but using Cancer emoji… very professional.

why would it have access to my fingerprint?

yeah, i understand you. i don’t want to use my phone for every single thing either. in particular I’m not using it when I’m home. but in this case it’s really nice for me personally, because stuff that i marked disappears from the top and often my wife and i go together, so having a synced up list is neat

the app doesn’t have access to any of my phones data now. it runs in an isolated environment once every two weeks for about a minute, otherwise I’m only using their web API. so they might ban me, but yeah, it’s not that i would care much ;)

yeah, Whatsapp really stinks in this regard. i have it in an isolated environment on my phone (called shelter), where it is frozen most of the time. you need to switch it on once every two weeks, and the bridge will tell you when.

at some point I’ll dump it on a phone which is just in a drawer at home, together with all the other BS apps.

i tried waydroid as alternative, but somehow didn’t really make it work (didn’t put much effort into it though)

so, I’m self hosting for many years, with many many tools that i tried out and a couple that stuck.

not sure if this counts as weird, but I guess the most fitting example is the following:

i have a matrix server, which basically only a few relatives use to communicate with me, but I make heavy use of the bridges, so i don’t need to run those shit apps like Whatsapp on my phone.

anyway, i really dislike voice messages, because most of the time i read messages at the computer or in the tram and i don’t want to get headphones out, or simply don’t want to listen to five minutes of car noise to get the information off the words. so when my next productive episode comes I’m planning to set up a matrix bot that sends those audio files to some stt engine and returns a transcript to the chat. I’ll set up the bridge to ignore this bot, so the whatsnot user doesn’t get spammed.

for this my wife and i use grocy. we don’t really use the stock feature (which is probably the original main feature), bit is nice to do shipping lists by just clicking stuff that you already wrote and the shopping mode of the app is awesome. also the chores feature we use heavily, i just needed to tweak the ics export a bit.

a nice gimmick would be to have the appropriate stairs and doors to change to the other floors :)

cool. now i need to get in touch with an old friend who can paint… ah, and i need to win the lottery to afford my own home, then i can start right away :)

that sounds really funny, because here “nix” is a colloquial expression for “nothing”

consumer grade vs Enterprise grade. the letter are meant to run non-stop and are often just discarded due to upgrade, not due to problems.

that is the beauty of Linux distributions. there is something for everyone

maybe flashes with an unknown custom ROM

half of them i would problem not even understand. macroslop has a shop now? I’m so happily out of the loop :)

and then rinse and repeat, until i get bored ^^

networking plays a big roll in such things. the more connections you have, the more possibilities. in my job that is normal as well ( not for donations, but it’s important to get a job)

that makes me want to set up a DO account just so i can delete it!

thanks for the clarification

i plan to set up my stuff like that as well, just don’t find time :/

stresstest your io i guess