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Strypey · 3w
Can anyone recommend a good music player app for Android/Linux? So far I've been using the #VLC media player in F-Droid, which is functional, but the UX isn't great. Particularly when it comes to ma...
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@nprofile1q... is your music stored separately from non-music?
Opus 1 player allows directory selection, and optionally using a database separate from android's media dB.
Has companion tag editor, and scanner

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.kromke.andreas.opus1musicplayer/
Dave Black · 3w
Is anybody in the local timeline (only NZ) actually using open Android alternatives to Google, (/e/os, Lineage, Graphene, Calyx) as a daily driver? Can we have a thread on sources, hardware, network i...
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@nprofile1q... Yes I am. Currently running /e/OS on «whispers» Google pixel 7.
Still have it installed on an older samsung, but had to upgrade because specifically Samsung and VoLTE doesn't work with 3rd party roms (also the charge port was getting very dodgy).
I'm using murena cloud and email, used to be e. cloud (they do some things well, but naming isn't one of them!).
I have kiwibank and BNZ apps installed and working from the "AppLounge", but mostly use F-Droid
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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 · 3w
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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 · 49w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq9pseyxq75fy270f3dnmsv76fpacqwfm982449ftdr04re2jjccdq6ys24g did they announce their transition somewhere? Interested to hear the reasoning.
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@nprofile1q... afaik it is not a blanket policy. At some point the Discourse was set up, and over time more discussion happens there. So especially in areas with already low volume of discussion, having two different channels can split already small participation. (e.g. talk-nz mail vs Oceania section in the forum)

Here's some background info
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 · 49w
So, something that's become clear to me is that we still have a real need for self-managing community email lists like we used to have. Many people still use Google Groups, which are horrible. The old...
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@nprofile1q... e.g. OpenStreetMap is migrating away from Mailman lists (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo) to Discourse (https://community.openstreetmap.org/)

AFAIK Discourse support "Mailing List Mode", though most people don't use it that way.
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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 · 49w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq9pseyxq75fy270f3dnmsv76fpacqwfm982449ftdr04re2jjccdq6ys24g did they announce their transition somewhere? Interested to hear the reasoning.
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 · 49w
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to ...
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@nprofile1q...
Excerpt:
"You can't beat the mentality that leads to abuse by taking on the abuser's mentality. You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you."