I'm probably dumb and wrong, but I feel like Firefox is going in a bad direction along with Ubuntu.
Like I think in 10 years there will be a business tier paid Ubuntu OS that ships with Firefox, and after like 3 or 4 iterations, it will be the IE of the future.
Current Firefox user. Writing is on the wall. Looking for new browser. And OS.
Lynx /s
This comment was written through Lynx. No, seriously.
Edit: I couldn't add the screenshot via Lynx as it seems to attempt resolving ".": Post "https://./pictrs/image": dial tcp: lookup . on 8.8.8.8:53: no such host.
But anyway:
Oh man, that brings me back. Lynx was really important back when GPU support for Linux was less good.
Much time was spent navigating NVIDIA Website in Lynx trying different driver versions. Then the autogenerated Xorg.conf would always be wrong. Kids these days have it so easy. Get off my lawn.
(Seriously though, I like this strange new world where Linux is super easy to set up)
I wish they'd fix and release the nightly. It so cool looking but there are quite some bugs still. Like performance, playlists, options not working and somehow it can't play videos from my network, while release version can all of this...
VLC is so bad, IMO. There are so many things it does really badly or doesn't do at all that any other alternative (like MPC) does well. It doesn't help that it's ugly as sin, too.
What's with the hate on VLC? It's done more than what I've ever wanted. You can also use it to download YouTube videos and stuff. It's the bees knees, man!
Maybe it's just a me problem, but I always have had troubles getting KDE Connect connecting my phone to other devices than my desktop. My phone and laptop could both be connected to the same wifi and be within inches of each other but refuse to acknowledge their existence. But I have my phone on the other side of the world and I swear it'll be able to connect to my desktop with no problem.
KDE Connect is a pretty good program, but I can't recommend it because of the troubles I always have.
I had this too until I discovered my router doesn't allow communication between devices connected to the 5GHz band. 2.4GHz works fine so now I have everything connected to that
It's ability to connect your phone to your computer is honestly awful. It would be better if they just openly popped up a window and told you to pick the IP, but they even have to hide that and not support it on every platform.
My laptop's plugged in my phone's on a Wi-Fi network they're on different VLANs. They could let me search for it by DNS name. They could let me just use a couple of static IPs so when I go from home to work it could find it in either place.
If you have any equipment beyond a crappy one band ap, it's just going to fight you every time you want to use it.
I love the software, I love the plugins It's just too damn bad that You have to remember to screw with it every time you think you might want to use it.
Somewhat self promoting for the first two of these items as I'm directly involved. Leaving out the more obvious ones (Linux distro etc.) as they will have been mentioned. I'll stick to some of the less known things I use.
Dust has completely replaced du in my every day work. Other tools also written in Rust I make use of include Bat for an upgraded experience from cat, Tokei for quickly counting and recognising codes, and several other security tools like RustScan.
I learn about Joplin today. Thank you for sharing your list.
I tried various GUI text editors on Android, but they tend to be buggy or hard to navigate. Then there's the fact that I can just open a tmux session, detach, ssh into my phone and attach it.
Do you have the keyboard split in landscape? As soon as I go landscape in termux I can't see the terminal. Also I've tried vim on mobile and have to commend you for doing it more than once lol.
Hacker's Keyboard is a good Android keyboard for doing terminal stuff. It adds a lot of the keys you need to efficiently work in terminal. Only Android keyboard worth using.
Termux
Holy hell. So much it can do. Right now I am using it to transcode MPEG2 videos to AV1. With CRF 25, Preset 5, with a 480p30 video I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop's Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.
You can run different server applications. Some are supported natively (e.g.: Tinyproxy, Privoxy, Squid HTTP proxy, apache2, nginx, navidrome, OpenSSH, TigerVNC, rsync, xorg-server, xwayland, xrdp,...) and some can run in proot (e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud). If you already have some web server and want it public, there's cloudflared too, so you can access it via Cloudflare tunnel.
RTL-SDR driver
Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.
SDR++
The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.
KDE Connect
Nicely connects phone with a computer. Data transfers, remote control, finding your phone, synchronizing notifications.
LibreTorrent
Great client for Android.
There's more, but those I don't use daily, or have already been mentioned.
I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop's Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.
Is this good or bad for Termux? I'm kinda inclined to think it is good (I have a SD 865 so I'm extra curious).
(e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud).
I have read about the self hosting possibilities before for sure and while I will always find it amazing I would die inside if I had to use my phone (and specifically Termux, since I think text selection, copy/paste and overall typing is bad on it), that without proper hardware ofc (like external mouse and keyboard... Or a UI like DeX) so I gotta ask, do you use any of those services? If yes do you have some of those tools I just mentioned?
RTL-SDR driver
Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.
I kinda want to know what you meant here.
SDR++
The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.
I only know SDR from the video format scene, and I know you want HDR or better.
LibreTorrent
Great client for Android.
This is cool, and I didn't know about it, but surely there are better options to use torrent on Android?
There's more, but those I don't use daily, or have already been mentioned.
I kinda want to know what more, because honestly, if Termux was paid you would almost sell it to me 🤣
RTL-SDR is basically a way of using a digital device as a broadband radio. That is an oversimplification, but that is the idea. There are cheap USB devices out there that will turn a PC into a ham radio receiver (among a really wide range of other bands like weather satellites). I have no idea how they are doing it with Android, however. Maybe using the phone's antenna.
