Its all fine until their approach of privacy or security differs with what’s best for the project, then there’s no reasoning with them to fix it because they’re not calm and flexible. Then ya gotta fork it and get everyone to transition to the new fork, and get developers back onboard, etc.

A crazy, but pointed example of something like this could be: the dude could just claim grapheneos going forward will not have networking anymore because thats an attack vector, and at that point the project doesn’t even suite anyone’s needs to be used as a smartphone anymore. How are you gonna reason with someone like this that, while keeping networking in the project is an attack vector, its necessary to be able to use the project for it’s intended use case? You probably aren’t

I get that, and agree, but they could have let the user decide that. Have SMS off by default with a toggle button in settings or something.

Because what’s the point of having a private messenger if you can’t get anyone to use it.

Which is why Signal removing the SMS was a really bad move. I started to use it as my default SMS app on android was trying to convince others to do the same, so if you’re communicating with people that don’t have signal its a regular SMS and if they do, its a signal message, no juggling multiple apps that normal people will refuse to do.

Well that idea died, along with any of my regular non-techy contact’s usage of signal anymore.

Back in college when I was more active on Craigslist, they called it freecycle. I always wondered why and where buy-nothing came from, as I was extremely familiar with the term freecycle already.

Also an option, you can use some password managers to store 2FA codes. I use KeePassXC to store the 2FA codes and then sync the database across devices with syncthing, but you could use nextcloud or google drive, etc whatever you’d like to sync. That way you don’t need your phone at all for this task.

You seem to know about flatpak so I thought i’d ask this question here, since I couldn’t find much searching online. I’m messing around with postmarketos (which is alpine Linux based and using wayland) at the moment on an old phone, and installed a flatpak version of Joplin. Problem is I can’t get the onscreen keyboard to be triggered when an input field has focus. Any tips to fix this? I’m not sure if its a problem with my set up, or how the flatpak was prepared. So not sure what to do to fix it.

I don’t have a Lenovo, but a Dell Latitude that i use like a desktop, mostly plugged in next to my couch. In the bios you can set it to optimize the battery and charging for ‘primarily AC usage’, as well as set a percentage to limit charging, I think I have it set to 85%, I would assume you can do the same on a Lenovo.

I wouldn’t worry too much about it past that, if leaving it plugged in all the time is convenient, just do that. You could also probably buy a new battery on eBay and replace it if your battery is actually shot and you want better life.