Why don't you explain your arguments or make counter arguments instead of attacking your opponent personally. How do I matter here?
FrameXX
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I am not a Zorin OS fanboy or anything, but honestly I don't see anything scummy about requiring payment from the user to get access to certain features of the product. It's just shareware. It's their product FOSS or not. I think they make it clear about what you get for free and what you don't. If you don't like that you don't have to use their product and you can use an alternative instead. It's not like they were a monopoly in the world of Linux distros and you have no other option. I see nothing scummy about this. It would be scummy if they would do some kind of false advertising (adverties features you actually don't get or adverties features in a misleading way) or if they started moving features from the free to the pro version that used to be free, because some people may have relyed on these features.
Can you elaborate? Because to me this feels like saying that the local grocery shop is scummy because it wants people to pay instead of relying on donations. If the whole OS was paid like RedHat Linux is than it would be OK or you consider that to be also a case of taking advantage of users who don't know any better.
Flutter uses its own UI engine. It does not rely on any webview AFAIK.
By contrast, Flutter minimizes those abstractions, bypassing the system UI widget libraries in favor of its own widget set. The Dart code that paints Flutter's visuals is compiled into native code, which uses Impeller for rendering. Impeller is shipped along with the application, allowing the developer to upgrade their app to stay updated with the latest performance improvements even if the phone hasn't been updated with a new Android version. The same is true for Flutter on other native platforms, such as Windows or macOS.
https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/architectural-overview#flutters-rendering-model
AFAIK you have to give the app location access for it to be able to scan sourrounding networks and see the SSIDs (At least that's how it works on the newer Android versions circa around Android 10 or 9). For bluetooth you have to enable at least the nearby devices permission. If you do these things then it makes sense that the app can track your location.
You are kind of right. I should have thought about that before commenting.
I am not educated enough about this, but don't these kind of games unnecesarrily strain all the servers that host the packages for people that really need them for download and most of these people run these servers for free in good will and faith that they will serve meaningful needs with positive impact? I am sorry for spoiling the fun, but I felt like I had to point this out.
I think the Kiwi browser has it. EDIT: Or had it when it existed. I don't see it on Google Play anymore.
You can't even change brightness on lockscreen when using a notebook or laptop.
The Simple Mobile Tools collection of Android apps. Forks have been made and are maintained fortunately, but the original autor sold the apps to some company that just adds ads and trackers to the apps to make more money out of it.
I have a good experience with PocketBook.
At least you can still get a functional and minimalist homepage on Firefox by disabling it.
You can do that on Edge too btw.
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I think maintaning a Firefox fork is pretty demanding especially considering you are already maintaining a distro. And there are already a lot of Firefox forks out there.