Nice, that works? Fantastic!

Note, MakeMKV for Linux has source code available at least, so not fully proprietary.

Could you make a tutorial post on the exact setup? For NixOS at least VLC itself needs patching

Lol at least here they are all smoking again. Or vaping, in vanilla-strawberry flavor with vapes that can be recharged but not refilled and are then discarded

Also fun how he “funds” Hyprland but then kinda expects the project to not have paid features anymore? That seems predatory

Yes they are unprivileged, and the gmscompat tool doesnt give them more access that is true. Still it is google software with the intention to control your device and spy on you, while Aurorastore is a slim app that even allows to restrict the apps it tells to Google.

If you’re hiding system services in Aurora that you don’t want it touching, that makes it even easier to identify you, because Google play doesn’t do that.

It is less data. GrapheneOS will have less system apps than stock android so that immediately gives it away.

Asking Google for updates is also different from telling it a complete list of your installed apps. You might simply not try to update these system apps currently.

In the end, it is really good that play services work on GrapheneOS, but they are still more invasive as regular user apps than alternatives.

No, Aurorastore is still worlds more private than Google Play, and until now it was really reliable!

It runs as an unprivileged user app and uses randomized accounts. You can add all apps you dont want Google to know of to your blocklist, so the unique fingerprint from your app list is extremely reduced. Google Play doesnt do that. Aurora is WAY better for privacy

For security yeah, you can use google play and add the signatures to VerifiedApps

Well yes but nobody forces devs to only upload on Playstore, they simply do because they suck. Even quite a few open source projects!

GrapheneOS is the ONLY free android build that has an alternative by installing the playstore…

Edit: apparently nobody has an idea of the free android landscape. Distros like LineageOS, iodeOS, CalyxOS all dont support sandboxed play so Aurora is the only way to get playstore apps directly from there. Apkmirror does not work with Obtainium and APKpure has had malware in the past.

GrapheneOS is literally the only one NOT necessarily affected by this

The title is misleading, GrapheneOS users are the only ones who have an alternative lol

Most other open source Android builds simply rely on Aurorastore and we see how unreliable that is

/e/OS uses some weird shady appstore that contains a lot of playstore malware (literally anything) and is completely intransparent.

Apkmirror and apkpure rely on other people extracting and uploading APKs.

Tips for everyone

Install the following apps:

VerifiedAppsAndroid (Github) also available through their F-Droid repo

This app contains a growing database of signatures so you can verify that APKs you get are legit. Make sure to submit all the playstore apps you rely on, as those are especially affected!

Signature of the app:

org.privacyguides.verifiedapps
40:5C:6B:D2:CA:7C:3A:AE:8F:46:3C:6F:8B:55:BC:F0:DD:AC:43:1C:5E:D8:EA:FF:65:D1:06:C9:81:7A:20:7F

Vadhod APK Extractor contains AI code but it is the only updated and well working app I know that can extract split-APKs and regular ones. Also it doesnt need filesystem permissions!

Universal Installer allows you to install split-APK files like you might get from extracting Playstore apps.

It might be a good idea to make an F-Droid repo with essential proprietary apps, as the combination with VerifiedApps allows users to not need to trust the repo but be able to verify the App’s origin securely. Android will only allow updates if the signature matches, so you only need to do this once on install.

Note that Obtainium+Apkpure have frequently installed 32bit APKs on recent Android phones that still supported those, which is a security issue. Might not happen if your phone doesnt even support them anymore like recent Pixels do.

I am using this comment to trick my lemmy client into going to the community, sorry

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No, please not another Bazaar

https://codeberg.org/boredsquirrel/dupes#bazaar

Kedora

KixOS

Kebian

OpenKuse

Kentoo

Kalpine

Klackware

Try dicio

Wristotle for Pebble users

For 0,01% of combustion engines maybe. Also the article is extremely vague.

Combustion is inherently extremely inefficient

Interesting, does using the output of a nonfree software make the model more free?

Odd choice but personally I dont care, we have these models everywhere, please also on Linux etc.

Still looking for a good multi-lingual TTS on Android (english + german)

So the training data was licensed with CC0 and is made available?

Uhm, sounds, flames, laser swords, the shape of spaceships

True, Luke was incredibly old in comparison XD

You use a water cooker or an electric stove I guess, also you probably use a pot and dont heat it up in your hands

Or something, that metaphor makes no sense

I have had windows users tell me that a projector needs a usb adapter. While HDMI worked perfectly fine and I even got crazy high resolution (after configuring it myself in KDE)

Vga-hdmi adapters are trivial