For self hosted music lovers, I would like to introduce you to Tempo, an open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
I’m waiting for more comprehensive offline support, but it does look promising. DSub and Ultrasonic are other good FOSS subsonic clients (although DSub isn’t being actively developed).
EDIT: Actually looks like there has been some recent activity with DSub, which is great to see.
Moshidon is a fantastic Mastodon Client. Kotatsu is my personal favorite Manga reader on Android. Image Toolbox is a great choice for an open source mobile image editor with a good amount of features.
Yes, you enter the IMEI of the first slot on the Sony website and get the bootloader unlock code, that’s it. They are Treble devices btw so you can flash any GSI ROM not just LineageOS.
Oh, nice! Assumed since Sony it’d be locked down and walled-in like every other Sony device I’ve owned. I’ve been sticking with OnePlus and Motorola and making sure the ones I got were bootloader-unlockable, but I may give them a look for my pending upgrade.
I’m looking for a Mastodon app. The official app and website really sucks for viewing threads. I prefer the comments to be nested like on Lemmy, but the official one stacks them all. Are there any recommendations?
Edit: It still stacks all comments like the official one. Maybe I’m too used to the Reddit/Lemmy comment nesting style. That’s the gold bar for me, but at least something like what Twitter has would be better.
I can’t really comment much on current phones but as a dev I have come to own the Xperia Z3, Z5, Z5 Compact, XZ, XZ1 Compact, XZ1 Premium, XZ2 and XZ2 Compact for testing websites and Apps and I have here in Austria seen them in the wild from time to time due to Sony phones having been promoted quite a lot by local carrier - but that all was 5 or more years ago. These days I barley see them, and even if its always older Models from XZ times.
One of the things Sony through all these years always got right in my opinion is the Software. Sony’s Software IS what reviewers say Oxygen OS is. Its 90% Stock and performance is always top notch and mega consistent for the given chipset. Even the Z5 despite having the controversial Snapdragon 810 puts out a solid and most importantly **consistent **performance to this day. Its not like with Galaxy S6 which is equally if not more powerful on paper but sometimes bogs down for no reason.
My biggest issue with these older Sony phones is their Screens. For some reason 6 out of my 8 Sony phones have some kind LCD related issues (Sony was also really late in using OLED) . My XZ1 compact has quite a few dead pixels and the other 5 have some brighter areas on the LCD which can look distracting. And yes some other brands have it too but maybe I got unlucky or something but Sony phones from my experience seem to by far the worst.
With their latest phones - I think they are in a great spot. They are a boutique Manufacturer with a clear audience in mind far away from the mainstream. I think unlike LG they recognized in time that they can’t compete anymore in the mainstream and downsized the whole operation to what it is today instead of shutting the doors completely. This way people who really enjoy high-end notchless phones with a headphone jack and cameras that aim for authentic pictures still have very pricy option instead of none at all.
I am still a bit perplexed however on who buys the Xperia 10 phones for them to continue making them.
I am still a bit perplexed however on who buys the Xperia 10 phones for them to continue making them.
I do! 🙂 They’re amazing value for money. I usually buy them one year late and they’re super cheap (about 200-250€). Not sure what you think is wrong with them? They have debloated ROMs, OLED HD screens, 5G, dual-sim, IP65/IP68, 128GB, 6GB RAM, good cameras (wide/normal/tele), amazing battery optimization…
This makes me so happy! I’ve been maining boost for almost six years now and was so bummed when the dev announced he wasn’t going to be working on a Lemmy app. Looks like he changed his mind!
Like me! My very first cellphone was a Sony Ericcson. It was a GSM bar phone, in 2004. Got it free with the AT&T employee plan. It saved me once. I was in a car wreck on the freeway and my gf was using AOL (ha) on the only phone line at my house so I used my tiny Sony Ericsson to contact a co worker friend on msn messenger (this is seriously making me sound old) and told her to IM my gf to get off the computer/phone so I could call about my car accident and get help. It wasn’t a smartphone, either, but it did the trick there.
Then I got one of those Sony Walkman phones a year later, it was excellent for music.
That’s odd… You’re clearly logged in or you wouldn’t be able to post. I guess it’s possible connect is losing your subscriptions? Is the app showing your account subscribed to a bunch of communities inside connect?
Yes. On the other apps i can choose to list posts in subscribed, local, or all. On connect i have buttons for frontpage, local, and all. I guess maybe front-page has my subscribed communities?
Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.
I quite like it, my only complaint is that the Android auto support is not great. It seems to lose track of what podcast I’m playing s lot of the time. The customization and queueing features are great though.
Yes that definitely used to be an issue. But I haven’t quite experienced/noticed that lately (maybe since they revamped the new home tab?)… If it’s been a while, maybe give it another shot.
I have been using / testing 6 of them Liftoff, Connect, Thunder, Jerboa, Wefwef, Summit. All have strong points... But with it's recent update I will give the edge to Liftoff. Accent theming added... And the Amoled (my favorite) theme is beautiful
Oh yeah, I was using Sync for Reddit exclusively and it was a kinda sad moment when I uninstalled it today… It’s so great to see so much development and choice with lemmy apps tho, and a lot of collaboration
There are a lot of options for Lemmy, but beware they still need to mature a bit. The two apps I keep using the most are Thunder and Connect for Lemmy. Lots of users swear by Liftoff but I find the aesthetics a bit lacking for me. There’s also Lemming which is the most barebones but has a great UI for something that has only had a couple of alpha releases. Most if not all of these are available to download from Github.
Connect is working really well for me, but I prefer jerboa. Unfortunately that isn't working right now with lemmy. World being on an older version. Once they go to 18.1, I should be able to use it again.
All the apps I have tried so far have been great. Liftfof however is on a class of it’s own. A unique feature it has is the ability to combined feet from different accounts on different instances.
Musicolet is my favorite local music player because of the ability to switch between queues without losing the position of the last played track. I don't understand how not all music player have the same feature
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