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Johan Bové

Great example of an actual live "sneaker net" application using RACHEL devices and an Android app - it allows to transfer messages and data bundles from areas without Internet connection to Internet connected regions.

http://datapost.site/

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First thing I did after upgrading to Android 13 on my Fairphone 3 was to turn off UI animations. I really do not need my phone's UI to dance all the time.

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A new week brings a new Android issue to resolve. The phone now goes into screen lock whenever I play a video from Firefox. Having a hard time ploughing through loads of crappy websites to be able to find any thing remotely related to find out what to do about this. The Internet is a mess.

Johan Bové

Managed to spend 20 minutes time today on figuring out why a file wouldn't _simply_ sync with the Nextcloud app on my Android phone after being edited by Markor. It would not sync to my Nextcloud server at home and then the bytes would not sync back to another instance of NextCloud on my Fedora virtual machine that is running on this Mac... and while I am writing this I just realise just how scifi all of this is, compared to what we had 20 so years ago: physical drives and FTP.

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The original "admin" user account on my 11 phone got messed up, due to a faulty sdcard, and could not store pictures any longer. Luckily I could still add another account on the same phone and reinstalled all apps, changed the sdcard, and the camera works again. Now i need to figure out how to make the new account the "admin".

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Why do so many Android apps allow for and promise to be to be installed to "external storage", the extra sd card, yet then become completely useless as afterwards you cannot log (Pocket), keep getting hammered with notifications (Onedrive) or need to re-authenticate every time you start the app (Deezer)?!

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I know there are bigger problems in the World right now, but how much file storage management and having apps installed on an SD Card on an Android device, still can be so darn frustrating is really something! Instead of machine learning, perhaps we solve storage management first.

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Deleted my Dropdox account multiple years ago - or so I thought... Last Friday a friend shared some excellent photos from a fun event we were at through his Dropbox account. He posted the link on our WhatsApp chat. I clicked it using my Android phone and enjoyed seeing the pictures. This morning I receive a message on the e-mail address I used to have with Dropdox about their updated terms and services. How did Dropbox found out I accessed their services? Was it Google, through Android, was it Meta through WhatsApp? Or what dark marketing magic was applied to detect I "came back" to Dropbox? You can check out, but you can never leave.

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A bit annoying how "installed" web apps through seem to disappear without notice on . Not super great for s

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Need more space on your Android phone? Use an SD card! At least, that's the promise, reality is that using an SD card as an expansion is still (after all these years) still a terrible process which is super unstable. Tried three times copying an app's storage to the "SD Card" on Android 11 and every time the phone ends up crashing.

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Pretty cool how our Fairphone 3s (from 2019) got the upgrade to Android 11 over the weekend.

Johan Bové

having this annoying Android app issue where authentication does not persist in an app if the app's storage is NOT on the "Internal Shared Storage", but on the extra SD card? Security over convenience I suppose.

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Looking for a new phone, but you're holding back because of the environmental impact of new hardware? Fairphone is the answer.

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Looking for a new phone, but you're holding back because of the environmental impact? There is a solution with Fairphone.

I've had my FP3 for over three years now and it still works great.

I was even able to upgrade  the cameras in the phone myself by ordering the parts (yes, FairPhone made better camera modules available after the phone was released!) and opening up the phone and installing everything back in place with a couple (about 13) of screws.

Comes with easily replaceable battery, screen, speaker and other modules. Just look at that beautiful 10/10 Ifixit rating!

The phone seems a bit more pricey at first glance, but if you consider that you can probably use the same phone for double the time you would with a cheap, non-sustainable alternative, it is worth the investment.

PLUS Fairphone will make sure to provide your phone with software updates much longer than any other phone manufacturer. And if you don't like Google's default Android install there are options to install an alternative, privacy focused, operating system with minimal effort.

PLUS Fairphone makes sure to resource as many raw materials from responsible sources as possible and is also making sure that the people building the phones and working in the factories get decent wages and can enjoy better work-life balances.

By getting a FairPhone you're joining a growing movement of people who actually give a F*** on what tech does to our World.

Sounds good, right? I thought so too.

You can get yours with a €50 discount by following this link:

http://fairphone.refr.cc/johanbove

Yes, this is a referral program post. (I get €25 off my next purchase if somebody goes through the whole thing - not really why I am posting this) But I am honestly really happy with mine and just wanted to promote Fairphone and their work more. And if you can get started with a nice discount, then why not?

What is Fairphone about? See below in this great introduction video:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SoeXLVvfpVQ

 

Johan Bové

@CrowderSoup Yes, I'm using Syncthing as a way to keep notes and files in sync from my Android phone to my NAS and PC and then Backblaze on my PC makes the real backup.

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So tired of mobile phone vendor lock in and bad usability for the sake of keeping people in their services. Try printing a file from your email inbox to a Bluetooth printer from your Android phone.

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Does anyone actually enjoy the way contacts are organized on Android? My contacts list has been very difficult to manage due to the merge history of Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn and others and now it's a bit of mess.

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Why is the precise volume control of Bluetooth devices over Android 9 impossible to implement correctly?

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Keeping notes and files synced between my devices using Syncthing. Editing files on Android with Markor, using Todo.txt for task planning and VSCode on the PC.

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@DiceKeysLLC That's great news. Will you release the DiceKeys-Android app on F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/) as well?

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@24degreesbe op Android blokkeerd "tracking px images' ook standaard. Het leuke is dat het een extra poging doet om enkel deze px bestanden te blokkeren zodat je gewenste afbeeldingen nog te zien krijgt.