fievel @ fievel @lemm.ee

C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now.

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Very nice project, at least I can try to switch from gboard and degoogle me a little more ... For code, CLI, ... I, however, prefer Unexpected Keyboard.

Only when a search on the web bring me there and anyway I deleted my account so only without an account (wouldn't say anonymously, even if my browser block trackers this is not ever possible)

Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less "sponsored" results, ...

yetCalc

Simple calc in portrait mode, you put in landscape and you have a full featured scientific calculator.

Additionally it feature a unit converter and logical operations programmer mode

Nice tool, didn't knew about it, seems far more convenient for dumb end users than what I use right now.

Either setup http/ftp servers but that's painful to explain, or use services over Internet which is a shame on local network...

No issues at all :)

I cross posted this because I felt like it somehow belonged here. Now I see your point, I look at the site and nothing state how are computed the metrics, this should be clarified in my opinion (now the stat site is open source so you can check yourself if you want).

I think that one of the structural change that helped a lot to have less stalled or unmaintained open source projects is the improvement in the DevOps tools.

I mean that, until recently, I always had been an open source user and supporter but, despite being a professional software engineer, I never coded in open source projects. The reason to this is that I did not wanted to commit myself into a project that I cannot afford to work regularly on because of professional and/or personal time constraints.

Now with the broad use of git and related platforms for open source projects (GitHub, gitlab, ...), it's possible to work only a little on open source projects. You can fix a bug impacting you as an user, translate some strings in your native language, improve the doc, ... without commiting to work regularly on the project. You just change the stuff, have no requirements to inform anyone, make a pull request and it's merged or not by the maintener ...

I think this is really what contributed to improvement in the way open source projects evolved.

This maybe my next read 🙂

Currently reading The Golem of Hollywood, by Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman, I'm half through it and enjoy it very much.

Nothing on the shelf yet (except Holly by Stephen King but I think I will read one or two novel before the release). I'll probably look on the lemmyverse for suggestions.

Don't know if it's what you thought about but there is Breezy Weather which allows setting a location in one of the supported service. This means that you can specify several times the same location with different providers and access them by swiping right/left or setup a widget for each. It's available through Obtainium or on IzzyOnDroid F-droid repository.

For day to day use, I think it's a bit hard to use. But I use unexpected Keyboard as secondary keyboard for editing code, or using CLI (termux, ssh to servers, ...). I will however give a try to anysoft for other uses...

Thanks for this update, the MD editor looks promising. If you want a good open source example of great md editor, take a look to Joplin mobile app.

So I'll contribute with my list too.

Most used utilities apps:

• Droid-ify: F-droid repositories client in modern design for Android. (NeoStore is nice too but I find this one more stable)
• Obtainium: For stuff either not available on f-droid mirrors or for "young" projects, in order to have latest updates sooner.
• MJ PDF
• Barcode Scanner
• Simple Gallery
• Unexpected Keyboard: for programming/CLI stuff
• yetCalc: Calculator and units converter
• Acode editor: Android code/text editor
• Termux
• OsmAnd: Maps and navigation software (Using it from play store because I pay a subscription to support the devs while doing hiking)
• Copy to clipboard: Add an action in Android "share to" to copy shared text to clipboard
• Coffee: Utility to force keep screen on for a configured delay
• LinkSheet: Allow to configure App chooser properly for URL opening even with Android 12+
• Breezy Weather: Provide weather from many providers in a beautiful UI
• Fedilab: Mastodon client
• Voyager: Lemmy client
• Feeder: RSS client
• LibreTube: Android interface to piped to watch YouTube videos with privacy in mind
• Authenticator Pro: Two-factor authenticator TOTP/HOTP manager
• BitWarden: Password manager

Games (because it can help fighting boredom when in a waiting room or so):

• Nonocross: Nonogram puzzle, with random generator
• Anuto TD: Tower defense game (dev says ugly, I don't agree ;))
• Antimine: Mine sweeper (like the former Windows default game)
• Super Tux Kart: Classical Linux game, inspired by Nintendo Mario Kart
• 2048 Open Fun Game
• SolitaireCG: a collection of solitaire card games
• Blockinger: Tetris clone

I recently started using Duck Duck Go instead of Google.

I still had this thought that Google was the best technology as I went from the early web (remember... altavista.digital.com, yahoo, ...) and I remember that Google was really a game changer when it started to become popular.

I tested setting DDG as default search engine in my desktop and mobile browsers, thinking that when I don't have expected results I would go to Google... I never had to switch to Google because I was wrong, DDG is as good as Google while being better from privacy point of view.

For the browser I use Vivaldi on both android and desktop.

The Ukraine-Russia war because I live in western Europe and fear the possible consequence (some already occurred like energy and goods prices raise).

D. J. Trump justice issues since I think that's important for judging the health of our democracies.

It could be nice for transparency purpose to publish a list of reasons for each blocked instance. ( Could be even better if Lemmy supported that out-of-the-box but I don't think this is a top priority right now).

Didn't knew this existed at all, will look at this definitely because I have problems with usb C plug on my phone that doesn't hold very well the connector...

Seems fair, understood the objective and the fact you're not closed to change your mind later. If you have no plans to defederate with instance hosting boys I think it's not a bad thing to have instances for bots and other for human users only...

Exactly this is the problem, when I talk non-geek (including my wife) about privacy they answer "what the hell have you to hide !" ... It's so difficult to convince people :'(