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There is also a setting under accessibility to turn off animations (at least on my phone–a Pixel 4a w/5g). It is in the color and motion section.

Not a lawyer and it has been a while since I studied this, but when one open source project uses another, they aren’t really transforming the others code into a new license.

When GNU/FSF says a license is compatible with the GPL, they mean you can legally use the code with the GPL. More or less, the FSF says if you use a GPL code the entire project has to give end users all the freedoms in the GPL. The LGPL is slightly different in that it can be a separate library. They consider even dynamic linking a GPL project to require both projects to be covered under GPL.

This is why proprietary developers call the GPL “viral.” GPL code “infects” all other code with its license. This is the deal you make when you use GPL code, and I think it is a fair one. You don’t have to use their code.

I suggest you read the licensing bits of the Free Software Foundation’s website. fsf.org and gnu.org

The real fdroid is not malware. Did you get it from f-droid.org?

The vendor’s software may be spyware and not like you using something other than the stock keyboard. Though it may just be poorly written software which conflicts. Could be many things.

A second USB port or headphone jack adds $1(US) to the manufacturing cost, if even that. Can’t cut into the corporation’s massive profits by even a little. Nope, can’t have that.

Java isn’t an interpreted language any more than C. Java gets compiled into its own machine code developed by Sun. That machine code can be converted to native code or just run “interpreted.” (which is more like emulation.)

Maybe you should learn more about something before you criticize it.

AntennaPod allows streaming podcasts. I don’t think it shows that option by default though. You have to view the individual podcast or change the default in the settings for streaming.

It isn’t very accurate. I live in Idaho, and my phone’s geoip shows up all over the United States. Currently it says Utah, last time I checked.

One possibility is an instance shutting down. Many instance admins are good about giving lots of notice, but sometimes that doesn’t happen.

In fact there has been at least one instance on the fediverse which the admin disappeared from the internet, and their instance just slowly degenerated until it stopped working. Were they hit bt a bus? Who knows.