@th3rdsergeevich вот так вот весь Федивёрс плевался на этих неприкасаемых плебеев, а судя просто по активности под постами, народу там уже больше, чем в живой части Феди. Или федерация (она там вообще есть? Или у них чисто 1 сервер?) работает нормально и показывает всю активность.

(Тип, если у нас пост набрал 1000+ взаимодействий, то это либо Гаргрон — The Создатель (кто-нибудь когда-нибудь слышал про создателей Плеромы/любого другого не Мастодона/БлюСкая/Тредов?). У нас даже котики не в силах сотню избранных взять и набрать)

My Samsung Galaxy s5 is 32bit and sometimes it's problematic to find compatible apps.
For example I was able to install Brave Browser only from GitHub releases via "brave-mono-arm.apk" file. Universal apks are for 64bit only and so don't install.

Also, #Brave for some reason requires Google Play services when joining sync chain. It shows a box with alert but continues to work and joins sync chain normally via text words. QR scanner doesn't work.

#degoogle #android #degoogled

What's the situation with app stores on degoogled phones?

Google Play isn't available, of course.
I've installed #fdroid app store and it works well (btw thanks for their great accessibility for #blind users).
For Google Play apps I've tried #Aurorastore and it works too.
Free aps are downloaded even without a Google account. If you have paid apps, just login with your Google and download them.
If some apps try to verify their license via Google services they will fail. But for apps which have no such checks everything will be okay.
For example Advanced Braille Keyboard installs and works without any problems.

For Russian users #RuStore also may be needed and it works normally.
But if you have root, better add rustore to deny list in magisk before first launch. Russian services usually share info about root detection even if they are from different developers, so to avoid problems think about it in advance.

#degoogle #android #degoogled

After the welcome process you'll see a standard #CRDroid launcher which is fully accessible and is very simple.
I use Microsoft Launcher on my primary phone but for the sake of battery and cpu optimization I'll stick to the default launcher on this old Samsung.

Some accessibility labels in the UI are not translated to Russian and some buttons on recent apps screen have no accessibility labels at all.
The left one is for share, the middle one is for force kill of current app and the right one is for closing all apps.
Or enable read identifiers in Talk Back and get English names of these buttons.

Btw, Jieshuo screenreader works fine on this phone and as usual is much much faster than Talk Back, so I switch to it and leave Talk Back as a backup method.

Advanced Braille Keyboard #abk works fine too and I'm happy about that :D

#blind #degoogle #android #degoogled

Important note for #blind users!
#CRDroid doesn't contain #gapps, there's no Talk Back available.
You have to download it manually and put it to your phone via recovery.
Also you'll need a TTS engine and this is kinda problem because I know no TTS which work out of the box without prior network access.
#Espeak needs internet to download language data on first launch;
#RHVoice needs internet for every new voice;
#Vocalizer is paid and needs the same;

The only option at least for Russian people is to download #FonTTS (modern implementation of #NewFon) and use it.
If you know totally offline TTS synthesizers for other languages, please share.

Also even if you put Talk Back and TTS via recovery they won't start via volume buttons.
You have to enable usb debugging via recovery and then, on welcome screen, via adb, enable Talk Back and set default TTS for speech output.

After that you're good to go as an usual user.

#degoogle #android #degoogled