https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

They should add login and subscription handling on their website as well like so many do, with 30% off on the subscription fee because there’d be no Google tax.

Damn I should have pushed harder when that incident with WhatsApp was all over the news. Only a few of my friends and a couple of family members switched.

No end to the greed of these corporations.

Yeah that seems plausible.

Frieren has been really good, my favourite this season.

YouTube has also started attaching a Share ID of sorts:

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=rzmQCXsZkblahblah

The “si” query parameter is the tracker in question.

Presumably, it has your user ID embedded in it so all your efforts to concele your identity by using anon IDs on Lemmy/Reddit/Twitter etc routing through VPNs Tor whatnot can be shattered with a single share of a YouTube video. Plus, they can track and associate users with each other based on who all opened your link.

Currently costs peanuts in India (have some good friends over there 🥸) and there’s no password sharing crackdown yet. Comes down to $2 per person on the highest plan. As long as this continues, I’ll stay subbed to Netflix.

Thanks to EU, you’ll be able to contact these people on WhatsApp without using WhatsApp.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/11/whatsapp-has-started-work-on-cross-platform-messaging-due-to-eu-regulation/

They need to noobify that prompt further, something like “Yes, break my system!”. Even Linus wouldn’t fall for that (I hope)!

Until hardware manufacturers like Nvidia and Intel start getting thirsty and lock features behind a subscription :/ Only $10.99 a month to use those RTX cores, $7.99 for DLSS.

Check out Fluent Reader, it’s the best looking and the most featureful RSS reader I know of on Linux. Does have a common view as well.

I was shocked when my friend from India told me that for 400 Mbps up and down, he pays only $14/month. Limit: 3.3 TB per month.

Indeed. Simple Dialer is I think the only FOSS dialer app that is actively maintained. And Simple Gallery Pro is fairly advanced for a FOSS app, even having a video editor!

I had recently gone to India and Magic Earth and Organic Maps both had pretty weak coverage. Outside major cities, even roads aren’t mapped. Works better in Europe and US imo.

Getting a Pixel 7 and installing GrapheneOS on it was another option but I just don’t like the low performant and inefficient Tensor G2 chip. 8+ Gen 1 is an excellent chip, both in terms of power and efficiency.

My experience: I got a Nothing Phone 2 recently and decided to degoogle it. Using ADB commands, I removed every google app from my phone, from the Dialer all the way up to the PlayStore, apart from just 2: Play Services and Maps. Both work fine without a Google account. I did take away all permissions of Play Services and it still works fine. Without this app, you will stop getting notifications from most of your apps so it is necessary.

Open source alternatives that I turned towards:

1. Google Dialer -> Simple Dialer
2. Google Contacts -> Simple Contacts
3. Google Photos -> Simple Gallery Pro
4. Google Play Store -> Aurora Store and Droid-ify
5. Google Messenger -> QKSMS
6. Google Calendar -> Proton Calendar
7. Google Drive -> Proton Drive
8. Google Chrome -> Mozilla Firefox
9. Youtube -> Youtube ReVanced (Not FOSS, I use a throwaway account here with Vanced Microg)
10. Google Translate -> Translate YOU
11. Google Files -> Material Files
12. Google Docs/Slides/Sheet -> Collabora Office
13. GMail -> Proton Mail
14. GBoard -> OpenBoard fork with glide typing

Everything works fine :)

Another fun episode. That shark with legs really made me chuckle. Also liked the dynamic between Akira and Shizuka, hope they team up soon.

+1 to Mattermost. It’s like having an open source Slack which can be self-hosted. There are a number of companies that use it including NASA and Samsung.

Finally :) Goosebumps and smiles did take me over but man, the animation was below average. I don’t frequent the anime so maybe I’m not used to Toei’s animation standards. In recent times, I’ve only watched Megumi Ishitani’s episodes so was expecting something of that quality for this as well.