They could just align the text bottom right, where there’s less gun poking into the area

I sure do

But the prices being so low is exactly what makes people care less about things like privacy, so not great either

On that note, I wish Firefox had a setting to always load sites in reader mode, when available. Ideally with the ability to set exceptions, though.

Guess the fines need to climb exponetially, then

The lead dev sold simplemobiletools to Zippo Apps (or whatever they’re called), a company known for buying apps and stuffing them full of ads, trackers and bullying people into buying subscriptions.

That news came a bit out of the blue, and while I understand why he sold it, the fact that he sold it to such a fuckface company that goes against everything his apps stood for is… yeah

The simplemobiletools apps are being forked by one of their bigger co-developers, so I’ll just use that as soon as it’s available.

Until then, as long as you got the build from F-Droid, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

But bridges are still a thing? Okay, Apple. Sure.

You can use AdAway to block unwanted connections, so yeah

Signal does in fact distribute an APK that isn’t dependant on Play Services/FCM on their website. Uses a websocket, so not the most elegant way I guess, but oh well.

It’s rather hidden, which I think is disappointing. But it exists. Updates itself, too.

Tracker Control is an app that basically acts a DNS based blocker. Recognizes what your apps connect to, groups it into necessary and unnecessary domains and so on. It does set up a local VPN though, so you can’t use it alongside an actual VPN.

The Duckduckgo app does pretty much the same thing, no need to explain more.

There’s more that do the same DNS-based blocking, Netguard being another popular one.

Another option would be to have a blocker running network-wide, a pihole for example. But again, won’t do anything in case you’re using a VPN, obviously.

And then some apps will straight up refuse to run if you block their trackers. If this happens, it should be the last straw when deciding whether to actually keep the app or not.

What is your stance on being able to give encryption keys to a third party without the other participants of a chat consenting, let alone knowing about it?

If someone in my contacts used bridges, effectively breaking e2ee, I’d want to know about it.

Ideally, people should not be allowed to do that without informing their contacts, at the very least.

Signals’ note to self chat is really convenient, ngl. A linear chat history is obviously not the most organized way of writing notes, but for some small save-for-later type infos here and there, I like it a lot.

You can just add lists to uBlock to your hearts content, though?

I mean, you can do it with a single gpu, it’s just that the host won’t have it anymore

Surely it lets you choose what parts to disable, right?

That’s true, but unless you’re 100% sure that you’ll only ever run a workload that fits those specs, I think you’d rather like having the extra memory.

The M3 is powerful enough that even 32GB can be a constraint for what you’d be able to run on it

Apple fans have a very different definition of the word convenience than I do, then.

It’s so annoying. They have the whole design industry by their balls with their great displays and perfect colour management in MacOS.

Putting more RAM in those models, or just cutting the lower-end models out entirely would do them no harm at all.

They could just sell appropriately specced computers and make absolute bank like they do anyway, but nooo, that would be too nice of them.