• limerod@reddthat.comM
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    It was shared on the fediverse 2 days ago. Now, we get this. I don’t want to assume malice, but something seems fishy.

    Fortunately, it’s still available on fdroid. This is one of the reasons you should get your apps from fdroid instead of play store.

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      3 months ago

      Absolutely. Fdroid is awesome.

      I hate the fact that there’s no simple, free, ad-free note-taking app either inbuilt or on the app store. Just something simple and local to take a quick shopping list or a name or something like that. Fdroid has me covered for that.

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        3 months ago

        I use obsidian works very well very simple and can be very complicated depending on what you want to do

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          I just set up Obsidian with Syncthing like so many Lemmy users recommend and it is totally awesome! I also love that I can theme it differently on my phone, tablet, laptop, and computer.

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        ? Google has Keep. It’s whacky but it definitely has one and I think it comes pre-installed with base Android.

        Haven’t looked into good FOSS alternatives on F-Droid yet.

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                That’s like saying ungoogled Chromium is base Chrome. “Base Android” is what ships with Google’s Pixel phones, which comes with Google apps.

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                  by that definition, librewolf is the base of firefox, and one ui is base android as well. google pixel ui is not anywhere near “base” android. the base of something is the support of it, and android supports both oneui and pixel ui. at the core, the foundation, the base, one ui and pixel ui are android. android is not reliant on google services, google services are reliant on android. Edit: I made a poll on this, posted in android@lemdro.id. Feel free to vote for your answer here

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      This is one of the reasons you should get your apps from fdroid instead of play store.

      yes, but getting updates weeks later isn’t for everyone.

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          Downloading from github defeats the whole point of getting free software. Fdroid builds are guaranteed to not include any non-free components. The same is not true for github builds.

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            It’s still a better option than using the Play store if you really need a newer build, but yeah, not my first choice.

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        Yeah, updates can be a tad slow. For fast moving apps like newpipe its understandable. For regular apps it should be fine.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve been using it for a good while and it’s solid! I just wish I could integrate traffic updates, somehow

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        Possibly the app you are looking for is Magic Earth. It uses OSM map data, but includes optional live traffic

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        Where are the advertised bike & hiking paths? I know OSM has layers of varying quality for that but I can’t seem to find it in this app.

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      Same, but lack of public transit support in my city is a dealbreaker. And although it’s better for servers and privacy, needing to download the map for any city you would otherwise quickly browse the map of is annoying.

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        Serious question: in what way did maps.me get shitty? I’ve been using it for years as a gps replacement and other than being closed source and having a paid tier found no issue with it ( or at least no extra issues compared to other OSM apps )

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    So, why is organic maps hidden with the default anti features of f-droid? Which of these that have allowed my other installs does organic maps not comply with?

    None of these look like something I’d want to turn off!

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    I haven’t heard of it before, but if Google bans it they must be doing something right.

    I’ll check it out.

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    Am I crazy? I’m not seeing “Organic Maps” on Fdroid at all. Do I need to add a specific repo?

    Edit: Okay yes. I had to include ‘other antifeatures’ which it did warn me about. I hadn’t adjusted that setting beyond the default and assumed I didn’t need to go enable those things.

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    I didn’t know about Organic Maps so I installed it for the first time. I registered to openstreetmaps and added 5 places. This is great 😸

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      Also check out StreetComplete! It’s an app that gamifies adding information to OSM

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      Yeah, it’s great to help contribute like that, I live in a really small town so the map was quite out of date, so I patched it up. OSM is slowly becoming a legitimate competitor with Google Maps and Apple Maps in terms of data quality and Google is cowering in fear that a libre, ad-free app will be far better than their closed-source, ad-infested, data-selling app.

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        I’m fed up with Google (& other huge companies) so I’m totally with openstreetmaps! I’ll add more info a little by little. Thanks for your contributions!

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    I recently started a trek to de-googleify it’s going to be a long road.

    I pulled down all the big free map contenders.

    They’ll all, without a doubt, will get me to the grocery store down the road.

    They’re all pretty decent at obeying one-way streets and u-turn limits.

    More mixed results on business hours.

    Most of them start having trouble on really long distance trips.

    Many are missing creature comforts like multi-stop planning, I’m not sure which if any support dynamic remapping due to traffic.

    The ones I were playing with did not provide me lane guidance on which lanes go left and right.

    If Google maps and Waze stopped working tomorrow I could still use most of the free-ish street map variants, but I would miss a lot of features.

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      While you have to look elsewhere to do it, yelp or a browser answer the hours question.

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    Wow, I must have just snuck my install in…

    Presumably this removal was accidental right?