Slightly related shoutout, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium is a fairly new app on the block for installing apks directly from source, wherever that is. It supports a variety of sources, including fdroid or github releases. Very promising :)
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]
#42I 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.
Droidify is my go-to F-Droid frontend and it supports one-click updating of all apps without confirmation (most of the time).
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
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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! A…
> 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!
It's not as clear-cut as you think - that's a borderline case - many people view it as falling under the "small words" or "symbol" categories of appropriate use of the apostrophe for the plural:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Letters_of_the_alph...
> 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.
The countable/uncountable distinction in English is eroding and may well be dead in a generation. It's a distinction that does not exist in many other languages and it seems that many native speakers feel it adds little to clarity.
> I wonder how long it will be before fewer precise becomes acceptable
You could try paying attention to how people actually use the language instead of hyper-focusing on imagined rule breaking and you'd quickly see that's unlikely to happen
In the real world what is happening is that it has become acceptable to use "less" to describe countable quantities.
It however has not become acceptable to use "fewer" to describe uncountable quantities and there is no sign of that happening.
> people that run instead of people who run
now that's getting really pedantic - spoken English in any register has always been fairly free about choice of relative particles. I'm not sure use of "that" in this context has ever been considered bad usage outside of highly prescriptive "Good English" guides.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
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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
Why is it a problem that it's unmaintained? It's not like the TOTP standard is a moving target.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
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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).
My two banking apps have run fine on LineageOS with microG. There are plenty of other things that don't work, but the banking apps are fine.
Maybe give GrapheneOS a shot then. In my experience, pretty much everything works out of the box.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#46Right 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…
If you use bitwarden/vaultwarden as password manager you can manage TOTP either on web or via browser plugin with it. In my limited testing with office365/teams a few days ago it worked.
I've been doing this for about a year now, and haven't run into any issues with any of the various tools I need to authenticate with. It's a great solution so far, and this one feature makes the entire subscription pay for itself, imho.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#47FDroid 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.
What email client are you using?
not op, but k-9 mail is a fantastic mail client on f-droid
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
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andOTP is unmaintained, I would recommend Aegis
Why is it a problem that it's unmaintained? It's not like the TOTP standard is a moving target.
Tightly integrating into device bio-metrics whilst protecting secrets from advisories is very much a moving target.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#49https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
I like how F-Droid enabled the Android FOSS scene but I avoid using to get apps everytime I can. I'll use it as search and get the apps from their source repo with Obtanium.The way the F-Droid team dismissed those arguments is very off-putting.
Re: F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
#50Right 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…
If you use bitwarden/vaultwarden as password manager you can manage TOTP either on web or via browser plugin with it. In my limited testing with office365/teams a few days ago it worked.
Personally, I have a strong preference for not combining my password manager with my 2fa totp code generator though. Compromise of one meaning compromise of the other, and all that.