

SMS works perfectly well for sending https://signal.org/install
SMS works perfectly well for sending https://signal.org/install
Kind of weird it wasn’t included for awhile.
A long while starting with the Fenix rewrite in 2020. What’s bizarre is they took a very tightly controlled approach to rolling out extensions instead of developing in the open and giving users the option to choose for themselves whether to use less stable features or untested extensions.
It was kind of bizarre; the attitude is more what I’d expect from Apple than an open source project. There was very little communication to the public about their reasoning, and what they did offer was pretty unsatisfying.
This list seems to be based entirely on aesthetics, not necessarily recommendations for apps with good features or functionality.
Every screenshot there is eye-searing with nearly the entire screen filled with 100% white.
What do you expect a low-volume phone with an alternative e-paper display to cost?
This exploit involved Meta and Yandex apps running servers on your phone which Javascript embedded in trackers would communicate with. You’d have to both allow their trackers and have their apps installed to be affected.
You can now perform actions like “clear history,” “open downloads,” or “take a screenshot” just by typing into the address bar.
They’ve reinvented the command line.
A big Bluetooth upgrade will soon boost your privacy and battery life
Not if I keep this Pixel 4a going for another five years it won’t.
When I read “privacy nightmare”, I think of a system collecting or revealing information without the user’s knowledge. As I understand BeReal, the user understands exactly what information they’re sharing, and with whom. That said, I’m puzzled by why anyone would want to participate on either side.
Here are some things I might be doing in any random time window in which such an app might prompt me to share a selfie:
I don’t want to share any of those activities with my friends. If we’re catching up on life in person, I’m not going to talk about any of that. If any of my friends do want to see those moments, I’d find it weird and voyeuristic.
The interesting moment I do want to share, and people might actually want to see is the close encounter with the wild gosling taking the dandelion leaf from me.
it’s light on AI
Good. I have yet to see a preloaded AI feature on a phone that I want to use. The one I actually want is correctly deciding of I want to be disturbed with a given notification.
Federation doesn’t inherently require large amounts of memory. Fundamentally, it’s a matter of selecting a list of unique servers (likely tens, maybe hundreds) from a larger set of followers (likely hundreds, maybe thousands) and sending an HTTP request to each when there’s a new post. There’s a speed/size tradeoff for how many to send in parallel, but it’s not a resource-intensive operation.
Growth beyond a few tens of megabytes was a bug in Writefreely, which is a likely-suitable option several comments here recommended.
It wants a gigabyte of RAM. Maybe that passes for lightweight in 2025, but given the fundamental things a blog has to do, I’d probably put the cutoff at less than a tenth that amount.
See also https://nobsgames.stavros.io/android/
Many of these are paid, but they’re one-time payments and usually a reasonable price.
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I’ve been with Porkbun since Gandi got acquired. No complaints.
A larger phone is nicer to sit down and use with both hands, and while that is a primary use case for many people, it isn’t for me. I want my phone to emphasize portability and one-handed use.
I think there’s a viable market niche for a small phone, bi but I wonder if small phone customers might be unprofitable for other reasons.
I don’t see any reason to sell any of that data to advertisement corporations
You don’t see the reason? I see the reason. I just don’t like it.
I liked Mozilla better when it was a pure nonprofit narrowly focused on its core competency.
Fakespot and Firefox are different products. They should stay that way.
It’s fine that Fakespot needs to collect some data from users to do the thing it does, and probably necessary for it to monetize that data to have a sustainable funding model. I don’t want it to sell a profile about me to advertising partners, so I don’t use it.
Firefox can function as a web browser without transferring any information about me off my local machine except that which I explicitly tell it to send to specific websites.
Same here, though it really doesn’t fit my vision of a small phone. I still see a screen over 5" as large and 6" as extra-large.
If it was all of Europe, I’d agree. That explanation seems improbable for just two countries.