The community forked the core a while back: https://github.com/openVoiceOS/

See also https://neon.ai/, which builds on top of OVOS, and is who the Mycroft company officially passed the reigns to.

If they do not have cell service, they won’t be able to set up Signal, or any other service that requires a phone number (they won’t be able to receive the text message that verifies they own the number).

Since most phones (if not all), use an encrypted filesystem. With such, no service can’t start if the device isn’t initially unlocked after reboot, including Find my device.

Android developers can specify that their apps need to run before the pin is entered, via direct boot mode. This is how alarms still work, even if your phone takes an upgrade overnight, and restarts automatically as part of that process.

I can’t say whether Google’s Find My Device currently does this, but there is no technical reason it can’t.

I went through this process for the first time recently. I opened the RFP issue, and got a response from Izzy very quickly. They were very helpful and responsive through the whole process. I was nervous it would be a slow tedious process when I started, but it turned out to be pretty quick and easy, largely thanks to Izzy’s help.

Worth noting, they support reproducible builds, which allows developers to sign with their own key:

https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

I would definitely recommend going this route if you’re starting with a new app. Having the binary on GitHub (or wherever you’d otherwise publish) match exactly the binary on F-Droid is really good for assuring people nothing in your repo was tampered with during the build process (i.e. that the binary was built from the public code, and nothing else).

It should not take extra work to do this. The project generated by Android Studio should already be reproducible. As long as you don’t change the build setup and break reproducibility yourself, it’ll “just work.” When you submit to F-Droid, just be sure to let them know you want to go the reproducible route (if you make the PR yourself, it’s a flag in the YAML file).

You might be referring to this? That’s what I found from a quick search, at least.

If I understand correctly, this is a little different - from what I recall reading a few years ago, the speculation was that Netflix (and similar apps) rendered the content directly, bypassing the normal rendering stack. It would be the equivalent of, on a Linux system, bypassing the compositor (e.g. Mutter or KWin), and directly rendering the content (I believe SurfaceFlinger is the Android compositor). This means that when something like scrcpy uses the competitor API to capture the content, the content is literally not there, because it bypassed that system altogether.

By contrast, the secure flag just allows app developers to ask the OS to disallow screenshots, to prevent data leakage (e.g. of your banking details). It’s all rendered in the standard way, though.

This may not be accurate - it’s based on assumptions, and forum posts I read years ago, but it’s the best explanation I have right now. If anyone knows better, please feel free to correct me.

It’s not exactly what you’re looking for, and won’t be as seamless, but you might be able to leverage scrcpy.

It uses adb (you may need a fullfat distro for this - lineage may not support it), and allows you to view and control your Android device from a computer. It can also handle audio, and can be used wirelessly. The one caveat is protected content will probably not show up in the mirror - e.g. if you cast your screen and try to stream Netflix, it will likely be unable to send the Netflix video over. The last time I tested, it depended on the specific app, and which APIs they used under the hood (at the time, YouTube worked, Netflix did not).

This is approximately what I do as well, and would highly recommend. The one caveat I would add is while you are researching things you might want to do, take note of the subset of things you most want to do, and make sure you know what days/times they are open, if you need to book in advance, etc. I am very against having a hard schedule, but I also don’t want to travel somewhere only to miss the one thing I was really looking forward to because I decided “I’ll do that tomorrow,” only to find out it was closed the next day.

An additional pro-tip: Make your first list of things you might want to do ahead of time, and name it after the place you are going, e.g. “New York.” Then while you’re traveling, make a second list of “favorites”, e.g. “New York Favorites.” Keep track of all the restaurants, activities, view points, etc that you enjoyed using that second list. Then whenever someone asks for recommendations for a particular location, you can just send them your favorites list.

Hmm, strange. The last comment from Dan (second to last comment on the thread) makes it sound like their is another thread, and other users with the same problem:

Whew, I found the other thread and am happy to see that others are encountering this too, and it’s not some super duper weird thing with just my computer…

I tried searching a bit to see if I could find it quickly, but didn’t turn anything up. Maybe if you comment there, though, they could link you to the other thread, and they might have more info.

That sounds like a threading issue. If the app tries to run a task on its main thread, and that task takes a long time (in particular, longer than expected), it could cause the UI to lock up.

Do mouse interactions still work? Does anything on the UI update at all? If not, I’d bet on a task getting stuck on the main thread.

Note that this doesn’t have to be an intense task - you may not see a CPU/network/disk spike. It could be a deadlock scenario, where multiple threads are waiting for the same resources, and each locks some, but not all of the resources. None can move forward, no work is done, everything just hangs waiting for resources locked by other threads.

I use several of the Simple Mobile Tools apps, e.g. the file manager, gallery, and voice recorder: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools

AntennaPod for pod casts: https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod

Pass for password management: https://www.passwordstore.org/

Exercise Reminders is new, but I like it so far: https://github.com/ChristopherRogers1991/ExerciseReminders

And of course Liftoff for lemmy: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff

I’m on a laptop with hybrid Nvidia/Intel graphics, and Wayland has been working fine for me. I typically run in “on-demand” mode, but I’ve used both strictly Intel and strictly Nvidia modes as well, and it’s been fine.

I think the only real issue I’ve had is that Splitgate refuses to launch in Wayland, so I switch to X if I want to play - general computing works fine, native apps have had no issues, and all the other games I’ve played have launched without issue.

The Nvidia GPU is a 1650 TI, and I’m on the Nvidia 535 driver.

They do care. They’re trying to find a way to stop it. That’s the point of the article. It’s the first sentence:

The Danish government will seek to “find a legal tool” that would enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Koran in front of other countries’ embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster DR on Sunday.

See https://youtu.be/GCVJsz7EODA and https://youtu.be/V82lHNsSPww

There are a few problems, but I believe the biggest issue is that .zip and .mov are valid and common file extensions, and it’s common for people to write something like ‘example dot zip’ or ‘attachment dot mov’ in emails, tweets, etc. Things like email clients have features where they automatically convert text that looks like a web address into clickable links. So now, retroactively, all those emails etc suddenly have a link, where they used to just have text, and the domains that are equivalent to those previously benign file names are being purchased by nefarious actors to exploit people unaware of the issue.