Uh… duh?

Seedvault worked fine for me when I moved phones last year.

Don’t worry, I have that too. My feelings lately have been a mix of shame, embarrassment, and depression. Oh, and rage, how could I forget.

I’ve definitely thought about it, but am currently far too embarrassed to be a US tourist, especially in Canada. I really should, though, I’d much rather give Canada my money than the US.

Yes, but Signal is actually a great thing, whereas Grok is not. It’s just not for classified documents or correspondence.

Ah, gotcha. It’ll be interesting (in a bad way, most likely) to see how this will affect those business.

I doubt that, to be honest. The supplies to make the items will also go up in price, and the US simply doesn’t have the industrial power and cheap labor that other countries have to make them. GOP voters think that somehow it’ll make all things cheaper (which actually would be a bad thing, deflation isn’t a good sign for the economy), but the price of everything is about to skyrocket.

That’s not to mention that the few suppliers that are 100% US based would just crank up their prices anyway, because they can.

Personally, and not having much experience in economics, I think prices will skyrocket, people will stop buying things, and then that will cause huge amounts of deflation, bringing the US right into a deep recession. I mean, my partner and friends have already stopped spending as much, and that was before today. It’s only going to get worse.

Surely US investors won’t harvest data and/or enshittify the product!

Should have just fired the CEO instead, would’ve saved millions and the company in one go.

Just last week, they were posting job listings for DevOps engineers. Glad the CEO’s bullshit stopped me from even considering it.

Most of all, the US is fucked.

Sure, but I didn’t mean to say that FOSS couldn’t be insecure. Software itself can obviously be insecure, like we saw with xz. At least with FOSS though, it’s more difficult for it to be hidden.

Apologies, I deleted my comment instead of editing it, but I meant to add that even with the shady workaround, if you have sandboxing it likely greatly reduces this risk.

Be very wary of what apps you install, and in fact, try to only use FOSS.

Yes, it would. Those basically create sandboxes.

So the first line says that it’s for older versions of android before 2022. But the next paragraph says:

For extremely specific use cases such as file managers, browsers or antivirus apps, Google grants an exception by allowing QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission, which provides full visibility into installed apps.

So this may still be possible, however sandboxing, especially GrapheneOS’ implementation likely mostly, if not entirely reduce this risk.

Nullify.

as someone unfortunately in the US, hell yeah, fuck us up, we deserve it

Don’t worry, Tesla will raise their prices too, because of the other tariffs on the electronics (and because they can).

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on your phone, you can hold down the - and get varying sizes of hyphen, depending on your phone + keyboard

did you not read your link?

The reason I’m not switching yet, is that there’s no federated auth. If they had that, I’d switch in a heartbeat.