Checkout Toshy. This has been a life saver for me.

Angel and Buffy.

Yeah you'll be hardpressed to find polling data. Not sure if anyone is even polling people to get a picture of who's leading.

I've taken up the strategy of voting for candidates who will bolster the party I want to see more of. So comparing the list of candidates: https://votemate.org/vancouver2025/candidates/?riding=762

To the current council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_City_Council#Since_2022

I'll probably pick someone based on that. Doing your own research for municipal level is quite difficult unless you go out of your way to talk to/interact with candidates and to attend the all candidate debate. Finding videos online hasn't been easy either.

Good luck!

For sure. It's good to know. But not a huge compromise considering we are talking about still using a flavour of Android and play services.

Ah. They have a lot thats open. And I believe if you run Headscale (and android and/or Linux clients), you can be fully open source.

I've just switched from an iPhone 12 Pro to Pixel 9 and am on GrapheneOS now. Aside from Signal chat history, everything switched over quite easily. Sandboxed google play services is simply an amazing feature. Rerouting location requests let's me feel a certain level of trust when I use Google Maps now. There are a tonne of little quality of life features too that I don't remember if base Android had back when I used it before; e.g. setting the default language for a specific application.

For using Immich without exposing it to the public, check out Tailscale. It's a private VPN (wireguard) service (it's partially opensource and provides paid tiers, but the free tier is all you'll need; there's an open source server called Headscale, if you need full open source) you can use on your home network that is dead simple to configure. You literally just login on you computer and your phone.

On iOS, Arctic for Lemmy supports push notifications. And Ice Cubes for Mastodon supports push notifications as well.

On Android, I've been using Moshidon for Mastodon and Thunder for Lemmy. Both apps support Unified Push (it's experimental for Thunder, requires a self hosted server as well).

Which is probably why it took me years to move off of 😅

They're great! I eventually switched from them for a better UI/UX though 🥲

Arctic supports push notifications. The reason why it's not more common amongst 3rd party apps, is because you in need a dedicated server to enable push notifications. Push notifications are part of the Lemmy roadmap, maybe when that's released, 3rd party apps can take a advantage of it.

Done! I created it here: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/1736

Yeah, I'm coming from iOS (mlem) and tried out a bunch of different apps. I picked Thunder on Android cause it has all the features and style I want, but the scrolling and loading of feeds feels not as smooth/fast as other apps.

Mlem or Arctic

Yeah definitely woke me up. Heard things rattling.

https://earthquaketrack.com/r/british-columbia-canada/recent

Zen for desktop: https://zen-browser.app/

Ironfox for mobile: https://ironfoxoss.org/

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/

Oh neat. Termux:Styling let's me change fonts. And Fira Code, has support for nerd fonts! Thanks again for the recommendation, you saved me a butt load of time 😍

Huh. Not quite what I was looking for... But you know what? It works! Terminal, just installed OpenSSH. Thank you. This plays a lot better with Fish shell. I'll look into seeing if I can install Nerdfonts.

Appreciate the recommendation 🙏❤️

Same issue with that one. Thank you tho 🙏