I have not heard a reference to this in like ten years.

Yeah that Lemmy person definitely deserved a shoutout!

Jesus Christ that’s ancient wisdom.

😹😹😹, awesome, welcome to the club 🍻

In Android operating system, work profiles can be enabled using Android’s Admin panel ( I think that’s what they call it ), which requires a Google account, in a degoogled Android, we use Shelter which can enable the Work profile, apps in work profiles are isolated/separated from the main one, and they don’t have access to your main profile’s data, unless you allow it, you can also freeze apps when you lock your phone, ( apps like … Ahhm excuse me, I mean SPYWARE like Facebook, Tiktok keeps running in the background sending data and that might be a useful for that )

In CalyxOS you can set the VPN ( ProtonVPN ) to route all your traffic ( including the work profile ) thru the VPN tunnel, giving you extra layer of protection. ( I don’t know if it’s possible on LineageOS )

Personally I won’t take the risk of using Big tech apps from Meta, especially Meta,Tiktok and Google even in the work profile, I consider these apps to be spyware, and what spyware does is bypassing your guards and firewalls, working in mysterious ways ( proprietary Software ), and finally gathering as much info as possible from the infected device ( in the background off course )

Your phone has a feature called Work Profile that can be used to isolate your personal and work apps from each other. Normally you need to sign in to a company-specified app like Microsoft Company Portal to activate Work Profile, but Shelter is a simple, open-source app that will do it instead.

Think of as virtualized/segmented user space. You can install apps within in, and they are ONLY allowed access to the data within the work profile.

With Shelter you can set apps to automatically freeze as well, so that when they aren’t in use, they can’t do anything else.

It depends on your threat model, your priorities and needs…

tracking can take so many forms, it can be done in so many ways, apps you install on your phone has built in trackers, and the apps themselves can be used to spy on you, so if you trust a service enough to install their app on your phone, you shouldn’t be worried about their trackers, but if they’re trustworthy, why would they build trackers into their apps in the first place?

Here’s an example : Reddit Vs Voyager ( a Lemmy Client )

I’m saying this because there is no one solution for the surveillance evil tech, ( well, there is and that’s if you stop using it, but even then they’ll keep stalking you with pixel trackers and cookies… Etc etc… ), but don’t get me wrong, these tools ( like DDG protection and Shelter ) they do work, and they do some damage ( to the surveillance tech giants ), but if you’re finding yourself using them, maybe it’s time to look for alternatives, and when you can’t find an alternative for a particular service, and that service Is only available via an app, use it in Shelter away from your main profile that has your life in it

Shelter isn’t available on the play store because it’s a privacy tool, made by a privacy minded individual who dont wanna pay google ( not because they’re a cheap person ), but because Google scans your downloads and knows every app you’re using, remember they own the play store, the safest apps you can get are available on Fdroid which hosts many apps that respects your digital rights and doesn’t sell you behind your back.

banking apps are really annoying in this regard, they come with tons of trackers, and often times they use their mobile apps as a Security layer for your account, so you have to install them…

glad to see my banking app works in the work profile and doesn’t require play services ( I dont and never will use a Google or Apple system )

Don’t forget to stay away from stupid keyboards!!

Some are basically key loggers

You’re making great progress.

That doesn’t look like TikTok to me.

Had the M7 too, absolutely loved it for 3 months. Right up until a desktop harddrive fell from a shelf right in the middle of the screen. Corner went through it like butter 😭

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I didn’t know there was an M7. If they sounded amazing on the M7, I can’t imagine what they sounded like on the M8.

I never got to listen to them in person. I heard so many people praising the speakers at the time.

I had an HTC 10 at the time, around its release date as that was the only phone with a Snapdragon 820 available at T-Mobile in my location. It was an ok phone but got better with a custom ROM+kernel. Shame about no dual front facing speakers on the HTC 10 because the single front facing speaker actually sounded great.

Is it possible for someone to custom make a bigger battery+case for the HTC One M8?

No I still have an old HTC Developer account I created years ago. And I can still generate tokens. Only issue is that people can’t create new HTC dev accounts.

The 2GB of RAM are really the bottleneck. I have a few other Snapdragon 800 / 801 phones like the Galaxy Note 3, LG G3, OG Oneplus and those 3GB make a world of difference.

Im using the Xiaomi Mi9t as well. Straight from MIUI to Android 14 custom ROM with Niagara Launcher. Its so awesome. I still love that there isnt any notch or hole on the screen.

Android uses a Just-in-Time (JIT) compile of applications. You can compile everything Ahead-of-Time (AOT) via adb. It would in theory improve performance when starting applications.