Futo Keyboard is exceptional too. With local models, dictionary for speech-to-text, swipe and spell check.

Not allowing the second profile to run in the background is a big win for battery life.

Wait what? I assumed it wouldn’t run by default. I just checked and you’re correct. There’s a switch for that. Battery drain is ok but not as good as other more bloated Androids I owned. I know Pixels are not the best in that regard but I hope this will give it a good boost. Thanks for the heads up.

It provides screenshots, categories and icons for Flatpak packages. AFAIK those aren’t provided by AUR or the official Arch repositories. Icons seem to be integrated for some official packages at least.

A Shelly in-built way for user contributed additional data for Arch packages could be a way to tackle this. But that needs additional infrastructure, developers and volunteers who curate the contributions.

Shelly is a nice frontend. Octopi is too, to quickly check PKGBUILDs, show contained files or open the respective AUR page.

Don’t know about Apple. My impression is that they take privacy pretty serious. Android though has since a few version ago a green dot in the notification area that indicates when the microphone is active. Also you can set the apps to always ask the user if they want grant the permission for microphone recording. There are also buttons to deactivate the microphone and camera completely.

So yeah it’s easier then ever with current Android versions to not be spied on if the user invests 5 mins to set the microphone and camera permissions of all apps to always ask when used. Like you said other spying IOT devices and data retention (at least for traffic data) at the provider level pose a much greater risk for surveillance.

Just watched the first video. It’s 6 years old but the evidence presented seemed undoubtedly like Instagram and FB were listening to conversations and aggregating the info together with geolocation and surfing behaviour. The insta CEO tried to deflect it with insinuating that the user must have searched for specific keywords previously but the journalists specifically tested it with words in conversations they never exposed their phones to before. 20 mins later they got AD’s on insta.