Waiting for them to cut their losses within the next couple years. Sunset the money-losing platform and revoke all the free game licences

Me. $350 off and $100 worth of storage upgrades on a Pixel 9 pro was worth it for me. Phones now are expensive as fuck but getting a ~40% discount on a brand new product made it easier to accept.

Thanks for the info! Just struggling to find a suitable tempered glass protector now since the pixel 9s moved to the ultrasonic style fingerprint reader.

Pixel 9? If so, what screen protector did you go with?

Just got one and the screen protector I bought doesn’t work with the new style fingerprint sensor, so looking for a known-working brand

In addition to the ones listed:

• Matrix client (Element, Shildichat, Fluffy chat, etc.)

• XMPP client (Conversations, Monocles Chat, Blabber, etc.)

• SimpleX Chat

• Briar

None of them are tied to your phone number if that’s what you mean by non voip.

Tried ElementX but ran into issues while getting it working with a selfhosted matrix server. After setting up dendrite (matrix server) and sliding-sync server (asynchronous message history syncing; which it requires) I still wasn’t able to get past the initial sync screen. Are you hosting your own matrix server, did you use it with a public server, or have you not tried using it yet?

SquareHome?

Heroic and Steam. Lutris I’ve used but nothing ever “just works” when I’ve tried it, and didn’t feel like wasting brain cycles learning configuration for another piece of software

Have a Oneplus 7 Pro, first Oneplus phone I’ve owned and it will be the last. Absolutely love the phone itself, but Oneplus as a company, the software they package, the warranty issues, and the direction they’ve gone as a value pick have all fallen off a cliff since it was produced, and have turned me off to ever upgrading to one of their newer models. That’s fine for me though, I have replacement parts on-hand, and a third-party actually maintained rom, so I’m OP7P until the wheels fall off this thing.

Edit: Can’t comment with experience on other OP phones, but I’ve heard very good things about the 6s, it was my second pick when I was looking for a phone at the time.

Man I loved that phone. WebOS felt so ahead of its time. Unfortunate hit to repairability though

In what way is the f-droid version of FairMail constrained? Genuinely curious as that’s what I have installed and would like to know what I’m missing compared to izzyondroid

If there’s any justice in the universe he absolutely will

I saw that, really unfortunate too. And now with the creator leaving signal entirely I don’t see it getting better on that front.

There are a handful of other options out there, but good luck getting more than a small percentage of your contacts to switch to it.

Oh they’ll still mostly be fake, but with the current FCC admin I don’t expect the same level of fuckery like we saw with ahshítpie