#Fossware

[captain-acab]

Do you have a more up to date link for a hacked spotify for android? I found your post from 2022 but the link doesn't have a version that's up to date with the version of spotify I have.

Thanks 💚

Not exactly. I actually don't use the hacked Spotify app anymore. I prefer Spotube, a free open-source app that interfaces directly with the Spotify web API. It also let's you download songs and albums directly, which the hacked app didn't do!

Overall Spotube is more stable, trustworthy (because the code source is open and community-audited), and will never be at risk Spotify patching the hack or disabling your account for violating terms of service, because it uses 100% legal software.

(P.S. the first link leads to F-Droid, an alternative app store for free, community-driven, open-source apps. That's where you can also download NewPipe, my favorite ad-free youtube app.)

[manjaro-official]

Firefox is still the best browser we have, and it's also free software, so in the event that the Mozilla foundation shits itself and dies (which could very well happen given how badly run it is) it'll either become community run or we'll all switch to a fork of it that is. FOSSware is resilient like that; it's pretty telling that basically every large company or nonprofit that makes open-source software is a badly run mess and yet this weird sector of the tech world lives on

"oh boy I sure wish there were a fast, free and private alternative to google chrome"

the humble mozilla firefox:

[unnamednemesis]

*coughs* free-and-open-source-software-keeps-getting-better-and-better-though

*coughs again* maybe-if-we-started-pouring-our-collective-money-into-that-then-the-people-writing-FOSSware-could-afford-to-make-things-to-compete-with-and-even-replace-the-shitstorm-we-have-today

[nth-internationale]

You are, and it's been this way since about 2014? having to call or email you specifically to invite you out is painstakingly awkward and specific, people who have phones typically have all their friends in one big group chat that they'll post in to organize things. If you can't be in the chat or anything, bouling around posting memes or dumb videos, the question becomes "what the hell is the point of being friends with this person". Because sure you're probably cool and deep, but you gotta start in the shallow end with new friends and that involves getting closer to the group via memes and shit.

If you choose not to have the tools to be social, your vibe is absolutely rancid.

So yeah, you're missing out on the whole zeitgeist. I didn't have a smartphone for a long time cuz I couldn't afford one as a kid and I was absolutely miserable cuz nobody would EVER go to the effort of inviting me to anything cuz I was A. Weird and B. Really Hard to get ahold of. I would never wish that on anyone and if you're feeling left out that is probably 80% of it.

If you're paranoid about having a smartphone for "the government is watching me" reasons, get an Android phone and install a FOSSware OS on it, there's low-profile FOSS everything these days. Do make sure you have whatever regular person social media (probably Snapchat if you're American) but don't be a political organizer on it, just use it to film your friends doing goofy shit and to be in groupchats that your friends are in.

On the other hand, if your point is "these damn kids only having friends on their smartphones" my response is ok Boomer. Seriously, you're 22. You're not nostalgic for the pre-internet era, you grew up in it. You've got nothing to gain from avoiding people like this, all you're doing is isolating yourself.

I sometimes wonder if I am disconnected to the world because I do not have a smartphone.

It is allways the same pattern. Me and someone else meet some new, me without a smartphone, the other person has a smartphone. And after three days they are allready actively sending eachother memes and funny videos and after five days I hear that they plan to go out together (not romantically, just hanging out).

Do we really need a Smartphone today to be part of a group? Do you are too hard work to connect to if you do not have one?