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[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

"not available in your country" is easily fixed, just turn on your vpn

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

PipePipe from f-droid is a clone that seems to update more frequently than newpipe, and has the additional benefit of being able to access the Chinese and Japanese video sites bilibili and niconico (worth checking out, it's fascinating even for someone who doesn't speak the languages)

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's always nice to have some motivation from doing things for others. Depending on the service, you can always host for others AND for yourself. It's 10x as much work but you do get positive feedback (sometimes..)

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I had to be burned twice before learning this lesson - instances went down and I had to switch.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Try pipepipe on f-droid

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Pipepipe on f-droid is kept much more up to date in my experience. It's a fork so basically the same

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah the Roblox thing is hard to swallow, it used to work better on Linux than on any other platform for me. Everything else there's alternatives - my local PC shop sells machines at a significant discount "without windows installed", maybe if more did that the market would take care of things and the software vendors would have to support Linux.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

As a former Android developer, you can't just do anything in an android app on a modern smartphone. The system is fighting you for resources the whole time. It makes sense to have something like this running as root on a device that you control.

Not that I'm sold on it, just saying..

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Might be a coincidence but MX Linux still supports 32bit x86 CPU's.

I recently installed MX Linux on an old Dell Inspiron 1300 which inexplicably still runs and it's pretty snappy, considering.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Digital. I've been reading ebooks for years, starting on my flip phone back in the day. The best part to me is being able to seamlessly switch from reading with my eyes to being read to (tts - I'm used to it now and it's waaaay better than it was).

I do a lot of driving for work so I can get a ton of reading done on the road 😁

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I am upvoting this - also moved to Cloudflare from ngrok it's much simpler to use

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I heard about the avast thing, but how are isp's modifying web pages, that shouldn't be possible with with https, right?

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submitted 6 months ago by tomjuggler@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

So this just happened - those of you who have a Xiaomi phone know when you install apps it has it's own "Virus Checker" screen which comes up before the app is approved for install. This is provided by Avast I just found out..

Anyway while installing an app from F-droid today I got an error message on this screen - which said "app from unknown source" and two buttons below - "Ignore" and "Install". So I clicked on "Install" since I wanted to install the app and then noticed that the install process seemed a bit different (I can't remember what happened exactly) but I checked the app on F-Droid and the version history wasn't available - which a notice says means the app was installed from Play Store or somewhere else. But I just installed it from F-Droid!

So I tried another few apps and it happened again for one of them. I clicked around and there it was, some sort of Xiaomi app store installing versions of the app instead of the one I told my phone to install.

I guess there is an innocent explanation for this - stopping people from installing malware and giving them a "correct" version of the app they wanted - but I have disabled it on my phone, I know what I am doing and if I want the cracked version it's because that's the version I meant to install ;)

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