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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Xtra the only way I can watch Twitch on my Firestick. Fuckin Twitch ads are ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out "S0und". It's pretty good too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally the best app so far.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it avaibable on F-Droid? I don't find it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Same with youtube. Newpipe is a must nowdays. From desktop I use freetubeapp.io

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Xtra works with the firestick? Will have to try that. Only found smarttubenext to be good on firestick and stremio

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been using Phone app from Google mainly because it has a spam detection and blocker feature are you telling me that I can replace it with Yet another call blocker or how exactly would I make it work?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes you can!

As you can see, in newer android versions the spam filter app for calls it's separate from the phone app.

Try using Yet another call blockee + simple dialer (I recommend the entire simple mobile suite actually). If you're not satisfied you can always go back (contacts are stored in your SIM or on your phone, deleting or changing the dialer app does not make your contacts disappear)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so nice, thanks so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're welcome!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

contacts are stored in your SIM or on your phone

Quick correction: don't store contacts on your SIM (especially not without backups) this is considered by most phone software these days to be deprecated functionality since it dates back to payphones and flip phones without any writable memory. SIM cards are intended to be entirely disposable, and can fail at random with no warning

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for dimmer didn't know it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It changed my life, I love it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't call Aurora F-Droid only, expecially when the project's site lists a few different, non F-Droid ways to obtain the APK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Xtra is on the play store. At least it was

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust that. Play store is filled with ripoffs of foss apps with lots of ads and god only knows what. Also xtra blocks ads, which is a big no-no on the play store.

Only download from the sources listed on the app's github/gitlab page https://github.com/crackededed/Xtra

Spoiler: only from F-Droid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Apparently it isn't anymore