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Draken BlackKnight

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Keeper of the Scroll of the @courtoflazarus (toots/boosts are my own)
Based in NYC, Dullawhere refugee
Con-going weeb
Witch since 1997
Married to Tygerlander for over 20 years
Android root user since 2009
Navy vet 1996-2000
Cats are Gracie (rescued from dad), Tessa Void (2020), and Bombay Banana Orange (2021) of Kitten Academy
Preferred distro is Linux Mint
Please no DMs through here. Download Session Messenger and message me there instead.
Definitely not a lizardman from Agartha

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You should see what it does when you try to put aftermarket ink in the printer and HP’s flimsy excuse for why that is.

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@NeatNit
Another benefit to having the official repo is that you can toggle it off if Newpipe ever goes down the same path as, say, Simple Mobile Tools (sells to an adtech company).

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@NeatNit
The other problem is trusting a centralized service implicitly. That’s how people keep getting their login information exposed from Fakebook.

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@LIE
No worries. I’m expanding my feeds to include more of ActivityPub (except Fakebook’s most recent malware).

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@LIE

  1. I wasn’t sure which account I typed out that comment on.
  2. Some people only look at one thread.

Is that a good enough answer?

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@lurch @doctorLURK

  1. Download and install F-Droid to your Android phone: https://f-droid.org/
  2. While on the website, select “Docs” at the top of the screen then select “Known Repositories”
  3. Copy the URL for NewPipe’s repo
  4. In F-Droid on your phone, go into Settings, select Repositories, select the plus button at the top right corner, and paste the NewPipe repo into the text field.
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