I use my tablet for site surveys and leave my phone at home or work. It is light to carry, has great battery life, has a sim card, memory slot, headphone jack. When I’m done work I can watch a film. It’s some shitty Samsung thing work gave me, it’s great. I don’t think I would ever buy a tablet myself though.

I do not have a use for a smart watch.

Did you switch keyboard languages? If the keyboard language is set to something other than what you are typing in it will underline it (essentially throwing an error).

As far as I can tell Heliboard does not have a global spellcheck, you can’t add multiple languages and have it spellcheck anything but the selected language.

Wired is soft paywall too. Clearing cookies works

To be clear you do not have to add newpipes repo. If you do you are using f-droid only as a client, you are not sourcing it from f-droid.

If you want it at release, add newpipes repo. If you want it from f-droid wait a few days for them to build it.

Swipe down, there will be a message ‘add your favorite apps here by clicking the menu button’ . the wrench icon at the bottom of that message takes you to all the settings

Have you looked at Discreet Launcher? I think it has what you what.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.vincent_falzon.discreetlauncher/

I don’t use Brave, but I did read that post because I am interested in how they are handling this. It’s worth reading for that.

That’s a great read, can’t wait to get the book.

Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss said in a May 15 statement that it has modified all its 777-300ERs with sharkskin technology over the past one-and-a-half years.

https://aviationweek.com/mro/aircraft-propulsion/lufthansa-technik-targets-aeroshark-application-other-aircraft-types

This is from just a few weeks ago

It seems like the question is ’ can I use NFC without being tied to a major network?'.

Why bash that? Seems like a legitimate question to me.

I think the answer is you can’t, with caveats, some prepaid cards might allow it, but you may not be able to do it on your phone.

I haven’t had a bank account or credit card in a decade, so I’m with you on paying in cash. I also realize that doesn’t work for most people.

No, I do not. It is possible to get around without GPS, has been for millennia. I don’t need it, don’t want it, if you do that’s fine.

That would be a bonus for me. I never use it.

Developing countries. When I lived in one a few years ago I got a Nokia brick phone the same as I had around 2002, it went 5-6 days on a charge in a place with ‘random’ electricity.

Aren’t you on sh.itjust.works?

If so we defederated

https://sh.itjust.works/post/11308397

No. Unless Google opens it up there won’t be.

The blame always goes to Apple, but iMessage was developed because no one could get their shit together with RCS. RCS predates iMessage by a few years.

It’s ridiculous that you have to use a third party if you want consistent cross platform messaging.

As anyone who has tried knows, getting people to switch to something else where I on Android can seamlessly connect to you on iOS is a huge hassle.

This doesn’t fix your problem but what I believe you are seeing is something asking you to update Google Play Services , this isn’t related to the Play Store.

GPS contains libraries and other things apps need to function.

An oversimplification would be that it is an analog to Android System Webview which enables web browsing in most apps not based on Firefox.

Thank you for the clarification

Yes that seems like the case, it just struck me as funny

This is bad, but only seems to be related to forks from main (correct me if I am wrong). So if you go to source, you should be OK.

‘adding its own malicious code which is concealed under seven layers of obfuscation’

Behind seven vpns?

Use SearXNG which still gives you a cached option (via internet archive). If it is not there the option to make a new snapshot will be available.

https://searx.space/

Thank you for background

They don’t know how to change Voyagers default post type.

Yes, I have a tablet with a Sim. I use it frequently when I do field work and leave my phone at work. It looks stupid when I make a call though.

Yes you can, DivestOS has one, Bromite (no longer maintained) previously did.

I don’t care about benchmarks, or camera, if the photos it takes are as good as my iPhone 4 that is enough.

Just curious, and no judgement, why are you switching?

My perfect phone would be basic and run GrapheneOS.

https://rethinkdns.com/ android app with firewall and logs, or configurable to use as a standalone blocklist

Mull with RethinkDNS on mobile, ‘cool, so the internet just became less accessible’.

Yes it is https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageToolbox has a link to playstore, that is not going to be the FOSS version though.

If you are f-droid averse you could download it directly from github, or use Obtanium https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium to manage your direct github (and many others) downloads

Note that the current version, 2.3.2 is not on the f-droid repo yet, but is on the Izzy repo because as soon as you try to modify an image it wants to update google play services, checks gmscompliance, and contacts playstore. If that fails, it will not work at all.

I made the mistake of updating, my firewall blocks google crap, then I had to delete it and rollback to the F-Droid approved version. Changelog from five days ago says it should be on f-droid again.

You could try using Obtanium https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium it says it supports ApkMirror though ‘track only’ so I guest it only notifies you of updates.

In any case Obtanium is awesome

They are run by the people who run Android Police. I have always heard they have a good reputation. You could scan the file with something like [VirusTotal]https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload to check it.

I am Not sure if they repackage or not, I believe they only host what has been uploaded to them.

ApkMirror? https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/lineageos/trebuchet-4/

I have one on an iPhone 5s, there aren’t even any scratches on the screen. I use it everyday

I use KISS on my phone, it makes one handed easy. I use Discreet on my tablet, nothing on my homescreen but, pull down for my favorites, all apps (except those I have hidden) are swipe up. People love Kvaesitso though, and it’s really good, just not for me. Probably in my perfect world I would use Discreet with something like Samsung Side Panels, but FOSS.

I love KISS, have you looked at F-Droid? You might like Discreet or Kvaesitso

Just about to post the same thing. GitHub is Here , or as you stated, in the Izzy repo

The Verge interview is Here

The tl;dr is it’s the AMA part 2: electric douchealoo