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Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @12:14AM (#37492105)
This is truly ironical that some apps refuse to work on system that is much secure.

I use LineageOS and it is true that I have to use Magisk to have banking app working. And I understand that this is not for everyone.

I just wanted to mention that there is a way to use older phone and have security updates longer than vendor provides it. And even longer than Apple.

I get the argument about binary blob updates. Security is never 100%. And it also shows another reason why binary blobs make things worse.

Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:54PM (#37487123)
Motorola G6 Plus (and many other Android phones) is supported by LineageOS which is up-to-date version with security updates.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/evert/

I was waiting over one year for shipping to Czech Republic. Finally I solved it by buying over Germany with service that created virtual address there and reshipped to Czech Republic.

Edit: I understand that for business especially non-european EU rules must be complicated. But seems to me that for the EU customer it works great.

Re:Open-Source Home Automation on Friday November 29, 2019 @05:35PM (#21667218)
I thought it provides simple alternative (as asked) with voice commands. But when reading the details the voice processing is not offline (as asked).

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Note that in the 0.8 gateway release, browser-based voice commands are processed using Google’s voice assistant API, so the audio strings are processed in the cloud. The speech-to-text result is passed back to your gateway. If you instead type a command into the text field of the smart assistant screen, those commands are processed locally and do not require a connection to the Internet.

https://iot.mozilla.org/docs/gateway-user-guide.html

EDIT: But hopefully they will move to something like offline Common Voice in some future release.

Re:Open-Source Home Automation on Friday November 29, 2019 @01:52PM (#21666075)