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I recently discovered AntennaPod can be used as a PeerTube client as well.

Although I don’t like them them mixed in with my podcasts so I cloned the app and just have one that I use separately.

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They’re probably still listening in though.

Maybe? But also I’ve never seen any evidence of them listening with the mic off or without you saying the “wake word”.

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They don’t spy on you without your permission.

You should probably edit your comment to clarify that they don’t listen to you.

“Spying” doesn’t really have a clear definition in this context. Amazon employees have been caught spying on customers through their cameras, and giving away clips to authorities without “owners’” consent, consult or notification.

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If you have/get a Pixel you don’t even need to be tech-savvy. You literally just plug the phone into your PC, navigate to the Graphene webpage and click “install” right in the browser.

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They are “listening”, they’re just not communicating with their home servers. The wake-up words are processed locally. I mean they have to be.

“Mute” is really a terrible way to describe this switch and breeds distrust. It should just be a WiFi switch or something.

How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver?

I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?...

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We can’t even get widespread adoption on workstations, what are the chances we’ll ever get them on mobile?

It’s all the same problems. There aren’t nearly enough people using it for developers to spend their time developing compatible versions of their software, much less ones with a mobile-friendly interface.

Maybe they’ll work with PWAs but those still suck.

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Pixels are just way too expensive

LOL what? The A series are some of the cheapest modern phones you can buy, and an incredible value…

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Would really love to but have yet to see basic phone functionality covered in a way that isn’t a painful compromise. Stock Android is a privacy nightmare, which is why I left it.

I’ve been using GrapheneOS for about a year now and it’s a giant leap in privacy and security (much better than iOS), with very little compromise in functionality.

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The only phones that cost that much are either several years old (in which case you can include used Pixels) or are riddled with bloatware and spyware and the absolute cheapest of materials that won’t last long enough to make buying it even make any financial sense.

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and now everyone just takes it as default pricing.

Who does that? There are several great phones you can buy for <$400. The phones of yore were trash.

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I couldn’t possibly recommend it to anyone who is not a programmer. It doesn’t work for shit. The simplest and most basic things like just installing software is nigh-impossible for normies.

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I mean I’m sure there are plenty of others, but the one that comes to mind is the P7a

Switching to Debian on my gaming pc

Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my...

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There are some gaming focused OS’s such as Nobara (Fedora) and also that are “couch gaming” OSs that incorporate controller-only UIs such as ChimeraOS (Arch) and Bazzite (Fedora).

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I have a sign like the one on the left except it is made of olive board, carved on a CNC and has a pretty bow on it and just says “GO AWAY”

Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.

Heya! I’m looking to install Linux for the first time on parts from my old pc builds to use as a media centre and multiplayer gaming system in my living room. Something with as clean as possible interface with room for customization would be cool. Oh and support for my old nvidia gpu....

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Don’t know why I see so many people recommending HoloISO. It hasn’t been updated in 3 months, and all they did was merge a bunch of code from Chimera.

ChimeraOS and Bazzite are what you’re looking for.

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I don’t really know, other than the other 2 are updated on a nearly daily basis and Chimera is Arch-based (like SteamOS) with Gnome UI while Bazzite is Fedora-based.

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I don’t really like tablets in the first place. Don’t understand what they’re for that laptops can’t already do.

But aside from that, the problem is not hardware, it’s the OS. Android, iOS and iPad OS are all distinctly very different from their desktop counterparts, with respect to how you interact with the device. Linux needs the same.

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They’re more portable, lighter

Sure, but is that so important that it’s worth spending hundreds of dollars on an entirely separate device that you still have to carry and manage?

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I see. I guess everyone I know that has a tablet also has a laptop, and carries both of them around. Makes more sense as a laptop replacement, I suppose.

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What’s Gamescope?

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Game scope is a micro-compositor

What is that?

it’s how the Steamdeck handles games and probably steam.

So why would I use this in HGL instead of Steam?

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What’s a “Wayland compositor”?

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