I’m super worried they’re not gonna do rocky well. I think the appropriate thing would be to use subtitles, however I doubt normal people would be into that

I just poked on the demo and I think it could, however it might be a bit clunky. Maybe could be a viable thing to request of the dev. Maybe alongside a donation for a sort of bounty.

For the android users, just gonna put this here

https://gadgetbridge.org/

I think it’s gonna end up being bad. Mainly because most people are gonna hear on Fox News that this was due to some flaw in Signal, and just take that at face value. A lot of people are not gonna even read an article about why or what even happened.

Just wanna be clear that this didn’t happen because of some technical flaw/vulnerability in Signal. This was completely Human Error

I think the point they’re making is you can effectively have a self hosted non federated option with Matrix. Just disable federation as a whole (which I’m pretty sure is completely possible. Given companies use matrix for comms, and might not want federation, for similar reasons to what is being discussed here)

Don’t have a good rec to add to the discussion of hardware, but I would love to give a shoutout to GadgetBridge, which is an Open Source Android app that is a vendorless alternative to controlling lots of smart wearables (and other gadgets). It doesn’t currently have Polar support, but seems that might be fairly easy to implement, since polar publishes their SDK online (and presumably the protocol with which it communicates).

Why would it make sense? Currently on Android, RCS isn’t a system level thing like SMS is. So Signal won’t easily be able to pull it in. Unless they implement their own implementation of RCS and the Universal Profile.

It would be awesome if Polar was supported by GadgetBridge, because then you could have fully offline and private control of the device.

GB recently got Garmin support and it’s pretty solid. I switched from the Garmin app to GB exclusively and haven’t lost really any features. Besides the social networking, but that omission is a feature, not a bug.

If it’s really 3rd party friendly, I wonder how easy it would be to get support.

SG1 represent. A lot of people say it’s old and campy, but I love it so much

“Hey hey wait. Let’s throw in one It’s Not Unusual”

Pedantry*

GrapheneOS

When I search for it on stock android on my P7, it says it’s in Google Play Services. So my guess is it isn’t part of AOSP, therefore GrapheneOS wouldn’t have it, unless they make their own implementation

My bad. I thought I saw that they ship with them now. I haven’t really looked at the configurator since I got mine in 2021.

All of the models ship with various options for OS:

• None
• Fedora, Mint, or a couple other Linux distros
• W11

So given they all list a few different distros as an official option, and each product page has a Linux tab, I think it’s a safe bet

Tbf, my building also uses an app for laundry. However they also have a machine in the laundry rooms where you can purchase an NFC payment card and put money on it. So you can use it without the app. Is that not the case with yours? If not, that’s 100% fucked

Definitely fair. Figured I’d share anyway.

https://youtu.be/CzJKxUCKOBg

Came here to recommend those first two exactly