Yeah; this one’s been my experience, as well.

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/

This is the most strongly written writeup I know of (whether it’s something you, likewise, find worth being wary about is, naturally, up to you, though).

Ahh; that makes much more sense.

As much as I’d like to think I’m generally in the loop of Lemmy lore, I’m afraid I don’t understand the connection.

Not to stereotype too much but I think this is the first Blåhaj I’ve seen (in a programming context) that wasn’t team Rust.

What your programming language of choice (if you don’t mind sharing)?

Get some help

That’s what the horse electrolytes are for (I imagine he’d say).

The GPS one was from August,

Ah; welp, I stand corrected.

That’s fair; most reviews I saw made it seem like it was one of the few options that actually could be daily-drivable (like, still probably infrequent crashes, slight small bugs, but all the crucial bits worked 95% of the time).

the core features of the phone have to be rock solid. That means GPS, WiFi, mobile data, SMS, MMS, Bluetooth, camera etc etc. need to be absolutely flawless. It’s a safety thing in my mind.

I mean, yeah; totally fair. I think I have just a smidge more flexibility. Like, I need battery (for obvious reasons) but I’m fine if I can get things working again with just a reboot. But I do have to go around far less than I used to (WfH, generally stay in most days). That said, my plan’s to keep my old phone around, just in case.

do you own one? How do you find it?

Not yet but I pre-ordered back in Sept. (maybe Aug.? A few months ago, certainly). Looks like current estimates are seemingly looking like some time in January.

Most of what I’ve read and seen have been promising but I’ve also just been ready to get rid of Android for, like, 5 years, now. I figure, even if things don’t work well enough for daily driving, I’m still supporting efforts to make it, finally, a reality but (naturally) I’m, also, really hoping.

I’ll let you know my impressions when it comes, if that’s something you’d want? Like I said, I often mention the device since it seems to go unnoticed in most Mobile Linux conversations but it’ll be good to have one so I can do more than just quote others’ experiences.

Sonic 1 for the Sega Genesis.

Yesssssss; still one of the best implementations of Tetris ever, imo.

The former; the person you’re thinking of, as the latter, is Thomas Edison.

The caveat being if they are so bad they are climbing to the ceiling and literally falling on you.

New nightmare fuel unlocked.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that if a particular crime entails a certain (high) degree of effort/coordination and you succeed, you should just be let off and get to keep whatever you’d initially gotten away with.

Also, you couldn’t pay me to publicly advertise that my ability to look up information had so completely atrophied.

Not to mention the entire Guile OS (Guix).

I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.

Like I said, it’s possible that I just missed how Apple Podcasts exposes the RSS feed transparently but I’ve never been able to find it via just browsing the site to then put into the latter two programs.

Just realized this was in response to a comment I’d made and not the post, proper…; sorry about that.

I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.

I think you’re reading this as me having trouble finding podcasts; I find it mildly infuriating that Spotify and Apple are becoming the face of finding podcasts in a way that obfuscates how things actually work. I don’t like that these two entities become the only listed means to find a podcast when others exist and will cause lay people to associate podcasts with just them, if that makes more sense.

Oh, I know; that’s why I mentioned

there’s a convenience to going to a centralized service to browse for a particular thing

And I don’t necessarily know the right solution; I was somewhat just venting about the issue I recognize, even if I don’t have the countering solution. But it’s definitely a part that needs to, also, be considered, for sure.

I couldn’t quite say but finding the RSS feed has always been a massive pain for me, whenever the only source someone gives is Apple Podcasts. That said, maybe it’s my fault and I’m just not looking carefully enough; always possible.

I think my wording might not be the best as I didn’t mean proprietary in the sense that they could or were able to paywall things right now, as things are.

I just think that putting more control into infrastructure that we don’t control always leads to monopolization, where feasible, by corporations. So relying more on this infrastructure owned by Apple and Spotify is inherently bad.