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(Yes, I'm linking YouTube because unlike popular belief, some channels are actually informative, or some make it easy for us to understand the content.)

I would never use my fingerprint for authentication, because it's a flawed concept. The problem is, that your fingerprint is not a password. It's more like a username. That's because you leave your fingerprint everywhere, it's practically public information. The same can be told about your face.

Comment · 1 year ago

On the GrapheneOS forum you will see a lot of bad opinions about F-Droid, for example this:

> It doesn't matter that the app is trustworthy, because F-Droid are extremely incompetent with security and the apps you install from F-Droid are signed by F-Droid rather than the developer.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/20212-f-droid-security-in-s... https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18731-f-droid-vulnerability...

They also say, if you use F-Droid, at least use F-Droid Basic:

> Dont use the main F-Droid client. Android is pretty strict about SDK versions and as F-Droid targets legacy devices, it is very outdated.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/11439-f-droid-vsor-droid-if...

> If the app is only available on F-Droid / third party F-Droid repo, use F-Droid Basic and use the third party repo rather than the main repo if available. > > If the app is available on Github then install the APK first from Github then auto-update it using Obtanium. Be sure to check the hash using AppVerifier which can be installed from Accrescent (available on the GrapheneOS app store).

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/16589-obtainium-f-droid-bas...

By the way, while GrapheneOS recommends Accrescent, I don't use it anymore because they can't even add apps like CoMaps, while some of the apps they actually added are proprietary.

Comment · 1 year ago

Also learn grammar, please. If you mean a canvas based on IPv6, then write "IPv6-Based Canvas". If you mean IPv6 has based the canvas, then write what you just did.

Comment · 1 year ago

Please read the article again, he does explain the torture:

> our phones make us feel powerless; as if we must fight our devices to get anything done. There’s a constant barrage of notifications, and by the time you have dealt with them, chances are you have forgotten what you wanted to do in the first place. Then there is Gemini, Google’s artificial intelligence bot, which won’t leave you alone. Press the home (middle) button for half a second too long, and it pops up, offering to “assist” you.

The closed-source part has been explained too, as it links another article: https://www.osnews.com/story/142553/rumour-google-intends-to...

"The Android Open Source Project has been gutted over the years, with Google leaving more and more parts of it to languish, while moving a lot of code and functionality into proprietary components like Google Mobile Services and Google Play Services. Taking “Pixel Android” closed source almost feels like the natural next step in the process of gutting AOSP that’s been ongoing for well over a decade."