Not using it but I heard curve does it too over graphene OS. (And no, it’s not a bank nor FOSS) But if a tokenised wallet app is all that keeps you from Moving forward …)

It’s up to us, users of those FOSS apps, to collectively pour more money into the pockets of FOSS devs to make f-droid more important to their bottom line (and for a lot of FOSS apps that are also distributed on the play store, it won’t be hard to be a bigger financial input) so that when the requirement is pushed to their play store account, they feel free to decide to side with their hearts and say goodbye play store, knowing this community will keep them fed.

Time for many of us to get aquainted with the liberapay button on most app pages in f-droid.

Maybe it was a stray Android dev who moonshines in FOSS projects or their security team that is a fan of GOS’s secure implementation of Android (Yes, they are rightfully admired by many of the big guys for That) or : What part of their soul did Graphene sell to get that early access?

RMS warned of this a bit over 20 years ago. This is why you should get Free and Open source software and not Open Source Software. Preferably with a GPL licence which allows you to download, run, read the code, modify it and share it. Open source can mean you only have the right to read the code and signal to the dev code you’ve saw that could have been better or errors you saw.

They are correct. It only means more work for future devices, makes the initial port to a device slower. But then, once things have been figured out. It becomes just as fast and reliable as it was (unless what I said earlier: Google setting things in a very different way in a major update (for example, moving to Fushia, which has been abandoned)

I agree, but it’s more complicated than that: They have removed the device tree for pixel devices from AOSP and using the device tree of the basic virtual phone in android studio instead. That brings the pixel 10 family (as well as future android pixel devices) to the same level as many other phonemaker’s devices as far as making roms is concerned. So not all hardware will be documented, many drivers will need to be rebuilt. The pixel line up to the 9a is not affected because older device trees can be used (until Google wants to mod the way drivers load or add API’s).

It’s Thunderbird… Of course they release the code! How would it even exist without releasing the code?

BTW: K-9 is also Thunderbird.

Pixel 10 are set get quite powerful GPUs with raytracing etc

Google is starting to use DRM on all it’s videos so that only the official youtube clients on devices and big browser brands can play them. It also kills all the systems like invidious.

I mean the chips cores being 100% Designed by AI using Alphachip (which has been open sourced by Google) or other AI only chip designing tools instead of using off the shelf ARM or RISC cores.

I don’t know how they spent so much time with Samsung, especially since TSMC is accostumed to using alphachip for the dimensity line, the same AI chip designing tool Google uses for it’s NPU’s. Iwonder what it could mean for the future of chip design, is the ARM architecture about to be rendered irelevant by AI.

It’s not fdroid that doesn’t make it easy to insyall apps that are open source but not FOSS, it’s the licence of the non gpl open source softwarebthat usualy bans modifying, building and redistributing the code. It’s not foss, it’s just viewable source.

Because in the main repo of fdroid, the apps code is quickly eyed then packaged by the fdroid team from source (plus a quick virus scan. Google only does reputation check and use virus total (their android anti-virus and anti malware software), yes, the same virus total you can access as an app or webpage.

You know, games can be great tabletop too, strategic, tactical, RPG, it’s all there + you get to meet people you wouldn’t have met IRL because, like online gaming, it unites people from different walks of life. Great friendships are regularly made around gaming boards and those friends don’t need software to talk too. Yes I know, some games require figurine armies but you can always find someone who’ll be happy to lend you an army for a game and there are whole second hand armies sold.

Fatherland is often feminine in Latin languages, example: “la patrie” in french.

Paid builds. You get Access to the source code but you can either build yourself or pay a small amount to have a packaged built and updated whenever.

I also like the twice a year nag screen thunderbird or Wikipedia uses (KDE was right to start doing it too, in my books).

I don’t believe a small donate button in the “about” section of the settings screen is of any use.

There are quite a few full, non webview wrapper browsers on android.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/336593

https://www.hardenedbsd.org/~shawn/DEFCON-25-Ilja-van-Sprundel-BSD-Kern-Vulns.pdf

I doubt it changed much ant it sounds logical too.

Or morally better than breaking TOS, use a FOOS alternative like Jellyfin.

Pcloud will probably go this way.