Fair point. Admittedly, I wasn’t thinking about my response from a musician’s point of view.

Can you expand on your comment so I can understand the context a bit? I’m assuming from what you said that paid streaming services are not a positive thing for artists (or maybe smaller artists), and that it would be preferable if people were buying albums and singles outright? I’d like to understand it better.

This person just needs to manage their notifications and phone control better.

Also, while streaming (in my case Spotify) subs may seem expensive, it would be horrendously expensive to use an iPod and buy the amount of music I listen to (and three family members for that matter) instead. Considering the monthly sub, its fantastic value.

Personally, and without having made much effort, the issues mentioned in the article are a non-issue for me. And did I read that the HD and battery need to be modded?

Seems like a classic case of finding a problem for a solution.

I think it’s still very early in development. From what I have seen/tried, it’s not fit for regular Joe consumption yet, and in fairness they are clear about that themselves. I love the concept though, I hope it becomes more mainstream.

Big deal. I did something like that once with no AI whatsoever.

I guess when you pay with a credit card, theres limited information being shared. Taking things at face value, you are paying for a service that wont track you, see your data, give away your data etc.

Looking at it in terms of privacy vs. anon is a good way to look at it. If you want anonymity, you won’t be using a credit card I assume, unless it’s a throwaway you can top up. I imagine people who want full anonymity would be using stuff that’s more specialised and niche than the likes of Proton etc., likely FOSS stuff, home servers, services without login/registration.

Privacy is like a step away from anonymity in that regard I think.

That’s the most devastatingly effective description of the shitshow that I’ve ever heard.

Well worded and thanks. ✌🏼

1tn is plenty to go round surely!!!

Yet they still are knocking on the door of a 1tn valuation. 😖

Alanis could write an extra line in a particular song about this.

Or she could write a new song about NIMBYism, hypocrisy etc.

It’s not FOSS though I think? Free and paid tier. Website doesn’t say much about privacy etc. I actually have Lawnchair running silently and almost configured to mirror my Nova home screen but there doesn’t seem to be folders in the app drawer which is a pain, unless I have totally missed it.

Edit: Indeed, I totally missed it, in the settings. FFS.

Excellent. Lawnchair it is then.

Thanks for your thoughts. Totally agree.

I was in the verge of installing GOS but I think there is an issue with a first responder app that we are about to get access to, throwing errors of a phone seems to be rooted or similar, so I’ll have to check that it more. If its a non issue, GOS will be in play.

Good shout on the Fossify suite. Have replaced a few G products with those.

Excellent list of FOSS stuff here which helped me a lot.

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy

Ah OK thanks. Its not an app as such. I get you now. I was searching for an app or UI install called Photon!

Thank you!

Hi folks.

It was mainly my joy that an app’s default position is “we don’t do notifications”. I’ve never seen that before. Usually one is rushing to turn them off.

I guess its privacy on two levels; privacy from potential tracking, but also privacy from intrusion, constant attention etc.

I get that Lemmy is public and it could be irrelevant if my notifications are on or not. Its just such a refreshing position to see in an app.

Can you tell me more about that? I was able to see this thread on those links but not familiar with Photon. I searched a bit but a few different techie things came up.

You had me at “don’t even bother with most apps any more…” 😁

I can’t unsee that now. 😫

OK I have you. You dont need the internet because you have the internet in your terabyte farm. Pretty cool.

Thanks for the detailed reply.

One final question, I’m sure its dark at the bottom of the deep rabbit hole you are in, what do you do for batteries for your head torch?! 😀

I love the sound of this but can I ask, if the net goes down and you hardly notice, where do you get your ‘net’ from? Or is it that your intranet doesn’t need internet as such and everything is just local?

I might have answered my own question there but I’m interested to understand it a bit more.

Thanks!

Ireland hopes it goes well for you. 🇮🇪