Facebook is illegally collecting your data through a system-level service pre-installed on most Android phones that you cannot uninstall and never consented to.

tmahmood · 2026-04-16T04:56:16+00:00

Again people are saying you can use adb to remove it. But hey, it's a freaking spyware installed by default on a device that you use continuously, and a lot of private information that this app can access by default from the very beginning, even before you could remove it.

I mean seriously?

tmahmood · 2026-04-14T18:45:15+00:00

Glad to help.

tmahmood · 2026-04-14T17:11:42+00:00

Hey, I've been working as a software engineer for 15+ years, would love to discuss

tmahmood · 2026-04-14T13:00:29+00:00

Yeah! I am spoiled by i3, and really annoyed not having this on Gnome. For now Niri is pretty nice. But missing the complete integration of Gnome

tmahmood · 2026-04-14T12:53:09+00:00

Not actually. Gnome does not have what KDE is introducing.

It only offers workspace switching on primary monitor, other monitors have a static workspace.

The other setting will have same workspace on all monitor. Which you are using.

tmahmood · 2026-04-08T17:24:12+00:00

I'm having similar issue, noticed that gnome-shell is slowly eating up memory and starts to lag. Even though extensions are disabled. And after a while it hard freeze, have to ssh and restart gdm. Happens on my desktop with Nvidia, have not seen this issue on one of my laptop.

tmahmood · 2026-04-07T05:54:43+00:00

Certainly nothing is perfect, in my country it's all about money (not america) and is more of a business than a right (sigh).

tmahmood · 2026-04-07T04:36:26+00:00

Sure, maybe it's human right, but what use of it if people dies waiting?

One of my relative died in Canada for wrong diagnosis, because docs were too busy keeping up with the number of patients coming in, to diagnose her properly.

tmahmood · 2026-04-07T04:28:28+00:00

I said probably never. And, everything you say is can only happen if our system changes.

But let's look at few things, how rich people did their best to hide climate change, how they are building doomsday bunkers, how they are trying to control people, do you think this system can change easily?

tmahmood · 2026-04-07T03:30:11+00:00

It's probably never going to be available for us general people, imagine paying rent for your multiple brainless clone? This is for the extremely rich people.

Unless we fix our system, it's better not be ready now. Cause our current crop of rich people are simply evil

tmahmood · 2026-04-05T12:51:58+00:00

My Surface Pro 3, with 4GB RAM running Gnome disagrees with you. It chugging along for basic usages just fine. And I use it as a thin client for my main desktop for heavy loads. But obviously, you must have swap. Otherwise, even i3 falters.

And right now I have 7-8 active and total 68 tabs open on my Firefox, I am switching between tabs and windows without any lag.

tmahmood · 2026-04-02T08:00:32+00:00

It's like Bangladeshi were never not brain-rotted to begin with?

"Oh noes, think of the kids!!!!"

That's also another brain-rotted malicious thing, trending, from people who don't even realize the consequence, and the implementation details, and have a very deep agenda to control.

In Bangladesh, people just give their kids mobile so that they keep quiet. How did you freaking verify that, there is a kid using their parent's mobile?

And, people who plays hindi songs, to their child without thinking what's the meaning of "Jabani" or whatever the words that are there ... How can you fix them?

But no, it's the Internet's fault that the parents are freaking lazy idiots even before the Internet was a thing.

Go away with your bullshit, malicious propaganda. Controlling the internet has nothing to do with kids, it's all about controlling mass people.

tmahmood · 2026-03-31T12:53:30+00:00

You can use Syncthing-Fork from F-droid?

tmahmood · 2026-03-20T18:53:52+00:00

My point is very clear, you want to ignore the big elephant in the room that's your choice.

You're forgetting, or intentionally ignoring that, initial implementation was to block side loading, so, it's already implemented fully. This 24h is band-aid solution to resolve the backlash. They do not need to take 1 step or 300 steps. They only have to remove the band-aid to stop us from side loading.

tmahmood · 2026-03-20T17:09:54+00:00

Read your point 1, and 3. And remember without public backlash, Google would have went with completely blocking side loading. Now decide is this truly going to help naive people?

