if your going that route.

I see what you did there.

I use Nextcloud and the server is on the same network. My problem is mainly with the mobile app, I have to remember all the time to tap on the sync button just to make sure my notes are up to date. And it doesn’t do it in the background, I have to do it when I launch the app. The result is that if I open my notes while disconnected from WiFi I am stuck to whatever version it last synced.

And similarly, if I edit something on my phone while offline it will never sync, unless I remember to actually launch the app when I am back online. If only it could sync on the background like DAVx5 does for my calendar it would solve most of my problems.

Standard Notes no longer has a business model. Since they were bought by Proton they have been on life support.

Joplin is great, that’s what I use as well. I just wish syncing was a bit more seemless.

I mean what did they expect? With all those free games on a set frequency they basically trained their users that this is what Epic is for. That was their entire marketing. I don’t know a single person IRL who has an Epic account and has actually bought a game there.

This one actually works a bit differently. Parents will need to install an app called Kids Wallet which will provide some kind of an API to the digital services to verify their age without revealing any other credentials to the platform. And the birth data will come directly from the Greek civil registry.

According to Euractiv, the wallet app will use the Greek digital ID of a parent or guardian, validated by TaxisNet, the country’s national authorization service. In this way, parents can use their digital ID app to request age assurance to validate the child’s identity using date of birth data from the Greek civil registry. The government says third-party applications could retrieve the child’s age via API with parental consent.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202503/greeces-kids-wallet-for-age-assurance-gets-parental-consent-to-access-civil-registry

I am not an advocate for age verification laws. Quite the contrary as I believe they create a slippery slope, as at the end of the day someone has to decide that is considered “inappropriate” for children and the definition of that keeps shifting based on how is on power.

Still though, it is a lot less worse than what many US states are doing, where everyone is supposed to upload a government ID and go through KYC.

You give it too much credit. In order to be able to lie it would first need do be actually capable of understanding what it writes. LLMs are text prediction algorithms. They cannot think.

The council of The Three Meows will decide your fate.

There is a 16GB one too. It sells for like $300 right now though. As for what you can do with it, one use case would be running something like Proxmox with a few VMs. Myself though I’d rather stick with my N100 system which is also x86.

“I don’t need to, I have it stored all in my head.”

Famous last words.

If you want to have a look at the video that converted me here you go https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8K4NA5a0D8c

The answer is to get a used Pixel. With a bit of looking around you may be able to find some pretty good deals. The Pixel 8a is the sweetspot is my opinion. OEM minimum support until May 2031 and old enough to find at a very good price. But not that old for its battery to very likely be busted.

Same here, Debian since Squeeze. A couple of years ago I just decided to go a step further and go with Kicksecure. Which is basically just hardened Debian.

You mean create a new user profile? Just follow the instructions here, that is how it works on AOSP and all ROMs that don’t diverge too much from it. Then just keep TikTok and only TikTok there, so it doesn’t have access to the rest of your data.

The DLC will introduce the new Xenolith: The Alien Crystal plague

Green glowing alien crystals that kill you. Hmm, where have I heard this before?

SimpleLogin, Mullvad, Ente, Notesnook, Aegis, Bitwarden, ProtonMail… and fucking TikTok. Come on man, all that effort to improve your privacy and then you go and install literal spyware on your phone? At least isolate it on its own user profile if you really have to.

I just want Skyrim where I can have actual conversations with NPC, instead of them repeating the same lines over and over again.

I do however want this to be powered by a local LLM running on my machine. Especially single player games like this need to be self contained, and not have to rely on a server for basic gameplay features like this.

If you expect regular users to go through with this ridiculous process you are just naive. Anyone who distributes their app through something like F-Droid will either, have to choose between going through with giving Google their ID or lose 85% of their users, if they are lucky.

Yes, you do. Unless you are developing an app just for your friends, or you expect everyone not on a custom ROM to go through the ridiculous “advanced flow”.

In addition to the advanced flow we’re building free, limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists. This allows you to share apps with a small group (up to 20 devices) without needing to provide a government-issued ID or pay a registration fee. This ensures Android remains an open platform for learning and experimentation while maintaining robust protections for the broader community.

The above is from the official update by Google.

If you are referring to the suggested “advanced flow” this is what I am referring to as “crazy workaround” in my original comment. And in practice that doesn’t mean anything.

Until Google provides a shipping implementation that can be independently verified, our position remains unchanged: all apps from non-registered developers will be blocked once their lockdown goes into effect in September 2026.

It is still going to affect us indirectly. The problem is that Google is demanding developers to go through KYC even if they are not distributing their app through the Play Store. Not going through with it means nobody with a stock device will be able to install their app, unless they do that crazy workaround Google claims is going to implement.

This means open source app developers will be called to choose between doxing themselves to Google, or keep developing for us, the 0.01% who is on custom ROMs. It’s not hard to imagine that many will just decide to move on and invest their time on doing something else.

https://keepandroidopen.org/