Does Connect You work for you? I can send messages, but if someone replies, the notification only shows their number instead of the name I saved them as, and the reply doesn’t show up in the chat itself

Well damn, this is great. Too many private email providers still do their own thing in terms of encryption, so that is awesome to hear

What users often do not realize is that almost all such notifications travel over Google and Apple’s servers.

So on the Android side, is an app safe from this if it doesn’t rely on Firebase Cloud Messaging?

Getting a Pixel just to have Graphene is not always an option. At least not a sensible one that factors in everything that’s important when buying something.

My current phone still runs perfectly fine, so getting a new one feels like a massive waste, too.

Even without explicit installation of GApps, Lineage still uses and connects to quite a few Google services in the background.

It’s a great way of keeping older devices up to date, but not much more than that.

And then you add the lead actor to the search terms and it gets even worse

To be fair, giving Flatpak access to the themes and icons folder, and setting the corresponding environment variables is done rather quickly.