Have any of you been on the PlayStore recently? It’s a fucking dumpster fire. I recently had to get a new phone, and when I try to search for and install an app I had installed before the results are, “try tiktok, or Whatsapp” which are listed at the top of the search results even though they’re completely unrelated to what I searched for.
I avoid it like the plague.
My main personal phone is on GrapheneOS, and my work phones are as basic as possible with what they run. The only time I really ever spend on Play Store (and even then I tend to use Obtainium instead) is for when I review retro handhelds which emulate.
F-droid/Izzy and so on have everything we need!
Are you saying that Obtainium can install an app from a PlayStore URL?
In a fashion! Here you go:
https://github.com/RJNY/Obtainium-Emulation-Pack
You don’t need the full lot of apps, just pick and choose what you want and need! When there is an update to it, Obtainium will fetch and install it for you!
Mindustry is amazing. Really fun to start over with the community mods.
How in the $@-# are you sposed to change the direction of a conveyor belt?
Tap this arrow.
Double tap and drag Or click the arrow to rotate it in the first place
Thanks!
Just build over it in the proper direction or look in your game settings for the controls?
When you build and drag in any directionele the belt direction is adjusted automatically.
Let me guess… Mindustry, breakout, pixel dungeon, unciv?
EDIT: Close! 4/5. Never even heard of aaaaxy
You know what I’ve noticed? I have a pixel pro 9, like a quarter of the apps I look for on the app store say “this app is not available for your device”
I have a bunch of games I bought a while ago that are now no longer available …
Some fuckin’ conspiracy, I swear
If you’re open to it, there are seas to sail where you can download said APK and run it without issue. Not a 100% fix since some don’t, but I have others which did and do!
Wait, is lemmy sensoring pirated websites/apps mentions? For anyone wondering, mobilism.org is the ultimate place.
yeah, i’ve done so before, but its such a crapshoot with some apk providers. Got any trusted sites you would never suspect malware from?
Absolutely, feel free to send me a direct message here!
Are you grapheneos? I’ve noticed similar for my Pixel Fold 10 but assumed it was an odd combination of the two.
lineage, but yeah, you think rom might be the cause?
I love your posts/articles/reports 🤗
Thank you very much!
thank you for letting me discover f-droid and some of it possibilities.
As Axolotl said below, make sure you use F-droid to search for Droidify. It looks and behaves far nicer than plain old F-droid and gives you many more options!
And enjoy, I’m so glad my article helped at least one person find new things out there :) :) :)
I very much enjoy IdleFantasy lately.
It is available on F-Droid.
Dude, I’ve been playing the hell out of idol fantasy for a while. I wish I had a discord or something
I just got into Andor’s Trail recently. Pretty neat so far!
There is a few months of tongue-in-cheek gags there, plus grind, much grind. Great community built game.
I have the following:
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Anuto TD
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Ricochlime
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Unblock Jam
Great to pass time
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Most of the mentioned games actually ARE on play store.
I just realized -__-
Worst reflection of my lack of research there. I did just add a callout in the intro reflecting my own idiocy on that front (there’s no excuses)
You’re right!
Ricochlime and Tensy are also pretty fun.
