I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!

Here is the manual.

There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.

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Bootloader unlocked, while persevering access to hardware security features by 3rd party operating systems like GrapheneOS.

They also provide 5 years of security updates for new devices.

Nothing else competes.

Signal is certainly not. It’s open source, and verifiably end-to-end encrypted. The only information that they have about you is your phone number, when your account was created, and when you last connected to the service.

Telegram is not so privacy friendly, with a major problem being that it’s not end-to-end encrypted by default.

Some basic information, including building numbers, can also be edited from within Organic Maps.

Address based search works, but the data is largely lacking.

You can help by adding building numbers from within Organ Maps (tap a building and, then “edit place”).

The underlying OSM dataset supports building number interpolation, so even a few accurate entries could be very helpful.

Open maps will improve greatly in the near future. The Overture Maps Foundation is working on an open mapping dataset to rival Google.

PewPew live and PewPew 2

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Lichess - rather than chess.com

Rustdesk - remote desktop software

Syncthing - rather than Dropbox

KDE Connect - phone/computer integration (notifications, media control, mouse and keyboard, file sharing, presentation remote, clipboard sharing, etc)

Aves gallery,

Organic maps

PlayBook - audiobook player

Bitwarden - password manager,

Droid-ify - F-droid client

Element - matrix client (potentiall alternative to discord)

GrapheneOS is also great.

Unless open camera has improved dramatically, the GrapheneOS camera app is far better.

I can almost guarantee that your payment of 15x the normal amount would still be too little versus how many versions will be compiled and distributed for free with premium features enabled.

That depends on how many people feel the same as me, and I know how we could find out.

While it seems to have fallen out of favor, crowdfunding is excellent at helping to resolving that kind of uncertainty.

@ljdawson, please consider how much it would be worth to you, and start a campaign. Go open-source If the target is reached.

To be clear, I don’t expect it. I’ll be happy either way to see tools developed that encourage the use of Lemmy over reddit.

Being open-source would be an additional value proposition that I, and maybe many others, would happily pay for. I use Jerboa, and will probably continue to use it.

Maybe this is not apples-to-apples, but my favorite audio-book player has separate free and paid versions only differentiated by the presence of dark mode. It’s such a trivial thing to paywall that it comes across to me as a respectful petition for generosity. I bought the paid version and then gave multiple tips through the in-app purchase.