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F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]

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Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]

#6

It should be Sylvia Van Os, I'm aware the original website gets it wrong too but Von OS makes it sound like she changed her name because of some sort of Open Source fanaticism.

Almost, her website[1] spells it "Sylvia van Os", with a lowercase "v". In the Netherlands the spelling is mostly "van", in Belgium they use "Van" [2].

[1] https://sylviavanos.nl/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_(Dutch)#Collation_and_capi...

Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]

#7

It should be Sylvia Van Os, I'm aware the original website gets it wrong too but Von OS makes it sound like she changed her name because of some sort of Open Source fanaticism.

Almost, her website[1] spells it "Sylvia van Os", with a lowercase "v". In the Netherlands the spelling is mostly "van", in Belgium they use "Van" [2]. [1] https://sylviavanos.nl/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_(Dutch)#Collation_and_capi...

Camper and caravan are fine too.

Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]

#9
Right now I have put LineageOS on my old tablet together with F-Droid and Termux. When used with its keyboard case this makes for a suprisingly capable device. It is small and lightweight and I can use it to get actual coding work done. It is basicly my traveling laptop now.

On F-Droid, these FOSS offerings of apps can be amazing. Trying to find a piano app for my baby. The once in Playstore pieces of ad delivery shouting garbage. The one I found on F-Droid is simple, clean and exactly what I was looking for.

If it wasn't for the Microsoft Authenticator I need for my work I would have no need for the entire Playstore.

Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]

#10

It should be Sylvia Van Os, I'm aware the original website gets it wrong too but Von OS makes it sound like she changed her name because of some sort of Open Source fanaticism.

Almost, her website[1] spells it "Sylvia van Os", with a lowercase "v". In the Netherlands the spelling is mostly "van", in Belgium they use "Van" [2]. [1] https://sylviavanos.nl/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_(Dutch)#Collation_and_capi...

As a Dutch person with a van-prefix working for a Belgium company it is a constant, losing, battle.
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