But T-Mobile is still offering the service, so it is not the lifetime of that either.

That is only an option on the Pro version. Most computers come with Home.

Kobo

Twine is a great simple RSS reader and it is open source.

I am currently using NewsBlur because I like how it syncs across devices and its tagging system. It is also open source, but it is not the prettiest and the UX takes some getting used to.

Bitwarden. It is open source, reliable, easy to use, and compatible with everything. The free version has nearly everything, but I have the paid version to support development because $10 per year is very reasonable.

I do regularly export my password vault to KeePassXC as my backup though.

Thank you. I am not sure how that only ended up on that link.

Syncthing: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

KDE Connect: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.kde.kdeconnect_tp/

AntennaPod: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

DAVx⁵: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/

Obtanium: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.imranr.obtainium.fdroid/

Voyager for Lemmy: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.vger.voyager/

Edit: Fixed link

And laid off all but one person. Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/nova-launcher-savior-of-cruft-filled-android-phones-is-on-life-support/

Firefox and Brave Search

This does not apply to the server. Only the client app is open source. The server is proprietary.

They switched to USB-C last year with the iPhone 15.

Whoever had the number before you likely gave it out to any service that asked.

Since you only use it for data, I recommend contacting your provider and asking for a different number.

Miracast and Chromecast are different. Miracast is the open standard while Chromecast is Google’s proprietary casting protocol.

Roku supports both Miracast and AirPlay, but I don’t think it supports Chromecast.

KeePass password vault

Google has done price increases the last 2 or 3 years, so they no longer have a price advantage. Samsung also has the same 7 year support window.

Proton is still a for-profit company and has shareholders who expect to to make money. The change is that the largest shareholder of the for-profit company is now a separate non-profit organization. It is still a positive move, but not entirely what the marketing makes it seem.

Everyone already anticipates new Google services to fail. Expecting people to spend hundreds of dollars on content that is locked to a service run by a company that is known for canceling services after a couple of years was always going to fail.

Stadia was essentially just a demo of Google’s cloud capabilities. Even if Stadia was a massive success, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to Google’s ad revenue and have no impact on stock price.

Ironically, if Google were upfront about how it would handle the shutdown, it likely would have increased consumer confidence enough that Stadia may not have needed to be shutdown.

GPT4ALL

FreeChat

Alpaca

Mozilla Foundation owns Mozilla Corporation.

Mozilla Corporation, which is responsible for Firefox, is what also purchased Anonym.