Dongles create additional & unnecessary points of failure in your setup (sometimes additional stress on the USB jack too which is usually your only I/O port (which is also making you choose charging or power)). Personal devices that play media need this standard jack that has existed for decades—& I refuse to play ball with these OEMs hurting customers.

And that is exactly what I am running—and without regret since the OEMs are screwing over users just to sell branded Bluetooth earbuds whose batteries will die & not be repairable in a year for you to buy another set. I will not participate in this.

Which of these smart phones lets me have a headphone jack… ’cause that is how I will choose. I can patch software & be wary about how I use the device, but I can’t just add I/O to the hardware. Until the Pixel brings back the jack, it is dead to me.

That’s good too. Not a Monero hater or a Zcash fanboy—I just think we need to be honest about the capabilities even if the methods of getting there are different.

It does add a level of convenience for the type of transaction you might want to actually be tracked all being on the same currency. Most don’t even offer the option. Zcash can do the thing—it’s just not the only way.

Shielded addresses & transactions are private using zero-knowledge proofs like Monero. You can also have transparent addresses & transactions like how Bitcoin operates on Zcash as well which is true. But there isn’t a default, some wallets autoshield by default making your comment misinformation.

Zcash’s shielded transactions can do smiliar things

Linux, Capyloon, KaiOS… kinda don’t care so long as it isn’t controlled by some US megacorporation

XMPP + OMEMO & Mumble for chat, offline maps from OSM, self-hosted feed aggregator

NixOS, OpenWRT, LineageOS for microG, but would like to remove Android from my line up.

Sounds like you need a browser tho. UnifiedPush & MQTT work without a browser with WebPush support.

I still want to know if MQTT already did this & UnifiedPush is just a startup trying to reimplement the same concept

Seems like someþing folks should legislate against… ðat is unless ð lobby have all ð politicians in ðeir pockets. 🙃

The trend part suck. You know if Apple decided thicker phones were cool again, then all of Android would copy it instead of thinking for themselves & meeting user demands (niche or otherwise)

I converted my old phone photos to JXL for this reason. It is malpractice that Android isn’t doing this by default for all users right now.

Neither the Matrix clients nor servers are lightweight—largely by design. All of the clients take literal minutes to start up if you don’t use it regularly & chew thru data. Even if they managed to hide how slow syncing is, it is just being hidden & taking just as many resources in the background. The whole decentralized eventual consistency + chat history is permanent is a model that makes it this way. At least IRC understood the chat was ephemeral & the protocol—even v3—isn’t bloated.

Everyone I met has heard of Jitsi—guess I should feel blessed about my circle. But that doesn’t mean we should not let these places know there are opportunities to keep that voice data on-premise (which also indirectly helps the privacy of employees). I have chosen jobs for things like this though.

Might be true, but is some real bullshit. There are protocols/programs that do work on multiple platform (including not web) with privacy settings turned up. Employers should consider if they want Google listening in on all of their business discussions before forcing its buggy platform on employees. I’ll wait for the one that cries that it has Google Calendar integration, when you don’t need Google for a calendar.

While you are setting up that server for Jitsi, realize its XMPP server can cover your text chat & presence needs too.

I am pretty sure no one at Google tests outside Blink & only gets around to it when there are bug reports

I mean Matrix was intiated by Israeli intelligence so not unreasonable

Sony is still carrying the torch for flagships