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  • The apps literally just tell the OS to call a certain number AND provide a menu for the call, latter chosen via the default apps system. So if you have dialer X selected but dial a number using Y, it will just open X’s menu.

    You can just not have a phone app selected (AOSP GSI builds come this way for some reason). The behavior for that is that the phone will vibrate for a call but you can’t accept it. If you then dial a number using the app that’s not actually selected, it will call the person but the dial pad will never close and there will be no way to hang up. Source: truss me bro (or more seriously, it was from a YouTube video).

    Point is, the apps do nothing for the call. The audio doesn’t even go through them.

    There used to be call recording dialer apps, but what they did is literally tell Android to record a video, since regular audio recording isn’t allowed during a call. It wants a file path but some Unix magic makes it feed to a file converter instead. The file converter then spits out an audio file. Dead after Android 9.




  • The one button in the installer you are remembering is actually unrelated. It’s the gahnome people taking worst from winblows as usual and sticking with it after the last benefits die.

    This time it’s the video codec system (instead of just using ffmpeg lul), they called it “gstreamer”. If you try to install ALL gstreamer plugins, it will be some two digit gibibyte number (don’t remember exactly). The button in the installer installs most popular plugins.

    Now, applications that try to use it will do anything but tell you what you are missing. Segfault, “whoopsie daisy unknown error”, just hang around and so on and so forth. Chances are, it’s not in dependencies either, recommended or required. One would think the ffmpeg plugin in the base set can do anything, but as it turns out it can’t. For some reason.













  • “GMail takeout files” aren’t a thing. mbox is a standard file format from Unix. Some Unix-likes provide the mail command and on others you have to install s-nail, after which you can do mail -f {path to mbox} to view all mail inside. If there are multiple files, you can literally just concatenate them like so: cat /somedirectory/*.mbox > theultimate.mbox.

    Apart from that, most GUI mail clients allow viewing mbox. When the mbox file updates, the client says you have new mail. For example, in Claws Mail, skip setup, then go to plugins and enable the mbox plugin (while you are there, may as well enable pgp, s/mime, calendar, dillo to handle all formats). Then, go to create new account, and in the “Basics” tab, select “local mbox file” for "Receive protocol ". It will then ask for a file path.

    Also, if your Google account settings allow, you can literally just login to Google from Claws mail. Set protocol to IMAP, then set Authentication method to Oauth2 in both Receive and Send tabs. Proceed with setup as usual and it will open your default web browser to login. After that, it will download your entire history of mail.