why are notifications not working on tusky? grrrrrrr I hate android with a passion

@ariadne
None of the mastodon apps I've used have working notifications, even in the app. I don't know why. The website on my PC seems to work fine.

@eldersea incredible

@ariadne
I have to go to the notifications tab and refresh and then it will show. Blue sky never had this issue.

@ariadne lol I usually get like 4 days worth of tusky notifications at once, I've just been using the website for my instance instead

@ariadne works on my phone

I have LineageOS, no Google or microg and use ntfy for unified push.

@ariadne Works here. How does your server deliver notifications?

it started working, I continue to hate android with a passion

@ariadne LMAO, maybe I need to try Tusky. I've used Fedilab and Pachli so far.

@ariadne fdroid? Unified push? dontkillmyapp.com ?

@ariadne I wish there was something better around. Seems, history repeats itself again. This time we wait for the second coming to liberate our smartphones…

@ariadne

Android (any version) always loses notifications. Some of them more than others: almost never had problems with (FML, was forced on me) WhatsApp. Probably a secret handshake or something.

@angelastella I hate Android with a passion

@ariadne I am periodically tempted to buy an Android-based eink tablet in order to have a programmable but quiet display, and every time I have to ask my self whether I really want to write more code for Android.

@mirth seems like a good option for pmOS

@ariadne

Yes. The whole software ecosystem is rotten. But years of discovering and applying workarounds have numbed long-term users like me. So don't listen to us: we're equally unreliable.

(So why don't we switch to Apple? Easy: can't afford it. Happens a lot in countries like mine.)

@angelastella Apple forces you into iCloud, and given the rising tech oligarchy, that seems like a place nobody should be anyway

@ariadne

Agreed then. Didn't know/remember integration had come to that point.

@ariadne Good call. It looks like the Kobo Clara HD is pretty functional [1] though hard to find for sale, and the Pine Note [2] is good and available.

1. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Kobo_Clara_HD_(kobo-clara)
2. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineNote_(pine64-pinenote)

@ariadne Tusky's integration with ntfy is wonky. It'll be working fine for weeks and then suddenly stop until i log out and back in.

@ariadne have you looked at FuriLabs' FuriOS? It's Linux with Android emulation on top. Not 100% free because of chipset maker f*ckery, but mostly so, certainly more than PostmarketOS.

@fazalmajid "certainly more than postmarketOS"?

@fazalmajid @ariadne FuriOS is not linux. It's Debian with a downstream Android kernel and an infinite amount of hacks (aka. Halium) to make that aging (typically 4.x) kernel work with debian userspace. It is closer to Android than it is to desktop Linux. And obviously it only works on their own phones (one of them just being a rebadged cheap Gigaset phone).
This means you're relying on an ancient Android kernel and lots of hacks that may break at any time, as well as a whole bunch more hacks to get all the android userspace blobs working, It may work now, but in no way is it sustainable. TBH I hate them calling it a "Linux phone" .. like I said it is much closer to Android than it is to Linux. Also, a lot of FuriLabs' Android emulation magic is proprietary and there is no reason why they cannot opensource/free it.

So, postmarketOS being less free than FuriOS? I'm sorry, where do you get this information from?

@fazalmajid @ariadne Now debunking the other part: postmarketOS does support running Android apps thanks to Waydroid https://waydro.id/ (which runs an Android (LineageOS 20) lxc container on-top of your regular Linux) and Android Translation Layer https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer (which is similar to wine, so it doesn't require an android container and can let you run apps directly). Other solutions exist in postmarketOS too. See the following wiki pages: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Android_Translation_Layer https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Waydroid

@fun @ariadne I was mixing up PostmarketOS and Sailfish OS. Sorry for the confusion.

@ariadne sorry, I was getting it confused with Sailfish OS, which has a largely proprietary UI.

@fazalmajid @ariadne Okay, no worries :)