Tried to install on an old Android 4, absolutely nothing worked.
My bad, I tried to install a too recent version: https://f-droid.org/docs/Running_on_old_Android_versions/
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]
#22I 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 fro…
Brilliant, that's great to hear.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#23I 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.
The Neostore app (available on F-Droid) is a slightly improved front-end to F-Droid that smooths some of those rough edges.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#24Right 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…
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Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#25It 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.
I have to admit I'm a little tickled at the nominative determinism here.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#26Right 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.
andOTP is unmaintained, I would recommend Aegis
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I sympathize. Some incorrect usage just seems immutable. No matter how simple a matter it is to understand, no matter the effort needed to fix it, it just cannot be changed.
For instance, in English, the incorrect use of the apostrophe to indicate an acronym plural, DVD's instead of DVDs. This misusage is so entrenched that even as I type this my Android phone's speller is trying to make me use the incorrect form!
Another widespread problem is incorrect word usage of fewer and less to distinguish between 'discrete numbers' and 'bulk quantity'. Supermarkets are recalcitrant offenders, they perpetuate the problem at checkouts with signs such as less than 12 items.
These two examples are just lost causes. I think we just have to accept that the entropy of English is increasing with word usage becoming less precise (I wonder how long it will be before fewer precise becomes acceptable). One could say people like me who notice the problem are just being pedantic and they're probably correct. However, a wider problem emerges here. Whilst the incorrect usages above are two notorious instances, there are others and when one comes across them one temporarily loses focus on the text to fixate on the bad usage, it is distracting and disrupts the flow of one's reading.
Perhaps it's just me, but I find incorrect usage more distracting than typos or bad spelling, for instance people that run instead of people who run is more distracting than, say, the incorrect usage of its/it's, which is easy to overlook or mistype even when one understands the correct usage.
Whilst I have a smattering of other languages I don't feel sufficiently competent to comment about them, but with English it seems to me if we're unable to fix the notorious examples, then we'll have even less success in fixing others.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#28FDroid 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.
For what its worth, my banking app has worked without a problem on GrapheneOS with the sandboxed play store. Truly loving it. (I also went in with a backup and would suggest it just in case).
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depending how locked down your work AD is; andOTP can scan and generate 6-digit codes which Microsoft support.
andOTP is unmaintained, I would recommend Aegis
Thank you; I had missed that. Aegis is also great; but always a pity to loose such a trouble free piece of software.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#30FDroid 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.
I do banking through the browser and it works just fine. That and Google Maps if I really need a pinpoint business location or traffic. We underestimate just how much still works fine in a browser, with the added benefit of being sandboxed and sucking very little comparative power to a native app. Often, mobile versions of websites are stripped down and quite nimble.