I am sorry for not responding quicker, but I was at school and I am also tired, so don't expect a high quality reply.
Is this good or bad for Termux? I’m kinda inclined to think it is good (I have a SD 865 so I’m extra curious).
I have no idea. My phone and laptop are the 2 only pieces of hardware to test with. I also wanted to try OnWorks, but getting the file to that seems fairly painful. Downloading that particular video from archive.org is too slow, trying to get it from FileNow where I uploaded it would hang every 14MB and fail. The only working "solution" was running nginx webserver with that file there in Termux and creating Cloudflare QuickTunnel, but my mobile data is slow and we don't have internet at home. So I just didn't get to try it.
I have read about the self hosting possibilities before for sure and while I will always find it amazing I would die inside if I had to use my phone (and specifically Termux, since I think text selection, copy/paste and overall typing is bad on it), that without proper hardware ofc (like external mouse and keyboard… Or a UI like DeX) so I gotta ask, do you use any of those services? If yes do you have some of those tools I just mentioned?
I have only tried Jellyfin briefly and want to try running NextCloud when I'll have time for it, as that seems more painful looking at the guides on internet. Jellyfin just didn't fit my use case, so I replaced it for nginx with fancyindex module and Material theme.
I don't have a problem using the touchscreen. Copy-paste works pretty well, like with any other text. Just a little tip: Home puts you on start of the line and End at its end.
But anyway, I do often use a hardware keyboard. Sort of. I don't attach it to my phone, instead I SSH into my phone from some computer, be it my laptop or school PC. For GUI I can also use VNC server. Keep in mind VNC isn't encrypted by default. There's VNC-TLS and X509, but I have no idea how to deal with certificates, which allows anyone to do MITM attack on me. Simplest solution is running it over SSH tunnel, at which point I can use unencrypted VNC which is compatible with more programs.
I kinda want to know what you meant here.
RTL-SDR is one of the SDRs (Software Defined Radio) that I have. I also have a clone of RSP1. I don't know where I would start on that. It allows a lot. But after all, you can just search "What to do with SDR" yourself, and find countless answers.
My most favorite use is receiving satellite signals. So far only in the 137MHz band because I don't have a satellite dish. In this case V-Dipole is enough. Since I have the RTL-SDR Blog's extendable dipole, I can fit a satellite imagery receiving station into my pocket.
Check [email protected]
Example image that I received over APT (it's analog signal, old-school tech):
I used noaa-apt, again in Termux, to decode it.
Or perhaps this catches your interest: Cracking GSM phone calls and SMS with SDR (YouTube playlist) which is obviously illegal. It also only works for the weak A5/1 encryption and only with GSM (2G). While newer standards are sure safer, don't trust anything that's not E2EE at all anyway.
I only know SDR from the video format scene, and I know you want HDR or better.
Yep, SDR = Software Defined Radio.
This is cool, and I didn’t know about it, but surely there are better options to use torrent on Android?
I am not sure. LibreTorrent works well for me.
I kinda want to know what more, because honestly, if Termux was paid you would almost sell it to me 🤣
I meant other FOSS apps, not stuff in Termux. But it's like a locked down GNU+Linux machine, so it just does a lot of Linux things. Thanks to proot-distro or Andronix scripts you can even have Ubuntu, Arch Linux or other distros on it. That's what you need for Jellyfin for example. Just keep in mind that your phone is most likely aarch64 and Termux doesn't emulate other architectures. Though it can run QEMU 😏 (but if you tried Limbo PC Emulator x86 you understand how useless it is with anything better than Windows 98). I did get that to run Windows 7, yes, but even just opening a file browser took a few minutes.
Anyway, cursed screenshot as a bonus:
Even though it CAN be done doesn't mean you SHOULD. I already cooked 1 Poco X3 Pro motherboard to its death.
Hey I use my own app every day. Let me tell you about it. :)
nephele-serve is the dedicated server version that I use to manage all my Jellyfin movies and TV shows. I also back up all my systems to it with DejaDup.
QuickDAV is the desktop app version that I use to transfer files around all of my way too many PCs, tablets, and phones (I develop mobile apps too, so I have a lot of devices). It’s easier (and usually faster) than using a USB stick, and it’s safer than leaving shares open all the time.
They’re both open source and use the same server software, Nephele, that I wrote for my email service, Port87.
Oh I’m also working on putting up a Docker image for nephele-serve and a Flatpak of QuickDAV.
Thank you for pointing that out. I knew Firefox had updated to enable desktop add-ons to work with mobile but I didn't see Sponsor Block when I took a quick look.
For now. YouTube constantly changes stuff, requiring changes to newpipe. As no one will merge these into the fork, it will stop working when that happens.
There were some scary moments when I lost my only means of accessing Reddit. Finding Lemmy and then using accessing it through Voyager is so awesome I ought to post more about that.
Does anyone know of a FOSS file explorer for Android that supports network locations? Fossify file manager would be perfect but doesn't have support for network locations.
webservers / the internet (nginx, databases, storage, networking, ...)
