So before you can message anyone you have to download whatsapp?

I love how this seems like a near insurmountable hurdle. Install an app?? On a phone?!

I have a relative who is ~85 years old; he uses WhatsApp. It’s really not that hard.

The elephant in the room, of course, is that this is literally only a problem in the United States. Everywhere else in the world, folks are totally fine using messaging apps. WhatsApp is pretty popular worldwide, and there are regional favorites too. But, the point is, it’s only in the States that people seem to be against this idea. The answer for why is very much up for debate, but the conversation is, at this point, just getting exhausting.

Can confirm, as a Brit. We probably would have a sardonic explanation for why only people in the States are against using other messengers too…

The app “Island” sort of does this already.

For as long as Magisk has been going, that’s been my root strategy. I’m new to hearing about KernelSU though. Any advantages?

(If I can pay with mobile)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but so long as you root with Magisk and configure the denylist, installing the SafetyNet Fix and changing the Props if you need to spoof a device ID, then you’ll always be able to use Google Pay/contactless, regardless of whether on Lineage or another custom ROM.

This is my problem with every keyboard (FOSS or otherwise) since Swype finished. Gboard is the best of the bunch now but I’m loath to use it. I have tried Floris and Open (a fork of it which has swiping) and others, and they are all painful on this front.

I have not found another launcher that has the swipe up and down on home screen icons to open other apps

Do you mean using folder icons as app list covers, so that a tap opens the app and a swipe opens the folder? If so, Action Launcher does that (if I’m not mistaken it was the first to do so, and it’s swipe up or down). Neo Launcher also has it (swipe up only).

but apparently nobody wanted SD cards so they dropped them from all the devices.

I think you have that the wrong way around. It is not that nobody wanted SD cards, but that phone manufacturers realised limiting storage capacity while making continually thinner devices (up to a point) would increasingly drive cyclical demand. “Is your phone getting full after a year or two? Well this one has MORE storage and look how slim and sexy it is by comparison!” It is not as though there was an organic consumer demand for phones without memory cards; the profit-motive drives these changes.

I used an emoji therefore I am sad he’s a bigot and he’s a Tory?

No, you’ve misread the original comment. I said you sound disappointed that Linehan has aligned with the Tories. I used the phrase “a bigot” to refer to GL, because he is; I used the phrase “a collection of bigots” to refer to the Tories, because they are.

Using those phrases in those constructions does not imply anything about what you think or know about the Tories or GL. The phrases are plainly in my voice identifying them by what you can infer I think is factual: their bigotry.

Your sadface emoji generally connotes something like disappointment. So my comment is essentially: oh, you’re really disappointed that this guy is aligned with the Tories? Why, when he is a bigot and they are also bigots? Why would you even want him to be aligned with a party you do support?

picking random fights based on your poor reading skills

Irony. Helluva thing.

It is exactly that, yes. But what is weird is that outside of a few permanently online diehard Starmerites, I never come across anybody in any walk of life now who is saying: “what we really need is a Labour government”. At this point it’s just: not the Tories please, it can’t get any worse. This is depressing.

from a single sentence

In both comments, your emojis work wonders.

Lol that is such an Ian Dunt headline. It writes itself.

I didn’t know he was a Tory 😔.

You seem disappointed, as though you wanted this bigot not to politically align himself with a collection of bigots.

Let’s just turn everything into TikTok, hey.

Yup that’s my one issue, otherwise I’d swap in a heartbeat. You can do it through nextcloud servers but not any free one so far as I can see. Wouldn’t know where to start with a paid alternative.

Edit: Podverse, also FOSS, has a sync feature as part of their subscription. It’s $18/year. Haven’t used it to know how well it works, but much cheaper than Pocket Casts anyway (and a 3 month free trial it seems). It’s on F-Droid.

I’ve been learning French on there for awhile now and it’s been extremely effective por moi.

I wouldn’t normally comment on a spelling issue, however, in this case…

+1 for LT. The guy that runs it certainly has an open source ethos. The German one despite being a “Complete” series is frustratingly very incomplete, but that aside it was a useful way into the language. The word order explanations were particularly good. Everything is always free and the project as a whole is expanding with the help of volunteers and donations. It’s a good thing to be a part of.

Just a pointless comparison really, based on very particular use cases and tastes, taking all the objectivity out of “objectively better”.

I would never use an iPhone for a daily device. But for some people it clearly makes the most sense.

Me, I have to block ads at the system level (so I root), I like custom ROMs, sideloading, pirating, tweaking, changing how my phone works and how I work with my phone. On any of those grounds, an iPhone makes zero sense. But most people don’t care about any of that, and nor should they really.

Is there a paid tier? I always thought it was all free. Unless it’s a donation option?

+1 for MiX. It’s FOSS and has everything you could want in a file explorer, functionality wise.

Edit: scratch that. God knows how long I thought it was FOSS for!