Unsurprising, but still shitty. Par for the course for the company these days.

This is true, and is why I annoyingly have to keep robots.txt on my unpublished domains. Google does honor them for the most part, for now.

Lineage is fine as a DD for lots of people. The only real issues are what you mention in your other comment, which many people don’t use, like myself.

I just looked in detail through their privacy policy, and it looks like if you use their “service” they are collecting quite a bit of data, certainly more than I would have expected. I only use stand alone, non-federated homeservers and I have everything disabled as far as telemetry, etc, but I think you’ve convinced me to keep an eye on the other clients. I last test drove several last year and all of them were either lacking features I needed or had issues.

Are you specifically referring to the mobile client of Element? i wasn’t away of anything with the desktop client that has anything to do with location.

I’m right here with you. My 4a is still barely clinging on to life and there isn’t a single phone I can move to that isn’t huge and has a headphone jack. I do not watch videos on my phone, a larger screen gives me nothing positive.

My current favorite music player on PC is Quod Libet. It gives a bit of the old FB2K vibe with how its music selection works as well as all the plugins. I use it on Linux, but I know they have a Windows version as well.

Some instances have their own political leanings that can affect content and moderation. The “Tankies” referred to in the previous post tend to be Russia/China supportive anti-capitalist posters. Not everyone on those instances leans that way (I don’t), but some instances don’t federate with those three, especially lemmygrad and hexbears, because of it. You can also individually block instances if you personally don’t want to see their stuff. On the whole, you probably don’t need to worry about it, but if it becomes annoying you have the option.

Well, I will definitely keep an eye on it if my 4a finally kicks the bucket.

How long have you had it? I was looking at that phone, but the one star reviews (there were many), scared me off.

More than anything I just want a newer/supported version of what I am still using, the Pixel 4a. It’s about as big as I want a phone to get, has been rock solid for over four years, and it supports GrapheneOS (or did before they cut support).

I’m not personally interested because of the lack of headphone jack, but I have always thought their marketing was going to have an up hill battle because of the name and I saw this quote in the article “Nothing is made better by its community” and it made me laugh.

Very low bandwidth or resource usage would be some advantages, less so since they made in this java heh.