Mull / Librewolf
Nextcloud (contacts / calendar sync ...)
an email server and client
Matrix chat
LG WebOS on my TV
Home Assistant
lots of user applications
There isn't much important proprietary software in this apartment except maybe for the firmware of the dishwasher / microwave, washing machine and additionally whatever software runs in an old car.
I don't know about every component, but there is the Linux kernel and a lengthy list of open source components and licenses somewhere in the settings and manual. And you can get a busybox shell or something alike.
Honestly I do. My workflow is not enviable. I'm a little dabbler. I do like CAD, but I've never used it professionally. I have a little, ugly sewing table to prove it.
I learned AutoCAD99 in high school. But I never kept up the skills later.
I learned OpenSCAD to draw models for papers. Or for math problems when I taught. It really is a fun tool to get into the swing of, but I let my skills get rusty and it's frustrating now.
I never used openscad but checkout tutorials on YouTube that match your skill level: I mostly self teach most apps that I use but some tools are so complex that I benefit from taking a step back and look at what others are doing with them!
I was taught a little bit of old school drafting in high school carpentry class (I have never sat at a drawing board with a T square; I laid out the frame of one wall of a shed to scale on some printer paper with a normal school ruler) and learned a product called TurboCAD in early college. I found a free thing called QCAD which is just a 2D DXF editor, which is fantastic for working with laser engravers. I used to FLY with that software. I kinda simultaneously learned how to use FreeCAD, Fusion360 and OnShape via web tutorials.
None of them are my favorite; OnShape was the most streamlined but the most lacking, running in the browser is a benefit; last time I used it there wasn't really a central place to put parameters so it was a little limited, and they're trying to compete with Solidworks rather than Fusion360 so you can have the increasingly drawbackful drawbackware version, or pay $kidney/hr for it. Fusion360 is more capable, but very inconsistent. Using it, you can tell it's a mass of unmantainable spaghetti code that's right on the edge of falling apart. FreeCAD is definitely an open source project with a congenitally low version number that ships with well realized features no human has ever wanted in a CAD package, but they haven't even started on basic features and there are several forks that solve problems that will never be merged into the original. FreeCAD 1.0 is going to be amazing when it comes out in the year 2144.
I remember playing with qcad. It was awful, but it was the best FOSS CAD I found. AutoCAD was unrivaled from when I learned it in 1999 and remained that way until I had drifted away. I think I played with qcad around 2011.
I found OpenSCAD about 3 years ago, and it knocked by socks off. I'd like to see how mature FreeCAD is now.
In my high school, we had semesters. The first semester you took drafting, it was on drafting tables with Tsquare, triangles, compasses, and stuff. In your 4 years there, there were 8 semesters. You could technically take it 8 times. I think I took it four. So I had 3 semesters of autocad.
2006 was an easy time for me to lose Windows. Do you remember how much worse Windows was back in 200*? Everything had viruses. There were TV ads promising they could get your computer running "like new". Viruses were so common that people seemed to think computers slowed down with age.
So I'm ignorant about FreeCAD, but FOSS is so powerful now I'm excited to check it out.
I'll copy-paste this stackoverflow answer, because it sounds like its written by someone more knowledgeable than me.
blobs are binary firmware, not distributed as source. they are necessary for certain hardware drivers to function, in whole or in part. As the source is not readily available, there are deblobbed distributions for opensource "purists".
In the firefox context, there are certain non-free portions of firefox code base, namely the branding and some mozilla services integrations. Those are removed. This is more about licensing then availability of the code.
I'm curious, what do you prefer about findroid over standard jellyfin media player? They seem to be pretty much the same minus findroid not having transcode support
I’m curious, what do you prefer about findroid over standard jellyfin media player? They seem to be pretty much the same minus findroid not having transcode support
Findroid allows for seamless downloading of media for offline playing, which is pretty useful. Also it's focus on only music makes it a bit simpler and more comfortable for me to use.
I really love Onnivore, but my only issue is that RSS feeds are mixed in with the things you add to it. That being said, they’ve had a few updates that make it a lot better.
I want to highlight a practical usecase for password management with open source tools. Keepass (gnome secrets on computers, and keepassdx on mobile) with syncthing syncing encrypted password files between the devices. Very effective so far. Passwords are synced seamlessly.
I'm having a harder time thinking of proprietary programs I use. I guess the biggest offender is mobile apps. As far my computer goes, discords flatpak is the only one coming to mind.
VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.
For android :
Basically almost all app from SimpleMobileTools, a few version right before it was sold (to a company in a controversial city)
For desktop :
some kde app that works both for windows and linux (I used windows for now) like Okular and FileLight (though this one isn't so much daily basis)
Standard stuff, though very few from my phone so I will focus there. On it, atm just things like RetroArch, Firefox, Geometric Weather, Blokada, and Amaze File Manager.
I haven't done any research at all, but if anyone wants to share: does anyone know of a good FOSS grocery store list kind of app for Android? Something that might still work without internet, I don't care about synching anywhere else. Currently I use Listonic, mainly b/c I do not want to use Google Keep. There are some on F-droid so when I get time I'll look into those.
Various flavors of Linux and the many, many applications supporting that. Also OpenWRT. OpenOffice > Google Sheets.
I also grabbed an open-source script that would turn on a fan every time the humidity level rose high enough for a specific type of mold to grow, and move air until it dropped. That ran all day for a few years until the fan broke and I repurposed the other hardware.
