Guido Günther @agx@librem.one

@happyborg @Natanox As the problem is pretty big already I think we need to advance on all levels: tech, public awareness, politics and regulations as likely not all of them will be successful 😃

@fdlamotte @EU_Commission It would certainly help if the EU would push into the same direction. Maybe @fsfe can help here?

@digitalRightsNinja @happyborg @Natanox I see even tech savvy people having problems avoiding proprietary app stores and operating systems. And then there's countries where apps are basically the primary payment system.

Many folks are that deep into the problem that they don't even recognize it as one. So even reflection on what's going on will hopefully get us further 😃

@nikodunk I have no illusions about the majority of people - the majority is still buying fossil fueled cars over here too. But if every company would have those options that your bank provides we'd already be in a much better position

Let's get rid of fossil fuels and proprietary end user devices that lock them into a duopoly 😃

@heretical_i Most of the apps are unusable without google play services. Android users are jumping through hoops to get either these or microG running on their Android variant and it scares the hell out of people while everyone can use a web browser.

And then there's people (like me) that run neither Android nor iOS on their phones or folks that don't have a smartphone.

It shouldn't be hit or miss like that for users to avoid the duopoly.

But thanks for mentioning it!

You're losing customers that way as they turn to products that don't require these kind of apps.

A public website accessible via any web browser makes not only us but also you independent from Apple's and Google's duopoly.

(Boosts appreciated, let's not get forced more and more into proprietary app stores)

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Dear companies,

please don't make having access to Google's or Apple's app stores to use your products a requirement.

This locks so many of us out because we either don't have a compatible device or the device doesn't have the software to access these services (like google play services).

#WebNotApp

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In case you want to support my work on #LinuxMobile and #Phosh financially i've added some options to https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/donations/

@jelly 🤞

@goatwildernesscollective I think it's a matter of getting used to. I'm using this since many months and it don't miss press. Also https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh-mobile-settings/-/merge_requests/103 should help as one can make the press shorter (hence shortening the time you have to press on the correct spot).

@baconicsynergy Initially these will even be the same. Lockscreen wallpaper will be different.

@jelly Nice! I remember that upower maintainers rejected the idea of *writing* values (rather than just reading them from /sys). Has that changed?

I finally resumed work on the MR that allows for a non solid background in #phosh's overview. There still some lose ends, but it's progressing: