The biggest .st "service" is Aisuru botnet.

I needed a simple chat UI for a diy "SMS gateway" (for an extra [nearly free] phone number used only to receive SMS - mainly for registrations and deliveries) and I ended up using Delta Chat that uses your email server under the hood. So I implemented all the logic based on emails... but it would be much better to have some nice looking UI with easy integration.

I don't live in Japan, but I don't remember being in a train where there wouldn't be at least two people from the staff in uniforms. Could you explain what you have in mind? Are there trains without drivers or without people checking tickets?

The skytrain in Vancouver, Canada, has nobody from staff and it's fully automated. Really cool.

But it does have transit police roving randomly throughout the system

True. I love the skytrain, so I'm not complaining. Just a different perspective

I bookmark a lot with raindrop. But I'm planning to migrate to (or create) some self-hosted solution because it's too much data about me. It takes a while for me to migrate as I really like raindrop's UI. I don't come back to most of the bookmarks tho.

I switched from Raindrop to Linkwarden. The reading/annotation is not as smooth but I don't really use it for that. It's self hostable and has integration with floccus for bookmark syncing with a browser.

Does it support tagging?

Yes. If you're into it, it has an AI tagging feature that will add tags based on content.

I don't know what payment methods this VPN supports (it requires sign-in), but on Mullvad you also can send cash in an envelope.

I wanted better book recommendations - so I made AI slop generator... do we really need it.

It doesn't give any reasoning why it would be a good recommendation. Just basically random book from the same genre.

GrapheneOS != root. You don't have root when running GrapheneOS - it would be a security risk.

Uber and Bolt apps works like normal. I don't know what is Grab. The default camera lacks post-processing tricks, but you can install Google Camera if you like (shouldn't be a privacy concern here with limited permissions).

Interesting. I used to have problems using such apps on LineageOS due to their dependence on this Google Push Messaging service (don't remember what it's called) and also dependence on Google Maps services.

(Grab is like Uber/Bolt but used in different regions of the world.)

Camera quality of LineageOS was really bad.

A voyage was the catalyst for switching to iPhone as this seemed back then the best option to LineageOS and I couldn't risk not being able to use such logistically relevant apps.

Especially in Asia you have to be ready to install and use whatever app is required and not being able to might be seriously handicapping.

On GrapheneOS, you can install Google play services in a sandboxed way (and if you want, in another user profile, work profile or private space) which can allow all these things to work seamlessly. Generally I've had way more problems with other custom roms and things like MicroG. I'd recommend to just try it out if you have an unused pixel phone. Imo it's very unlike any other custom rom in terms of the user experience.

GrapheneOS Camera does have HDR+ and Night mode on Pixels along with HDRnet and EIS for videos. Pixel Camera has more features and more aggressive HDR+.