Right, I guess that tends to be the case with file managers if you try to use these features on something else than regular local files.

Select multiple files first. If you have one selected, there’s a rename dialog, with multiple there’s a regex multi rename dialog.

Ghost Commander does have batch rename. You need to select multiple files and tap F2 Rename. Dunno how to use it, but it’s there.

I find 95% of foss software to be better than the commercial alternatives, and I’m not joking. As for bugs, foss devs are usually faster to respond to bug reports and user requests too, unless it’s some mismanaged behemoth like Mozilla.

Thing is, commercial software can use the money for advertising and marketing. Foss, especially of the free to use kind, usually only spread by word of mouth, and even that only within the foss communities at first.

Let’s not get into examples, because I’m sure we can always find examples for every case and it often comes to specific preferences. My general point is, that people who think free has to be crap, and commercial has to be good, are categorically wrong.

It’s in fact backwards: if you do something only for money, you’re incentivized to do the least amount of work either for maximum effectiveness or to give yourself time to do stuff you actually want to do.

It seems like most FOSS I’ve seen is a free, buggy, alternative to mainstream software, which resolves a problem the user had.

I don’t know what kind of sw you use, but usually I find Foss software to be sleek, functional, fast with good support and updates, while commercial software is ridden with ads, trackers, bloat and bugs. Exceptions on both sides but the notion that free software is generally worse is categorically incorrect.

Everyone can contribute, but how do they make a living?

So first not everyone can contribute. Usually people who also use the software and have personal (or monetary) interest in it, contribute.

And why does everything has to be about monetisation? Yes, both people and gigantic corporations make money off foss in various ways, I’m sure others have explained that already. But people also do things for other reasons than just money.

But I’m just baffled how people so often declare that foss can’t work or that it’s qualitatively worse, even though the entire planet has been dependent on foss for decades.

No, just because someone sells something directly, doesn’t mean it’s inherently better.

Im looking for the opposite, something that can keep the icon shape without changing it… But I want too much :'(

Amateur here, can only convey what I remember from reading. In sleep mode the the cpu wakes up regularly to do things that are needed for background services and connectivity.

Now, “regularly” may still mean hundreds of times a second between milliseconds of sleep. These wake cycles are also synchronised with other parts of the system, especially networking.

Similarly, cpu will sleep even if the phone is awake but not very active, but will wake more frequently.

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Thx

Just get gift cards.

Yes Izzy only hosts open source apps, but their policies are more lax than of F-Droid. So they can include proprietary libraries or stuff in forks that the original devs don’t want. Also Izzy takes the binaries directly, so they can’t guarantee their reproducibility like F-Droid does.

Btw other repos don’t need to even be for open source apps. Total Commander for Android has their own F-Droid repo too (although it doesn’t work atm).

Ah yea I don’t know why I didn’t see them before when I installed it… Weird. Thx

Lovely, but no widget support… Is there any foss weather app with good widget selection? I tried a bunch from F-Droid a while ago and didn’t find any.

You can’t say it’s similar Android device based on model. It may be similar or completely different. If it’s not supported, then you need to make a port yourself. You’re probably better off trying a custom ROM from xda.

• you open your code under a licence that means other people can use it, that means other people can use it

• reporting a bug is not demanding free labor

Like how do you think this is supposed to work?

A) That everyone who wants to use open source stuff needs to be a programmer and contribute?

B) That if someone posts code under GPL or some other licence permitting commercial use, that it’s not permitting commercial use anyway?

C) That you need to pay to report a bug?

Come on. If the dev wants to only fix particular things and wants payment for fixing other things, fine, but don’t say this is the only way foss should work.

Sounds good.

I wish there were such detectors for other triggering stuff, like gore, or creepy insects, or any visual based phobia. Everyone just freaks out about porn.

The best one imo is Iudesk Photo Editor. Not good for drawing, but otherwise it has almost everything, ad-free version is just a few €$£ and minimum tracking compared to the big guns.

Open source options are lacking: Litrato, Pocket Paint and Simple Draw, each does something but still not much together.

As people mention, there’s a bunch of them. I’ll also add the Simple Mobile Tools phone project. And Divest OS.

Interesting, I’d been using it just fine until the version that was meant fo fix it… Sigh. What’s the link/#no of the bug please?

Yea share sometimes work as a replacement, like e.g. opening YT links in NewPipe, but in some apps it triggers a share feature instead of open, so most of the time it’s not usable.