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Carplay works without an issue for me.

I get in my car, plug it in, and it's ready to roll. No need to deal with Bluetooth or the like, it just works. I'm fine with plugging a phone in when I get in, rather than having it in my pocket and possibly falling out without me knowing about it.


I too like CarPlay and see no need for a wireless version. I like to charge my phone.

My only gripe is there should be an option to turn off Wi-Fi when you plug into the car. Every time I get in the car, start a song, drive away, 30 seconds of silence while it realizes I can’t get to my Wi-Fi, song is back on. Why would they not have an option to just use cellular in CarPlay mode which is what 99.9% of people do?


I had a similar problem, and solved it with a Shortcut which disables wifi whenever CarPlay is connected, and another to re-enable it when disconnected. Real easy since Shortcuts has built-in triggers for CarPlay.


I couldn’t find anything CarPlay related in the built in shortcuts app. Can you share the details?


Click on the Automation tab at the bottom, and at least for me, the "CarPlay" section (with an example "When CarPlay connects") is at the bottom of the second grouping of suggested automations.


The two vehicles that I have w/ wireless carplay have wireless charging, so just slip my phone in the center console and it charges if I want to charge while driving.

With wireless, no one is stopping you from having a charging cable.

Majority of trips are less < 10 minutes I don't have to take my phone out of my pocket.


Agreed. I laugh every time someone posts it. If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.


> If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.

How do you envision they could do it? Doesn't seem plausible to me, given the distributed nature of the development of Linux.

BTW, they actually tried:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Just totally failed.


Buy Canonical.

I don't think MS actually cares if Linux exists, if most people pay a Windows license fee to run it.


From the release tarball:

## Installation

### Binary Packages

Recent versions of aerc are available on:

- [Alpine] - [Arch] - [Debian] - [Fedora] - [macOS through Homebrew]

And likely other platforms.

### From Source

Install the dependencies:

- go (>=1.16) (Go versions are supported until their end-of-life; support for older versions may be dropped at any time due to incompatibilities or newer required language features.) - [scdoc](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc)

Then compile aerc:

    $ make


I see there's an in-app purchase. Are any of the features limited by this? The site doesn't seem to mention it.


Hi endperform, here are the perks of Obsidian Fusion (the in app purchase). Everything else is available in the standard version!

- Daily Backups

- Unlimited tokens

- Clubhouse and Black themes

- New features that will be rolled out in the near future


So what’s the limit for the number of tokens and backup frequency without the subscription?

Sad to see this as a subscription, seems easy to justify paying $5 one time but not $12 every year.


Hi OkGoDoIt, free tier contains 5 tokens.

I'm sorry you feel this way. Subscription model is a way to continue funding the developments and maintenance of the app.

I've seen so many one-time payments app turn into subscriptions (e.g. 1Password etc) or be abandoned by the developers.

$12/year or $1/month seemed a reasonable price for the service offered and what will come next, but I understand your point of view.

I just want to keep the service level as high as possible.


This reminds me of the first iteration of OS X on my old CRT iMac.


According to the FAQ, specifically question 15: https://centos.org/distro-faq/

> CentOS Stream is focused on the next RHEL minor release. This means we are improving and influencing the shipping releases of RHEL. Fedora ELN is a testing area for changes that may occur in the next major release of RHEL.The CentOS Project cannot and does not speak for Fedora


Google is also taking 30% when someone purchases an app through Google Play, and they also take a 15% cut of subscriptions as well, so it's not just Apple.

Google forces their App Store and Assistant on you. Your Android phone manufacturer also forces other garbage on top of that as well as locking you into a version of Android with no guaranteed upgrade path. See: Samsung and Bixby.

Get your facts straight, or at least take off the blinders that is your hatred of Apple.


Of course Google is also bad, but it at least allows sideloading and other app stores.


Which also opens up a nice new attack vector.


Talking about what non-google manufacturers do to some phones, and then about attack vectors while accusing someone else of having blinders on? You're firmly in moving-the-goalposts territory now.


The Google Assistant icon, assuming you have it installed.


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