@bender@twtxt.net Linux and Android. I would never iOS my friend.

Android phone with 4GB RAM. Jenny+mutt runned in Termux. With change #tho4wpq from aeralaji mutt loading 3-5 seconds

Bitwarden finally released the native Android app (written in Kotlin) with version 2024.10.1. I used the beta since it was released and Vaultwarden updated to support it, and I can definitely say it’s a huge improvement to the previous Xamarin version. 👍 ⌘ Read more

I installed GrapheneOS for the first time on Wednesday last week on a used Pixel 7a, and I’m impressed. Installation was almost seamless, and I was able to do it from another Android phone. I’ve run into very few wrinkles, even using Google’s proprietary apps with GrapheneOS’s “sandboxed” version of Google Play Services. The main problems I’ve noticed: I can’t cast, and Google Timeline doesn’t seem to work (though I imagine the intersection between people keen to use GrapheneOS and keen to have Google log their location history is pretty small).

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I run Weechat headless on a VM and mostly connect via mobile or dwsktop. I use the android client or gliwing bear. Work blocks all comms on their always on MitM VPN so I cant in office anymore. So I just use mobile.

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 43 2024: 22 PRs, 7 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.

Opened (20)

monero-project/monero:

• #95271 tests: fix missing includes (tobtoht)
  
• #95292 tests: remove python2 compatibility (tobtoht)
  
• #95283 release: drop 32-bit android target (tobtoht)
  
• **#9530[ … ⌘ Read more

MoneroKon proposes bounty for Monero POS Android app
MoneroKon1 has proposed a bounty2 for the creation of a FOSS Monero Android app3 that can be used by merchants on a dedicated POS PDA device with thermal printer:

The aim is to make in-person transactions easy and fast at events such as MoneroKon.

Total Bounty: 0 XMR (to date)

• User friendly interface
  
• Broadcast Monero URI information over NFC at checkout4
  
• Inte … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.5.0-beta5 released
The Ignite Realtime developer community is happy to announce that Smack 4.5 entered its beta phase. Smack is a XMPP client API written in Java that is able to run on Java SE and Android. Smack’s beta phase started already a few weeks ago, but 4.5.0-beta5 is considered to be a good candidate to announce, as many smaller issues have been ironed out.

With Smack 4.5 we bumped the minimum Java version to 11. Furthermore Smack now requires a minimum And … ⌘ Read more

m2049r releases Monerujo v4.0.8 ‘Sidekick’
m2049r1 has released Monerujo2 version 4.0.8 Sidekick 3 with fixes for crashes on Android 14/15.

Option to lock wallet in background
Support for Sidekick Wallet
Update default nodes
Fix crashes on Android 14/15
Fix connectivity issues with Ledger

It is worth noting that Monerujo added support for its companion app Sidekick4 last month (v4.0.6), as reported5.

Before usage, it is re … ⌘ Read more

AI hype, 3G shutdown drive bumper smartphone sales
Australians are back buying new smartphones, with the new iPhone facing stiffer competition from AI-enabled Android rivals. ⌘ Read more

Only with dovecot xD. For mail im use android native mail client and not mutt. And jenny display some errors with found some files and /tmp dir (android dont have /tmp)

Quick Fix for Messages Slowing a Mac
The Messages app for Mac is incredibly useful in that it allows Mac users to seamlessly communicate over iMessage with other Macs, iPhones, and iPads, and it allows Mac users to send text messages to Android users too, but the latest versions of Messages on the Mac are known for randomly using high amounts of … Read More ⌘ Read more

MINIX U8K-ULTRA: 8K UHD Media Hub Powered by Android
MINIX U8K-ULTRA: 8K UHD Media Hub Powered by Android ⌘ Read more

💻 Issue 433 - Writing an Android app with Scala.js ⌘ Read more

Google’s Pixel 9 Pro approaches AI overload, but it’s still a fantastic phone
As well as providing brilliant hardware, the best version of Android and fantastic cameras, the latest Pixel introduces a raft of generative AI. ⌘ Read more

Why I am using an Android phone instead of a Wahoo
In my last bike trip report, I mentioned that I would review the Wahoo bike computer I ordered once I had a chance to try it out. Well, as it turns out, I sent the Wahoo back and found a solution that works better for me. ⌘ Read more

How to add OTEL instrumentation to a React Native app
Member post by Jonathan Munz, Senior Software Engineer at Embrace React Native allows developers to build native mobile apps using Javascript and Typescript for both iOS and Android. With a web language as its core and native deployment… ⌘ Read more

I setup and switched to Headscale last night. It was relatively simple, I spent more time installing a web GUI to manage it to be honest, the actual server is simple enough. The native Tailscale Android app even works with it thankfully.

