PCMag: Google Play Store Settlement Emails Are Real, You May Get $2 Later This Year. “If you used an Android phone or tablet between 2016 and 2023 you may be set to receive a small payment as part of a Google Play Store settlement. Official settlement emails are now being sent to users impacted by a major antirust case brought against Google back in 2021.”

Didn't know @lehtimaeki had a YouTube channel! Subscribed right away. I've been thinking about leaving Strava too, but since I already use Meta services and other corporate platforms, I've stayed, mostly because their API still works. I use it on a small scale to save my runs to a cached JSON file that I can pull into different apps I've built, and I still enjoy the social aspect.

I use around 20 different running apps out of curiosity, and honestly, there are no real alternatives to social running apps. 99% of them are for tracking. If I had the time, I'd build "my own Strava" or even a decentralized running app. But for now, I'll stick with Strava, it works fine for me. I like my "running feed", one single source of truth for all my runs.

For reading, I switched to the Bookshelf app from Goodreads years ago (https://getbookshelf.com). I lost the social aspects of reading, but I don't really miss them since I read alone anyway. There are platforms like Hardcover, StoryGraph, and Bookwyrm, but each of them seems to lack something, whether it's a proper app, features, or decent UI, so I stick with Bookshelf, which is completely local and has a nice user interface.

The way I see it, we have to live with these cognitive dissonances: either choose independence and stay mostly alone or accept the corporate walled gardens for the social features. I use both, roughly 50/50 commercial and open source apps. For the commercial ones, I try to keep control of my data as much as possible by keeping backups, saving to JSON/log/database, using APIs, and so on.

Maybe we should post more runs to Mastodon? The problem is, I just don't have the time or energy to share every run on social media with all the details. Something always ends up missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfadGMo5N0

#Strava #Running #Juokseminen #Apps #Run

Sandelsmies dominoi kantakaupunkia vielä toistaiseksi. Mutta ei kauaa!

Stride on hauska sovellus piristämään treenejä. Kävelijät, juoksijat ja pyöräilijät - kaikki mukaan! https://playstride.app

#Sovellukset #Stride #Apps #Juokseminen #Running

Im Play Store warten wieder Gratis‑Apps 🎉📱 schnell sichern, bevor die Aktionen enden. #Android #GooglePlay #Deals #Apps #Tech

https://schmidtisblog.de/an-diesem-samstag-apps-watch-faces-spiele-icon-packs-und-wallpaper-fuer-dich-10-01-2026-1791003/

'I'm a BBC star and have never been more cautious after MasterChef and Strictly drama'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/im-bbc-star-never-been-36529544

Anyone who's ever used the Everything Search application on Windows probably couldn't live without it.

Since my return to Mac I've been using Find Any File as a semi-replacement for Everything Search, but now I've switched to Cardinal, and love it so far.

It's free and open source. Get it here:

https://github.com/cardisoft/cardinal

#search #app #apps #tools #software #tech #technology #apple #Mac #macOS #windows #tip #tips #FediTips #MastoTips #FreeSoftware #free #FOSS #OpenSource

Hallo ihr Lieben,
ich entwickle gerade eine neue Buchidee (Roman) und benötige Hilfe zum Thema Tracking Apps (zum Auffinden einer Person ohne deren Wissen), v.a. zur technischen Seite. Aber auch zur rechtlichen.

Ich würde meine Fragen dann gerne per persönlicher Nachricht stellen, um nicht zu viel von meiner Idee preiszugeben.

#fedihelp #romanrecherchen #Apps

KDE Frameworks 6.22 Fixes Multiple Clipboard-Related Issues on Wayland

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-22-fixes-multiple-clipboard-related-issues-on-wayland