Before writing a line of app code, I’m validating demand. And I’ll put my money where my mouth is: the landing page and the waitlist both run on a Debian box in my living room.

This isn’t trying to replace your monitoring server; it’s the mobile, unified, privacy-first front-end I keep wishing those had.

Hello, fellow human! Do you too enjoy the sweet sensations of smell and taste?

Neither, the former is only on iOS / various other Apple bits, the latter is awful in terms of privacy (arguably more so than Whatsapp)

I mainly use Matrix (Element on desktop, FluffyChat on Android, Fractal on mobile Linux) and email (Thunderbird), but I also have Halloy (IRC) installed to. As for any proprietary messaging services I use, it’s mainly WeChat for messaging Chinese friends.

edit: I also have Signal, but pretty much no one in my circle uses it, as everybody who was bothered to switch to Signal went all the way and joined Matrix in my experience.

Woah, good thing I uninstalled WhatsApp ages ago

Off topic: That’s a lot of history memes in your backlog posted in quick succession.

Just a small point, double negatives can get pretty confusing. Even in English, you often have double negatives becoming a negative rather than a positive, e.g. “I didn’t go nowhere” or “You don’t know nothing”. Changing which part of the phrase you emphasise can also change that, for instance, if you said “I didn’t go nowhere” it implies that you did in fact go somewhere (double negative becomes a positive when stressing the second negative). This gets all the more confusing when you bring in other languages, since they all handle double negatives differently!

Mate what is with you and canals?

Generally, there are a lot of used options out there (particularly from businesses upgrading their hardware), just like laptops. Even when shopping for new ones, I can find lots of cheap options (though they aren’t very good value usually, but they are enough to serve as a basic media box)

Raspberry Pis have unfortunately gotten very expensive, yes, but those are SBCs, not mini PCs?

I think somebody would need to be super out of touch to say that travelling to the Bahamas is super cheap and easy. Not a Trump-level out-of-touchness (he’s waffling on about the extermination of civilisation in Iran, conquering of NATO allies, and is diverting funds from science and healthcare towards making the white house the gold house), but close to it.

Or a mini PC! (little guy that can be a bit smaller + cheaper too, you will need to get a keyboard and/or mouse for it though)

Well, that would depend on what’s in the other 3D “layers” of the 4D world. Like how 3D worlds can be thought of as layers of 2D ones. If you moved to another 3D “layer” that had no oxygen, food, water, etc., you would quickly die. If you moved quick enough you would also probably die, but the same could be said about the three spatial dimensions we’re used to. Also, if there was a fourth spatial dimension, it must be “compact” enough that we can’t detect it with our current technology, and I have a hunch (!!! no evidence for this, please search for some if you want good facts!!!) it would be bad for us to move through it.

Poisonous: harms you if you touch or eat it

Venomous: harms you by injecting a toxin (through biting, stinging, etc.)

I know there’s a few poisonous butterflies (e.g. the Monarch butterfly), and I can find a few other insects listed on Wikipedia (and I’m sure there are others not on there too)

I’m not sure I could deal with the lower specs

To be honest, I think the only one that matters is the cameras, primarily the lack of a zoom lens. The performance is excellent unless you want to do things like Switch or PC emulation (in that case, the OP13 is a no brainer, why are you even considering the Pixel). I also just think the modularity and repairable aspect of it is so awesome!

PostmarketOS is tempting for the future, but it looks like it would need a bit more work until we get there.

And you’ll be keeping the phone for a long while, so something that also supports pmOS (like the Fairphone) could make it useful once it is no longer receiving Android updates!

And of course, you also have mobile Linux, which is slowly becoming more usable over time! postmarketOS is the one I’ve tried, but there is also Mobian, Ubuntu Touch, and SailfishOS. I personally like pmOS since it aims to stay close to the mainline kernel, meaning you can install any Flatpak app onto the device (it might not always scale well, but it does open a lot of cool options!)