Access & Use Apple Maps on the Web with Maps Beta
Apple Maps is now available on the web, just in case you’d like to use a web based interface for Apple Maps instead of the Maps app on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The introduction of a web interface for Apple Maps also means that Android users and Windows users can access Apple Maps now, if … Read More ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

(I don’t really trust Android, though, and I suspect that apps can still install background services that are always active. Pure speculation and paranoid on my part, but still.)

Which is fair, but I would say the GrapheneOS devs in particular are also quite paranoid about this stuff and go to great pains to make sure this stuff can be controlled by the user.

Why Are iPhone Videos Low Quality & Blurry When Sent to Android Users?
Many iPhone users have noticed that when they record a high definition video on their iPhone, and then send it to an Android user through text message, that the video arrives to the Android user very blurry and in impressively low resolution, with the quality of the video degraded considerably. The fuzzy pixelated image at … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/07/10/why-are-iphone-videos-l … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Firefox but it happens on Brave and Chromium on my laptop, or any browser (Brave, Chromium, Vanadium) I try on my Android phone.

How to Disable Microsoft Defender SmartScreen in Edge
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is a feature in the Microsoft Edge web browser for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, and Android (and it’s also in the Windows operating system, in case you have a PC or run it in a virtual machine) that aims to protect your computer or device from malicious sites and downloads. Because of … Read More ⌘ Read more

What is Qi2? Universal wireless charging, with magnets, is almost here
The new standard, based on Apple’s MagSafe, will soon work with iPhones, Androids and other devices. ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Snikket Android app temporarily unavailable in Google Play store
We initially shared this news on our social media page, thinking
this was a temporary issue. But we’ve had no response from Google for several
days, and want to explain the situation in more detail.

We merged some changes from our upstream project, Conversations, and we
submitted the new version to Google for review. Before responding, they
removed the existing published ve … ⌘ Read more

Looking at the commit history of Tailscale’s tailscale-android repository on GitHub, there are plenty of hints that a revamped Tailscale Android app (even with dark mode!) is coming soon. 👀 ⌘ Read more

Even though the bridges that #beeper use are AGPL licensed, the beeper client is proprietary software 😭

This is big sad.

They almost had it.

It is also kind of limited on google-free android phones, since the QR code scanner for device verification key-signing depends on a google play services API (which microg doesn’t implement). This means that you can’t share message history between your google-free android and the beeper desktop client. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.8 released
We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.8, our XMPP-client library for JVMs and Android. For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.8, check out Smack’s changelog

Smack 4.4.8 contains mostly small fixes. However, we fixed one nasty bug in Smack’s reactor causing an, potentially endless, busy loop. Smack’s new connection infrastrucutre makes heavy use of the reactor, tha … ⌘ Read more

How to Use ChatGPT-4 for Free with Microsoft Edge
The Microsoft Edge browser offers perhaps one of the best and easiest ways for an average person to access and use ChatGPT-4 for free, without having to pay for ChatGPT-4 access through OpenAI. Best of all, Edge is available for just about every major platform, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android. With the … Read More ⌘ Read more

PSA: hvis du har en underlig ikke-rooted android (feks en google-fri android eller lineage OS) og gerne vil have det nye #mobilepay til at virke, kan du bruge det her workaround til en bug i deres elendige root-detection software

https://github.com/scottyab/rootbeer/issues/181#issuecomment-1735171558 ⌘ Read more

Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8
In this post, I’ll look at CVE-2023-6241, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU that allows a malicious app to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on an Android phone. I’ll show how this vulnerability can be exploited even when Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a powerful mitigation, is enabled on the device.

The post [Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8](https://github.blog/2024-03-18-gaining-kerne … ⌘ Read more

How to Make Microsoft Edge the Default Mac Web Browser
Microsoft Edge is a great web browser alternative that is available for MacOS, iPhone, iPad, and obviously Windows, and Android too. Not only is it fast and offers free access to ChatGPT 4, but if you regularly use different computing platforms, you’ll appreciate that you can sync your browser data across all of your devices, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02/24/how-to-make-microsoft-edge-the-default-mac-web-browser … ⌘ Read more

PANZER-PLUS Offers BSP and Ready-to-Run Images for Linux/Android OSes
MayQueen Technologies has unveiled the PANZER-PLUS, a fanless computing device powered by the NXP i.MX8M-Plus processor with AI capabilities. Some key features of this modular solution include two GbE ports with TSN support, 4K display resolution and wireless capabilities. Unlike their Panzer box PC released in 2018, which is built around the NXP i.MX6 UL […] ⌘ Read more

How to Install Instagram on Mac as an App
Instagram is one of the most popular social networks out there, focused around the sharing of photos and videos, and people use it for myriad reasons. While iPhone and Android users can install Instagram on their device through the respective app stores, Mac users who want to install Instagram have a different route entirely. If … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Track Santa from Mac, iPhone, iPad, PC, Android, etc
Want to track Santa’s progress as he delivers gifts around the world? You can do that, thanks to NORAD. NORAD, also known as North American Aerospace Defense Command, may be the aerospace and maritime defense system for North America, with their vision to “outpace global competitors, deter adversaries, deny and defeat threats through all-domain awareness, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/24/how-to-track-santa- … ⌘ Read more

A voice recorder you can tweak the source code for, right on your Android phone: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/652184/_

Little Nightmares вышла на iOS и Android
В честь релиза на мобильных устройствах игру можно купить со скидкой 30%.

