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US announces visa bans after warning Israel on West Bank settler violence (www.aljazeera.com)
submitted 1 year ago by netchami@sh.itjust.works to c/world@lemmy.world
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PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For by netchami in c/technology@lemmy.world
What Are Your Favorite Hidden Gem Android Apps? by netchami in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Droid-ify is a much nicer client for F-Droid.

Obtanium for downloading apps from various other sources.

Aurora Store for anonymously downloading apps from the Play Store without a Google account

LibreTube or NewPipe for watching YouTube videos without ads or tracking.

Seal for downloading YouTube videos.

Retro Music Player - probably the best looking music app for Android.

Pano Scrobbler - a FOSS app for Last.fm, Libre.fm and Listenbrainz. (I recommend Obtanium to download it from GitHub.)

Murglar for downloading Music in full quality from Deezer.

Molly - a better Signal client. (You can use Obtanium to download it from GitHub, you can add their F-Droid repo or download it using Accressent, a new experimental app store that seeks to replace F-Droid.)

Gallery - a simple gallery app that looks good and respects your Material You theme.

Element X is a much better Matrix client than the standard Element app. (I recommend downloading it from GitHub using Obtanium.)

LinkSheet - a small app that restores the old Android URL link chooser. It has many great features like the ability to remove tracking parameters from URLs or using FastForward to annoying bypass URL shorteners.

UntrackMe - a tool that can redirect YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc. links to privacy-friendly alternative frontends like Invidious or Piped for YouTube, Nitter for Twitter and LibReddit or Teddit for Reddit

Thunder, the best Lemmy client I ever used.

Most of the apps I mentioned are free and open source and many of them are available on F-Droid. They don't collect or sell any of your data.

The last one is not an app, but an entire OS that can replace the spyware-infested ROM that's preinstalled by your phones' manufacturer. I'm talking about GrapheneOS. No ads, no tracking, no proprietary Google services. Just free and open source software with maximum privacy and security. It's so great!

Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube.... by netchami in c/firefox@lemmy.ml
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This reminds me of Elon Musk when he started artificially slowing down links to websites he doesn't like... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/

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How big tech generated billions in fines... then didn't pay them (techxplore.com)
submitted 1 year ago by netchami@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8489908

How big tech generated billions in fines... then didn't pay them::Rarely a month goes by without big tech companies getting fined for price fixing, squashing competitors or misusing data, but it can take years before they pay a penny.

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How big tech generated billions in fines... then didn't pay them (techxplore.com)
submitted 1 year ago by netchami@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8489908

How big tech generated billions in fines... then didn't pay them::Rarely a month goes by without big tech companies getting fined for price fixing, squashing competitors or misusing data, but it can take years before they pay a penny.

UK Government Drawing Up Proposals To Criminalise Dissent by netchami in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 149 points 1 year ago

Why is the UK turning into a fucking dictatorship

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. by netchami in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 261 points 1 year ago

Or you can use any of these solutions:

YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge by netchami in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 110 points 1 year ago

Some solutions:

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world by netchami in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 221 points 1 year ago

Some solutions:

Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive by netchami in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 107 points 1 year ago

I think something might be wrong with your Neovim if it aggregated 70 gigs of log files.

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Open sourcing the app (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by netchami@sh.itjust.works to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca
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@kuro_neko@lemmy.ca have you ever thought about making the app open source? I've used Connect for a little bit and I really like it, it would be really cool if the app was open source. You practically don't have anything to loose, as you don't sell the app or insert ads and trackers. Lemmy is an open-source plattform, and many (if not most) other apps are also open source, I think Connect should follow that direction. This would also allow you to publish the app on F-Droid.

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') by netchami in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 year ago

For 1400 bucks you can get a really nice Framework Laptop. And when it breaks, you don't have to spend 1400 on a new one or 2000 on a overpriced repair that can only be performed by the manufacturer, you can actually repair everything yourself!

How to install Linux by netchami in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Every time someone tells me they are having issues with their Windows computer I will refer them to this official Microsoft guide.

Netflix is planning to raise prices… again by netchami in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 374 points 1 year ago

Definitely don't go to fmhy.net and definitly don't join the !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com community. Also don't visit torrentgalaxy.to, 1337x.to or solidtorrents.to. You probably also wouldn't want to check out rutracker.org or therarbg.com.

Why there aren't ad blocking apps on Google Play by netchami in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 111 points 1 year ago

Let me summarize it for you: Because Google is an advertising company

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