Good to know. I have a S23 I bought it half a year after launch but never really tried dabbling in buying a 1 year old android flagship due to the 3-4 limited OS upgrades (though that chagned).

Side note how long does your battery tend to last? Do you swap the battery at some point or take measures to limit battery charge (I’m not sure if pixel can do this but on samsung I can limit battery to 80%).

Ah sorry I misread your post as castero having a yearly subscription (sry my bad) 😞

Podcast republic cost $4 one time (for ad removal) and has cross platform support with iOS android and web.

Yeah its a yearly subscription 😔

I just restarted my computer and relized it was a macos bug. Now I have no issues

I love this program. I do kinda wish shizuku support could be added for auto updates.

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I remember back when I had a iPhone 6 I managed to wreck the battery in 1.5-2 years.

I used to play way to much world to tanks and ended up charging my phone twice a day 😂.

As this was before apple had battery health my phone would spontaneously shut down at the time.

Although to apples credit this was far from normal use

Not implemented yet 😢

Ah meant I meant 5x (bad math strikes again 😓)

Voyager has only 22 sponsors right now and hasn’t even reached his $250/month goal on Github, while Sync for Lemmy is already asking for $100 for a OTP for the Ultra version.

I think this boils down to two reasons:

1. Sync has more features than other lemmy apps out of the gate (since its a continuation of sync for lemmy). No waiting for features it just works, etc.
2. The definition of a sponosor and the definition of a subscription have potential different implications. From my point of view sponsoring encourages development and acts as a way of saying thank you for your hard work. However it is important to note sponosoring doesn’t necessarily guarantee that you are entitled/owed specific features or support in a timely manor. By contrast when you pay for sync’s subscription the role shifts from a simple donation to a buisness relationship (in a sense). You pay $16 a year and now the dev (lj) is on the hook to make sure features listed in the subscription work for that year, responsible for any support queries, and as its his primary job incentivized to continue development (though you could say this last point is sort of equivalent to sponsoring).

I hope this post didn’t come of as a bit to dark, my view points especially on the community/developer relationship in a donation/sponsor context versus subscription context could be way off.

Curious on your thoughts (love the work on voyager 😄 )

Edit Just wanted to link photoprism (a opensource ai powered photos app) subscription policy (I think it does put a interesting case on subscriptions versus donations).

https://www.photoprism.app/membership/faq

Pricing (not sponsoring them or anything just as a point of reference):

https://www.photoprism.app/editions

Tldr: Yes

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/367

Edit:

I should add the hold up is there isn’t a prebuilt library for markdown (has to be made from scratch) so it may take a bit of time.

Its a 4x price increase Sync pro for reddit was about $4 (USD), sync for lemmy is $22 to remove ads

Is there a one time payment option to remove ads?

Dev said he will ad a ad removal feature

Glad to hear 👍

Edit image for those who are curious:

I found using Librera’s Record TTS feature with aitts wavenet plugin you can make decent sounding audio books

Aitts plugin apk: https://web.archive.org/web/20230419204608/https://www.milmike.com/aitts-google-wavenet-voices-for-android-tts

I also use Smart AudioBook Player alongside Librera to listen to the generated audiobook (since librera ends up generating 1-2 min mp3 files). Smart audio book allows clustering of these mp3 files (merging total listening time).

Same issues (especially when fdroid tries to update itself). Not sure why it doesn’t work (when it should in theory).

Plugin repo hasn’t been updated in a bit as well 😢

With root privilaged extension it is.

On android 13 however it should be able to do it via session installer (google allowed unattened updates) and even without that there is a shizuku plugin which should allow it to work in theory (however the plugin is buggy and works half the time).

Snazzy labs and macadress

I use drodify. For UI and shizuku. Only wish is if auto updates could work.

I also use obtanium. Gets updates direct from GitHub release, handy if an app you want doesn’t have a fdroid repo or you want faster updates.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium