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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]

#11
Fdroid is amazing.

If you use it and your download speeds are crazy slow, double check the mirrors. Today I was shaving an issue where downloading was extremely slow, I ended up picking another mirror and my speed went from 2kb/s to instant downloads.

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

#13
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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 sho…

Depending how locked down your work AD is; andOTP can scan and generate 6-digit codes which Microsoft support.

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

#16
I love Fdroid and the way it makes FOSS software more available.

I wish it was a bit more polished though. On my stock unrooted OnePlus6t there is no option for updating all possible apps at once.

Like if there are 3 apps to update it takes at least 6 clicks to update them.

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

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post #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 sho…

Depending how locked down your work AD is; andOTP can scan and generate 6-digit codes which Microsoft support.

I never knew this, thank you for the tip! I will try and get it to work this evening.

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

#18

I love Fdroid and the way it makes FOSS software more available. I wish it was a bit more polished though. On my stock unrooted OnePlus6t there is no option for updating all possible apps at once. Like if there are 3 apps to update it takes at least 6 clicks to update them.

That's being worked on actually and is already available in the F-Droid Basic Alpha: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.basic/

Do note that the new APIs from Google require apps to take "ownership" of the update process of another app so if you update from another app then F-Droid Basic Alpha loses its ability to automatically update it until you manually update is from F-Droid Basic Alpha.

As you'd guess from the name, it's still an alpha, but from my experience it works pretty well. Bug reports are helpful, of course :)

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

#19
FDroid is fantastic, all the apps are straight to the point, most of my utilities are now from there, email client, vpn client, call, sms, IM, browser, ... If I need something I start from there. I would love to go for LineageOS or GrapheneOS, just trying to make sure I have banking apps backup in an older phone before fully committing to it.
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