I don't have a clue if anyone has mentioned it, but I use the non-root version of NetGuard to make sure some apps on my phone don't have wifi or mobile data access.
I also don't know if this was mentioned by someone else, but for one of my college courses, we are using thonny for python programming.
Because with NetGuard I can use it on not just the apps that normal settings app list shows me, but also system apps that don't show up that you can't disable access to without a 3rd party tool. Since I'm not on a rooted device, I don't have a choice over things like being able in settings mode to try and disable apps like gøøg|e assistant because it doesn't show up in the apps list.
Librera (pdf reader and other formats), tuta mail (private mail), feeder (RSS reader), iceraven (Firefox fork), saver tuner (battery management), aurora store (replacement of play store), breezy-weather (for checking the weather), openBoard (Foss keyboard with spell correction)
I'm probably dumb and wrong, but I feel like Firefox is going in a bad direction along with Ubuntu.
Like I think in 10 years there will be a business tier paid Ubuntu OS that ships with Firefox, and after like 3 or 4 iterations, it will be the IE of the future.
Current Firefox user. Writing is on the wall. Looking for new browser. And OS.
What writing?
Which browser do you recommend?
Lynx /s
This comment was written through Lynx. No, seriously.
Edit: I couldn't add the screenshot via Lynx as it seems to attempt resolving ".":
Post "https://./pictrs/image": dial tcp: lookup . on 8.8.8.8:53: no such host.But anyway:
Oh man, that brings me back. Lynx was really important back when GPU support for Linux was less good.
Much time was spent navigating NVIDIA Website in Lynx trying different driver versions. Then the autogenerated Xorg.conf would always be wrong. Kids these days have it so easy. Get off my lawn.
(Seriously though, I like this strange new world where Linux is super easy to set up)
Out of all people here to ask that question to, you chose the worst one.
Seriously, what made you decide that what they said makes them a good person to answer any question at all?
What makes you say that? I only switched to it recently
Vaultwarden?
No, they said BitWarden
I wish they'd fix and release the nightly. It so cool looking but there are quite some bugs still. Like performance, playlists, options not working and somehow it can't play videos from my network, while release version can all of this...
Oh wow, they have a version that doesn't look like it was made for XP? Sucks that it's buggy.
I too am a bleeding-edge addict. I would prefer worse acting software so long as it is beta (or better, alpha (or better, nightly)).
So I wasn’t even aware VLC had solved these issues I’m still delighted to live with.
Are there any screenshots of the nightly? I'm curious if it looks good enough to switch back.
VLC is so bad, IMO. There are so many things it does really badly or doesn't do at all that any other alternative (like MPC) does well. It doesn't help that it's ugly as sin, too.
What's with the hate on VLC? It's done more than what I've ever wanted. You can also use it to download YouTube videos and stuff. It's the bees knees, man!
Logseq is fantastic. I use it every day at work now for both knowledge and also lightweight task management.
Maybe it's just a me problem, but I always have had troubles getting KDE Connect connecting my phone to other devices than my desktop. My phone and laptop could both be connected to the same wifi and be within inches of each other but refuse to acknowledge their existence. But I have my phone on the other side of the world and I swear it'll be able to connect to my desktop with no problem.
KDE Connect is a pretty good program, but I can't recommend it because of the troubles I always have.
I had this too until I discovered my router doesn't allow communication between devices connected to the 5GHz band. 2.4GHz works fine so now I have everything connected to that
I'll definitely have to check that out later to see if that fixes the problem.
Thanks for the info.
It's ability to connect your phone to your computer is honestly awful. It would be better if they just openly popped up a window and told you to pick the IP, but they even have to hide that and not support it on every platform.
My laptop's plugged in my phone's on a Wi-Fi network they're on different VLANs. They could let me search for it by DNS name. They could let me just use a couple of static IPs so when I go from home to work it could find it in either place.
If you have any equipment beyond a crappy one band ap, it's just going to fight you every time you want to use it.
I love the software, I love the plugins It's just too damn bad that You have to remember to screw with it every time you think you might want to use it.
The iTunes of eBooks.
Calibre Web. And Kavita.
Syncthing.
Somewhat self promoting for the first two of these items as I'm directly involved. Leaving out the more obvious ones (Linux distro etc.) as they will have been mentioned. I'll stick to some of the less known things I use.
du)Kudos for including some of the Lemmy communities!
Thanks for highlighting Pulsar.
I always found Atom clunky, but it was instrumental in changing how editors were made, perceived, and used.
It did not deserve the death/abandonment it got.
Atom was my go-to editor while in school--hard to believe it's been long enough to be abandoned already. I'm going to have to check Pulsar out.
Dust has completely replaced
duin my every day work. Other tools also written in Rust I make use of include Bat for an upgraded experience fromcat, Tokei for quickly counting and recognising codes, and several other security tools like RustScan.I learn about Joplin today. Thank you for sharing your list.
Vim
I even use VIM on my phone (termux).
I tried various GUI text editors on Android, but they tend to be buggy or hard to navigate. Then there's the fact that I can just open a tmux session, detach, ssh into my phone and attach it.
