Seems like you have bigger issues than corporate surveillance.

Bikes are great.

Yeah but everything that I named would say Ubutnu. That’s important. Until you know more, you’ll already be using Ubuntu. That’s why “anybody uses Ubuntu”.

Yes. https://duckduckgo.com?q=firefox+snap+slow

snaps bad because

Because it’s a popular distro. Because when you look for “how to X in linux”, there’s a 90% chance the response will be about Ubuntu. Because your workplace said so. The list goes on.

snaps bad because slow

Could you guys please include the name of your country in the title?

Very tired of reading what Musk says.

That’s very nice of you!

I’d rather see Fairphone expand.

Ooh, I do care! I’ll get one more ext4 drive in my system!

I guess the stuff I was worried about was contact list sharing, Google Advertising ID, installed app list, and who knows what else a native app can access. Good to know that Graphene has that protection, I guess I’ll worry less about using WA.

This is a good little story, I enjoyed reading it :)

Yes, having message history and a good desktop client are great benefits of a bridge.

Look up “Beeper”. It’s not about privacy, rather about convenience. They run bridges for you. Nothing went through the main app, but I had to authorize Beeper through WA as a separate session. It would die in 2 weeks with WA disabled, like I said, but I guess if I kept WA enabled this wouldn’t have happened.

I’ve seen WA mods (basically rebuilt .apk files), but I don’t know much about them, and therefore they seem shady.

This summer? I disabled the WA app on my phone, though, so there was no background activity.

My matrix app (an Element fork) had several bridges and multiple chats, I feel like they were all synching in the background. I haven’t noticed that when I was at home, but when I was camping, battery going from 100% in the evening down to 70% in the morning was a problem.

I used a setup like that, but there were 2 things that I didn’t like

• I had to keep Whatsapp on my phone and open it every 2 weeks, because without it the bridge would just die (so why not just use it anyway?).
• The app I had used a lot off battery, which was a dealbreaker for bike/backpacking trips.

Unlike some of you here, I actually do.

I was not asking for advice.

What I find really annoying about this community, is that no matter what you do, for some people it just won’t be good enough, and they will throw it in your face.