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  • Nice, all good options!

    For iOS, I’d recommend Flutter, since that’s where the market is going, and they have good quick start guides.

    For Docker, it changed my world. I taught someone in these steps, they used GPT to do each step individually, but were required to learn what each part of the compose file did as they went. They used WSL in Windows, but doing it via CLI is key.

    • Use docker-compose to start an Alpine Linux container and Docker Exec into it
    • Get the id of the container with Docker PS
    • Add an environment variable of THIS set to 1
    • Swap Alpine Linix for Nginx, and open 127.0.0.1:80 on it so you can visit it from local host
    • Mount a folder on the local machine into the container as a volume with an index.html page so Nginx will serve that page

    Getting those basics down one step at a time will make all the rest soooooo much easier.



  • You seem to feel like you should learn Swift, but don’t want to. If you’re looking for tech growth, but can’t get invigorated, maybe try a different direction?

    Self-host a good first-app, like Nextcloud?

    Watch build videos on Voron 3D printers?

    Switch apps you can from the Play Store to Obtainium to prep for DeGoogling your life?

    Make a server out of some old laptop?

    Write scripts that automatically set up your PC when you reinstall?

    Organize all your techy tools on a pegboard?



  • You can also install directly from Signal via Obtainium. https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

    {"id":"org.thoughtcrime.securesms","url":"https://updates.signal.org/android/latest.json","author":"Signal","name":"Signal","preferredApkIndex":0,"additionalSettings":"{\"intermediateLink\":[],\"customLinkFilterRegex\":\"\",\"filterByLinkText\":false,\"skipSort\":false,\"reverseSort\":false,\"sortByLastLinkSegment\":false,\"versionExtractWholePage\":false,\"requestHeader\":[{\"requestHeader\":\"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36\"}],\"defaultPseudoVersioningMethod\":\"partialAPKHash\",\"trackOnly\":false,\"versionExtractionRegEx\":\"\\\\d+.\\\\d+.\\\\d+\",\"matchGroupToUse\":\"\",\"versionDetection\":true,\"useVersionCodeAsOSVersion\":false,\"apkFilterRegEx\":\"\",\"invertAPKFilter\":false,\"autoApkFilterByArch\":true,\"appName\":\"\",\"shizukuPretendToBeGooglePlay\":false,\"allowInsecure\":false,\"exemptFromBackgroundUpdates\":false,\"skipUpdateNotifications\":false,\"about\":\"Signal is an open-source end to end encrypted messaging app.\"}","overrideSource":null}




  • You’re taking that out of context. Signal is open source, but you don’t get to see what happens between GitHub and the Play Store. Adobe’s system that I am aluding to is also open, but we don’t get to see what happens in the software itself. The problem is, that’s not even what I’m talking about. I’m talking about a standard they are developing, not their software or DRM.

    This isn’t just for Adobe, they’re just starting the process. Other systems can run it. Hardware can run it. Do you not use linux because Canonical or Red Hat contributed? Do you steer developers away from flutter because Google started it? Where is the line? Who do you think kicks off all the standards you use today? OAuth, OIDC, etc. If you want to avoid everything these companies contribe to, you’re going to have to stop using the internet.