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F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs
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F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/f-droid-gets-its-biggest-update-in-a-decade-with-new-ui-and-smoother-app-installs/Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
I had alpha updates on and got this early. I then mistook this for malware.
Because it fucking sucks. This is the only time I had to wait for fucking F-Droid to load.
All because they are still sucking Google’s dick and abiding by their orders of “meh use this 320GiB framew*rk so that this button can be this much rounded”. They have been bitten quite a few times and they still haven’t learned anything.
AND the alpha didn’t have offline sharing. I figured they would add it later. They did not. It’s gone. In some places, one rarely ever goes online. The app auto-updates once and the feature is gone. Reduced to atoms. Cannot share anything.
Also, they used corpo speak to justify it.
I repeat, this so called “collection of nerds” used corporate speak to justify something.
EDIT: I guess they added it, but the corpo speak was so bad that the blog post makes it read like it was not added.
My conclusion is fuck Android, fuck smartphones, that platform is dead, go back to Thinkpads. Older ones. And not E series. And not L series. These Thinkpads. Normalize sharing .c files via an Ethernet cable.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Replying to @diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de
Cant tell if sarcasm/copypasta. If not, can’t you just reinstall the latest suggested 1x.x version?
Replying to @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
APIs can’t be compatible forever.
Replying to @diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de
What is offline sharing? Is that not the same as nearby?
Replying to @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
That’s what I referred to, yes.
Replying to @diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de
I’m confused. I have it in version 2.0.0. Discover tab > top right menu > Nearby.
Replying to @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
Okay, corrected.