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  • dracstoPrivacy@lemmy.mlCan there be privacy with Google Play Services?
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    4 months ago

    Signal uses Play Services for its push notifications. It does have a fallback method which maintains a connection to their servers to get message notifications. It requires changing some battery optimisation settings which might have some minor battery impacts.

    Personally I’m using Molly which implements UnifiedPush for Push Notifications without Molly/Signal needing to run in the background constantly. Also swaps a few other Google dependencies (like location pins) with open source alternatives.

    Having the second profile with Google Services is a good idea though. That was what I used to do before I shed my last few Google dependencies.




  • dracstoGames@sh.itjust.works*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 months ago

    When someone first told me about Studio Ghibli I was told it was “like Japanese Disney films”. Went to watch a Castle in the Sky and quite enjoyed it. Then I watched Grave of the Fireflies. I kept telling myself through out watching it “it’ll get happier soon right?”… Pretty sure I just sat there for like 10 minutes after it ended.

    It’s fantastically well done. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to bring myself to watch it again.






  • dracstoVegan@slrpnk.netVegan Food during Travel
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    7 months ago

    Another vote for Happy Cow. Makes it easy to bookmark a few places near where you’re staying and planning to visit.

    There was also another app I used to use which I think was called something like vegan passport? It had written in a bunch of languages that you were vegan and what that meant in good detail. Haven’t been able to find it again last time I checked though.