As for the comparison between custom ROMs, you mainly have LineageOS and derivatives like e/OS, iodeOS, and CalyxOS, as well as GrapheneOS which is doing its own thing with Pixels (and future Motorola devices)

Base LineageOS is pretty much stock Android without Google services by default (though you can install microG). e/OS focuses more on the degoogling side of things, and they tie in Murena cloud services + their own iOS-like launcher too. iodeOS is another more privacy-focused spin of Lineage, and they have additional controls on content blocking (advertisements, trackers, that sort of thing), and you can optionally enable parental controls too. CalyxOS is a security-focused Lineage spin, though not to the extent of GrapheneOS. They only recently came back from the dead, but they seem like another good option too!

GrapheneOS is an uber secure version of Android, there’s a table online for all the security features that Graphene has over the others, look at those and see if any of them are important to you. They also have a neat feature where apps requiring Google services can be sandboxed and kept separate from the system!

You are in the UK, so that is a good start. If you want longevity, I would prefer the Fairphone 6, which has excellent battery, decent cameras, and amazing custom ROM support (+ mobile Linux is developing too!), and it will also be very repairable, so you can easily replace the battery, ports, etc. as they wear out. They also have a long 5 year warranty + 8 years of promised software updates, quite a bit longer than both OnePlus and Google. The main downside for the Fairphone is no telephoto camera, which is a bit of a bummer, but the rest of the specs are very apt for the price €599, or £519 in the UK, and I would say the extended support + custom ROM support makes it an excellent deal.

The Pixels are pretty terrible in all respects (thermal issues, poor battery, decent cameras but not competitive, etc.), with their only redeeming quality being that you can install Graphene on them (awesome if you prioritise security), and even that advantage is going away with Motorola soon releasing supported devices! I would avoid Pixels for the most part, unless you can score a deal on a used Pixel 8 or 9 series (barely different from the 10 really, the 8 is nicer if you want rounded edges, 9 if you want to iPhone 4 style boxy shape), or you really want GrapheneOS now for its better security.

OnePlus has great cameras and far more performance than anyone would need in a phone (hell, you can emulate some PC games on it with GameNative), and it supports LineageOS too. I’ve also heard that the 13 in particular has excellent battery life. It’s a pretty nice option if you want performance and cameras!

You might also want to look at some of the Sony Xperia devices if you want a) headphone jack! b) no notch/cutout! c) front-firing speakers d) great cameras and e) microSD card slot! The Xperia line is also relatively compact, if you want a smaller phone.

I would use CoMaps, it’s awesome, offline maps are clutch when there is poor network, almost all the shops, restaurants, and sites are marked (and can be self-marked if they are not there, it’s OSM after all! Shouldn’t be a big problem in most cities though), and it has all the bell and whistles (autoupdate route when you make a wrong turn, metro support, TTS directions, everything!)

No traffic though, but I’m fine with that since I mostly commute on foot and by metro anyways.

It looks like they only accept direct transfer and credit card. They do not accept Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency), they have a blog article about why on their donation page if you are interested.

A/I is not calling for the death of any people group, and they are against racism and bigotry of all forms.

Yes, giving yourself a label doesn’t necessarily mean it’s correct. North Korea calla itself a Democratic People’s Republic, when in reality it’s closer to a dictatorial monarchy mixed with bits of Marxism. But if we disregarded all labels that could be misused, we would have none at all!

Also, what the hell man, calling for the death of all Indians as an “example” is not a good look. It doesn’t bode well for whar you actually believe in if you think this is a reasonable example to bring up.

Hang on a minute, this looks familiar…

No problems here though, more awareness about this is always better! Still kind of insane the U.S. gov can just designate an online service as a “global terrorist organisation” and block them with DNS.

https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

from A/I: “Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity.”

Fascism is the desire for a totalitarian state where (in general) the population must put the state first above everything. Let’s see here:

I want to create a totalitarian regime ruled by complete degenerated person and I’m actively pursuing my goals.

Well, that sounds pretty fascist to me. Did you mix the two words up?