Ghoelian

You don’t, there’s privacy respecting ways of delivering notifications in android.

Also, a 24/7 connection to a server isn’t nearly as bad as you might think.

The connection isn’t active the whole time, it only uses any significant amount of battery if there’s actually data being sent or received. You likely already have quite a few of them anyway, how do you think systems normally listen for push notifications?

Besides all that, I read in other comments that the privacy issue was the device id firebase needs. Obviously apple also needs some kind of device id, otherwise how do they know where the notifications are going?

Did some searching, yup apple also needs a unique identifier:

When it’s time to send a notification, you generate a request that contains the notification data and a unique identifier for the user’s device.

From https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting-up-a-remote-notification-server

That doesn’t have anything to do with how you install the app.

You could probably do it with http if the server properly supports the content range headers.

uh, no? on smartphones, yes, but not on computers.

That’s not true. Most operating systems at least have filesystem permissions, and on a lot of Linux distros you additionally get AppArmor or PolKit to further restrict what files a program can read/write.

While very useful, it’s not exactly the same as connecting straight to your WiFi. Iirc your android device will act as an additional nat and firewall, which can make it more difficult connecting to the device behind it from devices connected to the regular network, and vice versa.

So what would be the benefit of trying Ubuntu if mint didn’t work? As far as installing packages is concerned, they’re practically the same

Docker desktop differs more than just configuration. Iirc the whole docker command and engine desktop uses runs in some kind of container as well, making it more difficult to use from the cli if you want to.

Doesn’t mint use the same driver package as Ubuntu?

I worked at Asus as a software developer for a while, had ti do a whole ass course on the history of the company. With unskippable videos and a questionnaire after as well. Pretty sure that took the better part of a day.

I only worked on the internal systems that really don’t have anything to do with the actual products Asus makes.

Actually I think I remember watching a technology connections video about how card in the US can use the headlights as a turn signal, or something like that. I don’t think that’s allowed in Europe or the EU or whatever.

Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1lZ9n2bxWA

I’m pretty sure most cars have a turn signal near the headlights, and one on the mirror or on the side for that use case, no?

Sure, but I’m not paying for every byte sent overy network, while I am paying for every kWh I use.

That’s all beside the point though, this is just a fun diy project so who cares really.

Though now that I think about it, I did have to register my domain with Google in some way to stop being flagged as spam iirc.

I also self hosted for years (using tuta mail with my own domain now), and have never had issues with my deliverability either.