The illusion of choice

A lot of “normal” dating apps are also owned by the same companies

Use Signal or SimpleX for more private stuff like this 👀

The comic post is still shown as it wasn’t viewed, indicated by it’s white title rather than gray title

Because it wasn’t seen. As you can see, the texted isn’t gray, but white

I believe the algorithm skips already seen posts so that you don’t see them again, whether this is on or off

Reddit hides posts you’ve already viewed

Source? Afaik there’s no backdoor in their cryptography, except maybe if using the cloud to back up your chats?

Haven’t done it myself yet! I’m planning to switch to Linux Mint later this year, and have a dual boot with Windows on the side, so I can switch at any time if needed.

I think it has a built-in dual boot feature:

I advise backing up your harddrive and stuff to prevent problems, or having one for Windows and the other one for Linux so you avoid problems. Credits here: https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux#Ubuntu

I have no experience with this yet, always double verify! I think Mint uses GRUB

Arch linux also has a more in depth post on this

Oh nice! I felt like website did a bad job at explaining what it is and how it works

Like, it doesn’t say if it uses one of their servers or if the two devices should be up at the same time. If so, that’s really unfortunate

Platform developers, including those who build custom ROMs, will largely also see little change, since they typically base their work on specific tags or release branches, not the main AOSP branch. Similarly, companies that release forked AOSP products rarely use the main AOSP branch due to its inherent instability.

That’s not what’s implied at all. Please don’t spread misinformation

I guess dual boot could be a solution :)

Element 🤢

Telegram 🤢

How does that differ from something like Nextcloud?

Not that much do though, but yea, people should

WhatsApp is cryptographically secure but yea, still collects your contacts

No, don’t need to. Just sign up with a free dev account, and plug your phone to your computer.

It’s still an annoying process because you have to do this once a week but it’s still something that works - a bit -

That’s not the only way. You can sideload unapproved apps.

If the point is that you can do it, then yea, you can also sideload apps on iOS. It’s an immense pain, limited to X apps, but you can, and you could technically pay with 0% fee…

They are not “all over the OS”. There is a pop-up message that asks you if you want to allow the app to be used as an installer. That’s it.

iirc there was more but alright

You can find your way around, but you’ll spend twice the amount of time doing the same tasks that you could easily do on apps. Also, bye bye bank apps, or any Android games

If you don’t use your phone a lot, understandable, but for most people, nah, not doable