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  • TheImpressiveX@lemm.eeEnglish
    291·
    6 days ago

    I guess you can say they…divested from DivestOS.

    In all seriousness, I’m gonna need to find a new browser.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
    161·
    6 days ago

    sad to hear it. used mull as my primary browser, and wanted to switch to divestos from calyx. I guess not anymore, then :/

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        to be honest I don’t have a list at hand, but one of the reasons is that (I don’t remember which of the following) either they are more friendly to root users, or they are more friendly to those who don’t want unattended automatic system upgrades. I had to disable the updater app like disabling other apps for it to let me stop updates happening without my approval, which I want for 2 reasons:

        1. the occassional downgrades and breaking changes coming from upstream google engineers
        2. calyx not using the addon.d thing for some reason so Magisk does not get automatically installed to the upgraded system’s boot partition, which technically is also kind of a breaking change

        maybe I have read something about built-in features as well, but I’m not sure about that. it was a few months ago when I was reading up on this.

        • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          0·
          4 days ago

          Oh, i see. root seems like a tremendously bad idea, and a I appreciate their auto updates (especially like last week after google completely force-broke maps without play services and calyx had a fix within a week).

          • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            root seems like a tremendously bad idea

            that’s a personal choice. I have chosen its benefits

            and a I appreciate their auto updates

            yeah auto updates are good, that’s no question, but forced auto updates are not at all. or are we really only angry when windows does it?

  • Jomn@jlai.luEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    That is really disappointing… I understand the dev wanting to move on to something else after 10 years, but it would have been nice to not do it so abruptly.

    Currently, I’m not aware of any good alternative to Mull…

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
    104·
    5 days ago

    I find it frustrating that no discernable effort is being visibly made to pass this project on to another dev or group of devs.

    Just unceremoniously announcing it’s going down. After a successful fundraiser at the beginning of this year.

    I don’t know where the funds went, nor do I understand the abruptness of the closing of the project. I’m suspecting that this is a ragequit. Something happened somewhere quietly that led to the developer deciding that they cannot maintain any longer.

    This is, in short, quite disappointing.

    To anyone; if you do respond to this comment; do not try defend them. Instead, try to provide more context, or evidence that shows I have misread the situation. Arguing about how long he worked, or how passionate he was in the past, does not change the current facts. Provide more facts if you must argue.