DishonestBirb

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[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This applies to Apple as well.

 

I currently use an iPhone, but given the recent attacks made by the US president and members of his administration on my country (tariffs, annexation threats,etc) I am loathe to support any company based out of that nation any longer. Obviously I know that it is likely impossible to get a functional mobile experience with zero US corporate involvement, but what is the least possible I could do and still be practical? A degoogled fair phone device? Something Chinese running a custom rom like lineage os?

I want to sell my iPhone and Apple Watch ASAP and get something that won’t have my sending money to the US via my app purchases (store cut), monthly services (iCloud), and my data being used/sold.

Thanks!

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Can this handle plugins? I use a modded DeDRM on my Kindle Unlimited books, and so require plugin support.

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Royal Road has its own issues such as author groups on Discord colluding to drive up member’s “Rising Star” rankings, and drive down the stories of authors they don’t like. Also, very inconsistent moderation policies that highly favour certain authors over others who just so happen to be friendly with mods, etc.

I also don’t believe it’s open source, so I’m not sure how it’s really any “more free” than any other fanfic platform out there in the fediverse sense.

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (20 children)

Uninstalling my primary browser isn't really a practical solution, what am I supposed to use, Chrome? How about fixing the version they're shipping? Or should I be looking somewhere other than F-Droid for Android Firefox?

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're doing the Lord's Work. Keep it up, please and ty!

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

NexusMods is working on their new post-vortex mod client, which does have Linux support. It can be found here on github.

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's stupid. Nothing stops you from just installing regular Ubuntu if you love snaps so much.

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There's Librera FD, on F-droid. It's the open source version of Librera on the google play store. I believe it strips out the google api/cloud stuff, but its db /reading status/etc are all easily synced via Nextcloud (which is what I do). The only real negative I've found with it is that it's search for text in books is slow compared to more popular reading apps like Moon+ Reader.

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This must be some weird American thing. I've gotten pixels on contract before in my country and I can OEM unlock and flash them no issue. If you don't pay the cell carrier will just blacklist the IMEI. They don't lock down the device itself.

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Aegis is for Android, Ravio is an iOS app.

[–] DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Have you tried adding it to Steam as a non-steam game and then forcing compatibility for it to proton experimental in Steam?

 
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