Let's just turn everything into TikTok, hey.
janguv
joined 2 years ago
Well the sync across devices would be the main thing that people would deem worth having, just not at that price.
Yup that's my one issue, otherwise I'd swap in a heartbeat. You can do it through nextcloud servers but not any free one so far as I can see. Wouldn't know where to start with a paid alternative.
Edit: Podverse, also FOSS, has a sync feature as part of their subscription. It's $18/year. Haven't used it to know how well it works, but much cheaper than Pocket Casts anyway (and a 3 month free trial it seems). It's on F-Droid.
Potentially, I suppose. But then most people who want a pirated copy of an article are probably looking for something with at least the right pagination – makes citation easier. So it depends on how much effort you're willing to give to that endeavour haha. Anything is better than nothing in a pinch though.
Considering the version you were given by the author could be watermarked in some way, and they could get into shit from a publisher if you uploaded it for mass retrieval, you ought not to do this without their express permission. It's different if you had downloaded the article from a journal/database yourself, or if it was some other version (like an unformatted manuscript).
I've been learning French on there for awhile now and it's been extremely effective por moi.
I wouldn't normally comment on a spelling issue, however, in this case...
+1 for LT. The guy that runs it certainly has an open source ethos. The German one despite being a "Complete" series is frustratingly very incomplete, but that aside it was a useful way into the language. The word order explanations were particularly good. Everything is always free and the project as a whole is expanding with the help of volunteers and donations. It's a good thing to be a part of.
Just a pointless comparison really, based on very particular use cases and tastes, taking all the objectivity out of "objectively better".
I would never use an iPhone for a daily device. But for some people it clearly makes the most sense.
Me, I have to block ads at the system level (so I root), I like custom ROMs, sideloading, pirating, tweaking, changing how my phone works and how I work with my phone. On any of those grounds, an iPhone makes zero sense. But most people don't care about any of that, and nor should they really.
Is there a paid tier? I always thought it was all free. Unless it's a donation option?
+1 for MiX. ~~It's FOSS~~ and has everything you could want in a file explorer, functionality wise.
Edit: scratch that. God knows how long I thought it was FOSS for!
You've been gluetun-free all this time?
I think that very much depends on what sort of article/chapter, what publisher, and what the nature of the copy the author has is (e.g. preprint, journal published version download, unpublished Word manuscript, etc.) It's hard to make any true generalisations here.