and water is wet.

T-Mobile offers the basic edition (with ads) for free on my plan at least. knowing Netflix though, that probably won’t last much longer. oh well, I’ll still have the high seas.

as far as I see freetube is just written in html, css and Javascript, then all of that thrown into an Electron app. you can run these elements without Electron in any browser, it just won’t have access to as many device features as the app does.

I’ve built a web version here from the source just to try it out. it’s somewhat buggy but it does work

is, but it’s just a webview

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/io.freetubeapp.freetube

where I live the traffic patterns continue as usual, just no activation of the walking lights. so essentially useless.

not sure. I just use it to chat with friends, family and such, not so much for new connections

Signal and Lemmy, gotta be my two favorite genders

file management up until very recently was very basic and even now is very limited. there is no access to any files that apps use besides downloads from Chrome and whatnot.

there isn’t really a downloads folder per se, only a downloads section. besides that, files can be tagged to help find them and folders are just something deemed unnecessary. everything is just saved into a “space”. there is no implication that there is a root directory of sorts, only a space where files are and you let the phone search for it.

when you save pictures from a website, there is an option to save as image, but in the photo gallery, there is an option to save it into the files app, implying that files and photos are different things. you can’t access photos from the files app, you HAVE to access them from the photos app. this one really frustrates me.

I have only used iOS in the days where the iPhone 6S was relavant and never went back, so do correct me if anything I said was wrong.

Aliucord might be up your alley too, it has some plug-ins to backport functionality to the (better) 126 version of discord

honestly, can’t argue with that

that’s completely acceptable. i like when apps integrate with my Monet color theming and I’ve never had issues loading video after i turned off the Piped proxy, basically just turning it into NewPipe with a different look. In my experience, don’t turn that on unless you have a specific reason to. It leads to video loading issues just like you found.

Some things I like about LibreTube:

• The PiP functionally works better than in Newpipe
• I can see the likes and dislikes of comments and expand the thread to see more comments
• Swipe gestures to enter and exit fullscreen just like on the normal YT app
• I can view a content creators content by Livestream, Short, normal video etc. for some reason shorts just don’t show up in Newpipe
• SponsorBlock integrated. I am aware there is Newpipe x SponsorBlock

If NewPipe has a way to add the above functionality, I’ll gladly try it again!

also Libretube is a better looking app + more true to the normal youtube app imo. plus when you disable the Piped proxy it’s always reliable

YEAH