That sucks my bank app doesn’t seem to rely on it for anything other than notifications and I can live without those.

I have a work gmail as well with works apps with Google Play but it’s in a work profile so separate from. Main so I understand that.

Thank you will look into $5 isn’t alot so will probably switch to it.

If you get a pixel watch you can pair it and use that for Google Pay FYI and have Graphene OS on your phone.

It was a bonus my work did and I won it in a raffle.

I didn’t buy it I’ve used Linux for 15 years its actually running Asahi Linux

No M2 Mac I didn’t buy was a present lol

Hey in have a Mac and can confirm I am poor 🤣

I think it has more to do with Matrix is kinda becoming the standard for secure open source messaging server but I do agree with you I would just use what works for you personally.

The site is trash my DNS blocked all their garbage so that’s good.

This is what I do I self host pretty much most of my services.

So google play services on android along with Google store are installed in the root system the can basicly do whatever the want permission wise play services is always running in the background and is a huge battery drain by not having it installed at all you are gaining more battery life.

Its already been known Qualcomm x1 arm64 laptop chip will be able to run other operating systems its not a phone.

That is very true indeed but my battery lasts for 2 days though because of it so I’ll call that a win.

It was windows 7 but my install got screwed up Some how not sure how a freind gave me a Ubuntu USB and I didn’t want you try it I wanted to reinstall windows but didn’t have another windows computer at the time or acces to one. And I installed Ubuntu 8.Something and back then making a Windows USB wasnt easy like it is now on Linux and never got it working so I just embraced Linux glad I did prepared me for my Dev ops career.

My bad I mean microphone 🎤

It runs great just no steam for games because no arm64 support but runs really good.

I just self host Invidious and put it behind Authelia for SSO.

Not gonna lie if PayPal made a wallet for android i would use it over Google Wallet.

100% agree been using Linux for 15 years and will never stop plus once you learn everything there is to know about how Linux works if something breaks odds are you can fix it yourself or report it with logs faster if you contribute your self as well.