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bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What's the current state of microG with regard to push notifications and location services?
2·5 months agoIf it’s the official one, yes, that’s what I would recommend anyone to go for.
But keep in mind that integrity checks will still fail even if you go that way.
bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What's the current state of microG with regard to push notifications and location services?
3·5 months agoI use microG on my main phone. I had to set them up myself, and I was told that I could just install them as any regular app through FDroid, but that was not entirely correct.
You can install them through FDroid, open the app, follow instructions, and both location services and notifications will work once all checkboxes in the “Self Test” page will be ticked.
Except that the “microG Services Framework installed” checkbox will never tick no matter what you do. Everything will still work no problem, except that microG will not be able to run privileged actions, in particular it won’t be able to immediately awake sleeping apps when they receive a push notification. This will cause delays with instant messaging apps and other time-sensitive notifications.
I solved all of this by installing through this unofficial installer. The downside is that this will also install some (FOSS) bloatware which you can’t uninstall. But you can disable all the stuff you don’t need, and you will also need to disable it from auto-updating from FDroid otherwise it will re-enable automatically.
You might also be able to find a ROM with microG already installed. If it exists perhaps I would recommend doing that instead.
You might still have some issues with integrity checks unless you install other mods. This might cause issues with some banking apps. You won’t find any official guides to bypass these checks though, as this is a gray area.
bruce965@lemmy.mlOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A curated list of awesome FOSS games
1·5 months agoHi, thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately 0 A.D. is still in beta, so it wouldn’t qualify for this list yet. It’s definitely popular enough to deserve to be in the honorable mentions though, so I will add it.
As for D-Day:Normandy I assume you mean this? I can’t seem to find a license (nor source code actually, but maybe there is no source code as all scripts might have been written manually). I could add it if it’s actually FOSS, but I’d need help about the license and where to find sources.
bruce965@lemmy.mlOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A curated list of awesome FOSS games
2·5 months agoAh, that’s a shame, I never really thought about it, but it does make very much sense. I’ll demote but keep the CC BY-NC games in a separate section in this list for now, but I will probably remove them in the future once the list grows enough. Thanks for the pointer!
bruce965@lemmy.mlOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A curated list of awesome FOSS games
2·5 months agoHi! Although OpenRA’s source code is free, it depends on proprietary assets, so unfortunately it doesn’t qualify for this list. Still, thanks for the suggestion, CnC and RA were both amazing games!
bruce965@lemmy.mlOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A curated list of awesome FOSS games
1·5 months agoAdded, thanks for the suggestion! They tricked me with the 0.x.x version identifier, but it seems to be a mature/completed project.
bruce965@lemmy.mlOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A curated list of awesome FOSS games
2·5 months agoSS14 is still in early-access, but fair enough, it’s so popular that it deserves at least to be in the honorable mentions. Thanks for your suggestion!
bruce965@lemmy.mlOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A curated list of awesome FOSS games
1·5 months agoHi! Thanks for the suggestion. I can’t quite understand if this project is mature and if it depends on non-free assets. My first question emerges from the fact that they use a 0.x.x version identifier, and the second one from what is says on this page.
Content repository for OA3 is not yet available.
bruce965@lemmy.mlOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A curated list of awesome FOSS games
1·5 months agoThey seem to be a bit more lenient than me. Their list also includes games which depend on non-free assets, as long as the source code is free. Still, I will add this list to the list of lists in the post. Thanks!
bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Can’t get SSHing shim to work with forgejo for the life of meEnglish
51·9 months agoHere’s my config for reference, which works for me:
name: forgejo services: forgejo: image: codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:12 environment: - USER_UID=1000 - USER_GID=1000 restart: always volumes: - ./data:/data - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro ports: #- 80:3000 - 2222:22 networks: - nginx networks: nginx: name: nginx external: trueIf you can share your error message we might be able to better pinpoint the issue.
EDIT: I searched a bit and now I understand better what you are trying to do. I didn’t know about this “SSH shim” idea. This is not what I have done on my setup, sorry.
bruce965@lemmy.mlto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices
6·10 months agoIf port-forwarding is an issue, you can always use a free VPN to reach your self-hosted services. Or if you want to make them public, you can set up yourself a relay on AWS LightSail for less than 5$/month. Or if you want to save as much as possible you can use TailScale or CloudFlare’s Zero Trust network to self-host for free using their server as a relay.
bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•how much data does google grab about you in the EU? and questions about pkpass files and foss for android (like fdroid)
6·11 months agoYou might want to look into Island/Insular. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.oasisfeng.island.fdroid
Depending on your level of commitment to privacy, this might be a suitable solution for you.
bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Looking for a PDF viewer with a specific feature
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bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to use a domain I own to self-host services?English
2·11 months agoThey provide decent defaults for all the not-so-straightforward configurations, and they provide a web UI to configure the rest. That’s the sole reason I would recommend it to get one’s feet wet without having to work too much.
If one is committed to do things “the right way” they could switch to Nginx and “proper” self-hosting later.
bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to use a domain I own to self-host services?English
1·11 months agoYeah, I’m afraid you have to use a reverse proxy to host multiple subdomains. The CloudFlare daemon is the reverse proxy.
bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to use a domain I own to self-host services?English
93·11 months agoI would say this would be the proper way to do it (at least as a sysadmin), but since it’s OP’s first time I would simplify it to:
- Install CloudFlare ZeroTrust daemon on your local server;
- Set up reverse proxy such as Nginx (optional, the alternative is to use a different subdomain for each service, which might be easier);
- Point the FQDN to CloudFlare.
Let CloudFlare handle the certificates, DDoS protection, etc… Link if you’d like to give this setup a try.
bruce965@lemmy.mlto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection
2·1 year agoPersonally, I’ve been sharing this folder across different installations for years, even between different operating systems. I’ve never had any major issues so far.
The only minor annoyance is that whenever I switch between Windows and Linux I have to restart the browser once, otherwise extensions do not load on the first run.
So yeah, I would say diy-syncing this profile folder is feasible and very reliable. Same thing is true for Thunderbird, but I’ve been doing it for less time. And I would assume the same thing is also true for Chromium-based browsers because I do it with Signal which is Electron-based.
Most likely Dark Reader.
bruce965@lemmy.mlOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google KeepEnglish
2·1 year agoI have to admit that I didn’t really think about reminders. That would perhaps make more sense for Simple Calendar, perhaps in the future I might consider linking notes and reminders. Or maybe it would make sense to implement it directly in Simple Notes? I don’t know, I’ll keep that in mind for later, thanks!
the number of clicks/menus/presses it takes to create a note
I strongly agree on that. It must be at most as many clicks as on Google Keep, i.e. two clicks (plus a few to open the app).
import existing Keep notes from a Google Takeout into your Simple Notes
I didn’t think about that. That shouldn’t be too hard. After the MVP (minimum viable product) will be ready, imports from various common formats should be implemented, and I guess Google Takeout for Google Keep should be supported too.
Thanks for the suggestions!


Sorry for being pedantic. I might be dumb, but I don’t see any assets (sprites/models/sounds) in this repository. I think the license you linked might just be referring to the code.
The lack of recent releases isn’t a discriminator for this list. And active development is certainly a plus.