• limerod@reddthat.comM
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    3 months ago

    It was shared on the fediverse 2 days ago. Now, we get this. I don’t want to assume malice, but something seems fishy.

    Fortunately, it’s still available on fdroid. This is one of the reasons you should get your apps from fdroid instead of play store.

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      3 months ago

      Absolutely. Fdroid is awesome.

      I hate the fact that there’s no simple, free, ad-free note-taking app either inbuilt or on the app store. Just something simple and local to take a quick shopping list or a name or something like that. Fdroid has me covered for that.

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        3 months ago

        I use obsidian works very well very simple and can be very complicated depending on what you want to do

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          3 months ago

          I just set up Obsidian with Syncthing like so many Lemmy users recommend and it is totally awesome! I also love that I can theme it differently on my phone, tablet, laptop, and computer.

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        ? Google has Keep. It’s whacky but it definitely has one and I think it comes pre-installed with base Android.

        Haven’t looked into good FOSS alternatives on F-Droid yet.

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                3 months ago

                That’s like saying ungoogled Chromium is base Chrome. “Base Android” is what ships with Google’s Pixel phones, which comes with Google apps.

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                  by that definition, librewolf is the base of firefox, and one ui is base android as well. google pixel ui is not anywhere near “base” android. the base of something is the support of it, and android supports both oneui and pixel ui. at the core, the foundation, the base, one ui and pixel ui are android. android is not reliant on google services, google services are reliant on android. Edit: I made a poll on this, posted in android@lemdro.id. Feel free to vote for your answer here

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                    3 months ago

                    Your poll is misleading as two options could be interpreted as stock Google Android, or rather none of them even. And for me the base of something is the official release version of the developers.

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      3 months ago

      This is one of the reasons you should get your apps from fdroid instead of play store.

      yes, but getting updates weeks later isn’t for everyone.

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          3 months ago

          Downloading from github defeats the whole point of getting free software. Fdroid builds are guaranteed to not include any non-free components. The same is not true for github builds.

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            3 months ago

            It’s still a better option than using the Play store if you really need a newer build, but yeah, not my first choice.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, updates can be a tad slow. For fast moving apps like newpipe its understandable. For regular apps it should be fine.