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   Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 22:19:42 JST Zergling_man
   F-droid is magical
   Last time I looked for a mahjong hand calculator, like... 6 months ago or so, there wasn't one.
   But now there is. Got put there in September.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 22:19:40 JST 翠星石

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     @Zergling_man Unfortunately F-droid now uses a proprietary google SDK to build all software, thus it's not clear if any software on F-droid is free anymore.
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     Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming (condret@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 22:52:56 JST Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming

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     • 翠星石
     @Suiseiseki @Zergling_man why did this change?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 22:52:56 JST 翠星石

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     • Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming
     @condret @Zergling_man Most Android software is written to work with the proprietary google SDK and getting software to compile against a 3rd party free SDK instead (even if that's compiled from mostly the same source code) takes a fair amount of work, so they changed to the proprietary sdk.
     
     The "open source" line of thinking and its consequences are a disaster for free software.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 22:59:46 JST 翠星石

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     • Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming
     @condret @Zergling_man They just don't really care about freedom, thus when it's more convenient to use proprietary software, they use it.
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     Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming (condret@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 22:59:47 JST Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming

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     @Suiseiseki @Zergling_man so the fdroid people are resource constrained, lacking the manpower to patch all the software uploaded to fdroid?