temptest

OpenVoiceOS (OVOS) or NeonAI software (both continuations of the former Mycroft voice assistant) could be useful tools for doing a lot of the Voice Assistant tasks if you want more than just playing music. I'm not an expert on this but if you don't get another response then those are the projects I would dig into.

https://openvoiceos.org/

The Downloads section even lists the RaspPi and microphones they officially support, and their community could give guides on how to make one.

I can't find anything about this. Got a source?

This is a bit of a fallacious point in this context - it suggests:

• apps will be investigated by its users (not guaranteed, nor even likely for unpopular apps)
• an app will even have users capable of detecting malware (I don't know squat about phone malware patterns, so I wouldn't be effective at it even if I did scan through thousands of lines of code)

What is your justification for this claim?

I use F-Droid as my main app store, and while I trust most of the apps on there and haven't found any asking for permissions they don't need, I wouldn't claim any Android app store is more secure than the Play Store. This post goes into technical detail comparing the two: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ - Note: emphasis in the conclusion mentioning that these criticisms may or may not really matter, depending on your threat model. (as an aside - if anyone here doesn't know what a threat model is, determine yours before participating in any privacy community or you'll just end up with useless paranoia)

That said, I would guess that Play Store may have a higher risk of malicious apps only due to the fact that there are far, far, far, far more potential victims, and being the default app store, victims less likely to be technically experienced enough to notice false apps. So, almost all attackers will probably aim for the most targets and only bother targeting the Play Store, despite the extra challenges.

[tagging @elbowgrease@lemm.ee ]

A lot of the utility is it having apps with similar capabilities but without the same kind of privacy invasions, and with better description of what anti-features an app has. So as far as 'the average user', I'd just say alternative apps (or even the same ones, if you're already using FOSS apps) to the same ones they'd use on Play Store, and a few of the games.

They're not a right-libertarian, no. They're an anarchist, I recall them talk about Kropotkin being a huge influence in interviews.

If you're talking about the Libertarian Party, they have a socialist caucus. In fact, socialists called themselves libertarians long before US capitalists did. [more info, second paragraph] But also, see Jerbil's reply about constantly switching political parties, I certainly wouldn't take their party association as endorsement.

I'm not US, I don't support any US president, and the only candidate I would sincerely (rather than tactically) support is Vermin Supreme.

and I mean that sincerely, Vermin is well-read and principled despite their culture jamming.

I understand that the US national voting system is fundamentally broken (FPTP) so I can understand someone tactically voting for the Democrat Party simply to avoid a Republican Party candidate. But this shouldn't be mistaken for support nor approval.

Police

I'm no expert but I think many features were upstreamed to Lemmy in the past couple of years, to help converge the fork.

The giant emotes (which generates a lot of animosity when combined with the dubiously low PPB-trigger-threshold of some of our posters when on other instances) are solvable issue. If the devs were so inclined, they could just run imagemagick over them automatically to make downsized copies.

I'm not necessarily saying they should, I'm just saying they could.

Yep

I can't imagine thinking Chinese citizens wouldn't know what basic geographical regions in their own country are.

It's like yelling "Hawaii! Puerto Rico! American Civil War!" at an US citizen and expecting them to wake up.