Semperverus

Or go back to the good old days and download/rip what you like to .mp3, .ogg, or .flac depending on your peference.

I have several thousand songs on my phone that I can listen to without the need for an internet connection, subscription fees, accounts, or anything.

There are tons of good FOSS local music player apps out there that you should check out. I use Auxio from the F-Droid store but have used others in the past.

On desktop, I use Elisa.

You can make sure your library is always up to date with your desktop by using syncthing.

You forgot to attribute your quote. Abraham Lincoln originally said that!

If you had read Christoph’s reasoning, it wasn’t “just because it’s written in Rust.” He actually gave some decent technical reasoning for it that went beyond his original personal outburst (which I hold him to the same standard as Hector for, but he did shore up later and fixed his communication).

Part of being a good developer is the “working well with other human beings” part. Linus himself took a hiatus to improve himself in this area.

Another part of being a good developer is to work within and adapting to the frameworks of an existing project, especially if you are joining at a later point. In this context, it would be the R4L folks joining the project known as “the Linux kernel.”

Hector failed on both counts. He has programming skills, but that’s not all that’s required.

I am so glad Linus just came out and said it. I was pretty upset at Hector too in the other thread the other day, and I especially didn’t appreciate a call to remove a major developer from the kernel because Hector wasn’t getting his way. Very militant action on Hector’s part where it just wasn’t necessary.

Hector, if you’re reading this, communication skills are just as if not more important than your Rust development skills, and frankly your communication skills lack.

They literally go out of their way to tell you they aren’t.

They are what’s called “Source-First” according to their own terminology

One of the things they say in that blog post that I think misses the point is that OSI-approved licenses don’t “fail to protect the developer”, they are literally built to pass the rights of the developer to the user, where they belong. Open source protects the user, full stop. The side effect of this is that corps can take advantage as they are also users - and this is why I personally fight so hard for the GPL license as it does prevent big corps from taking and not giving back.

FUTO is “Source-First” until they switch to a license that prioritizes the user over the developer. I believe the FUTO company’s public image is of service to their users, which is fantastic, we need more of that, but their license only reflects that partially.

Apple sues Swiss company over apple logo

Look into libaxolotl (AKA “OMEMO”), it is the same system Signal uses and is highly standardized.

Is this made by the same guy who does hyprland?

Auxio is excellent. Has the UI I’ve been looking for for ages, can shuffle by genre, great queue system, etc.

Only part i dont like is that it has an unskippable modal at startup where it scans your library instead of doing this as an invisible async step in the background and displaying what it has as it gets it.

They would need to fix the SMS app first (lots and lots of bugs, not the least of which is that it likes to split MMS group chats up into separate 1 on 1 threads with every single participant as soon as you reply to the group)

You are clearly not the target audience then. There is a lot of extremely useful info in those model names.

Its free on f-droid

Isn’t Snikket just a fork of Conversations for Android? It doesn’t look like it’s any better either.

Conversations+Prosody all the way.

Thats not necessarily dead, some FOSS projects move very slow as these are not the dev’s day job. And slow development doesnt equal non-functional. Especially for something as simple as an alarm clock.

It sounds like at least some of the features released in 4.0 were needed to make that work. Glide typing got disabled as a result of the new framework, so it’s definitely on its way (more now than before)

Did it get turned off? This is gonna be a major problem for me 😬

EDIT: It totally did. Looks like I’ll be on 3.1.6 for a while

It even has water markers for longer trails where youd be hiking for weeks or months at a time. Sometimes those spots are dry, but you can clearly see water channels in the ground where it would be flowing.

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