if used for work…Features? Don’t care.

Most organizations care about maintaining document compatibility, especially formatting, and that usually means Office365. Microsoft is notorious for publishing a standard and then ignoring their own standard, making it exceedingly difficult to use other office suites.

I’ve heard OnlyOffice does the best at maintaining compatibility.

I’m hoping for a Pixel Tablet 2 with this (Pixel Tablet doesn’t have it, but the Pixel 8 does for some reason) and MTE security capability, and I’ll transition to that with GrapheneOS over a laptop.

I haven’t tested it personally, but I think GrapheneOS (easily the best Android OS for Pixels, in my opinion) has had it for Pixel 8s since the end of October 2023. Here’s a quick guide I saw: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/9775-pixel-8-desktop-mode-guide-and-personal-experience

and Signal were Google proprietary.

I’m pretty sure Signal is not Google proprietary, and the person you replied to didn’t say it was.

I know that’s the point, which is why I said it. The person I replied to asked if they were missing something, so I was attempting to educate them on said point. Then they edited their post to add the /s after the fact.

The difference is that you are expected to pay. Louis and FUTO are very explicit about this.

I don’t really follow them, but I did skim the Grayjay FAQ, and it never says that. Just that they make money by selling licenses, no subscription, and it works identically without paying. I don’t suppose you have a source that is more explicit than the official Grayjay FAQ page?

https://grayjay.app/#faq

Most browsers I run into, you can search from the address bar. You can also disable or point to a different search engine, if you want. So you could skip going to the site. That aside…most browsers would accept google.com and not need the full https://www

I say most anecdotally as I haven’t tested them all.

Is Eternity still in development? I don’t think there has been a release for 6+ months.

With most PC things (RAM, disk space, CPU, etc etc), too much is better than too little, provided you have the resources.

I have left, I just view Reddit…

So you haven’t left Reddit. Like saying you left Google but still Google search without logging in.

plus their name is the same as a style of dildo 🤣

Are you against D&D for the same reason?

I think I’m going to skip this generation for Tablet 2, whenever that is. I’m hoping for the addition of Desktop Mode and hardware memory tagging support / MTE to make the tablet easier to replace/act as a desktop and be even more secure.

I’ve used the alpha versions for two years now and it has worked fine so far.

They released a beta about a month ago.

https://lemmy.world/post/13864258

Edit: which your download link has. Just wanted to make sure you and others don’t use a 2 year old alpha instead.

There are no legal restrictions on cryptography in the US

That’s not what a quick search and Wikipedia says. To be fair, I didn’t fact check all their references:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States

While I liked Niagara for what it tries to do, it’s price for a launcher was steep…

Quality often is, and it’s not terribly steep, in my opinion, if you consider that it’s the gateway into your phone and is used practically every time you unlock your phone. I personally opted for the lifetime subscription to not deal with any monthlys.

If you actually bothered to read…

I did read, and it changed nothing about what I said. Let’s revisit: did it detect Facebook, which I think we can all agree is invasive, as having trackers? No? The “why” of it doesn’t seem particularly relevant as we are just looking for trackers in apps.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/9358-using-apps-with-known-trackers-with-no-google-play-services/6

See Exodus…

Hard for me to take anything they say seriously when they say Facebook does not contain any trackers:

We have not found code signature of any tracker we know in the application.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.facebook.katana/latest/

Edit: I’m not saying WeChat is clean, just that I don’t exactly trust Exodus for tracker reporting.

I seriously doubt banning the entirety of… non-conforming third party app users is something they would loose sleep over if it means stopping that in its tracks.

They would do it happily.

I know, API, Spoofing, Ect. I know. You’ve more faith in that than myself. To actually believe there isn’t anything they can do to go the extra mile and end it, seems extremely nieve imo.

You’re not quite getting what I’m saying. I think they absolutely would/will crack down on this, but they’re going to do that regardless of what we say here. I don’t think our comments are going to push them into doing it faster, and us not saying anything is going to make them go slower. With the resources/money/monitoring/tech/etc they have, they are well aware of all these tools before most users of them are. Us saying nothing is not keeping a secret, nor is it guiding their actions. You give our comments too much weight, and much more than they will, if they even think of us.

People really need to just stfu about a certain other app. If ya know, ya know. Otherwise stop advertising it you morons…When you mention YT and IMMEDIATELY bring THAT up publicly, you’re not helping anyone.

Do you really think that Google is only going to take down an app or adjust the API based on some comments, posts, articles?

“Yo, Neal, did you see what that one person on Lemmy said? We gotta crack down on this API to fix that.”

backend of a sword

You mean the hilt?