@jonah@lemmy.one you’re alive! Welcome back, this server needs 4 months worth of maintenance!

Ah, I missed the part where you said “Linux”, sorry!

Ah, I missed the part in the OP where it said “Linux”, whoops

Cromite is a fork of the seemingly-abandoned Bromite, which used to be the only browser recommended by GrapheneOS (other than their own Vanadium). It’s relatively new though so I don’t think that much has been written about it for comparison.

Assuming you mean that you yourself are a good driver who doesn’t get into crashes, that’s why I said “until someone smashes into you”, as in the crash that is completely out of your control!

TIL there are multiple open street map apps (obvious that there would be now I think about it!)

Clearly I have nothing to add, but thanks for asking the question, I’ll be saving the post and trying out all the answers!

On Android, Firefox is still less secure than Chromium-based alternatives: Mozilla’s engine, GeckoView, has yet to support site isolation or enable isolatedProcess.

Sadly it is still a problem. Fortunately there are some pretty good mobile browsers like Cromite available!

It’s always funny/sad to see that “we care about your privacy” doublespeak on an article about digital privacy

Assuming this is on an android phone with the normal Google Play Services on it then you should expect that Google can theoretically read anything that appears on it. It’s probably not that sinister though, I don’t imagine anything is being sent away and logged (though it theoretically could be!), there’s probably just some process which reads every incoming notification and if it thinks it sounds like a task then it offers you the prompt. Is this some setting you haven’t disabled in Google Assistant?

All good until someone smashes into you and you discover how far safety features have come in three decades!

I could give two fucks

Really? I couldn’t!

At that point just set the limit a few gig higher and don’t have the decoy file at all

So if you disable the thing I suggested, there are ads. Then… don’t?

Edit: I misunderstood what you meant

The good news is that you don’t need to install an app to block ads!

Isn’t the angle just to sound interesting/controversial/unbelievable so people click and see your ads? You know, clickbait?

I know it’s very popular online to brag about being an asocial shut-in, but believe it or not some people like their jobs and like the social aspect of the office. The problem is the bigwigs applying the same rule for everyone either due to being out-of-touch with normal humans or just through greed, but don’t assume your experience is universal!

Redact on desktop worked fine a month or two ago, I imagine the API changes have caught it out though.

Never mind the American politics nonsense, Brave has a history of slightly dodgy behaviour. Replacing websites ads with their own, keeping donations meant for creators, hijacking referral links and adding in their own, a lot of cryptocurrency shenanigans, and that’s just what’s on Wikipedia!

I tried out gadgetbridge too, seemed largely functional though I did notice the Bluetooth drop. Also it apparently uses old Bluetooth rather then BTLE? I’ll stick with Rebble for now but it’s good to know there’s a decent replacement when it eventually packs in!

OK, so after a few days of denying the pebble app network privileges everything seems to be working fine! Obviously I can’t access the app store now but I can just temporarily reactivate network if I want to download something new. I don’t really use any apps that need network (in the pebble’s old age I’d rather it take it easy and save battery and let the much newer phone run the things I need to run!) so there’s no real loss for my use case.