Btw if you’re still looking for an IRC client, check out Goguma. It’s a better, more modern looking alternative to Revolution.

I’m glad you like it. Consider making a post about your experience so far having switched from iOS to GrapheneOS. The community likes these kinds of posts. Don’t hesitate to use screenshots, etc.

“Proper” mobile Linux has never been a serious thing except maybe during the Nokia N900 era (It was released in 2009.). So I don’t really get what you’re trying to say with that statement.

I’m talking about developments such as postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch/UBports, Phosh (mobile GNOME), Plasma Mobile, etc.

I see so many people here on Lemmy who are desperately waiting for Linux phones to replace their iPhones or Android phones, without realizing that idea is absolutely utopian and unrealistic.

An image-based system would be the bare minimum to achieve basic security, but there would still be so many security issues compared to Android and iOS, that I don’t think Linux phones are worth putting time and development effort into.

AOSP is a fantastic base for open source mobile systems. The FOSS mobile development community should rather shift its focus to AOSP, develop a good understanding of it and get familiar with the code, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with mobile Linux distros.

I know about the security issues in desktop Linux, but I still think secureblue fits that level of the iceberg pretty well. I would put Qubes there as well.

You could add secureblue. I would put it in the same category as GrapheneOS and Vanadium.

Chromium-based browsers have arguably better security than Firefox. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html

Vanadium further improves Chromium’s security by disabling the JS JIT Compiler, using a hardened memory allocator (GrapheneOS hardened_malloc) enabling ARMv8.5 MTE, and applying other hardening patches (https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/tree/main/patches).

The secureblue project maintains a hardened Chromium build for Linux called Trivalent, which uses most of the patches from Vanadium, among others. You can get it from their repo: https://repo.secureblue.dev/secureblue.repo

20 years ago desktop Linux wasn’t nearly as good as it is nowadays. They were also influenced by Micro$oft lobbyists, who threatened to move their headquarters out of Munich, causing millions of lost tax revenue for the city.

Tech bros are only interested in getting the results from open source

That’s why we need the GNU AGPLv3

Insecure. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux-phones.html

Interesting 🤔
I regularly use both apps and never experienced these issues. You can create an issue on GitHub to report this.

Mullvad: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/

Proton: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/android-app/issues/

That sounds like a terrible VPN client implementation. Which client do you use?

In my experience, and from what I have heard, it’s quite the opposite.

If you actually read the post, you would have known, it does work, but there are some privacy concerns with it:

“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”

If you actually read the post, you would have known, it does work, but there are some privacy concerns with it:

“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”

Just use dd. It’s not that hard. You pass it 2 arguments: if= the file you want to flash, and of= the destination. If you’re feeling fancy, pass in some status=progress. And don’t forget to prepend it with sudo. That’s it.

Not sure why we need an abstracted layer for F-Droid.

Because the default F-Droid repository has some security issues: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

IzzyOnDroid avoids this by using prebuilt binaries that are properly signed by the actual developers, instead of building and signing apps themselves like F-Droid does

It also doesn’t have as strict inclusion criteria as the default F-Droid repo, so it is able to offer more apps

If you need a traditional, unencrypted DNS service, check out Quad9 and AdGuard’s Public DNS. If you can use DoT or DoH, use LibreDNS or Mullvad DNS. If you want more customization, check out NextDNS.

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The Ntfy Android app hasn’t been updated in almost a year, and in my experience it consumes more battery than Sunup.