• @lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        37 months ago

        I’ve been leaning more and more towards using fdroid just to find apps and then using Obtainium to install them directly from source.

        • @smeg@feddit.uk
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          27 months ago

          Same. I’m using Obtanium anyway for things that are github-only, no real need to have the clunky fdroid client installed as well.

        • HubertManne
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          27 months ago

          Not saying its worse but I recall seeing an article about some change in policy with it but honestly I can’t find it now. Maybe it was fud.

          • @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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            27 months ago

            I think I remember something about that, but I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time. I feel like whatever it was, it was rather recent, though.

        • HubertManne
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          17 months ago

          did you read the other replies? nothing much but a bit back there was some article about changes in terms of paid for stuff. I can’t find it now though so not sure how real it was.

            • HubertManne
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              17 months ago

              yeah I don’t really have enough details to be sure but like everything I like to have a backup plan.

  • JackGreenEarth
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    97 months ago

    What’s the point? Updating four apps four times as slowly simultaneously is the same as updating four apps at four times the speed consecutively, and you would have the same internet speed either way.

    • @unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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      187 months ago

      In my experience (not in Android apps but in Arch Linux updates) parallel downloads are almost always waaay faster. Magnitudes faster. Using multiple cores? Is it the bottleneck actually enforced by the server? I don’t know, I just know it works.

      And if they did it, it’s because it works on Android too.

  • Lucy :3
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    67 months ago

    I can update infinite packages at the same time in pacman tho 😎

  • AmidFuror
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    37 months ago

    Do I have to decline providing a method of payment 4 times for free apps, or just the once?

  • MeatPilot
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    7 months ago

    HOLY FUCK THIS IS AMAZING!

    Tap for spoiler

    I’ll never use this. Who the fuck does need this? I download a new app maybe once every 6 months.

    • @atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      157 months ago

      For updates? It works for updates too. I hope you’re updating apps more than every 6 months for security reasons.

    • Paradoxvoid
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      77 months ago

      This is useful for updates so you’re not bottlenecked as much (if you don’t have automatic background updates set up).