I remember reading time ago that Google enforces file-based encryption by default on Android which gets decrypted on first unlock when you boot your phone.
Try to look up in your settings for "encrypt", then you should find the option "Encrypt Phone" with or without the label "Encrypted".
Anyway this defends you only from an "hands-on" attack with physical access to the phone.
"True" privacy is up to you and what you do with your phone. By default Android uses some Google services impossible to remove without changing ROM, like Google Play Services, SUPL and PSDS.
What you can do for other apps and services is what I've done with my old phone (not GrapheneOS compatible):
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with gtk/adw how do I use GtkRevealer inside an AdwPreferencesGroup keeping correct position and style?
What I'm trying to do is showing/hiding with an animation an AdwExpanderRow which should go on top following style of other rows inside preferences group.
Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead
You might sideload an Android app, or manually install its APK package, if you're using a custom version of Android that doesn't include Google's Play Store. Alternately, the app might be experimental, under development, or perhaps no longer maintained and offered by its developer. Until now, the existence of sideload-ready APKs on the web was something that seemed to be tolerated, if warned against, by Google.
This quiet standstill is being shaken up by a new feature in Google's Play Integrity API. As reported by Android Authority, developer tools to push "remediation" dialogs during sideloading debuted at Google's I/O conference in May, have begun showing up on users' phones. Sideloaders of apps from the British shop Tesco, fandom app BeyBlade X, and ChatGPT have reported "Get this app from Play" prompts, which cannot be worked around. An Android
I've installed Fedora Linux (with pipewire) on my friend's Alienware M17xR4 (linux-hardware probe).
This incredible laptop got a Sound Blaster Recon3Di with a S/PDIF Digital Output which unfortunally does not work out of the box. I can see the vu meter moving inside gnome-control-center but no audio comes out and the port's red light (which on Windows lights up) does not turn on at all.
By lookin up I've found this thread on Linux Mint Forums but I had no luck with it.
Has anyone else got issues with similar hardware? Thanks in advance.
It seems Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft can’t quite get away from various complications on its first crewed mission. Earlier today and not too long after the additional helium leaks were found, the decision was made to call off the initial docking as five of the spacecraft’s thrusters failed. As a re...
As you can see in the screenshot, inside the Photo Picker in the Albums view only "Screenshots" is shown while in Photos view all the pictures are available in chronological order.
By looking it up, I foundpeoplecomplainingthesameissue and one suggesting adding them with Google Photos (which I don't have and I don't want to install).
I've introduced two of my friends (not into tech) to Lemmy. Since they're not into tech this is their first web forum.
I've explained the federation thru the usual email metaphore and that's ok, but to lookup for communities is not quite there on client side.
Let me explain.
He wanted to see all the communities on an instance because that instance is in his native language but he's registered on another instance. So to see all those communities you must go on instance.domain/communities, copy the name of the community you are interessed in and paste it inside the app/web client to look it up.
And to see all the communities all over the fediverse you must use lemmyverse.net which is a cool site, but still you got to copy paste back and forth to the app.
This could be implementend inside app itself by listing all communities and add ability to filter by things like instance.
Obviously open to discussion about the issue itself and how that could be improved.
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
I would like to know if there is something like iPhone "True Tone" or Samsung "Adaptive Color Tone" in AOSP or if there are alternatives to install.
(I'm on GrapheneOS)
Does every PeerTube instance store all other instances' content metadata (title, description, comments)? Would federating virtually with YouTube (through a YouTube frontend like Piped) give a too high ammount of data to store on other instances?