drwankingstein

VLC on android kinda sucks sadly. It has bad performance and when playing remote playlists it's gui is crap.

Is it better to try and fail 10% of the time, or to not try at all and fail 100% of the time?

Play protect is an extremely useful feature that deters uneducated people from installing APKs because yes, the vast majority of times for normal folk, they are malware ridden. Google does try to prevent malware from getting on the play store, and they actually do a phenomenal job, but in the end, it's always going to be a cat and mouse game, and shits gonna slip through. It's still better then not trying at all.

I use fennec fdroid quite often, and a myriad of firefox forks like iceraven. But chromium based browsers are undoubtably the better experience for me, they kill my battery far less, they perform better, and have less bugs, especially when you go to utilize things like desktop mode, and ofc you also inherit many of the same issues that desktop browser has like not being able to properly render gradients https://degmods.com/ is an example of one such website.

and while many people may not care about features like webusb, firefox does lack said features too. This all makes it a very hard sell to replace chrome with firefox.

Personally I use cromite since it integrated ABP with ublock filters so it is fine. If you do want a chromium based browser there are multiple out there. I know a good chunk of people uses misses browser, which while it does look scammy on the webpage, it is open source.

Are there any of them that are actually any decent however? Firefox mobile is fairly slow and a battery hog compared to chromium based browsers.

realistically, it's not like they will replace them with anything else. Chrome just doesn't have any actual competitors on android yet. Every promising alternative is more or less just a webview wrapper. Maybe one day we might see servo based browser for android take off. It does actually perform quite well on android for what it is currently.

yeah the main issue is a lot of times if you know where stuff is, you don't need to use it. so its a bit less then convenient.

I wish there were tools that when you searched a place you could import into oom, but then, that would be a violation.

Apple maps are better then google maps I found for UX. Sadly OSM based solutions (I do like organic maps) are often just far too lacking.

Android 15 (LOS) on my LG G7 thinq 4gb ram, when I have a large number of accounts when syncing them android will run into oom issues even after tweaking oomd

Still using k9mail since fairemail causes me oom issues.

I still find myself looking for other emails tho since i need something that supports mailing list stuff better.

yes, because the rest of gnome is trash too