This is fake news.

It is very likely Samsung has whitelisted Play Service from showing the green dot, my Pixel certainly does not, although it probably should and a bug might have the made the whitelist invalid.

I have that function disabled on my phone. It’s not about not doing that during sleep though but rather the green dot will pop every single time when I wake up the device, say I lock the screen just 1 second ago 1 second later when I wake up the phone the dot will pop, this can be reproduced repeatedly. I honestly think this must be a bug on my phone specifically but downgrade the Play service does fix this and the updated version is still behaving like this in safe mode. I’m seriously thinking about switching to Lineages OS at this point…

Unless it’s end to end encrypted it’s useless, false sense of security is worse than insecurety.

It’s good but I personally don’t care, phone manufactures will eventually stop updating their old phones, since Pixel phones are so open I can rely on third party ROMs comfortably, that’s also why I got the Pixel 6 Pro at the first place. Although I would admit for the mass majority an Apple like updating experience is essential.

I would really like to see Google improve their hardwares, I have no complaints with my 6 Pro whatsoever, but it’s obviously inferior to the Samsung’s S Series Ultra or the Apple’s iPhone Pro, both in terms of specs and designs. I have no issues with specs since I don’t play games but I believe most people still do, designs however is much more important especially in the premium phones frontend.

I enjoy Material You design overall, the themed icons though are not my flavor, I would much prefer icons following a strict guideline like on IOS and still remain very differentiated.

E-cigarettes is designed to replace cigarettes nowadays, not to help you quit smoking.

Your enemy’s enemy is your friend. It’s “safe” as it will not try to steal your crenditials. Although it is a privacy nightmare itself but think as people in China wouldn’t care much about Google’s privacy policy as noone will use the information against them.

I would really like to see this get integrated into SearXNG

I find him annoying, doesn’t mean I think he is a bad person.

I just blocked shitpost and 196 communities, the feed is much better.

There three are really bad choices

SearXNG is the king

To keep posts, comments is unlikely to happen. Transferring the sub list and bookmarks or just exporting them should be in the near future, at least with 3rd party apps.

Always better off with SearXNG

Signal is okay as much as privacy is concerned, but it doesn’t solve all the problems with communications in real world. For instance its centralized design means it can be easily blocked, a private Matrix server on the other hand will not even make it on the radar.

Just played with it for a bit, it’s very responsive and the resemblance is quite accurate.

I’m all in on Matrix, anything else has become irrelevant to me.

This is so nasty and interesting at the same time

As someone who’s in the tech space I would say I’m very influenced by materialism. Arts don’t do much. Not that I don’t enjoy operas or paintings, but it’s not something would make feel like there is a new world as technology would.