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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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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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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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6 points

Use one of the markdown apps

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4 points

I’ve been trying out Markor on Fdroid and I like it.

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I just checked a couple of the editors I use, and this has been the only one that’s offline first and no tracking - Markor:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.markor

I haven’t used it a lot but it’s been fast and easy to use.

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2 points

Google Keep?

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I’d prefer local storage over cloud storage for quick silly things like that.

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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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last I checked the aosp doesn’t include gapps

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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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There’s sometimes third party repos that are updated faster. Or you can use obtainium and get updates straight from github.

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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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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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47 points

That just convinced me to download and try it lol

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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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I tried it and am very happy with it. Reminds me of map.me before it went to shit.

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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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23 points

Dang I really called it

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Yeah this seems like the most likely scenario, sad gg. Break up the monopolies

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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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Same. Though I can’t seem to find a way to show the advertised bike & hiking paths.

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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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Non free network service. Organic maps uses the organic maps CDN to download maps. Which is not a free (free as in freedom) service.

You can read more here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/app.organicmaps.yml

For more information on anti features read here: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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Seems a bit silly. I think warning would work here.

Most people don’t care IMHO and it ain’t high risk lol

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Thanks!

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Droid-ify showed it for me, which imo is the superior F-Droid client anyway.

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