1. Signal
2. SimpleX

I can think of some commercial audio processors that can help with that, but they are super pricey.

I can’t think of a linux application that has this capability. If there is something out there that offers AEC (acoustic echo cancellation) on linux with two mic inputs, id also be interested.

One way to help with this as far as inexpensive hardware is to make sure you’re using cardioid dynamic microphones, and not omnidirectional condenser microphones. Cardioid dynamic mics generally pick up audio directionally, like from the “front”. You have to be right up on the mic in order to have it record any type of audio. They generally wont pick up environmental sound from anything more than a few feet away. You can just point them away from noise you don’t want to pick up.

So we don’t have perfect privacy?

It doesn’t move at all. If your hardware is compromised, then it doesn’t matter what apps or software you run, right? Its not under your control.

So which phone has libre baseband firmware?

If libre apps run on proprietary hardware, is it really under your control?

Can you name a phone that has libre hardware as an alternative?

Apple already fixed it years ago when they released iOS 12.

Backing up health records data

You can use iCloud to store your Health data, including health records, using end-to-end encryption (requires iOS 12 or later and two-factor authentication). Health and health records data is also included in local iTunes backups, if you’ve configured your iTunes backups to be encrypted.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111755

Can you name a phone that has open source basebands that has a FLOSS license attached to it? Surely if you’re arguing against apple, you are not using a phone that has proprietary blobs in the firmware.

What baseband firmware do you use? And who maintains that firmware?

Nice. Looks like arstechnica is now blocking my VPN, so I cant read their news.

From S tier to F tier, just like that.

Life on earth that only sees in the radio part of the light spectrum is probably extinct now without us ever knowing it existed.

Okay now he should be able to afford developers to make all their games on Epic SteamDeck-compatible, right?

If you want a customizable phone, yes. If you want a secured phone, no.

There are already existing products for both sides. No point in forcing them to do something else at this point.

It is, but people keep posting it anyway

TPM has solved this now for more than a decade.

Verified boot + TPM encryption key storage is a huge layer of protection for the boot process.

Check out the Arch wiki for TPM. It has some good reading.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module

Just use AI to remove all the AI slop!

Still waiting for UE5 Rocket League, but now UE6 is on the way. Guess we’ll have to hold off even longer now.

Were gonna be on UE3 Rocket League forever at this point.

Its one or the other. Either Google Play Services will push notifications, or the apps have to have the ability to handle push notifications on their own (which isn’t common).

Google Play Services can be sandboxed in GrapheneOS, but there isn’t an open source Google Play Services since its not included in AOSP. It is very much a proprietary blob.

They’ve been shitty for decades tbh

If anyone dies, its because those with resources are not cooperating and not helping make sure we can feed and house everyone. We can do this without anyone dying, as long as we all work together.

Honestly, I couldn’t have put it into better words than that. That perfectly defined that transition that we need to head into. We have to start now We need to work together to make this happen. We need to see this capitalist society go away and we need to move into something more sustainable. If we are going to go into a massive economic disruption, then we need to make it worthwhile. We need to build within the shellof the old with what we already have. All of that sounds painful, but if we want to move into a world where we won’t kill the planet, we must do it. The sooner the better.