I tried counting sheep, but there’s one I always miss.

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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • nsmnc@lemmy.worldOPtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldTerrible Coworkers
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    1 year ago

    Anything that gives workers more breaks is good.

    You’ve got me there; lung cancer and heart disease do make for irrefutable excuses to cut out.

    Anyway, my complaint was more about the smell of smoke and how it lingers on clothes and in the air for nonsmokers. It wasn’t mentioned in-post, but I’m constantly hearing wet coughs as well, which is both disruptive to my workflow and is just gross (especially in a post-pandemic work environment where people refuse to even cover their mouths or use sanitizer anymore).







  • It’s a little more complex than that…

    Because F-Droid holds itself to the standard that the apps it reposits be open source, they ensure trackers and any malicious code are removed from the source of every submitted app before making it public on the official F-Droid repository.

    Because of this, each public app in their repository is signed by F-Droid.

    Rather than run the risk of having their app denied by F-Droid, some developers choose to create third party repositories that can be manually added to the F-Droid app; this adds to the total amount of packages available for download on the F-Droid app. In these cases, updates would come directly from the developers, and any applications found in third party repositories wouldn’t be signed by F-Droid.

    I’m unaware of how Google manages its repository (The Play Store), but I do know that a majority of the free apps rely on ads to support the developers. I also know that there is a heavy implementation of Google Analytics/Play Services that collect a scary amount of data (a lot of times, unnecessary data) to help with targeted ads and other marketing.




  • Read You

    There’s a slight learning curve, but it’s the most organized mobile aggregator I’ve seen so far. You can customize the following:

    • theme

    • landing page(s)

    • refresh rate

    Among other things…

    You can separate/group your feeds into local accounts which can be renamed. You can also create subfolders for each local account. I had about four or five local accounts myself:

    Apps (i.e. GitHub Releases)

    Privacy Blogs (i.e. Proton Blog)

    News (i.e. The Guardian)

    Technology/Security (i.e. Superuser)

    Entertainment (i.e. Digital Trends)

    Each feed you add has the option to allow Read You to send push notifications so you are alerted of new articles. You can edit how little or how much an article loads upon being tapped on (i.e. visible header images, blurb or full text, internal or external browser tabs, etc.)

    This is the best open source option for mobile users, in my opinion.

    Despite all this, I now exclusively use Fluent Reader on desktop, as mobile just doesn’t do it for me. There is a ‘Fluent Lite’ for mobile, but it is vastly different from the desktop version and I do not recommend it.

    Hope this helps.