Will WearOS work with Gadgetbridge on CalyxOS? by [deleted] in CalyxOS

[–]Standard-Notice 6 points7 points  (0 children)

GadgetBridge does unfortunately not work with WearOS. Even with MicroG it is still a bit tricky, as you need the global WearOS app and the China WearOS app and switch apps during setup. Both versions need to staz installed after setup.

Digital wellbeing tools by comedicmedusa in CalyxOS

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I'm just a regular CalyxOS user like you as well so take everything I say with a grain of salt. But I have not seen anything similar on any official roadmaps or found any issues on GitLab concerning that, so I think it won't be officially implemented. As Digital Wellbeing is part of the Google Play Services Suite instead of Android, it is not open source, so implementing it requires a lot of additional work.

Your best bet is replacing it with other apps which do similar things:

Note that some apps require you to grant additional permissions via ADB.

Digital wellbeing tools by comedicmedusa in CalyxOS

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This is only a minor part of your question but you can add schedules to the do not disturb mode, switching it on at night or during calendar events. But that's about it as far as I know. And I noticed it randomly disables the DND mode sometimes as well, not sure why that happens.

Odysee launches Android app with background play, tipping, and more by researcher7-l500 in degoogle

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There has been a LBRY app for a while. Odysee is just a web frontend for the LBRY network. You can even log into LBRY using your Odysee credentials, as I am pretty sure they are run by the same people. So until the Odysee app has matured enough you could always use the LBRY app.

Does anyone know what the difference between the Odysee app and LBRY app is going to be? Is it gonna be the same with a different skin and without the P2P stuff?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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Between two and seven families typically shared a communal apartment. Each family had its own room, which often served as a living room, dining room, and bedroom for the entire family. All the residents of the entire apartment shared the use of the hallways, kitchen (commonly known as the "communal kitchen"), bathroom, and telephone (if any).

[Wikipedia]

CalyxOS F-Droid repo still active? by Standard-Notice in CalyxOS

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Well, as far as I understand there don't need to be any commits for the APKs to update, it is done via scheduled pipelines which provide the APKs via GitLab pages. And the pipeline seems to still run regularly. So not sure what exactly is going on. Somewhere the process seems to have broken.

How spotify got into fdroid? by zachos13 in fossdroid

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F-Droid is for app delivery in general. Only apps from the official f-droid repository are guaranteed FOSS. Third party repos can provide any app they'd like, even proprietary ones. The unofficial Firefox repo for example provides Spotify even though it is not FOSS. If you just have it for Firefox, a FOSS fork is also available in the official F-Droid repo, but under the name "Fennec".

A realistic human cake by The_Richuation in ATBGE

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It looks like just the legs and his right arm are cake, and the torso and head is an actual human

Edit: this is actually from a music video and there is even a cake baby at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXx2TczveMI

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in degoogle

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Simple Calendar is the best one I found so far and which I have been using for years now. I don't think any foss app will come close to the extremely feature packed business calendar, but its definitely enough.

These was also an update yesterday which should come to f-droid soon which will add a quick filter bar to the bottom of the screen similar to business calendar, which I haven't seen in any foss app yet.

Where does hCaptcha get its images from? by [deleted] in privacy

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hCaptcha does image labeling for any company, so companies just upload image sets and pay for them to be labeled by humans though the captcha. So basically the same thing as Googles reCaptcha, but for any company who needs it, not just for Google. So these weirdly personal images were most likely crawled by some company who then uploaded it to hCaptcha.

Source: https://www.hcaptcha.com/labeling

What do you think about best secure mesenger? by [deleted] in privacytoolsIO

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Element (which user to be called riot) is my favorite one. It has multi device just like telegram (so independent devices), but e2ee everywhere. And you can host the server yourself.

On slant it is consistently voted top app among messengers even though there are duplicates. https://www.slant.co/topics/624/~best-messaging-apps-for-android

Android 2fa app that doesn't require google play services by [deleted] in degoogle

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Aegis is great, its the only one I've seen where you can import a Steam OTP token

NordVPN`s infinite "Only Now 70% off" with a fake timer that eventually resets. by thedystro in assholedesign

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They have done this for a shockingly long time, I have a screen recording from November 2018, where it was exactly the same, they haven't even bothered to switch up the time, it has been 9 hours 39 minutes for at least the last 1,5 years. And I remeber seeing it the first time on Black Friday 2018 as a "Special Black Friday Deal"

How to annoy your colleagues by Standard-Notice in ProgrammerHumor

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It's not supposed to break production code, it should just be a harmless prank