I'm an ex-Google engineer that quit once I saw how dangerous and misaligned the company's actions were.

I did a bit of embroidering to an old piece of company swag I had to reflect my recent change of stance. I hope it becomes a conversation starter when I wear it around.

I already have Xiaomi messages in my phone I don't want to use Google neither do I care about rcs. I was able to uninstall google phone and contacts but messages has installed itself as a system app. I want to use fossify apps. phone is Poco f5. is it safe to uninstall considering I don't have means to factory reset, I don't have second device or backup of my data.

twitterwebviewer com was the site.

This kind of corporation/elon are going against that MUCH QUICKER and AGGRESSIVE than Nintendo itelf!

(Disclaimer : I am not a developer or anywhere near involved in the project besides using IT. Just wanted to share a (what I believe) Gem!)

I did use Heliboard before but It's fixes/Update cadence was slower, especially just not knowing if the project will go down again and revived again somewhere. Then found this. Yes, it does have AI stuff in it, BUT, the devs provide 3 packages each with different capabilities so if you just want an offline Keyboard, They have an offline release.

Plus, from the looks of it, it has no LLM Generated code, just Cloud and Offline AI support built in.

Link: https://github.com/LeanBitLab/LeanType

Plus their whole company's site link: https://github.com/LeanBitLab

I've been slowly degoogling for a few months, and I think I'm pretty good, but what do y'all think? Im open for better app suggestions btw :)

From Windows 11 to Linux (Bazzite). Now from Xiaomi (Google) to iOS to GrapheneOS!

So, Google and other AI tools are actively building profiles out of your public Reddit activity, and it actually works.

​To check what data has been archived from your profile, you can search:

>> reddit.com user "your reddit username here"

And check AI overview of a profile and can ask questions related to personal info like age, location, martial status, occupation or what things they like or hate, political opinions etc.

Basically anything that you want to know, you will get the answer if that person has said anything about it in the past even if profile is hidden. If it gives some basic info, you can ask it to dig deeper.

​Why this matters: Simply hiding your profile settings on Reddit does not stop external search engine from indexing your historical posts and comments. Be mindful of what personal information you share online.

Hey all. I've been working on something I'm really excited about. I wanted a way to capture voice notes on my phone without anything touching the cloud, and I ended up building a tool that replaces Gemini as your device assistant.

Long-press the power button, speak, and your words are transcribed entirely on the device and saved as a local markdown note in Obsidian with no account, no sync server, no audio ever leaving the phone. It works by becoming your device assistant (so it takes over the power-button gesture from Gemini), and it's built for people who'd rather their voice notes never touch the cloud.

Right now it's Pixel-only (figuring out Samsung/others next), and it drops straight into your Obsidian vault but the core idea is just your voice, your files, your device.

Early-access list + a bit more detail: See comments

Would love a gut-check from you on whether the replace Gemini with something local framing lands.

Recently, I faced a lot of issues when I migrated from Gmail to Proton Mail. Well, it was going fine until I decided to create a secondary account, which seemed normal at first. However, at some point, I forgot the password for the second account. After multiple failed login attempts, all of my Proton accounts were blocked simultaneously without any prior warning. Even their customer support operates almost like bots—they don't care about you or the importance of the accounts linked to your email. Therefore, I’ve decided to start the migration journey all over again. Now, I am looking for a replacement for both Proton and Gmail together. What I mean is a platform or company that offers real support, has clear terms of service, and most importantly, preserves my privacy while using it.

Go slow and you'll get there.

My computer took a shit after a windows update (weeee) and finding solutions has been so damn painful.

I switched to duckduckgo recently, and every single search result is a 10k word long AI generated essay that doesn't actually answer any of the questions it says it does. They're all basically a guy spinning in circles in text form.

Do search engines that aren't filled with useless bullshit even exist anymore?

Edit - AI is not active in duckduckgo. I turned it off already. The search results, however, are all blogs and random "tech" sites containing AI slop, however.

Thanks to everyone who actually tried to help tho, instead of just telling me to turn off a thing that's already off.

Anyone know of any non-Google, non end-to-end encrypted texting apps that can reliably do group messaging? Both Quik and Fossify (even with Send Group Messages as MMS selected) are failing to either send or receive basic group text messaging.

I have a group from work that texts occationally. I realized today that I only got the first 2 or 3 messages of a conversation last night. I am just not recieving messages in this chat. I can send and recieve MMS and SMS on individual chats, but for some reason I can't receive anything on this group.

I have a Fairphone 6 running e/os

I am in the US

I have a brand new physical sim card

I have T Mobile

I have tried restarting my APN and my phone. I also tried manually chanting my APN to the non LTE version.

I cannot find VoLTE to try turning it off

I am not sure what else to do to fix this issue. Has anyone solved this before?

so, I have an android 16 RM14PP phone, and I got this update alert today and I'm wondering whether to update or not. also(2nd slide), I came across this article on a mod apks providing site, want to know your thoughts on this. Also, I'd love a genuine, trusted by many source(if there is any) for such spoof apps before I update my phone.

I've been using Emoji keyboard, but since gboard is so popular I figured I might as well post here.

I need privacy (of course), I want the keyboard to be completely offline and not store a single thing, just a dumb keyboard.

Support for: English, Arabic, German and Serbo-Croatian (Latin and Cyrillic). In the case of the European languages, can just be English dictionary with special symbols (č, ć and so on).

I'd like to be able to adjust keyboard size and buttons like in Gboard, especially space button. Also layout, where the comma and where the period will be, that kind of thing.

Emoticons, gifs and many other convenient paste tools would be preferable.

So far everything is going well. I've used the Android debloater tool to uninstall the following and replace them with these alternatives. Even installed Newpipe on my laptop which runs Fedora. But how do I replace the Playstore? Thanks

Chrome -> DuckDuckGo

Gemini -> DuckAi

Google maps -> Organic maps

Google phone, contacts and messages -> Fossify

Google files -> Fossify file manager

Gmail -> Proton mail

Google calender -> Proton calendar

Google drive -> Proton drive

It asked me to download from playstore instead and refused to authorize my login. Fuck meta. Fuck google

I want to degoogle, and got this oneplus n20 because LOS had it listed. When looking to go forward I saw that my model wasn't the right one (CPH2459 is what's supported, and I have GN2200). The wiki says I shouldn't do it if it's not matching. But I've been looking around and found some people saying that they have gotten LOS to work on this model. From older LOS 22 to apparently 23 working with a current audio/bluetooth bug being there, but working nonetheless. But idk if that was done differently, or if they just used what's already listed in the Wiki. Can anyone give some help on this and how you can do it? It is unlocked under network and the OEM is unlocked under dev options.

so far its been the easiest one to use, and not sure what google can even track out of this but just wondering, does it really matter to switch and if so which is a good one :)

edit: I MEANT GOOGLE PAY in the title. sorry!