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  • 1.- jami 2.- xmpp + omemo 3.- matrix 4.- signal

    It’s hard no one cares. Where I live everyone uses whatsapp, and unfortunately what comes closer, and still without enough users base is signal on my list, and it’s the last. Jami is distributed, which makes it best in class, and there are good efforts trying to make it not to steal the whole battery, as opposed to briar. I which more people were interested on not using centralized stuff, not even what has been called lately decentralized, which means centralized but with several central points (only if everyone self hosts it would be decentralized, which is not the case). Currently I use Jami and signal, though I’ve tried all those, plus briar, plus tox, even telegram…


  • How about not changing at all your regular packages,and containerizing what you want, or as much as possible through current profiles, through firejail? And couplet that with MAC protection offered by apparmor (one can actually set firejail to always use apparmor, and then tweak particular apps not to use it if it’s too troublesome).

    This way you have your provided distro packages (gentoo or sourcemage if source based distros, it doesn’t matter), and have them execute containerized. The only thing is that there are not firejail profiles for every possible piece of SW, but the vanilla list of containers is not small either.




  • Perhaps, I just read about Obtainium, hehe. Thanks for the hint. At this point I’d like to understand what’s the issue first, because I’d like to still install it from F-Droid (I would do it with obtainium that way), and I can’t tell right now if the issue is on the app, or on the F-Droid build, and to me it’s really curious that the error says “defining” instead of “trying to acquire”, which doesn’t seem like something an app would do. Perhaps it’s just a F-Droid message, and not an app installing one. Can’t tell. But as I’d like to keep using F-Droid, then perhaps it’s good to see if it’s a temporal issue just with the last release on F-Droid, that release of the app itself, or something that will remain.

    BTW, I use apkgrabber for a few apps from apkmirror, and obtainium might perfectly be an option…

    Edit: Just found out it’s the app having issues with LOS, and therefore LOS for microG. See the edit on my original post. Thanks !


  • Nope, I only install F-Droid provided apps from F-Droid. When changing that, like when moving Newpipe from the F-Droid provided one to the Newpipe repo, I have to uninstall it 1st.

    Now, the issue is not about signature. It’s about “defining” a permission, which BTW, I can’t tell what that exactly means. In my mind defining is not quite the same as trying to acquire, and the later is more reasonable for an app to me, and can’t understand how come an app can define a permission. But oh well, perhaps the error message is not as accurate.












  • akregator is unfortunately part of the kde-pim, requiring akonadi, and a bunch of kde deps, see for example:

    % pacman -S akregator
    resolving dependencies...
    looking for conflicting packages...
    
    Packages (92) accounts-qml-module-0.7-4  akonadi-contacts-23.08.0-1  akonadi-mime-23.08.0-1  akonadi-search-23.08.0-1  attica-5.109.0-1  grantlee-5.3.1-1
                  grantleetheme-23.08.0-1  kaccounts-integration-23.08.0-1  kactivities-5.109.0-1  karchive-5.109.0-1  kauth-5.109.0-1  kbookmarks-5.109.0-1
                  kcalendarcore-5.109.0-1  kcmutils-5.109.0-1  kcodecs-5.109.0-1  kcompletion-5.109.0-1  kconfig-5.109.0-1  kconfigwidgets-5.109.0-1
                  kcontacts-1:5.109.0-1  kcoreaddons-5.109.0-1  kcrash-5.109.0-1  kdbusaddons-5.109.0-1  kdeclarative-5.109.0-1  kded-5.109.0-1
                  kglobalaccel-5.109.0-1  kguiaddons-5.109.0-1  ki18n-5.109.0-1  kiconthemes-5.109.0-1  kidentitymanagement-23.08.0-1  kimap-23.08.0-1
                  kio-5.109.0-2  kirigami2-5.109.0-1  kitemmodels-5.109.0-1  kitemviews-5.109.0-1  kjobwidgets-5.109.0-1  kldap-23.08.0-1  kmailtransport-23.08.0-1
                  kmbox-23.08.0-1  kmime-23.08.0-1  knewstuff-5.109.0-1  knotifications-5.109.0-1  knotifyconfig-5.109.0-1  kontactinterface-23.08.0-1
                  kpackage-5.109.0-1  kparts-5.109.0-1  kpimtextedit-23.08.0-1  krunner-5.109.0-1  kservice-5.109.0-1  ksmtp-23.08.0-1  ktextaddons-1.4.1-1
                  ktextwidgets-5.109.0-1  kuserfeedback-1.2.0-1  kwallet-5.109.0-1  kwayland-5.109.0-1  kwidgetsaddons-5.109.0-1  kxmlgui-5.109.0-1
                  libaccounts-glib-1.26-2  libaccounts-qt-1.16-3  libakonadi-23.08.0-1  libdbusmenu-qt5-0.9.3+16.04.20160218-6  libdmtx-0.7.7-1
                  libgravatar-23.08.0-1  libkdepim-23.08.0-1  libkgapi-23.08.0-1  libkleo-23.08.0-1  messagelib-23.08.0-1  pimcommon-23.08.0-1
                  plasma-framework-5.109.0-1  polkit-qt5-0.114.0-1  prison-5.109.0-1  purpose-5.109.0-1  qca-qt5-2.3.7-1  qt5-graphicaleffects-5.15.10-1
                  qt5-location-5.15.10+kde+r4-2  qt5-quickcontrols-5.15.10-1  qt5-quickcontrols2-5.15.10+kde+r6-1  qt5-speech-5.15.10+kde+r1-1
                  qt5-wayland-5.15.10+kde+r57-1  qt5-webchannel-5.15.10+kde+r3-1  qt5-webengine-5.15.14-5  qtkeychain-qt5-0.14.1-1
                  signon-kwallet-extension-23.08.0-1  signon-plugin-oauth2-0.25-1  signon-ui-0.17+20171022-3  signond-8.61-1  solid-5.109.0-1  sonnet-5.109.0-1
                  syndication-5.109.0-1  syntax-highlighting-5.109.0-1  threadweaver-5.109.0-1  xapian-core-1:1.4.23-1  akregator-23.08.0-1
    

    I was hoping there’s something which way less dependencies, hopefully GTK rather than Qt… At some point I wanted to use kmail and korganizer, also part of kde-pim, but besides korganizer never fixing a pretty old bug, the amount of deps I needed, plus the akonadi DB, made go back on that attempt. The same goes for akregator unfortunately…