Been using a degoogled LineageOS phone with all apps being exclusively FLOSS. My favourite free alternatives to proprietary apps and services must be Lemmy (Jerboa) for Reddit, ArcaneChat and Matrix (Extera) for Telegram, Fluxer for Discord.
Which ones are your favourite?
OpenCamera
If there’s better or similar, please advise me as I’m always interested in discovering
Trying out WebLibre browser right now and really like it. Based on Gecko engine. There’s some unnecessary ~ “AI” ~ (opt-in) but a few features make it worth it.
- Real rules for tab containers. There’s even automatic isolation and baked-in tor per container, and easy per URI rules
- Real plugins. ublock origin out of the box, even an option to force enable desktop Firefox plugins if you choose.
- Real PWA support. There’s an option to force add sites as a PWA even if the site doesn’t officially support it. On grapheneos it means I don’t need NativeAlpha to make my tiny bank’s site appear as a PWA.
Finally got around to installing it. Did the initial setup and I’m absolutely amazed! So much customization. I really like it. Way more powerful than Fennec which I usually use.
@myszka
- Fossify calendar, message and gallery
- NerdCalci : calculator
- Fennec : browser
- Markor : markdown notes
- Syncthing-Fork : sync my notes
- Acode IDE
- LibreOffice Viewer
- Librera Reader : PDF reader
- CapyReader : RSS reader
- Helliboard
- Termux
- Material Files : support browsing termux storage & more
- OpenCamera
- Image Toolbox
- NewPipe
- TrackerControl : track and block app data
- SherpaTTS
- Proton VPN
- CoMaps
- VLC
- Lawnchair : home screen
- Obtainium : apk downloaderThanks!
Material Files : support browsing termux storage & more
How do I do this? Can’t seem to find the right button 🤔
@myszka on the left menu, add an external storage and then you should see termux
@myszka you can also go to parameters and then something like “favourite folders” (my android is in French so I don’t know the exact translation) and there you can add Termux path.
Don’t have Termux in both places for some reason…
@myszka Sounds like a Termux config issue. Have a look at this page maybe:
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-setup-storageStill no Termux in “storage” options, weird…
@myszka I’m lost and don’t see what’s wrong, sorry. Maybe search the Termux Wiki. I did this on two different phones (Pixel 6a and Motorola g86) without issue. I’m not root either. Termux recommends Material Files as file browser and I have tested several others without success.
- Apps installation: Obtainium for most, directly install apk from GitHub, gitlab,… ; Droid-ify for store-like function
- Keyboard : FUTO, find it the best, includes swipe typing and good dictionary
- Galery: AVES
- Loyalty cards: Catima
- SSH, mosh, sftp, local term,… : Haven, two available version, one with only terminal based and one with remote desktop capability
- File transfer (local network) : LocalSend, easy way to transfer files to people on the same WiFi network, installable through official play store, on windows, Linux,… which allows to use even with non-Foss enthusiasts
- TOTP codes generator: Stratum
- Text editor: Xed-editor
- Calendar: KashCal
- IRC client: HexDroid
- Calculator/Unit converter: Unitto
Mind that FUTO is not FLOSS, just source-available.
I mean… for a keyboard app, should it be a concern that it’s not “free” to redistribute for commercial purposes?
Does this comment mean you would not use the app for this reason?
Personally, yeah.
To me, it’s a matter of: It is not open-source, so if the FUTO company starts enshittifying it, then no one’s going to fork it to undo that, because no one wants that proprietary license on their project, whether they intend to distribute it commercially or not.
Obviously, I could just switch to a different keyboard app, if that happens, but in my experience, it also means that no one has their eyeballs on the source code to notice them enshittifying and they’re just generally more likely to sneak shit in, because they know no one’s going to fork.
But I’m also not either a fan of open-source software when it’s developed by a company, for similar reasons. For example, Google puts so much dev capacity into Android and has the infrastructure to uniquely benefit from it, so at best you’ll get soft-forks. No one can afford to do a proper hard-fork and fix the permission system, for example.
