@jonah@lemmy.one you’re alive! Welcome back, this server needs 4 months worth of maintenance!

Ah, I missed the part where you said “Linux”, sorry!

Ah, I missed the part in the OP where it said “Linux”, whoops

Cromite is a fork of the seemingly-abandoned Bromite, which used to be the only browser recommended by GrapheneOS (other than their own Vanadium). It’s relatively new though so I don’t think that much has been written about it for comparison.

TIL there are multiple open street map apps (obvious that there would be now I think about it!)

Clearly I have nothing to add, but thanks for asking the question, I’ll be saving the post and trying out all the answers!

Assuming this is on an android phone with the normal Google Play Services on it then you should expect that Google can theoretically read anything that appears on it. It’s probably not that sinister though, I don’t imagine anything is being sent away and logged (though it theoretically could be!), there’s probably just some process which reads every incoming notification and if it thinks it sounds like a task then it offers you the prompt. Is this some setting you haven’t disabled in Google Assistant?

So if you disable the thing I suggested, there are ads. Then… don’t?

Edit: I misunderstood what you meant

The good news is that you don’t need to install an app to block ads!

Redact on desktop worked fine a month or two ago, I imagine the API changes have caught it out though.

Never mind the American politics nonsense, Brave has a history of slightly dodgy behaviour. Replacing websites ads with their own, keeping donations meant for creators, hijacking referral links and adding in their own, a lot of cryptocurrency shenanigans, and that’s just what’s on Wikipedia!

I tried out gadgetbridge too, seemed largely functional though I did notice the Bluetooth drop. Also it apparently uses old Bluetooth rather then BTLE? I’ll stick with Rebble for now but it’s good to know there’s a decent replacement when it eventually packs in!

OK, so after a few days of denying the pebble app network privileges everything seems to be working fine! Obviously I can’t access the app store now but I can just temporarily reactivate network if I want to download something new. I don’t really use any apps that need network (in the pebble’s old age I’d rather it take it easy and save battery and let the much newer phone run the things I need to run!) so there’s no real loss for my use case.

If I just deny the Pebble/Rebble app network permissions will that achieve a similar result?

Nice! I’ve been reading through the wiki and it seems a bit rough around the edges but I’m up for giving it a try.

Never heard of this before, looks interesting. Have you used it with a Pebble before? What works, what doesn’t?

The fact that anybody can just come into your session if they guess the room name correctly isn’t optimal either.

If you ignore the warnings about an easily-guessable name, ignore the option to use a waiting room, and ignore the suggestions to use a password, yeah.

Bromite hasn’t been touched for 6 months, so this is the opposite of duplicating effort, it’s an effort to save the project!

Sorry, I superglued it to my phone

Ah, that’s a good point. Tape someone else’s card to the back of your phone!

Tape your bank card to the back of your phone