchase a Pixel 9a now, before more manufacturers decide to block bootloaders, and immediately flash it with #GrapheneOS.

The long term plan would instead be to throw all of our efforts and energies on Linux phones. The folks at GrapheneOS are doing an amazing job and fighting against all kind of pressures, but at some point we should probably all just acknowledge that anything that is tainted with Android, or runs on a device intended only to run Android, is a liability, and we should no longer build solutions on top of hardware and software that we can no longer trust.

Sailfish, PostmarketOS, UBPorts, MeeGo or whatever comes next must succeed. No matter the cost.

If you want to know if Fast Charging kills phone Batteries here is a A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones Android and Apple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5Cg_yNdM

#Android #Battery #Apple #phone #technology #charge #cycle #chemical #physics #chemistry

#terSoftware

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Captura de parte da tela inicial de Android com fundo estrelado exibe componente com o ícone de uma nuvem acima do texto: Muito nublado 22°, sensação 23°; emoji de gota d'água 83%; emoji de sol 0 baixo; emoji de termômetro 26°/19°; emoji de guarda-chuva 100%/55%; emoji de relógio 20:36. À direita dessa área, também estão visíveis ícones dos aplicativos Relógio e K-9 Mail.

Guten Morgen ins #Fediverse!
Ich brauche mal Security Advice. Ich habe zwei Laptops mit Linux Mint und ein Android-Mobile Phone (Version 13). Irgendwo ist eine Sicherheitslücke, sodass mein Email-Account gehackt und nun zum zweiten mal blockiert werden musste - was extrem unpraktisch ist - und langfristig tatsächlich auch problematisch wäre!
Seit dem ersten Crash nutze ich jetzt Keepass auf allen Geräten.
Habt ihr andere Empfehlungen für die Sicherheit?

#datenschutz #linux #android #sicherheit

Year 2025 has been terrible for Android world: Google announces Developer Verification which will effectively restrict sideloading, now I read Samsung has silently disabled bootloader unlock with upgrade to Android 16, other manufacturers to follow in EU, supposedly for "security reasons"

And not to mention the only "innovation" in mobile is useless AI

#android #developer #sideloading #bootloader

Anyone using #DeltaChat on #Android : What is the battery consumption like compared to Signal?

Android friends! A question for you:

I currently use Termux to run shell scripts, SSH, and a few other tools on my phone.

Is it worth switching to the new Terminal app in Android 16?

(Running GrapheneOS if that makes a difference to your answer.)

#Linux #Android #Termux #Android16

My review of GrapheneOS is finally out: GrapheneOS - Android as it should be

https://r1os.com/sites/articles/grapheneos-android-as-it-should-be.php

#grapheneos #android #opensource #freesoftware #degoogle

I use #fdroid but #google may be enforcing #developer registration in #android soon. This has the potential to end F-Droid altogether. Well this is definitely inconvenient. Hopefully some solutions and workarounds are available, up to and including new #mobile OSes.

#apple is just as nefarious as Google when it comes to #user #privacy.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/?td=readmore

#technews #smartphone

I want to use presence detection in Home Assistant automations. I'm using the companion app on Android. My Home Assistant installation is accessible from both external and internal URL.

I would have thought that configuring either external and internal URLs, or home network SSID, should be enough to allow Home Assistant to tell if my phone is home or not, but the app seems to want full location access to work properly.

I don't care if Home Assistant keeps a record of where I am (or rather, I would prefer if it didn't), I just want it to know if I'm home or not.

Any ideas?

#homeassistant #android

I wonder how the current Epic Games v. Google court case factors in the new sideloading policies Google is signaling intent to enforce.

Requiring all Android developers to go through them, including paying a fee, sure sounds like something that fails to comply with this:

> the app-store-distribution remedy forbids Google from banning "third-party Android app distribution platforms or stores through the Google Play Store,” so that the same platforms can access Android smartphone users who are currently accustomed to downloading all their apps through the Play Store.

I suppose you could argue e.g. F-Droid is not itself available in the Play Store, but the news around sideloading sure seem like Google creating another way to circumvent the court decision's intention to, as it continues, "allow other app stores to compete in this two-sided market by letting them offer the apps and reach the users on the Play Store platform".

With the latest news[1], Google's next move should be appealing to the Supreme Court, and given its latest decisions I am not optimistic about that.

[1]: https://courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-upholds-fortnite-makers-antitrust-win-over-google/

#Android #FDroid #Google

Anyone know how to disable the extremely annoying rotate rectangle button in #android that appears in the lower left corner? (Which changes the phone from portrait to landscape)

The worst part? It's the growing loss of trust in @EUCommission, driven by a dangerous slide into proposals like "Chat Control" and their dystopian approach to age verification which, laughably, would require a Google a/o Apple-approved device and account.

Data, service sovereignty, my ass.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year

#alphabet #google #android #eu #europe #privacy

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

#Android #Google

Here are my personal recommendations for apps on GrapheneOS:

* App Stores: Sandboxed Google Play, F-Droid (with IzzyOnDroid repository), Accrescent (installable via GOS App Store), Obtainium (for APKs)

* Phone: Default AOSP/GOS phone app
* SMS: Default AOSP/GOS messenger app
* Contacts: Default AOSP/GOS contacts app
* Camera: Default GrapheneOS Camera app

* Browser: Vanadium (default), Vivaldi browser (Play/Obtainium), Firefox/Fennec (Play/F-Droid)

* File manager: Fossify File Manager (Play/F-Droid)
* Gallery: Fossify Gallery (Play/F-Droid)
* Notes: EasyNotes (Accrescent/F-Droid)
* Calculator: OpenCalc (Obtainium/F-Droid)
* Weather: BreezyWeather (Obtainium/Play/F-Droid)
* Mastodon: Moshidon (Obtainium/Play/F-Droid)
* Matrix: Schildichat (F-Droid, own F-Droid repo)

* Sunup: For apps that support UnifiedPush as notification service (Obtainium/Play/F-Droid)

#grapheneos #android #opensource #fdroid #accrescent #obtainium #fossify #izzyondroid #vanadiumbrowser #vivaldibrowser

However I can highly recommend the FreeOTP+ fork which has some other nice features, but crucially, saves and loads data correctly.