Yeah. I knew somone would say that. I feel Mint is its own thing though and main stream enough. I meant more the distros that have a webite, and then other flavours or spins on that distro.
I do want to try Debian at some stage but it just feels about old out of the box.
Ubuntu has ads in the OS, mint dosnt.
Installed mint on my parents laptops so they didn’t become e-waste when Win11 came out. They have no issues.
Being new(ish) to Linux since that time and I found that the main distortion are better than their sub “flavours”. For me anyway. I didn’t like Mint LMDE or Kubuntu etc.
Reading the comments makes me wonder why BIOS passwords were even invented.
Sounds like everyone is saying its a waste of time and to never use it if the biis supports it.
I’m in the same boat now but I also transitioned off slowly. I was saying that it’s not always possible for everyone in every situation.
One that comes to mind is being told to use it for work and posting in your lunch break to see what the options exist before immediately quitting on the spot.
FOSS options do exist for many services, and that’s all OP was looking for. I don’t see the point in telling them to never seek out the unofficial version of a service.
Not a helpful comment.
As somone who has slowly moved away from big tech, one of my steps was to use unofficial clients (open source) and web wrappers. For others it’s impossible to move fully off a platform for reasons like work, school and family. Ulimatums for these don’t work for everyones situation.
Many people use open YT apps or proxies. Versions exist for Twitch. There are ways to access Spotify. Nitter is back (for now). Their used to be some FB wrappers (I think they exist but are pretty bugged at this stage). Why would OP expect any less of WhatsApp.
And to answer OP. The best I’ve heard is use a PC with a burner number and a web wrapper on mobile. It requires some sort of regular login on the PC.
Thanks.
The rule only kicks in on devices that come loaded with Google’s own apps and services, known as Google Mobile Services or GMS.
That said, LineageOS flagged one gap worth watching which is if someone sideloads a third-party Google Apps package onto their device, that package could theoretically include the verification system bundled in
I wonder of we’ll see more banking (and other) apps lockout ROMs that don’t have GMS, or bundle it in when installed on something like gOS.
Yes. But the dev lockout stuff that Google is forcing will apply to all three. As I understand it.
Could somone ELI5.
When discussing other ROMs I was told ROMs would be dead given that need to keep android open. I took that to mean micro G and many, many, other apps would break due to Devs unwilling (or unable?) to support non play store apps.
How then would gOS continue, especially with a hardware partner? I understand the Google lockdown is upstream so gOS will be in the same boat, with things Accrcent (store) and Vanadium.
Thanks.
Technically sponsor block dies this. It’s on more projects than just revanced.
I use the version before the change. There’s some easy instructions to run it as a Linux package (? Sorry not sure of the terminology) as android can do that. The only issue is you dont have a direct GUI and need to use the web interface. I believe its much smaller and more efficient than any app, not to mention uses the “official” version.
FP seemingly abandoned Australia with the FP5 and the 3g cutoff.
Not quite sure how I feel about them now.
Your doing the lords work.
I thought donkeys would ejaculate about the same as a horse though.
@[email protected] save us another click.
Cool app. A few questions.
Will future releases be able to pull my phone contacts so I don’t have to tell re-enter names/numbers/dates (especially when they change?
On that how do I edit a contact?
What’s the internet permissions for?
Could also be that and 15yrs old. Just a theory.
It’s PCPDroid. Basically wireshark for android.
Tracker control can a different although similar thing, and then block the calls.