But hey, if the app can be verified not to do anything stupid with that permission, that’s more than you can say about the closed-source offerings on the Play Store
Gotta sometimes depend on some other people in your life. I also depend on people not mixing toxic stuff into my groceries. The people from F-Droid are generally nice and have proven themselves. And there is more than one pair of eyes on most of the code. And automatic checks.
Honestly, I sometimes do. I contribute to free software, file bugreports and most of the time have a look at the code to see if I can fix it myself and hand in a patch. I tinker around with brand-new niche ideas. More often than not my (larger) contributions are to small projects and not the large ones. It’s not my hobby to fix Firefox. I think there are a lot of people like me.
And for Linux distributions and something like the F-Droid you have some maintainers on top, who often review every patch and new version.
Well then, learned something new today.
But hey, if the app can be verified not to do anything stupid with that permission, that’s more than you can say about the closed-source offerings on the Play Store
Insert Padme Anakin Meme here:
You did verify it, didn’t you?
Gotta sometimes depend on some other people in your life. I also depend on people not mixing toxic stuff into my groceries. The people from F-Droid are generally nice and have proven themselves. And there is more than one pair of eyes on most of the code. And automatic checks.
(I got this one, but it’s for Linux and USB, not Android & Bluetooth: https://github.com/jnweiger/led-name-badge-ls32/ )
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Honestly, I sometimes do. I contribute to free software, file bugreports and most of the time have a look at the code to see if I can fix it myself and hand in a patch. I tinker around with brand-new niche ideas. More often than not my (larger) contributions are to small projects and not the large ones. It’s not my hobby to fix Firefox. I think there are a lot of people like me.
And for Linux distributions and something like the F-Droid you have some maintainers on top, who often review every patch and new version.