I've been using vim since it was just vi and I can't even begin to think about using it on a virtual keyboard!
The idea of editing more than a shitpost on my phone is terrible.
I usually use my phone in landscape. It feels better that way. At least for me.
Do you have the keyboard split in landscape? As soon as I go landscape in termux I can't see the terminal. Also I've tried vim on mobile and have to commend you for doing it more than once lol.
Nope. The space is indeed limited, but it's better than limiting the terminal width too much.
Very neat. Love that you do so much with android!
Hacker's Keyboard is a good Android keyboard for doing terminal stuff. It adds a lot of the keys you need to efficiently work in terminal. Only Android keyboard worth using.
Termux
Holy hell. So much it can do. Right now I am using it to transcode MPEG2 videos to AV1. With CRF 25, Preset 5, with a 480p30 video I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop's Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.
You can run different server applications. Some are supported natively (e.g.: Tinyproxy, Privoxy, Squid HTTP proxy, apache2, nginx, navidrome, OpenSSH, TigerVNC, rsync, xorg-server, xwayland, xrdp,...) and some can run in proot (e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud). If you already have some web server and want it public, there's cloudflared too, so you can access it via Cloudflare tunnel.
RTL-SDR driver
Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.
SDR++
The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.
KDE Connect
Nicely connects phone with a computer. Data transfers, remote control, finding your phone, synchronizing notifications.
LibreTorrent
Great client for Android.
There's more, but those I don't use daily, or have already been mentioned.
I understood a couple of those words...
For iOS folks, a-shell and iSH can do what termux is doing on Android. Ffmpeg, most userland Linux things.
Both are open source.
Yeah, I remember iSH being on TestFlight and just being blown away. Like what it could do on an iPhone 6S as an app.
Still is. Still is the best of its class, too. Spectacular work.
Can you link to some tutorials to learn to do what you describe here? Specially termux all I found was a Linux terminal emulator for android
Thats the termux they are referring to
Termux (web link) for more information.
Install it though F-Droid, third party app store.
I have many doubts, I'll try to quote each.
Is this good or bad for Termux? I'm kinda inclined to think it is good (I have a SD 865 so I'm extra curious).
I have read about the self hosting possibilities before for sure and while I will always find it amazing I would die inside if I had to use my phone (and specifically Termux, since I think text selection, copy/paste and overall typing is bad on it), that without proper hardware ofc (like external mouse and keyboard... Or a UI like DeX) so I gotta ask, do you use any of those services? If yes do you have some of those tools I just mentioned?
I kinda want to know what you meant here.
I only know SDR from the video format scene, and I know you want HDR or better.
This is cool, and I didn't know about it, but surely there are better options to use torrent on Android?
I kinda want to know what more, because honestly, if Termux was paid you would almost sell it to me 🤣
RTL-SDR is basically a way of using a digital device as a broadband radio. That is an oversimplification, but that is the idea. There are cheap USB devices out there that will turn a PC into a ham radio receiver (among a really wide range of other bands like weather satellites). I have no idea how they are doing it with Android, however. Maybe using the phone's antenna.
I am sorry for not responding quicker, but I was at school and I am also tired, so don't expect a high quality reply.
I have no idea. My phone and laptop are the 2 only pieces of hardware to test with. I also wanted to try OnWorks, but getting the file to that seems fairly painful. Downloading that particular video from archive.org is too slow, trying to get it from FileNow where I uploaded it would hang every 14MB and fail. The only working "solution" was running nginx webserver with that file there in Termux and creating Cloudflare QuickTunnel, but my mobile data is slow and we don't have internet at home. So I just didn't get to try it.
I have only tried Jellyfin briefly and want to try running NextCloud when I'll have time for it, as that seems more painful looking at the guides on internet. Jellyfin just didn't fit my use case, so I replaced it for nginx with fancyindex module and Material theme.
I don't have a problem using the touchscreen. Copy-paste works pretty well, like with any other text. Just a little tip: Home puts you on start of the line and End at its end.
But anyway, I do often use a hardware keyboard. Sort of. I don't attach it to my phone, instead I SSH into my phone from some computer, be it my laptop or school PC. For GUI I can also use VNC server. Keep in mind VNC isn't encrypted by default. There's VNC-TLS and X509, but I have no idea how to deal with certificates, which allows anyone to do MITM attack on me. Simplest solution is running it over SSH tunnel, at which point I can use unencrypted VNC which is compatible with more programs.
RTL-SDR is one of the SDRs (Software Defined Radio) that I have. I also have a clone of RSP1. I don't know where I would start on that. It allows a lot. But after all, you can just search "What to do with SDR" yourself, and find countless answers.
My most favorite use is receiving satellite signals. So far only in the 137MHz band because I don't have a satellite dish. In this case V-Dipole is enough. Since I have the RTL-SDR Blog's extendable dipole, I can fit a satellite imagery receiving station into my pocket.
Check [email protected]
Example image that I received over APT (it's analog signal, old-school tech):
I used noaa-apt, again in Termux, to decode it.
Or perhaps this catches your interest: Cracking GSM phone calls and SMS with SDR (YouTube playlist) which is obviously illegal. It also only works for the weak A5/1 encryption and only with GSM (2G). While newer standards are sure safer, don't trust anything that's not E2EE at all anyway.
