Yeah, I chose CalyxOS over Graphene because it seems to me that CalyxOS focuses a lot more on usability (thanks to it's MicroG support) than Graphene does. Graphene has likely improved on that front thanks to their sandboxing GSF approach, but it used to be slower to open apps and overall a bit less snappy due to the security features it enables. Plus, the team behind CalyxOS is fantastic, great guys who believe in what they are doing. Meanwhile, the leader of GrapheneOS is a bit... Psychotic, although he did recently step down after Louis Rossman called him out.
For ProtonAOSP, that's basic just stock android. However, I'm unaware of it comes with either MicroG or Google Services installed. If it doesn't, then you're gonna have to figure out how to get support for apps either by flashing MicroG along with it, or be stuck with Foss app only. If it comes with Google Services, then it's basically no different than stock Pixel Android at that point, which you might as well stick with to gain the full benefit of the Pixel device.
Hmm, yeah I missed that. It technically is a different class of app, but may still not be worth the risk.
As some one else also suggested, I really like the name "Parsec." It keeps the astronomy reference of the original app, but it's also unique, and fitting too as it's a way to measure distances in the infinity of space and the universe.
Therefore one could say a Parsec is a way of measuring the Infinite. :)
I love my Pixel 6 Pro! I run a De-Googled ROM (CalyxOS) on mine, but even with that, basically every Pixel feature still works as expected. Google Camera is fantastic (doubly so on CalyxOS since I can firewall it from the internet), the AI features in the photos app works exactly as expected (and firewalled too), the camera itself is fantastic as well. Beautiful screen, great speakers, absolutely wonderful and beautiful form factor for a phone.
Only real complaint is battery life isn't the best it could be, compared to the top-tier iphones or Samsung Galaxy devices, but it's hardly "terrible" either, as some have made it out to seem. It does seem like running a De-Googled ROM may help that some (and I've had fewer bug issues than it seems stock Pixel Android users have dealt with, which is weird given CalyxOS is built on AOSP).
Overall though, I love my Pixel 6 Pro and absolutely intend to stick with it well into the future, and likely consider another Pixel when the time comes.
Not really, it's not even the same name. It's called "Infinity for Lemmy," where as the original app is called "Infinity for Reddit." There should be no confusing them. Secondly, I don't think that DocileAlligator would disapprove of the work being done here either. It carries on the legacy of the app he helped make, and it also carries on the spirit of what open-source can achieve.
He really is. He put in a lot of work to make Infinity work as well as it did. I viewed it as the best alternative to Apollo for Android users. But I guess that's all in the past now mostly...
Regardless, I really am glad to see this work being carried on for Lemmy. I hope DocileAlligator can see that happening, and appreciates seeing it happen. Would be cool to even get him over here one day. :)
Heh, as an addendum to that last bit, Truth actually got a C&D order from the Mastodon creator(s) and had to make the source code available, iirc. I know Gab faced that too.
I use Tracker Control (I don't get why the hate for it from others, but whatever...), And mostly likely what it's picking up on is external images, assets, or links from the app. If you click on a link in the app, it'll show that as a thing the app accessed. So if you click on a Google link or a Twitter link, it'll show up in TC.
I wouldn't suggest Affinity, given the art and image software of the same name. I really like Parsec though. It's a huge section of space, so it still retains the theme, but it's also unique too.
I didn't know Red Hat had an account on the Fediverse?
And FYI, Infinity for Reddit was always open source. Still is actually, even though the creator is struggling to keep it alive. Infinity for Lemmy is carrying on a rather proud FOSS tradition.
The ActivityPub standard is modeled on email. Each instance is a server, and we all have inboxes. It's a very apt comparison to use.
Also, unless the email is E2EE, then it's not private, no more meaningfully so anyways.
Read my other reply, I'm not talking about email blocklists, my reference is to email providers doing that, which is extremely rare and done with explicit intent and good reason.
Secondly, while I won't disagree there's some vile content out there on the Fediverse, do you trust someone else to make that decision for you? Why would you let someone else decide what is and isn't vile for you and those using your instance? Better yet, how would you feel if some popular instance decides you were the vile one, and because it was a common instance to use for blocking references, your instance is now cut off from a good chunk of the Fediverse?
This is exactly the sort of nonsense that swept Twitter with shared Blocklists, and the potential for negative impact on the Fediverse is even worse from it. Don't let others decide make decisions for you just because it's easy, as it doesn't absolve you of responsibility when something goes wrong.
Wrong comparison. It's not like a server admin using an email block lists (which are also often implemented badly, as anyone with a protonmail account knows...). It's more like if Protonmail suddenly blocked Tutanota, or if Gmail blocked MS Exchange. The uproar and rage from that would be unceasing.
The Fediverse operates on a model like that of email, and in the email world blocking whole email servers from each other is very rare, and usually done with the most explicit of intent and for a very good reason. That's how the Fediverse should operate as well.
This sounds a bit like how to bring the shared blocklists from Twitter to Lemmy. Those were a disaster on Twitter, and I don't expect it'll end any better here either...
Please don't use tools like this. Manually curate instances you feel the need to defederate with. The Fediverse was built on a model not unlike that of email. You wouldn't just randomly block whole email providers willy-nilly, so you shouldn't do so here on the Fediverse either.
Yes
Meanwhile...
Just updated with Obtainium, and so far it's working good for me on CalyxOS!
Actually a useful bot!