Was it installed from the aur? If not, you’re fine

It’s true, if it’s possible someone is doing it as we speak. Doesn’t mean they should, of that it will be a good thing, but someone’s hard at work on it.

The idea would be to provide a “protect the kids” alternative that doesn’t require global surveillance and privacy violations, so the next time they try to justify another rights violation to “protect the kids” they can be pointed to the sane alternative, and (hopefully) they’ll run out of excuses.

I mean, one would wish it’ll play out like that, though I have some doubts. Somehow excuses seem to be always found.

The last of Uganda’s wild rhinos was killed in the early 1980s; the translocated animals come from a breeding program set up at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in 2005.

They were “extinct” in Uganda, not everywhere.

Glad to help!

Yeah, self-hosting often means trading more control for less convenience, some times more than others. Either way, I hope this setup works for you!

Note: For Material files, and most file managers really, nextcloud might not show up by default (“security” or something), but you can “add external storage” and give it permissions.

CF = content framework, android somehow decided that users shall not see and interact with “real” files and instead, have apps like nextcloud act like content providers and expose a file-like API …whatever, it is what it is, but in the end it works.

I’m currently using Material Files, but even android’s default file manager, bundled with the OS, shows Nextcloud in the left sidebar (your mileage may vary on this one, as each phone vendor tend to customize it a bit).

As for my setup, there’s really not much to it: I selfhost nextcloud, have KeePassDX and the Nextcloud app, and when you setup KeePassDX, select “Open existing vault” and in the sidebar you should be able to select Nextcloud and pick files from there.

I see where you’re coming from. I also really wanted that in my early days of android and nextcloud. Turns out, nowadays you don’t really need that for most use cases, and definitely not for KeePass syncing. Nextcloud app for android exposes all the files via content framework and KeePassDX can sync two ways via that. Other apps like Keepass2Android even have direct nextcloud support via WebDAV, though these days I prefer KeePassDX a little bit more for unrelated reasons.

I recommend you try either KeePassDX or Keepass2Android and see for yourself.

Also, most file managers support CF and will show you your nextcloud files as if they were real files on the device, even without “real” two way sync, and most other apps will be able to save & open files directly from nextcloud.

I use KeepassDX syncing via Nextcloud, works flawlessly. I also used to use Keepass2Android, also works very well.

Can you elaborate on the “nextcloud doesn’t support 2-way syncing on android” statement? I can sync my Keepass database back and forth without issues.

Signed developer certificates protect you from MITM attacks, it does not protect you from the sources themselves being compromised.

Very true, and that’s why f-droid building from source can only guarantee the apk matches the source, but you still need to trust someone else (or yourself) to study the source and confirm nothing shady is going on, which of course isn’t something most people would do for any open source app they install.

Still, for “high profile” cases it just take one (independent) person to go through the source and publish their findings.

Yes, I understand the situation is shady and f-droid maybe didn’t handle it the best way on a human level, and that is important when evaluating trustworthiness.

What I was focusing on was more on the technical side: As long as I can:

• trust f-droid to actually build from source and only publish something guaranteed to match the source, and
• read the source code myself, or trust an independent researcher to study it, and confirm there’s no malware,

then I don’t need to trust the maintainer of the project at all, and I can ignore all the drama, being assured with a high degree of certainty there is no malware

I can also ignore any drama involving f-droid as long as I still trust them to build from source. This can also be verified by independent researchers by buulding themselves ans comparing, once again filtering out the drama and noise, though most people probably won’t go this far.

I don’t use syncthing (anymore) and didn’t know the story behind this, but one thing I know is, f-droid builds the apk from source and signs it with their keys, or if reproducible builds are available, it verifies the signed apk provided by the maintainer to match bit-for-bit with the source code, so at least even if one doesn’t trust the new maintainer, they should be able to trust f-droid that the apk matches the source, so e.g. no spyware or malware was added for example. Sure, someone still needs to review the source, of course.

Can it survive a pair of scissors?

Apparently it’s not. From the link (which I’m not to afraid to click, I guess): Google is rolling out one of the most significant changes in Gmail’s history: users can now change their primary @gmail.com address without creating an entirely new Google account. The feature, unavailable for over 20 years, is being introduced gradually.

Of course, I’d also like to see that from a more reputable source as well, or from the horse’s mouth.

Edit: Forbes’ link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/18/googles-gmail-decision-why-you-need-a-new-email-address-now/

The raspberrypi was originally marketed as a linux pc, and that’s why it had full size usb A ports, Ethernet, hdmi etc. so you could connect mouse, keyboard, a monitor and network.

People eventually figured it’s very useful as a board to make other things like IoT, robots and other hobby (and professional) projects.

Doesn’t look much smaller than a raspberrypi either…

For all of you that downvoted because “AI”, let’s be clear, this guy does all the processing locally, not in the cloud, so it’s a privacy friendly option:

Tiiny AI does all of its AI processing right on the device. Nothing leaves this mini supercomputer. If you’re privacy-minded and don’t want all of your data uploaded to the cloud or just don’t want to pay for any more subscriptions, an AI computer is what you want.

I’m actually quite interested in this. I hate when AI is shoved down my throat, or if it runs in “the cloud” out of my control, but this would be fully under my control.

My only concern is whether I can run my own OS (i.e. linux) or if I’m locked to theirs.

You’re not alone in hating Christmas, though for me it’s different: it’s the stress of having to celebrate, be happy, and get people presents. I don’t want to be forced to or pretend to be happy, I have nothing to celebrate, and if I want to give someone a present I don’t need to wait for Christmas (and if I don’t want to give a present, I shouldn’t be required to).

Basically, Christmas is just another way to make people spent a lot of money with the pretense of it being “the happiest time of the year” (for someone else).

I had the right not to be happy, don’t mandate that I should be happy during Christmas.

Ok first of all: GrapheneOS is great, probably the best alternative Android OS, but their PR skills are rock bottom. Still, many ignore that due to how good it is.

With that said, I don’t believe their claim that it’s impossible for them to target a user with a malicious OTA: their reason is basically that the update server never even knows who is downloading, and so it can’t send a different file to just one user. That’s true, but thet could, in theory, make a single OTA that everybody gets, but checks for a specific IMEI or other device ID and only there enables some malicious payload.

I trust them not to do it, for many reasons, but technically they could. I also don’t think they’d do it to Louis, despite the beef they have with him.

Sure, but the problem is the ecosystem of alternatives stores effectively collapsing or falling under Google’s control. That will affect everybody who uses them, whether on GrapheneOS, LineageOS or certified devices.