Yep, SDR = Software Defined Radio.
I am not sure. LibreTorrent works well for me.
I meant other FOSS apps, not stuff in Termux. But it's like a locked down GNU+Linux machine, so it just does a lot of Linux things. Thanks to
proot-distroor Andronix scripts you can even have Ubuntu, Arch Linux or other distros on it. That's what you need for Jellyfin for example. Just keep in mind that your phone is most likely aarch64 and Termux doesn't emulate other architectures. Though it can run QEMU 😏 (but if you tried Limbo PC Emulator x86 you understand how useless it is with anything better than Windows 98). I did get that to run Windows 7, yes, but even just opening a file browser took a few minutes.Anyway, cursed screenshot as a bonus:
Even though it CAN be done doesn't mean you SHOULD. I already cooked 1 Poco X3 Pro motherboard to its death.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Cracking GSM phone calls and SMS with SDR (YouTube playlist)
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Firefox
Well, there's the usual: GIMP. Lemmy & Firefish instances. Linux OS. Syncthing. Firefox. Inkscape.
qOwnNotes is cool and I don't hear much about it.
Also shout out to libre games. GZDoom and UnCiv mostly. But MOSTLY GZDoom. GZDoom is a platform, not a game.
My kids love minetest. I play Dday, a quake 2 "ww2" total conversion mod.
iirc the purpose of mintest itself is to be a stepping stone to make other game, but if people are having fun playing it as it is then I'm very glad
When you launch minetest you can select a game and play it.
I heard this years ago when I found out about it. Not to be lazy, but has anyone made another game in it?
Yeah, Minecraft...
Pretty much all I know about Minetest is "It's not Minecraft, and my friends all play Minecraft."
Wesnoth's very fun too!
Hey I use my own app every day. Let me tell you about it. :)
nephele-serve is the dedicated server version that I use to manage all my Jellyfin movies and TV shows. I also back up all my systems to it with DejaDup.
QuickDAV is the desktop app version that I use to transfer files around all of my way too many PCs, tablets, and phones (I develop mobile apps too, so I have a lot of devices). It’s easier (and usually faster) than using a USB stick, and it’s safer than leaving shares open all the time.
They’re both open source and use the same server software, Nephele, that I wrote for my email service, Port87.
Oh I’m also working on putting up a Docker image for nephele-serve and a Flatpak of QuickDAV.
And nephele-serve is now available as a Docker image! :)
why not syncthing for files?
I’m not exactly sure what you mean, since Syncthing doesn’t do either of the things I was talking about.
Syncthing has its own use cases, they’re just not the ones I use these apps for.
NewPipe fork with SponsorBlock
Not that there's anything wrong with newpipe, just additional information:
Sponsor block is now avaliable on Firefox mobile app. It even works for YouTube videos that are embedded in other sites.
That's good to know. It's integrated with ReVanced really well too.
Thank you for pointing that out. I knew Firefox had updated to enable desktop add-ons to work with mobile but I didn't see Sponsor Block when I took a quick look.
Seems like it is no longer maintained. Unfortunately that means it is only a matter of time until it breaks forever.
Looks like it's only one update behind though. That's not too bad.
For now. YouTube constantly changes stuff, requiring changes to newpipe. As no one will merge these into the fork, it will stop working when that happens.
LibreWolf
No mention of Thunderbird yet??
I'd finish earlier telling you which of my software is not open source.
Daily:
Not daily:
That's a very very long list...
Debian + Cinnamon desktop which inck7des the countless tools that come with that stack.
Valid
Daily basis:
Almost daily basis:
Ardour is fantastic.
MakeMKV! I primarily rent Blu-Ray from my library and sometimes enjoy it enough to rip it and keep it (for personal use)
🏴☠️🫡
Off topic and cheesy.
“What’s a pirate’s favorite CD?”
“A CD-RRRRRRRR”
I’ll see myself out
Dad here -- you're staying.
See you out there on the bay! Rrrrrrrr
I use Aniyomi, Fennec, Obtainium, Jerboa, BetterUntis, Bitwarden, DroidFS, Aegis, LibreTorrent, Shelter, Survival Manual, Termux, ConnectBot, LocalMonero, F-Droid, RethinkDNS, InnerTune, Mastodon, Kuroba-Ex, Signal, Element, QUIK and FlorisBoard
There were some scary moments when I lost my only means of accessing Reddit. Finding Lemmy and then
usingaccessing it through Voyager is so awesome I ought to post more about that.AnkiDroid
Element
On my server:
OpenMediaVault (NAS OS based on Debian)
Syncthing
Home Assistant
Zigbee2MQTT
Docker
Portainer
Radicale
Navidrome
On my phone:
Syncthing
Tailscale
Feeder
DAVx⁵
OSS Document Scanner
RPNcalc
DSub
EDSY
On my PC:
Odyssey Material Helper
EDDiscovery
EDSY
ObservatoryCore
Paint.net and GIMP
OpenRGB
Tailscale
Not critiquing you or the software, but tailscale is not fully open source.
Yeah and neither is paint.net
o7 cmdr
O7
Does anyone know of a FOSS file explorer for Android that supports network locations? Fossify file manager would be perfect but doesn't have support for network locations.
