Wont they take your money before the VPN is disabled/undetected?

Not choosing to vote […] is endorsing the establishment.

Where is the logic in that? By voting you’re actively acknowledging the legitimacy of the State. How would not voting be an endorsement of anything, as you see it?

Do you see installing a .dmg file (or installing through homebrew) on macOS as a workaround, or what do you mean? I’m not sure I have ever installed a single app from their store, so maybe it’s just that such a “workaround” feels normal to me, but scary to others?

https://librewolf.net/installation/macos/

Why use the App Store for that? https://librewolf.net/installation/macos/

I installed this by adding the github URL to Obtainium. It was very easy to set up, and worked fine in my brief testing. Thanks for the recommendation.

The very newly released Deepseek R1 “reasoning model” from China beats OpenAI’s o1 model on multiple areas, it seems – and you can even see all the steps of the pre-answering “thinking” that’s hidden from the user in o1. It’s a huge model, but it (and the paper about it) will probably positively impact future “open source” models in general, now the “thinking” cat’s outta the bag. Though, it can’t think about Tiananmen Square or Taiwan’s autonomy – but many derivative models will probably be modified to effectively remove such Chinese censorship.

Do you know, is this another tax additional to “blankmedieafgiften” (“blank media tax” or “private copying levy”), or is it the same tax under a different name?

It’s off by default, it seems, in version 1.10.4 RC1 from F-Droid. At least, I went to toggle it off, but it was already done.

Note, I tried rejecting the ToS st the first run, which just closed the app. So… I accepted them at the second run… Though, I don’t know if that in any way really could have affected the setting.

I installed 1.10.4 RC1 from the F-Droid repo (mine is just .4, not .04).

Maybe they did something in their build to remove Google and make it work without it? You could try that one.

I’m running it without any Google services (on this user profile), not even sandboxed. Would it not work for you when attempting, or have you just seen or heard somewhere that it wouldn’t?

No biggie, but reading the ToS in the app, it states that the app will send anonymous usage data to Google. I’ve disabled its network access (possible on GrapheneOS), and it works anyway. On this topic, the description in F-Droid reads:

Do I need an internet connection? No, but some functions (like entering your location manually) won’t work without one. You’ll have to use the GPS or enter a latitude and longitude instead.

My guess is it’s probably a national cultural tradition affected by previous or existing French laws and rightsholder practices regarding different common ways of “sailing”, making DDL from filehosts through debrid services a preferred choice over e.g. p2p methods like torrents, ed2k, gnutella etc. I’m pretty sure the filehosts+torrents products combo are a newer addition to debrid services without having used them myself. No idea about what their actual situation is and has been - but I know that some torrent trackers for French content currently exist today too.

Here are some alternatives to look into: https://slrpnk.net/post/15456722

Here are some other options to consider: https://slrpnk.net/post/15456722

Which is French too, and will probably go the same way as RD sooner rather than later…

It’s the same on Android.

Waze isn’t FOSS.

You’ll need to first download the relevant section of the map downloaded to be able to search it, though.

I am, and have been, relying on Transportr in multiple European countries, and it’s been a joy. Only problem I’ve had is that additional information from the provider (temporary changes on the route etc.) isn’t there, but that’s no biggie. Sad to hear it’s been unmaintained, hoping it’ll keep working. Though, forking and updating the APIs for future broken providers wouldn’t be too troublesome, right?

There’s also Öffi which was last updated on F-Droid 16 days ago. It does pretty much the same job as Transportr, though it visualises the overview of journeys in a different graphical way than the list of Transportr, which is why I liked Transportr better. However, Öffi has some other neat features that Transportr doesn’t have, such as listing the upcoming departures for all nearby stations/stops at once, based on your location.

If you ever need a 3D map on the phone, have a look at the OSM-based Magic Earth. You’ll have to select a map style (in the General settings) with elevation, such as “Satellite 2 with Elevation and Streets”.

Unfortunately, the app is closed-source…