I checked it out. Has a nice UI but suffers the same fate as the stock GrapheneOS camera. Lacks basic features such as panoramic photos

Here is one brief video explaining some of F Droids security issues: https://youtu.be/lAbgeJau3eE&t=305 piped link: https://piped.video/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE&t=314

Also to correct you, Google Camera does not need any Play Services installed. The reason I brought up Play Services is because I would need it to be able to get RSC working on Google Messages which I eventually plan on doing once RSC support is added to iOS.

Tf are you on about? I AM looking for a foss camera option. But it is practically non existent. Besides 2, Open Camera and Libre Camera, both of which have a UI from 2012 and Libre Camera lacks a ton of features.

And despite that, GrapheneOS comes with its own open source camera, but there is a reason nobody uses it, it has no features just like the other very limited open source camera apps (Open Camera excluded)

Yea I have heard of that too. Unfortunately I don’t know what other Camera app I would use. Open Camera has a good amount of features but I can’t stand the UI, and the GrapheneOS camera is very bare bones. I have tried some other proprietary camera apps but none of them seem to be as good as Gcam and for obvious reasons.

Wow, what a great timing for me to switch from Tuta

You better have created a Keyfile with it and store that only locally on your devices, otherwise if your passwords get leaked or you get hacked it is 100% your fault and not Dropbox’s fault.

I really like OsmAnd

the way signal and some privacy friendly apps do it is they send a blank notif first to wake up the app and then send the notif directly to you

they can push a new TOS to the app store mandating that push nitifs be handled the same way signal handles them.

once again apple marketing making it SEEM like they care about your privacy

point is it is possible and for a company as big as Epic it’s very easy to just say download the APK from our website

I’m on GrapheneOS without Play Store OR Aurora Store. I use Obtainium to track open source apps from Github Gitlab Codeberg F droid repos etc, and download the proprietary apps I need from ApkMirror and ApkPure (two third party app stores that you can download to your phone or just use their website and sideload apks).

Good luck doing any of that on iOS.

Checkout P-SMS which is a fork of QKSMS

There is P-SMS which is a fork of QKSMS, that is what I use

what a hulk of bullshit. I hate Google as much as anyone else but how the fuck do they have a monopoly over the app store when you can literally download .apk files from anywhere and install it?

the problem with specifically putting lemmy.world is you are blocking out all the other lemmy instances which could potentially contain the information you are looking for, i could be wrong but i believe this is how it will be when indexing

you dont search inside of reddit. you search for the problem in your search engine and then put reddit after it.

such problems include specific university questions such as a question about Harvard or UC Berkeley or MIT, you won’t find any of that on lemmy. questions related to specific cars from a make n model, you won’t find any of that on lemmy, questions about professional career fields such as engineering, law, nursing and dentistry, you won’t find any of that on lemmy, questions about specific cities and smaller towns or counties that you again, will just not find on lemmy. the only things you can reliably find on lemmy are foss and tech related stuff, some politics although very very left leaning which i personally dont have a problem with, and thats generally about it.

dont get me wrong i love lemmy and deleted my reddit account long time ago but the fact of the matter is that reddit is still one of the largest pools of niche and specific information that you just can not find anywhere else because it is the modern day forums website for practically anything and everything, whether you like it or not.

just go on any search engine and ask a specific question and put reddit after it. Chances are you will see at least 5-6 results. Now do the same and put lemmy next to it. Youll see practically nothing

I have noticed this too when using a VPN, some of Mullvads servers are blocked.

I know everyone here hates reddit but come on we all go to reddit when we need to find some information because its almost always guaranteed to be there whereas on Lemmy unless it is something tech related or foss related, its pretty much a shot in the dark.