Material Files is by far the best file browser.
https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles
Thanks, I'll check it out!
https://github.com/pgp/XFiles is what I've been using and am pretty happy about it
Thanks, I'll take a look at that one as well.
Some subset of modern Linux distro - Firefox, Emacs, Git, Tmux, OpenSSH, i3, sway... Android - F-Droid stuff
Habits
Jellyfin
There isn't much important proprietary software in this apartment except maybe for the firmware of the dishwasher / microwave, washing machine and additionally whatever software runs in an old car.
WebOS is OSS?
I think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
I don't know about every component, but there is the Linux kernel and a lengthy list of open source components and licenses somewhere in the settings and manual. And you can get a busybox shell or something alike.
That is kinda cool! I never knew that!
Thanks!
There is an Open Source Edition
Nextcloud
Don't think I've seen fish shell yet
LunaSea
Libretube
I self host:
Goodtime (a pomodoro app)
I use FreeCAD for both 3D printing and woodworking design.
I use Rednotebook for my personal journal, and it's mostly satisfactory.
I'm a fan of OpenSCAD for my woodworking. But I'm not, like, industrial with it. But I can get my work done.
I never hitched horses with OpenSCAD. Do you model each board individually? What's your workflow?
Honestly I do. My workflow is not enviable. I'm a little dabbler. I do like CAD, but I've never used it professionally. I have a little, ugly sewing table to prove it.
I learned AutoCAD99 in high school. But I never kept up the skills later.
I learned OpenSCAD to draw models for papers. Or for math problems when I taught. It really is a fun tool to get into the swing of, but I let my skills get rusty and it's frustrating now.
I never used openscad but checkout tutorials on YouTube that match your skill level: I mostly self teach most apps that I use but some tools are so complex that I benefit from taking a step back and look at what others are doing with them!
I was taught a little bit of old school drafting in high school carpentry class (I have never sat at a drawing board with a T square; I laid out the frame of one wall of a shed to scale on some printer paper with a normal school ruler) and learned a product called TurboCAD in early college. I found a free thing called QCAD which is just a 2D DXF editor, which is fantastic for working with laser engravers. I used to FLY with that software. I kinda simultaneously learned how to use FreeCAD, Fusion360 and OnShape via web tutorials.
None of them are my favorite; OnShape was the most streamlined but the most lacking, running in the browser is a benefit; last time I used it there wasn't really a central place to put parameters so it was a little limited, and they're trying to compete with Solidworks rather than Fusion360 so you can have the increasingly drawbackful drawbackware version, or pay $kidney/hr for it. Fusion360 is more capable, but very inconsistent. Using it, you can tell it's a mass of unmantainable spaghetti code that's right on the edge of falling apart. FreeCAD is definitely an open source project with a congenitally low version number that ships with well realized features no human has ever wanted in a CAD package, but they haven't even started on basic features and there are several forks that solve problems that will never be merged into the original. FreeCAD 1.0 is going to be amazing when it comes out in the year 2144.
I remember playing with qcad. It was awful, but it was the best FOSS CAD I found. AutoCAD was unrivaled from when I learned it in 1999 and remained that way until I had drifted away. I think I played with qcad around 2011.
I found OpenSCAD about 3 years ago, and it knocked by socks off. I'd like to see how mature FreeCAD is now.
In my high school, we had semesters. The first semester you took drafting, it was on drafting tables with Tsquare, triangles, compasses, and stuff. In your 4 years there, there were 8 semesters. You could technically take it 8 times. I think I took it four. So I had 3 semesters of autocad.
2006 was an easy time for me to lose Windows. Do you remember how much worse Windows was back in 200*? Everything had viruses. There were TV ads promising they could get your computer running "like new". Viruses were so common that people seemed to think computers slowed down with age.
So I'm ignorant about FreeCAD, but FOSS is so powerful now I'm excited to check it out.
Thought I'd ping you. I checked out freecad and posted some initial thoughts here. https://lemmy.world/post/11352164
daily and both (desktop and mobile, cross-platform),
Mozilla Firefox
Vlc
Godot
On mobile:
On desktop:
I use a bunch of other stuff as well but these are the one I truly use daily that haven't been mentioned yet.
deblobbed?
I'll copy-paste this stackoverflow answer, because it sounds like its written by someone more knowledgeable than me.
Syncthing (for obsidian notes, mostly. I know there are FOSS apps that do what obsidian does, but they just don't feel as good for my purposes).
LibreTorrent
Jellyfin and findroid. Mainly findroid.
Also PipePipe (piped app for youtube) and libretube
I also play an open source version of solitaire and a game called box stacker, both are from the f droid store
And ofc, infinity for lemmy
I'm curious, what do you prefer about findroid over standard jellyfin media player? They seem to be pretty much the same minus findroid not having transcode support
Findroid allows for seamless downloading of media for offline playing, which is pretty useful. Also it's focus on only music makes it a bit simpler and more comfortable for me to use.
SumatraPDF
NotePad++
OpenRadio is a good one if you like radio and music in general. It has radio stations from everywhere and from almost every music style.
I really love Onnivore, but my only issue is that RSS feeds are mixed in with the things you add to it. That being said, they’ve had a few updates that make it a lot better.