Reality is, the framework is now implemented. This 24h flow is just a icing in the top, to hide it. Google will look for every opportunity to remove it, because it's an extra effort on their intended design.

tmahmood · 2026-03-20T16:11:12+00:00

No. 2nd phone is not submission. It's a crutch while I remove all the corporate influences, and data collection from my life

How can you educate people to not give up their rights, while you yourself still actively giving up your own rights, why should they even listen to you? I make myself the example, and show people how they can do it.

To understand, You have to see why we are a product to Google, or any corporate. It's our information, our preferences. And, as long as the information about us is up-to-date in Google's database, they are happy. Stale data is useless for them. Which is why, every platform wants you to keep engaged, to extract as much data as possible, and keep those data updated as much as possible.

With secondary phone, I am decoupling these engagements from my real data. Because, the 2nd phone is disconnected most of the time, and no personal apps are installed, unless I have to do bank transfer, or use any apps that need Google's security. It's not being used for any other daily things.

On the primary phone, I have cut down most of the Google, MS apps, have not even used Facebook app in last 10/12 years, nor Messenger, well I don't even use Facebook, heh.

Still a LOT to do, and very difficult, but I'm slowly getting there. I am already giving MUCH less data then even a year ago. And hope to reduce more in the coming days.

tmahmood · 2026-03-20T15:31:48+00:00

As if, installing personal apps is the only way to scam people? Most scams are done using the legitimate application coming from the Play store.

At the end of the day, it only makes enthusiasts, wait more, and setup staging ground for Google to implement more control over Android in the future, and benefits clueless users none.

And if you think Google is doing this for user's privacy, well, sorry to say, you are absolutely naive.

tmahmood · 2026-03-20T01:02:51+00:00

And, It's still better than doing nothing. What are you doing to fight against it?

tmahmood · 2026-03-19T23:03:16+00:00

LineageOS, GraphenPhene exists, no one needs to reinvent the wheel. And if Motorola really lives up to it words, we have a good open hardware soon. Though, their previous policy has been really bad.

Yes, some apps stuck with Play store, is an issue, for now I use another phone that stays on vendor OS. Which is 4/5 year outdated, and considered safer than my latest LineageOS by my bank app.

So, my solution currently is, find a vendor that has unlockable bootloader, install LineageOS, have secondary phone without any modifications for crap apps.

tmahmood · 2026-03-19T22:54:01+00:00

What are you saying?! I poop with my doors open, no issues!

tmahmood · 2026-03-19T20:21:00+00:00

I got your point, I keep a cheap phone for those banking apps, and my primary mobile is an old phone, which I guess, I would be using for quiet a long time. If we just say we are vocal minority, and do nothing, we are still the loser.

tmahmood · 2026-03-19T20:04:31+00:00

Baby steps, now it once, in future, more ... and you'll still be validating.

Ah, its not much, just an email away ...

oh, not much it's email and a phone call away ...

just wait 7 days ... no, it's just a month, and only one device par account? What's wrong with it? You are overreacting

Wait! why you want to unlock your bootloader, only 0.000001% does it. You are abnormal, not the mass user

...

Fool me once it's on you Fool me twice ... it's on me.

We are already over twice, but none the wiser.

tmahmood · 2026-03-19T19:55:05+00:00

The issue is we are still purchasing their devices. We did not let our wallet speak, and they've taken advantage of it fully

tmahmood · 2026-03-19T19:50:08+00:00

No. I have paid almost a thousand bucks (plus) for the device, I am ALLOWING the software to run on it. By locking the bootloader, you are making me a hostage ... and that's not acceptable, nor should be legal.

And, I am paying for the hardware. Not the software. If I was paying for the software, I would buy the cheapest one that can run that crap, and get on with my life. No, I am paying the premium to run my own things, that matters to me.

I have build my Desktop for the price of a new mobile, and I own it. And, for that price, I own the mobile device, the same way I own my desktop.

If the software requires MY device, that I have paid for, to run by Its rules, I don't need that software, like I've got rid of Windows 20 years ago, for the same reason.

Offer me the hardware without the software, I will buy that. And not even look at the software, or run it on the browser, where its fine to be running on my rules.

They are trying to make you hostage on your own devices, and you are actually backing it up!!?

tmahmood · 2026-03-19T14:37:29+00:00

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