rolling_resistance

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Nice webcam filter, OP

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Can't decide what's a better meme, this or installing Chrome over Edge 🤔🤔🤔

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Very tired of reading what Musk says.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I think I prefer “children's games” to organized crime and wars. Keeps competitve people busy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd rather see Fairphone expand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

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.
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I have to use Whatsapp, unfortunately. Are there any good alternatives to the default app on Android?

I'm worried about all the data it shares with Meta. I denied all permissions but this makes it less convenient, and the app probably still sends over the data that available without them.

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