Buying a Pixel is a good idea, especially if you put GrapheneOS on it. It’s by far the best mobile operating system I’ve ever used.

Unfortunately not, since iOS does not allow third-party apps to access the APIs required for Wi-Fi scanning. I think Bluetooth could be done, but bluetooth beacons by themselves aren’t as useful.

From the beaconDB Matrix room (somebody recently asked the same question):

Mastodon would require a separate login.

Ok I just assumed that most people on Lemmy would also have a Mastodon account, apparently that’s not really the case?

I’m desperately waiting for Lemmy to add support for federated polls

Whoops, forgot to actually put the community link in the post. It’s fixed now.

Seems like I have 1.6K since I came here in March - that’s 7 months. It would equate to 2.7K if I kept it up at this rate for a whole year.

But GrapheneOS works on them.

And GrapheneOS has call recording btw

Again, many apps are broken.

Which apps do you mean? Most apps work just fine on GOS, even many banking apps and others that require proprietary Google Play services. The only apps that don’t work, are those that make use of Google’s completely stupid “Play Protect” API, which claims to verify that a device is secure, but in reality has absolutely nothing to do with security. Google (and other Big Tech companies) don’t give a single fuck about your security. It’s not Graphene’s fault, and has to do with nothing more than Google’s monopolistic practices. It’s designed in a way, where an operating system has to be manually whitelisted by Google, in order to get certified. Obviously, they only allowlisted their own spyware-filled proprietary OS, which is less secure than Graphene.

Fairphone might be interesting

Unfortunately Fairphones are highly insecure, shipping with a completely broken implementation of Android Verified Boot, and using the publically available AOSP test private signing keys by default to sign the OS. They also lack all the hardware security features present in modern Pixel devices.

When do you think will Valve enable this by default in SteamOS? It would greatly help the little Steam Deck with playing more performance-intensive titles.

Do you use the Stock OS, or a custom ROM?

Yes, GrapheneOS is always very quick to push out new updates.

not to mention Chinese OEMs which can recharge more than twice as fast

Which absolutely fries your battery. That’s one of the reasons Chinese phones would typically have horrible battery life, were it not for their stupid and aggressive “battery savers” and process killers that prevent basically anything from running in the background, which makes some tasks completely unfeasible/impossible on these devices. You want to receive push notifications outside of Google Play/FCM? Too bad, your app is gonna get killed after like 2 minutes of background usage. You want to sync your files/photos/contacts/calender/anything with your self-hosted server? Too bad, you can’t do that, because some Chinese manufacturer wants to market their phone with some crazy 120W charging and doesn’t give a fuck about the consequences. There’s a reason why Apple has stuck to 5W charging for so many years. And it’s not because they couldn’t figure out how to make it faster…

To be fair, there’s always been backspace feature, it’s just a swipe gesture, not a dedicated button

That’s been Microsoft’s slogan for decades

I haven’t seen that on midwest.social yet, but I’m definitely gonna continue to observe this and then decide if it’s worth blocking them

I definitely try to avoid it. Whenever there’s an (active) alternative community available, I prefer that.

Why midwest.social? I definitely agree with the rest though.

Only for some apps

Do you also use it for TOTP?

Proton Pass is not the only password manager with email aliasing integration. For example, 1Password integrates with Fastmail aliases, and Bitwarden can be used with multiple services: addy.io, SimpleLogin, Firefox Relay, Fastmail, DuckDuckGo Email Protection, and Forward Email.

One of my favorites is the built-in ssh-agent.

You can accomplish the same thing using Bitwarden, completely for free: https://github.com/joaojacome/bitwarden-ssh-agent

Android has password auto-fill by default, and it works with most password managers, including Bitwarden