This is fake news.

It is very likely Samsung has whitelisted Play Service from showing the green dot, my Pixel certainly does not, although it probably should and a bug might have the made the whitelist invalid.

I have that function disabled on my phone. It’s not about not doing that during sleep though but rather the green dot will pop every single time when I wake up the device, say I lock the screen just 1 second ago 1 second later when I wake up the phone the dot will pop, this can be reproduced repeatedly. I honestly think this must be a bug on my phone specifically but downgrade the Play service does fix this and the updated version is still behaving like this in safe mode. I’m seriously thinking about switching to Lineages OS at this point…

Unless it’s end to end encrypted it’s useless, false sense of security is worse than insecurety.

It’s good but I personally don’t care, phone manufactures will eventually stop updating their old phones, since Pixel phones are so open I can rely on third party ROMs comfortably, that’s also why I got the Pixel 6 Pro at the first place. Although I would admit for the mass majority an Apple like updating experience is essential.

I would really like to see Google improve their hardwares, I have no complaints with my 6 Pro whatsoever, but it’s obviously inferior to the Samsung’s S Series Ultra or the Apple’s iPhone Pro, both in terms of specs and designs. I have no issues with specs since I don’t play games but I believe most people still do, designs however is much more important especially in the premium phones frontend.

E-cigarettes is designed to replace cigarettes nowadays, not to help you quit smoking.

Tankies don’t even understand their own spectrum by calling themselves lefties, they are at best called authoritarian socialists.

Self-host yourself is the safest option, I do.

SearXNG, there’s nothing much else to say.

Tankies are adult-childs.

A pistol is more than enough for self-dense, better weapons won’t help you overthrowing a government anyway.

SearXNG is the king

I don’t think you can. Editing a single file every few years really isn’t a big deal. A dedicated GUI app would be nice but I doubt any developer is going to make it unless Debian hit big with desktop home users.

Signal is okay as much as privacy is concerned, but it doesn’t solve all the problems with communications in real world. For instance its centralized design means it can be easily blocked, a private Matrix server on the other hand will not even make it on the radar.

I probably won’t, the last video game I played was Minecraft, I can’t imagine myself surviving such harsh environment.

Huge red flag, I always think France as one of the most free country, I’m so wrong.

Grim Dawn is pretty great