I started using Upscayl to upscale the AI images I make.
https://www.upscayl.org/
Firefox, Neovim, Tmux, Various KDE applications, Nextcloud, Wine, Signal, OpenSSH
Probably many more
I use putty at work on a daily basis
I want to highlight a practical usecase for password management with open source tools. Keepass (gnome secrets on computers, and keepassdx on mobile) with syncthing syncing encrypted password files between the devices. Very effective so far. Passwords are synced seamlessly.
KDE Plasma
A bazillion of undermaintained web libraries
Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Jellyseerr, Wizarr, Jellyfin, qBittorrent
Why do they all have double Rs
Arr matey
They're all related.
rrelated
Joplin
Do you sync your Joplin notes with Synching? Any tips?
Not at the moment, but I suppose I could.
Thank you. I tried to set them up to sync between my desktop and Android but no luck.
I'm having a harder time thinking of proprietary programs I use. I guess the biggest offender is mobile apps. As far my computer goes, discords flatpak is the only one coming to mind.
On Smartphone : OpenKeychain, Tor Browser, SimplesTools Collection, FairMail, NewPipe, Fdroid, Organic Maps, Cake Wallet, Aegis
On PC : Emacs, Gimp, Audacity
I hope fossify tools are ready soon.
ANDROID
FairEmail
Shameless plug but I use Lemmy Keyboard Navigation (RES-like extension for keyboard navigation)
Darktable, OBS, ffmpeg.
FileZilla
Inkscape
vim, perl, bash, just to name a few
gluetun
Gluetun is great for when you want a container that should only use the network on the other side of a VPN.
Terraform.... Oh wait, Nevermind. I need to start switching to OpenTofu now.
Greenshot
Emacs
LibreOffice Irfanview
Blender, Krita, Inkscape, OBS, vlc. Running Ubuntu Studio. Also, Resolve and REAPER.
Da Vinci Resolve?
Yes! Not FOSS, I know. I use the Studio version. I like it very much.
Homebridge AltStore Voyager + Lemma (Lemmy clients)
Trillium notes!!! It's a really really beautiful note taking application for linux!
It runs on Linux but is webserver based, Its accessible by any device with a web browser. It has DB backups, protected notes, note organization, etc.
Naah there's a native application as well on Linux. I run it without a webserver.
ripgrep
Kakoune
(I'll avoid posting what I've already seen mentioned)
Thunder (for Lemmy)
Metro (fork of Retro Music)
Quik (SMS)
Molly (Signal fork)
Obtainium (updates Github apps)
MuPDF viewer
Standard Notes (private notes app)
Gadgetbridge for my smartband
Vorta for automatic backups of my computer https://vorta.borgbase.com/
Oh! Thank you for this!
Shoutout to [email protected] for saving us when Liftoff went under.
For android : Basically almost all app from SimpleMobileTools, a few version right before it was sold (to a company in a controversial city)
For desktop : some kde app that works both for windows and linux (I used windows for now) like Okular and FileLight (though this one isn't so much daily basis)
and for both I used LocalSend
There is a fork now
https://github.com/FossifyOrg
Standard stuff, though very few from my phone so I will focus there. On it, atm just things like RetroArch, Firefox, Geometric Weather, Blokada, and Amaze File Manager.
I haven't done any research at all, but if anyone wants to share: does anyone know of a good FOSS grocery store list kind of app for Android? Something that might still work without internet, I don't care about synching anywhere else. Currently I use Listonic, mainly b/c I do not want to use Google Keep. There are some on F-droid so when I get time I'll look into those.
tinybit
tor
droidfs
librera
octodroid
rosy crow
trebleshot
Trackercontrol
#android
Programming, writing, notes, email… and basically a whole lot of what I use computers for is done with emacs.
KiCAD. It's so good these days.
I still code most Python in IDLE. It's fine!
Various flavors of Linux and the many, many applications supporting that. Also OpenWRT. OpenOffice > Google Sheets.
I also grabbed an open-source script that would turn on a fan every time the humidity level rose high enough for a specific type of mold to grow, and move air until it dropped. That ran all day for a few years until the fan broke and I repurposed the other hardware.
I don't have a clue if anyone has mentioned it, but I use the non-root version of NetGuard to make sure some apps on my phone don't have wifi or mobile data access.
I also don't know if this was mentioned by someone else, but for one of my college courses, we are using thonny for python programming.
How is that different from disabling the access from android settings?
Because with NetGuard I can use it on not just the apps that normal settings app list shows me, but also system apps that don't show up that you can't disable access to without a 3rd party tool. Since I'm not on a rooted device, I don't have a choice over things like being able in settings mode to try and disable apps like gøøg|e assistant because it doesn't show up in the apps list.
Nmap, Wireshark, zenmap at work.
The others have been mentioned. Not quite daily but I'll occasionally get paid to do CFD simulations.
FreeCAD, salome, openFOAM, paraview.
Librera (pdf reader and other formats), tuta mail (private mail), feeder (RSS reader), iceraven (Firefox fork), saver tuner (battery management), aurora store (replacement of play store), breezy-weather (for checking the weather), openBoard (Foss keyboard with spell correction)
Qimgv, Rawtherapee
Session
Define use? Anyone using the Internet relies on a lot of FOSS, even if we just consider webservers kn the www.
Like others, the list of non foss is shorter for me.