I LOVE F-droid.
suggest me any more cool apps I can get.
UPDATE: Got rid of Brave 🙃, I wasnt using it anyway but here you go the updated list.
hi, what launcher and app are you using for the dynamic island thingy?
I hate the dynamic island thingy, Its part of hyperos 😭
ohhh, i nuked hyperos long time ago and have no plans going back
good luck if you’re trying to unlock your bootloader!!
I already unlocked and it was a hell of a fucking pain in the ass, I got magisk as you can see.
I can’t find any custom ROMs for my phone, there is a community build LOS, but I’m not sure if its stable or if I can use it for daily driving.
Sweet! May I suggest IronFox instead of Brave? https://ironfoxoss.org/docs/installation/
It’s obviously degoogled chromium so who cares, but there are all these reasons: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Also, these are my initial impressions: https://programming.dev/post/47806969
I thought I had IronFox installed but it was fennec, but now that I’m trying to install ironfox—
Hm… Are you perhaps on iPhone?
what 😭 how can you possible get any of these Foss apps let alone F-droid in an iphone?
No idea. The settings icon looked a bit like the one from iOS. 😅
Companies like Xiomi are always on the move to rip every bit off from iphone for some reason.
Good boy
Can people use tailscale without single sign in. All the SSOs I saw were fascists corps.
It definitely supports self-hosted oicd providers like Authentik and Ophelia. If either of those are problematic I’d like to know, but they both pass the sniff test so far.
Good work! You should work on switching away from Proton’s apps/services next, as their CEO has indicated his support for fascists, and they have repeatedly turned over VPN logs when nation-states come asking.
I use Mullvad’s VPN and KeePass DX + Syncthing for passwords
KeePass is awesome!
I’m still not convinced that the CEOs comments conclusively prove that he’s on board with the fascists, but I did find it aggravating that Proton sent emails to my gmail account saying that I had new emails from specific parties. How tf is that private?
yes, I don’t have any money to pay for a VPN subscription for now but I am definitely switching my password manager.
De "futo"ing would be a good idea as well. Them being associated with Curtis Yarvin (literally their peer tube) who is a piece of shit close enough to elon musk and thiel.
Lou’s Rossman’s right to repair work is great. His ability to recognize and not associate with some of the shittiest people and groups has become legend. (Kiwi farms anyone?)
Atleast its better than Gboard lol,
any good alternatives? I’m so bad at typing in a phone my accuracy is pretty bad, I barely use my phone and I’m always on my computer that’s probably the reason.
I’m using heliboard at the moment. They offer swipe typing through the Google libraries currently. But are exploring a data collection process completely voluntarily to build their own swipe typing libraries.
I did like futo’s voice typing input method. It’s recognition was generally right up there with Google’s. Although there were certain words it frustratingly and consistently got wrong no matter how specifically I said them. But the fact that it could infer punctuation rather accurately where Google won’t even try was definitely nice. Unfortunately I have not found a truly viable replacement for that sort of input yet. I definitely believe that sometime in the not-too-distant future there will absolutely be a Foss local solution. But I don’t believe that futo’s solution is trustworthy enough to believe that it was local Etc.
Good to know. I just decided to try a gboard replacement and heliboard does pretty well.
Agree on heliboard. No issues here.
Yep, heli is what I’m using ATM. They are generally pretty solid and I haven’t heard anything to recommend against the project. In fact they’re completely voluntary and opt-in data collection to build their own swipe typing Library sounds like an awesome initiative and I hope they succeed with it.
I recommend gadget bridge if you have a smartwatch and other bluetooth objets. One app to rule them all.
https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge
Newpipe to watch youtube without ads.
Voyager to surf lemmy
Brave is a chrome based browser. There are a lot of Firefox forks (and no I dont recommend any because I dont wanna get into a fight…) you van and should use instead.
Otherwise great start /good choice!
How dare you not validate my decision to use Fennec/Mull/Waterfox/Iceraven/IronFox as the one true FireFox fork.
Conversely, how dare you suggest that stock Firefox/Nightly with the right add-ons is not good enough?
People these days…
+1 for Firefox Nightly with add-ons, anything else is sacrilege
We can Start a civilized discussion about, why you are wrong on every point in your post, right after you acknowledge templeOS as the only right ROM on your Phone!
The audacity… Tsk…
P.s. I love it how eveny when i tried not to offend somebody, you found something you could feel offended about :D
Obtainium!
They have new community-suggested install methods for difficult-to-get apps like Proton Calendar and Proton Mail. Usually, you’d only be able to get those from the Play Store. Obtainium lets you install them directly from their Github repos.
Librewolf and waterfox over brave
It’s android, Fennec for gecko or Vanadium for chromium
What’s gecko? Better?
Gecko is the browser engine developed by Mozilla and used by Firefox.
It’s better for adblockers, since Google blocked access to features used by them in chromium.
For a performance comparison check this out.
From a security point of view, Blink/Chromium got more people working on it (Google, Microsoft, community, etc.) so potential vulnerabilities get fixed faster but by being way more popular, way more vulnerabilities are found regularly and exploited in the wild.
Molly is a hardened signal fork. Not sure how folks feel about it but I have no issues.
Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?
Yikes. De googles but leaves the brave crypto scam browser installed.
Magisk twice is killing me.
I have 2 root 👾
One issue I’ve hit when de-googling is some sites/services/orgs/etc won’t let me change my email. So I’m stuck with google as long as I use those sites/services/orgs.
Can’t you opt you have forgot password or forgot email, then when it goes to validate you chose I don’t have access to this account?
I’ve changed some email this way
I have purchases linked to the accounts and they can’t be migrated to new accounts. Ie humble bundles, tutorials and educational materials. It sucks that there are services out there that are designed without the ability to change emails.
Well, tbh, they just use an email as a username a lot of times. As long as you note the old email address and password for an acct you should be good. Another option: Forward those emails with keys and other important info to a new address, or better yet, archive those all to a .PST (if you have Outlook for example) so they’re available offline.
Last but not least, stop using that old email, switch all important stuff over and leave the old dormant. I DO recommend a strong password update and possible MFA since you’ll seldom access it. But then you can disregard the old account and it exist for historical purposes.
With some, deleting and recreating accounts may work. Some may be tricky.
The less Google usage, the less data they get, the less they understand about who you are now.
