The reason Signal does this is that they consider your deivce storage 'unsafe', as it can be more easily accessible by other apps. AFAIK not providing the option to let you do it anyway is purely because the Signal devs don't want to.
Threema for example has an option to save all received media to normal storage, similar to WhatsApp.
The Pixel 8 and onwards technically support DP alt mode again. I'm not sure about stock, but I believe I read about some people having it just work in Graphene OS.
I significantly prefer it for car navigation, it seems to always pick 'more sensible' routes than Organic Maps. Also the live traffic is very nice to have.
I prefer Organic Maps when I'm on foot, ie. walking through the city or hiking. Imo it feels less cluttered when you just want to look at a map.
Edit: Another big plus for Magic Earth is transit support. It's not as good as Google Maps, but it's certainly better than nothing.
While not FOSS, the closest thing we have to a drop-in replacement would be Magic Earth. It uses openstreetmap data, supports fully offline usage, has satellite images (only online though) and best of all, no tracking or telemetry.
Same! I'm lowkey tempted to get a fancy one now, but deep down I know it just isn't worth it.
https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner
I use this app for scanning documents, I just tried sharing a picture to the app and running OCR on that picture, which also worked fine, so it should also fit your usecase.
Damn even though you explained the abbreviation I still read it as Wife Approval Factor for a second and was very confused
In that case you can try adding before:2023 or similar to your search
Imo it looks to be very bloated for what I want. I don't need (or necessarily want) a GPS track for the whole journey, but rather just start and endpoint. I intend to tell the distance from my cars odometer.
Also I already started making my own app by now anyway and I'm far too committed to consider other options lol
Hm using Tasker for this is actually a really good idea, thanks!
I don't quite remember the source for this, but I believe I read some time ago that it's actually a good thing to have separate drives. The reasoning is, if you buy two identical drives (at the same time), the likelyhood of both drives failing around the same time is severely higher.
This is then amplified by the fact that rebuilding a RAID puts a lot of strain on the non-dead drive, so if ie. drive 1 dies and drive 2 is about to die, the strain you put on drive 2 in order to rebuild your RAID onto drive 3 might kill drive 2 before you even finish rebuilding your RAID.
Again, this is just from my memory, it might be worth doing some more research on.