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It’s dogs in the workplace a problem for people with allergies?

Vaping indoors, at the desk ?! I would hate to work there.

I mean, in the cas of Projectivity at least, when you launch Projectivity the first time it will ask you to change specific settings and it will take you to the corresponding menus. You just need to read the instructions and press OK. Sorry I can’t be more specific at this time, as I am away from my TV.

Just install an alternative one from Play store or APK, and apply the requested change of settings.

Didn’t know this one, looks very nice ! Will give it a try.

• FLauncher / play.google.com
• FLauncher / gitlab.com

I live a different life since I have entirely banished ads from my TV: Shield, Projectivity Launcher, Smart Tube.

I live a different life since I have entirely banished ads from my TV: Shield, Projectivity Launcher, Smart Tube.

I am using GrapheneOS on my Pixel 7 and I was successful with Android Auto.

I can’t say for LineageOS, but on GrapheneOS my banking apps work without doing anything special, apart from enabling sandboxed Google Play services.

Simply use your packaging-scissors to open the packaging of your nail-scissors.

Maybe nothing amazing, but rather basic utility:

• Breezy Weather
• Material Files
• Fossipy Contacts
• Fossify Gallery
• mpv-android

Understood. Any public-facing server will be bombarded by bots. You need to deploy measures to avoid being hacked:

1. Firewall: lockdown everything, allow only the strict necessary
2. Remote login/SSH: update default username and pasword, only allow remote login using Encryption Key authentification
3. (Optional) configure fail2ban to slowdown the attacks
4. Keep your server up-to-date: configure auto-update, unattended-update or similare
5. Setup and keep regular backups: be ready to nuke your server at anytime, with the confidence you can restart fresh in a short time and low effort

Obviously, there are many other security steps that can be put in place, but firewall and ssh hardening are absolutely mandatory

It sounds like you made your Jellyfin server public-facing, which is probably not what you want, even though it is supposed to be secured.

I recommend that you setup access through an exclusive and private connection of some kind. E.g: VPN, Tailscale, ZeroTier.

I use this one, pretty solid.

I pay with my phone using grapheneOS and the banking app of my bank, it works perfectly without Google-Pay.

I’ve got a Meizu M2 in 2015, replacing my Sony Ericsson Walkman W810 that served me well for 9 years ! The meizu was good too, until it wasn’t… one day they pushed and update that rendered it completely unusable and they took 4 month to fix. By this time I had already replaced it. Otherwise very robust despit the plastic construction, it fail off a rollercoaster once and survived without damage! I still have the phone and use it occasionally as a backup, it still works but it’s barely usable at this point because the obsolete software.

Just curious, is 24GB of RAM in a smartphone useful for anything?

GrapheneOS will fit your bill. I am using it on my Pixel 7. With the sandboxed google services installed, there is only few apps that do not work (most notably Android Auto). I didn’t face any problem with banking apps.

Installing GrapheneOS is super easy, but you will have to install Chromium webbrowser on your computer.

Once installed, I like to get my apps from F-droid (FOSS app store) and I go to Google Playstore only if I can’t find what I need from F-droid. There is also Aurora-store that is a sort of proxy for playstore that doesn’t requie you to login with a google account, buy I’ve never use it myself.

If apps are not behaving properly, they probably require more permission, and if those depends on the google services you must check the permissions for it as well. One example Google maps was not calculating routes properly until i grant google services the location and sensors access.

Ping Pong table ? Are they serious ?!? We had a PS5 in the meeting room for ~4 month an no one ever touched it. I don’t go to work to have a fun time, I go to do my job, then leave and have a fun somewhere else. More correct answers for retaining employees:

• give them tasks they are interested in
• give them perspective for developement (promotions, raise, mobility, etc)
• value their contributions and support them moraly (you want to know your managers and colleages got your back)
• of course more money ! Or alternatively more freetime !

F-droid is also my preferred source of apps. But the search function is quite bad. I often search the repository from the website on my PC, to find that is in there and then look for apps with exact names on the F-droid app.