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  • A new family member

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  • I was wondering why it said Windows Home Server lol

  • Trump Is Spoiling for a Fight over Canadian Potash - The fertilizer that feeds America is key to the president’s next confrontation with Ottawa

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  • 😂🃏

  • Losing the lie-flat form-factor - What to do with off-centre camera bump?

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  • I had a trusty note as well around that generation, they were truly some of the best phones, eh? I upgraded to the Moto G Stylus to have a modern take on the form factor

  • Proton, Tor, AdGuard among 40+ asking Google to reverse new 'alien security model' for Android developers

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  • Google has no incentive to walk back, especially given what they saw Apple has been able to get away with on their end. And as we've seen with AOSP publishing delays, device tree information restrictions, locked bootloaders, they are making it increasingly hard for Android to be an OS that can be forked and installed on devices, let alone for you to install your own software.

    The community ought to prepare for the realities of this, and put mitigation measures in place. Valve saw the similar direction Windows is going years ago, and made the same decision: GNU/Linux is the next best truly open/free-as-in-freedom experience, and we should all aim to use and improve that ecosystem on smaller form factors. Waydroid/ATL can act as temporary bridges for both developers and users alike while native binaries are ported.

    If you're making new apps, target to develop with qt/qml + rust so it can run on the only GNU/Linux equivalent of Android WearOS, AsteroidOS. This let's you deploy one codebase on watches, phones, tablets, and computers screen sizes with a convergent design.

  • Premium Live TV Channel Sources

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  • Nice, this looks like a good solution that could be solved with a script. The other solution I was thinking might work but would also require a script to get per channel url updates is from iptvcat.com

  • Premium Live TV Channel Sources

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  • I tried thetvapp.to on a few devices recently and couldn't get it working and previously found it struggled with big sport events, it was one of my go to's. Is it working still on your end?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Premium Live TV Channel Sources

  • The Mullvad ad that was banned in the UK

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  • Predator spyware uses stealthy trick to disable iOS recording alerts(without triggering the green or orange status bar dots)

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  • If it has a headphone jack, you can plug in a dummy aux port. I'm convinced that the removal of the headphone jack was to ensure the microphones are always reachable

  • Predator spyware uses stealthy trick to disable iOS recording alerts(without triggering the green or orange status bar dots)

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  • Everytime I see stuff like this I'm thankful most of my devices (hopefully all one day) either have cameras/microphones that have hardware kill switches (HKS), or can be unplugged from the device

  • IDF says it dug up Canadian soldiers' graves to destroy Gaza tunnel

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  • Israel & their Offence Forces have no respect for non-Israelite Canadians or our peacekeepers. Simple as that.

  • Frustrated with Google's direction on Android? Try out a GNU/Linux mobile Android app!

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  • You could try installing Samsung's Tizen GNU/Linux OS via Termux and let us know how it goes.

    To my understanding, they have the same looking UI such that if Samsung ever wanted to move customers over from Android everything would look familar, without their customers knowing it's a different OS under the hood.

  • Frustrated with Google's direction on Android? Try out a GNU/Linux mobile Android app!

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  • I'm sure it's possible, but you'd need a device specifically supported by the distro, you'd probably need a custom bootloader, among other things that make it not as easy as doing dual-boot on a less locked down device. It's probably harder on purpose by Google.

  • Yo Dawg, I heard you might like GNU/Linux on your Android on your GNU/Linux

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  • Oh yes good point, forgot about those. I will update the post so more people know about these options

  • Frustrated with Google's direction on Android? Try out a GNU/Linux mobile Android app!

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  • Dat shit cray. My grampa has no idea how to use a mobile phone so he just doesn't have one. Thankfully no such requirements where we live

  • Frustrated with Google's direction on Android? Try out a GNU/Linux mobile Android app!

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  • Fair enough 😆

    If you have a SIP provider, this can be hooked up to the GNOME Calls app, and GNOME Chats lets you connect to XMPP and Matrix. Not everyone will have those, but it is one step above the native Android & iOS apps in that you can actually use them without telephony.

    They have better wake mechanisms than something like Signal Desktop, Element Desktop etc do currently.

  • Frustrated with Google's direction on Android? Try out a GNU/Linux mobile Android app!

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  • You're right in that you will not be able to forward calls and texts from Android to your app-based Linux distro call and text apps, but internet-based apps should work.