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PEP 738: Adding Android as a supported platform
This PEP proposes adding Android as a supported platform in CPython. The initial goal is for Android to achieve Tier 3 support in Python 3.13. ⌘ Read more

Переиздание Hitman: Blood Money вышло на iOS и Android — с механиками из последних частей серии
Порт для Nintendo Switch выпустят зимой.

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yaxim: Planned downtime + Happy 10th anniversary, yax.im!
Our Android XMPP client yaxim was created in 2009. A decade later,
we celebrated its round birthday.
To make the user
experience more straightforward, we launched the
yax.im public XMPP service
in November 2013, to become the default server in yaxim. Now, ten years later,
it’s time to recap and to upgrade the hosting infrastructure.

Переиздание Hitman: Blood Money с механиками из новых частей выйдет на iOS и Android уже 30 ноября
Порт для мобильных устройств можно предзаказать за 15 долларов.

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How to Turn Off Uber Promo Notifications & Ads
Uber and Uber Eats are undeniably useful apps, allowing you to get a ride or have food delivered quickly and conveniently, right from your iPhone (or Android) either from the app or even from Siri. But one thing that is very annoying and obnoxious about Uber and Uber Eats is that the apps default to … Read More ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I have seen these screen shots. But have not yet seen them in actuality. I use ublockOrigin. Maybe it gets these too unlike adblock.

For android I have revanced.. The only place I get ads is on TV. I haven’t found a replacement there.

@prologic@twtxt.net Newpipe on android continues to work fine

Run Threads on Desktop with Mac, Windows PC, Linux
Threads, the social network microblogging Twitter/X competitor launched by Meta (Facebook), is typically thought of as a mobile only experience, with users having the Threads app on their iPhone or Android device. But, if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer, and you want to use Threads on your desktop computer, you can … Read More ⌘ Read more

“Talking about Linux Tycoon 3 for Android & Gameboy”
Listen now (18 mins) | Lunduke Journal Podcast Special Announcement ⌘ Read more

Linux Tycoon 3 comes to Android & Gameboy (seriously)
Because who doesn’t want a Linux distro simulator in their pocket? ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yes, the OS is based on stock Android, so probably wouldn’t be of interest if you prefer Apple.

@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net F-droid. Getting APKs from developers you trust and side-loading them. Some flavor of Linux. Some distro of the open source parts of Android.

There are lots of options. Bit by bit I divest from anything that’s distributed from Google Play. With my latest phone I find and download APKs so that I could have the app without all the Google crap woven through it. By the time I need to replace this one I’ll be fully free of Google Play. Most of my apps come from F-droid now. You can a perfectly functional phone/pocket computer unless you’re addicted to installing dozens of corporate apps.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yes, I’m still with jmp.chat, and still very happy with them overall. Their beta period ended and their pricing increased a bit, so that’s worth a bit of consideration. I also managed to get one of their eSIMs. I’m slightly less happy with that aspect of their service, though they seem to be actively working on improving it and I knew in advance this was an early beta kind of thing and likely to have issues.

The only unreliability with calls that I’ve noticed was traceable to the unreliability of my own internet connection. I’ve confused incoming calls by simultaneously making and taking calls from the computer and the phone, but I think it’s understandable that problems might arise and that’s not a real use case for me. Once or twice I did not receive a text transcription of a voice mail, but the support is usually quick to address things like that.

I host my own XMPP server and have for a good decade now, and that’s what I use with jmp.chat. I can’t speak to the quality of their hosting options.

Group texting works fine for me if one of the other parties initiates the group text. I haven’t tried to initiate my own group text in well over a year; last time I did, it didn’t work. That may or may not be a problem for you, and it may or may not have been fixed by now. Worth investigating more if it’s important. I should also say I’ve only ever used group texts with 3 participants, and can’t speak to what happens if there are more nor whether there are upper limits.

Group texts don’t use MUC. Rather, they use a special syntax in the JID, something like “+1XXX,+1YYY,…,+1ZZZ@cheogram.com”, where the + and , are required, the XXX, YYY, through ZZZ are the phone numbers (no dashes or other special chars just digits), and the @cheogram.com at the end is required.

I recommend the cheogram app if you’re on android. It has a lot of nice features on top of the Conversations base. I use gajim on my (linux) computer and it works well with jmp.chat.

I’m happy to answer other questions if you have them!