But Daniel, you might ask, won't the criminals just use Conversations then? Yes, they already do. And thank you for realizing why chat control is stupid.
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But Daniel, you might ask, won't the criminals just use Conversations then? Yes, they already do. And thank you for realizing why chat control is stupid.
M Schommer
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •That's a quote from 1991, IIRC.
Robert Mader
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •so the next necessary step would be to close down Android even more and forcing such apps to comply. Not really believing that this will happen, but just in case: that's why having #LinuxMoblie / #postmarketos as additional backup is IMO so valuable.
Coincidentally have just been working on improving video calls in @dino - so omemo encrypted calls (compatible with Conversations) are becoming more usable on phones with (close to) mainline kernels.
Daniel Gultsch
in reply to Robert Mader • • •Robert Mader
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •@dino Hoping I'm not missing any irony here, considering how big the feature gap to Conversations on Android still is :P (great app!)
But assuming you mean it: thanks for the encouragement, I hope we can use the moment to get a bit more traction around that whole technology stack (#linuxmobile, #jabber, #xmpp)
Daniel Gultsch
in reply to Robert Mader • • •Just Joshin
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •I haven't used PostmarketOS, so I cannot really speak to how fully ready it is.
I have been using a mobile linux OS for 5 years now.
First Mobian on the Pinephone and more recently PureOS on the Librem5.
When it comes to how ready they are, their are two issues.
App availability and hardware support.
Mobile Linux has plenty of apps, but they may not be the apps that you see in android.
PMOS has done as much as anyone to get on multiple types of hardware.
Daniel Gultsch
in reply to Just Joshin • • •Just Joshin
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •That will be awesome!!
Personally, I do not feel that I am missing anything. However, I can see that to get more average users, finding apps more similar to what they find on android would be appealing.