Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued

xodoh74984@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problem is not “Syncthing users” it is the others that we bring along with us.

  I already have F-Droid on my phone, but the dozen others that I have promoted Syncthing to over the years do not. This is going to cause a bunch of problems.

  This is much more important than what you portray here.

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  • tychosmoose@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That and the shrinking ability to grant access to device storage. If that becomes an option only on rooted phones (which seems like the directly Google is heading) it will make the audience for such an app much smaller.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If google heads that way I’ll head somewhere else.

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      • bilb@lem.monster ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To apple? Linux phone experience is just trash.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And yet Resilio can access a lot more than ST, even without root.

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    • peregus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That and the shrinking ability to grant access to device storage.

      Isn’t that helping the average users with security in a way that a scam app can’t see much else than itself?

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  • t_378@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The point you raise reminds me of when Signal dropped SMS support, after my efforts to convert all the non techie people in my life over to it. So sad when it happens…

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    • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So sad when it happens…

      I don’t follow - do people still seriously use SMS? I for one try to use it as little as possible.

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    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was reminded of the same thing.

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• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As much as I want to use F-Droid, my work blocks all third party app stores so it’s either have access to my work stuff on one phone (via profiles) or dual wield two phones.

  I lack the patience to dual wield again. It’s very annoying.

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  • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your work dictates what you are allowed to install on your personal phone? That’d be a serious overstepping of bounds.

    Perhaps you can sneak in f-droid via adb install and give it app installation permissions via ADB too though.

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My primary phone belongs to my work. I get a stipend every two years that essentially allows me to buy any supported phone I want.

      The conditions are that it’s managed by them via MDM and all my work stuff is on the work profile side.

      It is a choice I make since it allows me to not carry two phones. I did that for the first two years at my company and it was annoying.

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      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        My primary phone belongs to my work.

        So it’s not yours. Looks from here that’s the one issue you have to solve before everything else.

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    • bilb@lem.monster ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If “your” phone belongs to your employer that’s the choice you made. It isn’t yours.

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  • derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m annoyed to see you getting down voted - I had a similar issue years ago with my work MacBook (couldn’t run a custom WM because any modification to the Finder was blocked without putting the machine into “unsafe” mode).

    I love OSS, but without a verifiable way to distribute it large swaths of the workforce won’t be able to use it.

    F-Droid is great, but sadly it isn’t enough.

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was today years old when I learned that you can run a custom WM on a Mac.

      That’s like…the equivalent of a coca cola soda machine dispensing Pepsi.

      And in terms of down votes, I don’t really care too much. It evens out overtime.

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      • derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yep, check out yabai.

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• fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They said somewhere that the play store thing is not the reason, it’s just one of the more recent issues.

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• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re a cloud company, their mission statement is to eradicate us. It’s like IT trying to stamp out shadow IT.

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