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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • As far as I know, AOSP is largely maintained by Google. Without the Google Play Services you lose key functionalities such as notification service or the ability to use home banking apps.

    While alternative play services such as microG exist, in my personal experience they are buggy as hell. My banking apps continued not to work and notifications were often delayed by several hours.

    I’d love a real opensource linux alternative driven by the community without a big tech dictating what goes in or not. We’re not there yet but it’s cool to see people trying.

















  • I’m on the same boat as you, pretty much. I grew up with ISO and moved to ANSI on my 20s. If you own an Happy Hacking Keyboard I’ll consider you my long lost brother!

    My SO is not a techie person and doesn’t particularly benefit from ANSI. She types a lot in portuguese, our native language, and the default ANSI layout has some really bad key placements. The ~ key in particular is in a pretty bad spot considering ã is used very frequently in our language. No point in getting used to a layout that is inferior for her workflow.