    This method is how the Nexphone provides a GNU/Linux environment

  • Android @lemdro.id
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    Yo Dawg, I heard you might like GNU/Linux on your Android on your GNU/Linux

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Frustrated with Google's direction on Android? Try out a GNU/Linux mobile Android app!

  • Keep Android Open

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  • Run any Android specific apps in Waydroid (e.g. WhatsApp) and it appears as just another icon in your app drawer, or use a web app, again you can make it a dedicated icon in your app drawer.

    Unfortunately Google Pixel 7 is not a device supported yet on any distros I've seen; PostmarketOS has the best support for Android devices. Across distros, Fairphone has the best support.

    What people with Android devices can do though, is install Linux on top of Android. Opposite of Waydroid (not as good), but at least lets you play around with it to get familiar without needing root:

  • Keep Android Open

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  • As some other people mentioned the Waydroid app or their website can work. If you do Waydroid, you can install Gapps, and other banking app isn't happy with that, they typically offer decent mobile websites.

    GNOME Web and Mozilla Firefox via this PWA extension let you have a dedicated app icon for any web service you want into your app drawer. The Firefox one works best, and I believe does a better job isolating stuff from the main browser.

    What's cool is you can run an entire Monero wallet (or other cryptocurrency) on device for full mobile financial experience, though don't store more in it than you would a regular wallet.

  • Keep Android Open

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  • I have a GNU/Linux phone I carry in my other pocket. Here are the biggest issues I can see:

    1. Driver support for components in the mainline kernel (lets you install any distro and things like camera, Bluetooth just work)
    2. Power management; turns out it is a hard technical problem to have your phone suspend to save energy, while being awake enough to know what and when to turn back on to receive chats/calls, playback music, etc
    3. Cameras have a lot of stuff beyond drivers happening behind the scenes these days in software that would need to be developed, especially given it is a big reason people choose their phones for
    4. Phone certification is tough, this has stopped even companies like Fairphone from shipping their devices worldwide, I imagine even harder for a device like the Purism Librem 5 where you can literally upgrade Wi-Fi, BT, and cellular generations like a gameboy cartridge
    5. App ecosystems take a while to build up, it is a chicken/egg scenario. I think things are in a useable state for all the default apps an iPhone has, but if you want Uber, Uber Eats, you either have to draw even more power essentially running Android via Waydroid, or use a typically more janky web app that may be missing some features

  • Discord @lemmy.world
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    Commet & Cinny are the closest looking Matrix clients to Discord

    matrix.org /blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/
  • Free Video Game Giveaways @feddit.uk
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    Epic

    Rustler (Grand Theft Horse), an action/adventure comedy game

    store.epicgames.com /en-US/p/rustler-grand-theft-horse-21a7ca
  • Free Video Game Giveaways @feddit.uk
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    Forever Free Fridays

    Burntime Remastered, a classic RPG strategy game

    store.steampowered.com /app/3269080/Burntime_Remastered/
  • Free Video Game Giveaways @feddit.uk
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    Forever Free Fridays

    Halo: Doom Evolved, a GZDoom mod

    www.moddb.com /mods/halo-doom-evolved
  • Free Video Game Giveaways @feddit.uk
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    Google Play

    Evertale, turn-based monster-catching RPG

    play.google.com /store/apps/details
  • Free Video Game Giveaways @feddit.uk
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    Epic Mobile

    Monument Valley I & II (Android), critically acclaimed puzzle games

  • Free Video Game Giveaways @feddit.uk
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    Forever-Free Friday

    Karambola, a FOSS point & click puzzle adventure game

    store.steampowered.com /app/765480/Karambola/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    KDE Plasma Bigscreen is the Ideal, XMB-like Environment for GNU/Linux Gaming Devices Connected to your TV

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    Plasma-Bigscreen for TV (Desktop) Mode

  • University of Waterloo @lemmy.ca
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    That's the end of that talent pipeline

    www.ctvnews.ca /world/article/trump-signs-proclamation-imposing-100k-annual-fee-for-h-1b-visa-applications/
  • Android @lemdro.id
    Canuck @sh.itjust.works

    How NewPipe (unofficially) made its way to Linux Mobile

    gitlab.com /android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer
  • Android @lemmy.world
    Canuck @sh.itjust.works

    How NewPipe (unofficially) made its way to Linux Mobile

    gitlab.com /android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile

    gitlab.com /android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer