Holy shitballs Batman! Half my F-Droid apps have updates tonight. Did something happen that required a bunch of critical updates, or it is just the team getting a bunch of tasks ticked off all (mastodon.nzoss.nz)

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Holy shitballs Batman! Half my F-Droid apps have updates tonight. Did something happen that required a bunch of critical updates, or it is just the @fdroid team getting a bunch of tasks ticked off all at once?

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[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 43 points 8 months ago

I can't speak to any F-droid apps specifically but every team I've worked with always tried to push their last update for the year on Wednesday the week before Christmas. Usually still enough developers active to fix any issue that arises and not close enough to eat into most big Christmas activities or weekend plans. Could just be that

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 15 points 8 months ago

I am just happy that the update for the official Peertube app finally hit f-droid today.

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[-] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 3 points 8 months ago

@sga
> fossify apps?

That was about half of them.

Mental note: must donate to Team Fossify. I'm deeply grateful to them for continuing the Simple Apps as un-enshittified Free Code, and I use heaps of them every day. If they had a notes app (ideally one compatible with NextCloud), I'd use that every day too (hint, hint).

#Fossify #SimpleApps #NextCloud

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[-] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 0 points 8 months ago

@sga
> there is an option to use syncthing for syncing to other devices

Intriguing, is this built into the app itself? I gave SyncThing a solid try and it failed on me pretty badly, in a number of ways. Also didn't the mobile app get abandoned some time ago?

I'll install it and kick the tires at least.

> the notes files are plain text

That's definitely a good feature. Getting this from my existing notes app requires a manual export.

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