sudo dnf remove friends
This is too relatable. The moment I see bloatware I uninstall it. I truly feel the same way about “friends.” I don’t see what purpose they serve other than take up my time and exhaust me.
If your friends use WhatsApp they’re not friends
Install gentoo
Sadly I don’t have bloat :(
Install me. 👉👈
We can be friends
(´･ᴗ･ ` )
I mean… Signal?
Signal has done nothing but good for its users and its own reputation, but the feeling of inevitability, that it’s impossible for them to avoid enshitification, that mostly people just assume it’s a foregone conclusion that signal is now or soon will be, shit.
I like signal, and I still feel the above about it.
IMO the issue with WhatsApp isn’t that it’s proprietary. The issue is that it’s owned by Meta and it’s only free because they slurp down all your private data to target you for ads.
also there’s a new critical vulnerability found every year, that will burn your fucking phone in the best case
But there are no ads in whatsapp?
Right now they collect meta data to map connections to reinforce FB and IG relationships to keep you in their ecosystem. They’ve been trying to work out to ads like Viber has for years.
I only use whatsapp though. Never used insta and deleted fb years back, probably in 2017-18.
Friends are bloat is truely the final form of linux autism
Especially if they are on whatsapp
Yay, I’m at the finish line.
I’m on an atomic distro, but rpm-ostree doesn’t have a friends module
Does Matrix bridge somehow mean I can use something other than WhatsApp to send messages to people who refuse to use an alternative?
The bridge just uses whatsapp web (so you will still “use” it). It works like a dream but you need to trust who ever hosts it as the messages to the bridge are unencrypted. But you dont have to use their app anymore.
Thanks for the explanation.
Bit WhatsApp web only works as a linked device, so you still need WhatsApp on your phone?
Well I activated it and then uninstalled it and since then it works.
Do you let people or programs access your computer unsupervised? Hell no. But I’m supposed to let another person just freely walk around my home and open cupboards and shit!? How about no!?
i would hate it if someone shat in my cupboard
Then my advice to you is not to have friends.
I am in the last one. I abandoned it. I dont want anything from Meta.
