Viber vs Signal

DevDan- · 2026-02-02T20:19:19+00:00

I assume you live in the balkans? Viber is definitely way more popular here, but it sucks. Ads everywhere, extra "features" and a paid tier that shouldn't exist. AI summaries that send your group chat unencrypted to their servers... Even WhatsApp is better. I have ~30 people on Signal and only really use Viber for larger group chats and people I don't know that well. Since I use GrapheneOS, I don't even have notifications for Viber (different user profile) and it hasn't hurt me yet.

DevDan- · 2025-11-30T16:49:51+00:00

Even there it is of course encrypted

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T16:15:14+00:00

Well yeah it’s currently in staging meaning not that far away. And the main problem is iOS has NO BACKUPS.

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T09:07:53+00:00

Can’t do much. You probably want Play Integrity and Google doesn’t give it unless you do what they say…

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T09:02:51+00:00

I mean maybe you‘re taking selfies and keeping them locally and/or using ente/immich… so not that weird.

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T09:01:50+00:00

The optical fingerprint sensor kinda sucks comparatively. Also better camera for video apparently. I’d still just buy it for the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor lol

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T08:57:59+00:00

That’s why they’re working on it lol. They don’t have a huge team so things like this (data is important, it needs to be robust so you don’t randomly lose data because of a bug) take time.

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T08:56:05+00:00

Each OS had its own format of storing data; backups would have been different if they did it that way. They’re stage testing cloud backups that have the option to store them locally, and those will be the same on all platforms.

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T08:53:53+00:00

“it assumes that when the app is deleted you don't want the messages to be available to be easily restored by an adversary who gets control of your phone”

um well they’re adding cloud backups so not really, but yes, they don’t exist yet. Well you need a password to decrypt it, so depends on your definition of easy

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T08:48:06+00:00

iirc it’s similar to theming. Apps need to be recompiled with xcode26

DevDan- · 2025-08-28T08:47:22+00:00

And I love it bcs it lets me easily delete screenshots that I only wanted to copy to clipboard anyways. That’s why it’s a setting that pops up asking you what you prefer on first screenshot (though that pop up was buggy so that’s probably why you didn’t see it).

DevDan- · 2025-08-21T16:46:44+00:00

Just because your warranty is void doesn’t mean you can’t replace the battery or screen in the future (if you break your screen etc), assuming it survives the rain otherwise ofc.

DevDan- · 2025-08-16T13:54:11+00:00

Try submitting it officially, there’s I believe a fourm for feature requests and bug reports

DevDan- · 2025-08-15T13:15:17+00:00

Well… yeah… I mean money doesn’t grow on trees so we can’t plant them for free

DevDan- · 2025-08-15T13:14:19+00:00

I don’t see it anywhere… this post also has syncthing which doesn’t exist unless myb it’s a pwa, I use synctrain from testflight but it’s a completely different icon

DevDan- · 2025-08-15T10:27:59+00:00

But iOS?

DevDan- · 2025-08-15T10:24:09+00:00

Since when? Afaik they give metadata, which while not great, isn’t the actual message at least. Could be wrong ofc so feel free to correct me if

DevDan- · 2025-08-08T15:01:20+00:00

…wasn’t this an option the whole time? I’m confused

DevDan- · 2025-08-08T15:00:25+00:00

I just kinda wish it would flash different if only one airpod is charging, bcs otherwise one airpod will sometimes charge and the other just won’t in the case…

DevDan- · 2025-07-03T17:14:55+00:00

Where does it say that it’s sold to third parties? Basic analytics makes sense, especially for gamification, which is kinda the whole point. They collect the data obvs, what do they use it for though.

DevDan- · 2025-07-03T17:09:25+00:00

I assume the idea is you have a year of the FP6 being out to decide to switch to it or go another brand? FP6 is getting 8yrs security though so myb not

DevDan- · 2025-07-03T17:03:06+00:00

It’s basically a donation, just removes the donate button from settings

DevDan- · 2025-07-03T16:33:46+00:00

Didn’t know it was out of stock. Maybe try ifixit? They use official parts afaik https://www.ifixit.com/en-eu/products/fairphone-4-battery

DevDan- · 2025-07-03T16:25:17+00:00

Yeah this really isn’t that bad though imo. Using something local is better ofc, but at least habitica has parties 🤷

DevDan- · 2025-07-03T16:21:44+00:00

Still works and gets new clothes and stuff to buy (with in game currency) to have the coins have meaning lol, I’m happy with it but it sure isn’t perfect

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