• tal@lemmy.today
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    I have an open-source calculator app, OpenCalc, off F-Droid on Android for light stuff.

    I use maxima on Android and Linux for heavyweight stuff.

    I mean, if you want it, it’s there.

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      Thanks for your recommendation man but I’m using GrapheneOS

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        I mean, that’s de-Googled Android, which is in significant part what F-Droid is aimed at. Surely F-Droid works on that, and both OpenCalc and maxima are on that.

        kagis

        Yeah:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrapheneOS

        In March 2022, writing for How-To Geek Joe Fedewa said that Google apps were not included due to concerns over privacy, and GrapheneOS also did not include a default app store. Instead, Fedewa suggested, F-Droid could be used.[5]

        I kind of figured that everyone using the de-Googled Android things was using F-Droid.

        EDIT: Didn’t link to the F-Droid maxima page.

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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            Source: trust me bro

            That’s the problem with Graphene OS. The culture spreads misinformation.

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            Aight, fair enough, if you don’t consider the software on there hardened enough.

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            What part of it? The app itself? There are alternative clients. The protocol? It’s made for people to host app repos, not to ensure everything hosted in an F-Droid compatible repo is safe. The fact that reproducible builds arenct enforced? There’s always a gap where you’re trusting a third party unless you’re building everything from source yourself.

            It’s the android equivalent of a package manager.

            F-Droid is like any other place you get apps and programs to run on one of your devices: caveat emptor. At least all packages are open source so you can review yourself.

            This is as absurd as saying you don’t use linux because someone could typosquat a fake repo or app through the package manager.