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Sure enough, that fixed it, thanks.

What’s the deal with devs not keeping up with FDroid repos?

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Findroid keeps saying it’s not supported on my Pixel 7 for some reason

Grocery shopping apps

I am currently using Bring! with my wife to organize our grocery shopping. I am looking for a self hosted alternative. I looked at the awesome self-hosted list and tried Specifically Clementines and of course Grocy. I like that Grocy also includes meal planning although the whole inventory management is too much for us. What I...

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Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner

By plug-ins, you mean your customers?

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This is the great thing about FOSS. Someone else will just take the code and reupload it. If they want it removed from GitHub, they can deal with Microsoft. At which point it’ll just be re-uploaded again. There’s nothing illegal about it.

So Haier suffers the Streisand effect and the people who want to simply continue using it.

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If they were lazy they would have just not done anything and let the HA users carry on.

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Not stupid, just greedy.

They’re gonna make money from selling whatever data they can mine from your mobile device and likely selling you monthly subscriptions.

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Do I have to use a special NAS-specific OS to make use of the NAS hardware? Like to do snapshots and stuff?

No you don’t have to. It’s usually just the easiest way to get one up and running and will have some additional configuration options.

Kinda related: what if I install something like Debian/Ubuntu on it? Can I still use the NAS hardware in the same way?

Yeah of course. Most NAS OSs are just forks of Debian anyway.

I looked into some solutions like TrueNAS and Synology. I prefer an OS that’s free software

TrueNAS is FOSS.

Is it possible to use Google Drive reliably?

I’ve been using Google Drive in Windows for about a decade and have a good workflow. I recently transitioned to Linux but cannot seem to reliably connect my drive to the filesystem. My work provides unlimited Drive space and since it’s for work I have shared directories with coworkers that I need access to every day. Hence,...

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No but they won’t

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Dev is slow because they release a good User experience, rather than buggy junk

The reason is irrelevant. It wasn’t a criticism, just an observation.

Linux seems to be 3rd on their list but it comes eventually.

No, they have almost no Linux support. Most things have to be done in the browser. When there is Linux support, it is extremely basic.

Per the link you can use Windows or Mac sync now.

Cool. Doesn’t help Linux users.

Don’t forget google had a long head start and almost unlimited devs.

See point 1.

There was a long podcast interview with the CEO where he basically said Linux is and will continue to be looked over due to increased development costs and very low adoption.

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When I pointed out that that makes no difference…then you switched to another reason.

It’s not another reason. It’s the same reason.

If it wasn’t encrypted it would be trivial to spin up a local integration like Google or MS already have.

Since it is encrypted, it makes it significantly more complicated to develop. While this development may make sense on MS or Mac, it doesn’t on Linux, because it requires more resources and serves a much much smaller number of users.

I’ve already explained all of this in the previous comments.

My Proton Vpn on linux install works

“Works” is right. Like I said, it’s extremely basic compared to it’s MS and Mac counterparts.

the e-mail bridge works

Notice how MS and Mac get fully-featured desktop clients and all Linux gets is a “bridge” to connect to an inbox client developed by someone else.

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Actually their pages say it is hard to find Linux devs for desktop, and that is why it is slow.

Again, the reason is irrelevant. The point is, it ain’t happening.

And as far as critisim you said specifically not as good as google, so I provide a reason why. you can’t then change you tact and say it wasn’t critism

That’s not “changing tact”. It’s not as good as Google from a user perspective. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have it’s own merits. I pay for a Proton subscription rather than use a free, much more fully-featured Google one, so I obviously understand the value proposition. I also understand it’s shortcomings.

You seem to keep moving goal posts here so have a good rest of your week.

I don’t suppose you want to elaborate on what goal posts I’ve supposedly moved?

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No, I’ve just been a customer for several years. Development is slow and things like this are simply not a priority. They’re not even a little close to matching Google.

I hope someday we'll find a way to pirated a car (lemmy.world)

In the end, the KIA car company made its cars into subscription models, I really hate this because in the end the car we buy with our own money doesn’t feel like it belongs to us. Should we finally buy an old school car ? so as not to be affected by this subscription models or is there a way to crack the software installed in...

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Look your car has a new software update available!

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LOL how does one go about that, exactly?

Do you walk into the dealer and state affirmatively “I am not buying a car here because I don’t want a subscription!” and then turn around and walk out?

Won’t matter. The company knows you don’t want this. They also know that enough other people will pay for it that it won’t matter. These subscriptions are not new. If people put their foot down and refused to pay for them they would go away, but the opposite it happening.

Sorry.

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Tesla doesn’t have “creature comforts” behind subscriptions. They’re 1-time payments.

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These features require the cloud

No they don’t. You can use WiFi. Or Bluetooth. Or 433Mhz radio.

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What if you don’t have a fob?

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From any practical standpoint, this makes so much sense.

Sometimes my Tesla fails to unlock for some reason and I have to disable my VPN and then stand next to it like a God damn idiot for 10 seconds while it calls it’s servers in fucking California to ask it to unlock my car.

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When I have the VPN on I get nothing but a “Session Expired” notice for several months at a time.

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I understood your point. My point is those electronics make it more convenient to use. Would I appreciate ALSO having a physical unlock mechanism? Sure. It also increases the attack surface.

Cars have had electronic remote keyless entry for decades.

As does Tesla.

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It already unlocks locally over Bluetooth.

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Haha yeah there are other, more reliable methods but the “phone as a key” is also super convenient when it works properly, which is most of the time. It just would be a lot smarter if it worked locally.

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