Hey, I did compile my kernel so I'm part of the club!
But now that I think about it, the last time was 20 years ago and it's because it was the only way to get my sound card and network card working...
erwan
joined 2 years ago
An Open Source app that you don't compile yourself after reviewing the source code has the exact same risks.
There is no guarantee that the version of Jerboa you install from the Play Store corresponds to the source code you see on GitHub.
Your messages will go through their servers. They claim they don't persist anything but you can't really have any proof of that.
There could even be NSA spyware that they're not aware of in their data centers.
Not in my case. I don't care about the bells and whistles that messenging apps keep adding, I just want to send and receive messages.
Add to that the fact that iPhone will switch to USB-C in max 2 years and people with any iPhone sold today will have to deal with a legacy connector.
YouTube pays content creators poorly so most of them rely on direct sponsorship rather than YouTube rev share.
Also YouTube is a nightmare for content creators because you can have videos delisted for a few swear words and the process is random and unpredictable. They would benefit from more independence.
The problem is that hosting videos at scale is hard and expensive.
We can migrate from Twitter to Mastodon or Reddit to Lemmy, but what PeerTube instance is going to be able to serve videos for content creators like LTT or MKBHD?
The problem is that the content creators that I like are all on YouTube and nowhere else. There is no alternative.
I'm pretty sure the "trusted web" that Google is implementing in Chrome is exactly for that purpose: distinguish apps doing HTML scraping from users using a regular browser.
If Google wants to break Newpipe, they'll find a way.
From what I've seen, Gentoo was popular in the 2000's for users who wanted maximum control over their system. That means recompiling everything.
Sometimes the "maximum control" when too far when users set aggressive optimization flags that broke some packages. To the point that some upstream developers (e.g. Gimp) were refusing bug reports from Gentoo users because of the stupid optimization flags they were setting in hope of getting a "faster" system.
Anyway, it seems to me like the crowd who liked Gentoo has mostly moved to Arch. But I'm sure Gentoo still has its fans.
You can do everything, unless one of those is a monopoly that you leverage for other products
Having a metal roof doesn't mean you need stickers or chat backgrounds - even the minimal features of Whatsapp and co in a generic app is fine for me.