I stopped using Spotify after I noticed that a song's share URL contains unique tracking elements. Then they started trying to lock down the podcast market, which reaffirms that leaving was the right choice.
GrapheneOS
Signal is certainly not. It's open source, and verifiably end-to-end encrypted. The only information that they have about you is your phone number, when your account was created, and when you last connected to the service.
Telegram is not so privacy friendly, with a major problem being that it's not end-to-end encrypted by default.
For YouTube frontends: On the Linux desktop, there is FreeTube, on IOS there is yattee (IIRC), then there are web based front ends from invideous.
Louis Rossman mentioned the other day that they are in the process of creating an app that will allow you to follow your chosen creators across multiple services, so that you can continue even if their primary platform removes them.
If you're looking for YouTube alternatives, check out Peertube, Odyssey, and Nebula (I haven't looked at Peertube or Odyssey in a while, so I can't comment on how they are doing).
Lichess - rather than chess.com
Rustdesk - remote desktop software
Syncthing - rather than Dropbox
KDE Connect - phone/computer integration (notifications, media control, mouse and keyboard, file sharing, presentation remote, clipboard sharing, etc)
Aves gallery,
Organic maps
PlayBook - audiobook player
Bitwarden - password manager,
Droid-ify - F-droid client
Element - matrix client (potentiall alternative to discord)
GrapheneOS is also great.
Yes. The project seems to be in good hands while Micay is away. Regardless, the open nature of their work gives me additional confidence.
Some basic information, including building numbers, can also be edited from within Organic Maps.
Rosie Pattern Language, which is an alternative to regular expressions.
Edit: Here is a presentation by the creator
Bootloader unlocked, while persevering access to hardware security features by 3rd party operating systems like GrapheneOS.
They also provide 5 years of security updates for new devices.
Nothing else competes.
Open maps will improve greatly in the near future. The Overture Maps Foundation is working on an open mapping dataset to rival Google.
Address based search works, but the data is largely lacking.
You can help by adding building numbers from within Organ Maps (tap a building and, then "edit place").
The underlying OSM dataset supports building number interpolation, so even a few accurate entries could be very helpful.
Exactly. This was always a trivial performance difference, but the toggle was added just to satisfy anyone who might hear such a statement and be unreasonably concerned.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.
I loved the original videos, but doubted it would make a good movie.
Unless open camera has improved dramatically, the GrapheneOS camera app is far better.
I've had a set of those circulating through the family for well over a decade. But, they don't sound all that great.
Fort the same budget, I'd recommend instead to buy a higher quality pair of bookshelf speakers that you would actually enjoy using fort the rest of your life.
I also made a YSK post recently to explain how to objectively identify good speakers.
PewPew live and PewPew 2
I can almost guarantee that your payment of 15x the normal amount would still be too little versus how many versions will be compiled and distributed for free with premium features enabled.
That depends on how many people feel the same as me, and I know how we could find out.
While it seems to have fallen out of favor, crowdfunding is excellent at helping to resolving that kind of uncertainty.
@ljdawson, please consider how much it would be worth to you, and start a campaign. Go open-source If the target is reached.
Hopsan shares similarities with Simulink, and can also work together with it.
To be clear, I don't expect it. I'll be happy either way to see tools developed that encourage the use of Lemmy over reddit.
Being open-source would be an additional value proposition that I, and maybe many others, would happily pay for. I use Jerboa, and will probably continue to use it.
Maybe this is not apples-to-apples, but my favorite audio-book player has separate free and paid versions only differentiated by the presence of dark mode. It's such a trivial thing to paywall that it comes across to me as a respectful petition for generosity. I bought the paid version and then gave multiple tips through the in-app purchase.
I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!
Here is the manual.
There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.
But did you know that when Spotify negotiated streaming rights from the labels, the labels only agreed if they could take an ownership stake in Spotify. Then the labels insisted on LOWER streaming fees for themselves. This shifts their income to come from their Spotify stake, which they don't have to pay to artists.
Yes. Doctorow also talked a lot about platform economics in this recent book-tour interview.
This would be dangerous, allowing inconvenient politicians to be excluded from office through framing or selective enforcement of the law.
What we really need is a population capable of making better decisions.