Maybe it should be a pay what you want but it doesn’t charge you for a week. So you can use the app and then decide whether to up the price if it’s useful or cancel the payment if it doesn’t work for you.

Pixels are the best degoogle phone thanks to GrapheneOS…

Pixel is the only game in town for anyone who wants a secure and privacy friendly smartphone as they’re the only ones that run GrapheneOS.

I do like the look of the 9, especially finally being able to get a smaller Pro model but the prices are getting silly and my 7 Pro is still working fine. Maybe the 10 or 11.

I’m also keeping an eye on Fairphone but they need to add all the hardware GrapheneOS needs to support them for me to be interested. And it’d help if they weren’t launching with last gen specs. Fairphone 5 came out after my P7P but is inferior in most ways, I just can’t justify paying for a downgrade as much as I support the mission.

The issue is, that people always say this but then people don’t donate.

People have server costs and living costs and ads are realistically the only way to contribute to those. I always swing €5 here and there to developers whos apps I use often but most people don’t: look at the Ko-fi page of small devs and they probably have less than €50 total, That’s a couple months of server costs probably.

This is tricky. Luckily mine works on custom ROMs so I’ve not had to fool safetynet for a while.

Does it still trip if you install a custom ROM and relock the bootloader, without rooting? I know there used to be packages to hide you had root and keep safetynet

As time goes on you’ll be exposed to more and more security vulnerabilities with no patches.

Nothing wrong with running an old phone but you should unlock it and put Lineage OS on or similar.

Authy is trash anyway.

Wonder if this can be used to power ZigBee smart sensors. My current battery ones last about 2 years on a coin cell

Works fine on an 11th Gen i5. Not fast but not slow

That’s a shame, I get full 5g in most cities, up to 2Gbps when next to the masts, and 4G almost everywhere else populated.

When they killed Podcasts it was the last straw for me. It was an excellent app that did what it should with a good UI: the sort of app Google don’t make anymore.

I self hosted audiobookshelf and its 100x better. This then led me to self host everything else (Immich for Photos, Araa for Search, etc) and now I don’t use Google services at all.

I used to be all in on everything Google but you actually got useful apps and services for your data 10 years ago, now they harvest your data and give you shit in return, and shut down anything useful so you can’t rely on it.

No, mobile coverage is exceptionally good in the UK.

Yes but if you torrent a movie just for yourself to watch, you’re distributing it to hundreds of people, so it’s way worse

I think this is a bit unfair. Most Google Takeout requests are fulfilled in seconds or minutes. Obviously collating 100GB of photos into a zip takes time.

And it’s not googles fault you have internet issues: even a fairly modest 20Mbps internet connection can do 50GB in 6h. If you have outages that’s on your ISP not Google. As others have said, have it download to a VPS or Dropbox etc then sync it from there. Or call your ISP and tell them to sort your line out, I’ve had 100℅ uptime on my VDSL copper line for over 2 years.

I was able to use Google Takeout and my relatively modest 50Mbps connection to successfully Takeout 200GB of data in a couple of days.

True, but that’s why F-Droid exists

That’s an unconventional way of sharing source. How do we know the built apk is built from that source?

Reolink doorbell is great. Comes in a WiFi or PoE configuration. Can be used with their app with a local NVR, or used as an IP cam into your own NVR.