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Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to a for-profit firm ZipoApps
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Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to a for-profit firm ZipoApps
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What's the best open-source email app?
BetterBird for desktop. FairEmail for mobile.
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Nasi Jinggo
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Sambal is chili paste. A lot of the time, depending on the cuisine, it has other things in it. Sometimes just garlic. Sometimes it’s shrimp paste. I’ve yet to have one that wasn't delicious! I’ve never seen this dish before. Looks…interesting. :)
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Two-story house floats through San Francisco Bay
On the outside chance that people don’t know this already, it’s a houseboat. It’s being moved from the inner bay to elsewhere. Love the jokes though. :)
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Privacy friendly fitness tracker recommendations
I’ll echo what @[email protected] said, Garmin is really the only way to go. Currently. You can basically run them completely disconnected from Garmin after you get them setup.
I’ll also echo what @[email protected] said but qualify it by saying the PineTime is…a piece of junk. I wanted SO much to like it, but nothing about it works the way that is intended. It will not monitor your heart rate accurately. At least not for longer than 30 seconds. It will also not keep accurate count of your steps. It just doesn’t have sensitive/effective enough hardware for it. The firmware and OS are barely maintained. It’s sad, but true. I’ll be the first person in line to drop $500 on an Apple Watch or Samsung Watch equal FOSS watch. The market just doesn’t seem to be there.
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What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?
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10,000 Sentences is new to me!! I’ll add it to the list of apps that I’ll eventually use to learn a new language. 😏
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Nova Launcher Alternative?
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To add to this, “Kvaesitso is available in the official F-Droid repository, but all features depending on non-foss external APIs were removed.” This is preferable to a lot of people.
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I feel called out
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Ha! Ouch. Too true. Also, wezterm. I’ve been changing my config everyday for days now.
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Been using KISS Launcher very happily. Worth a look.
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Arabia Finland pottery for what?
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Wow!!! You’re a legend!! 🙏🏻 Thank you! I can’t believe you found it. Fascinating!! You gotta tell me, how long did it take you to find this? I spent maybe 20 and gave up. Lol! You are very impressive! You have my gratitude!
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Arabia Finland pottery for what?
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Good insight! Now I want pistachios! :)
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
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Fwiw: I’ve been using a Verizon locked one without ever activating the sim. It works just fine as a Rayhunter. It just doesn’t work as a hotspot.
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Americans' thanksgiving pie preferences by state
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This one interested me too. Zero coffee. Wtf?!
This easy banoffee pie combines a crunchy graham cracker crust, sweet dulce de leche, thick slices of fresh banana, and billowy whipped cream.
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Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model
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+1 just for using "narc". Which by the way, reminds me every time, of the arcade game of the same name. Loved that game. 🚀
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They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
WIRED hasn't been worth wiping your ass with for 20+ years. So, no big surprise here.
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Wednesday SOTD Thread, October 1st, 2025 (#841)
For the first time in a long time I got to have a (mostly) quiet and leisurely shave, today. I celebrated by pulling out my B&M Night Music, my trusty old Maggard M3 and its brother Omega synthetic brush. This is my original set from when I first got into the hobby. It was glorious. The smell took me back. It was my first artisanal and it was such an experience. Still got a beautiful lather and a brilliant shave. This time, I even picked up a little coffee in the scent. Must have been the vanillin aging. Loved it. Made my day. Happy shaving!
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The heavily censorious forum.torproject.org is unfit to host TOR related discussions
Have you ever heard of Sam Bent (aka DoingFedTime)? He’s been saying that the Tor project is shady AF forever. I really don’t want to believe him. I use Tails regularly. But he’s very intelligent and his arguments are excellent. Go down the rabbit hole. 😊 https://m.youtube.com/@Sam_Bent https://rumble.com/user/DoingFedTime/about
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what's your recommended TV OS?
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This is exactly my setup. Tell me a little about Stremio if you don't mind. I feel thick, but I dont quite get what it is.
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science
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A+ for the Brian Regan reference. He’s magic.
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Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web
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If they spent as much time working on the software as they do on the website, they might have a viable product by now.