There’s nothing that stops a FOSS app from doing that

I’m well aware there’s no technological obstacle. many people choose FOSS maps over Google to have less of their data collected though, so I could imagine they’d object to such practice, which would make the feature less effective.

not really, because they’d have to constantly collect its users’ location in order to do that.

not sure where you’re seeing this, latest release was in June, and the latest commit was three weeks ago.

it’s a desktop program, while most of the solution OP has posted are Android exclusive.

just treat it as a creative writing piece (which most of the time it is anyway)

“Windows bad pls upvote”

one of the mentions that you added to your post (along with thelinuxEXP for some reason) makes it appear in a Lemmy community that’s focused on Linux news, not screenshots.

“guys look here’s an ASCII logo of the distro I use”

okay… and?

…so?

https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188

https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Clipboard

they also provide a workaround.

someone should create !windowsbad@lemmy.ml so that such content doesn’t get accidentally posted in a Linux community.

it’s a selling point because it’s aimed at developing countries with limited internet access. it comes bundled with lots of programs and some games, educational videos, and 50,000 Wikipedia articles.

anything that’s supported by Gadgetbridge https://gadgetbridge.org/

I doubt Boost is going to be open source, given that the reddit client wasn’t.

Need to go to Inbox

no you don’t.

https://streamable.com/cldkjn

I’m posting this reply from Thunder.

edit: I’ve edited this reply from Thunder.

huh, you’re right, I’ve never noticed that.

Jerboa is the most “official” one.

I wouldn’t say so, it’s just been around for the longest time.

Liftoff, Jerboa, Thunder.