Ubuntu Touch [is] a great choice if you seek an alternative that prioritizes privacy and open-source ideals.
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One area that has improved is Google account synchronization. While it's not flawless, it's easier to sync services like Gmail and Calendar than it was before.
🤦 I don't think he fully grasps that Google is the main reason to use a more private OS than (stock) Android.
Nope. He explicitly only praises battery life in that parapgraph. He experienced some performance issues in his (old) test device:
Ubuntu Touch shines in battery life (at least in my experience). Since the OS is lighter and uses fewer system resources, many users report better battery performance than on Android. Ubuntu Touch is optimized to reduce unnecessary background processes, making your phone last longer on a single charge. However, if you push the OS with more demanding tasks, you may still run into performance issues, especially on older hardware.
Simplex chat has a default "private notes" chat which is essentially chatting with yourself as you describe it.
Simplex is available for a lot of platforms and devices, and easier to install and maintain than Nextcloud. I'm not sure if it ticks all your boxes, though?
Ah yes, the anglocentrism of software development. I gave up on Google translate years ago because it clearly only catered to English speakers. The other way around was such ham fisted mistranslations with English syntax, it was basically useless.
I second Wallabag — IMO "slick" is a nice-to-have, not a must-have when weighing software choices against each other.
At least Wallabag has a long and robust track record of not selling users out to bullshit tech corpos. That counts for more in my book than shiny surfaces.
Yeah, I'm not invested in either online opinion-haver, but have read the occasional tech post by both that made sense... in isolation from their idiosyncratic ickinesses.
I'm sure this "DeVault Report" may have truth to it, I was just turned off by the first, retaliatory paragraphs. Like, "we could've let you perv on minors, but then you went after our guy" vibes.
I only read up to the part where they pinned the Stallman Report on DeVault and then claimed that thing they just mentioned definitely had nothing to do with this hit piece, nope, nothing.
Need I read any further, i.e. does this have legs beyond "we dug up some dirt on this guy because he said bad things about our groupthink ringleader"?
Ah, tech journos...
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🤦 I don't think he fully grasps that Google is the main reason to use a more private OS than (stock) Android.