I love the Infinity Reddit app (but gonna miss it).
Some from the ones I use:
- F-Droid
- Fennec (firefox variant that supports custom addon collections)
- K-9 Mail
- Termux (terminal + Linux environment)
- Jerboa for Lemmy
- Wikipedia
Fennec is such a godsend
Apperantly the addons are taken from this collection, which can be set up on fennec as well
I use Mull which is hardened for privacy. All Fennec derivatives support custom addons and setting the collection yourself is possible.
Bitwarden
I’ve seen Bitwarden show up in this thread a few times. I’ve been a longtime user of KeePassX. Is there any particular reason I should consider switching?
What made me choose bitwarden is the emergency access feature.
It allows to designate someone as an emergency contact. This person can request access to your vault and if you don’t deny the request then they will have access after x days.
This way, if something happens to me then someone in my close family can still access my account.
I got the case recently with my brother in law who got into an accident and thanks God his laptop was not locked so my sister could access his accounts.
Because if not it can be a nightmare ! Having to deal with all the utilities company, harassing you because you did not pay the bill that arrived on a locked email account, then not being able to pay the bill anyways because you have to connect on they website … on top of getting your husband and the father of your child in the hospital in a coma.
This is a very good point. I’ve often wondered about a safe and secure method of getting my important passwords to a family member in the unfortunate event that something should happen to me.
That said, I’m very sorry to hear about your brother-in-law.
if you are afraid of data loss, bitwarden is a good choice because it is cloud based and it can also be self-hosted.
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IMO KeePassXC’s UI is way better than Bitwarden’s, but Bitwarden has very convenient syncing and a browser extension that actually works with almost any website.
I used to use KeePassXC and KeepassDX on my phone, syncing them through Syncthing. But depending on Syncthing and the clients always making the right changes to the one database file without destroying something never felt good and always having to run Syncthing in the background on my phone probably didn’t do its battery life any favors.
Add to that some frustrations with the browser extension and that’s why I decided to switch to Bitwarden in the end.
cant choose one because i enjoy using a lot of them:
- bitwarden
- inkscape
- kdenlive
- nextcloud
- organic maps
- signal games
- shattered pixel dungeon
- openttd
- Aegis Authenticator
- Antenna Pod
- Unciv
- Shelter
Wow, i LOVE Civ 5 but never knew about Unciv. Looks really cool!
Yeah not sure if you’ve played the android versions of Civilizations but I find they slow right down during the end game and Unciv understandably doesn’t have that issue and stays quite snappy
Every time Unciv updates I lose 2–6 hours of my day. 10/10
Ankidroid— Create, share, borrow and study with flash cards Firefox— Web browser Rethink DNS— Best firewall for android Infinity— Gonna miss this one (Reddit client) Libretube— Modern Youtube client using Piped Obtainium—Keeps track of all my foss apps from their git repositories + updates them Gnu IMP— Desktop photo editor Aurora Store— Download apps from the play store
Thanks for recommending Libretube. I just switched to GrapheneOS and was looking for a FOSS revanced replacement without the need for Play Services or MicroG. Libretube is absolutely perfect.
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LineageOS: my Android ROM of choice
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LineageOS for MicroG: the ROM on my second phone where I quarantine my use of apps that refuse to work without Google services (mostly stuff I need for business travel e.g. Amtrak, Google Maps)
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Aurora Store: allows installation of most Play Store apps without login. I mainly use this on the MicroG phone, but it’s also needed to get the ProtonMail and ProtonCalendar apps (only ProtonVPN is on F-Droid)
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TrackerControl: allows fine tuned domain blocking on a per-app basis. Often allows you to block just ads and trackers but still be able to use an app or at least many of its features.
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Arcticons: monochrome line art icons (because I hate fun and want my GUIs to look like a terminal)
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AsteroidOS Sync: WearOS replacement. AsteroidOS still has a long way to go, but I doubt WearOS would play nicely with LineageOS and I don’t want all the tracking anyway.
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Bubble: bubble level by woheller69 (a true F-Droid GOAT)
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FlorisBoard: afaik, only FOSS gesture typing Android keyboard (besides AnySoft, which doesn’t seem to work consistently)
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GMaps WV: fairly locked-down web viewer for Google Maps (sadly OSM just doesn’t have a usably complete business directory where I live)
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Lawnchair: launcher with all the features I want except being up to date on F-Droid
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Librera: the PDF reader on F-Droid that I hate the least. (Anyone got any better recommendations?)
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NewPipe: ad-free Youtube player with locally stored subscriptions and playlists. An IzzyOnDroid fork with SponsorBlock is also available.
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QKSMS: my SMS app of choice
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Signal: because I can’t convince my friends to switch to Briar
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SpoTube: pirate ad-free Spotify that works by looking up tracks on Youtube. Is therefore limited by what’s available on YT and sometimes plays wrong tracks, but you can’t beat the price :] Even interfaces with a Spotify account to play and edit playlists.
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Standard Notes: E2E encrypted cloud-synced notes. Also accessible by web browser, which has saved my ass a few times while phoneless
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Weather: by BeoCode on F-Droid
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VLC: everyone’s favorite traffic cone boi
I’d also recommend ViMusic. It is similar to SpoTube but in my opinion it’s more user friendly.
sadly OSM just doesn’t have a usably complete business directory where I live
Its up to you to change that to the better
this is true
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Inkscape for me :)
Bitwarden, Signal, Firefox, Sumatra PDF, Standard Notes, andOTP, and VLC Media Player
Isn’t andOTP basically dead? The app is unmaintained at this point and last update was 2 years ago.
I think something like Aegis Authenticator is a better option nowadays.
Yes, I should really switch to Aegis. andOTP has been working well for me though.
Love all of these, but really happy to see Sumatra PDF because that thing is just incredible and is a day 1 install on a fresh OS.
Its one of the first things I install too! A really efficient piece of software!
Love Sumantra so much. When I’ve had to do Linux installs, the lack of Sumantra was my biggest disappointment.
OpenVPN. I can self-host a lot of different things for my own personal internet/cloud thingy - Bitwarden, Pi-Hole, etc; but to actually use it when I’m not home? I either pay for a VPS or I just have a VPN back to my home network. So much becomes possible with that; like I have the contents of my entire NAS at my fingertips even if I’m not home; I can render projects on a VM at home and manage it from my phone, etc.
OpenVPN is, without a doubt, the most important part of my infrastructure.
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F-Droid for FOSS apps
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Aurora for Google Playstore apps
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OSMAnd for navigation
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Oeffi for public transport
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many Simple Mobile Tools apps
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K-9 Mail
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Tor browser
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Shelter for isolating apps
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Tusky for Mastodon
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Jerboa for Lemmy
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Nunti for RSS feeds
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Molly for Signal
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Telegram FOSS
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Aegis for 2FA
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QickDic (dictionary)
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TinyWeather
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Threema Libre (not free)
For the map I prefer Organic Maps, it has a cleaner UI
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Firefox
Firefox, LibreTube, Kaiteki
- Fairmail
- keepass
- firefly iii
- Firefox
- sumatrapdf
- LibreWolf (+UBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and many other extensions)
- Visual Studio Code
- VLC Media Player
VSC is open source? I had no idea!
Code is open-source but it isn’t quite fully open-source. It has some proprietary stuff in it. For it to be fully open-source, check out VS Codium
AFAIK, it’s like chrome/chromium, so… yes, but complicated.
Feeder - for reading rss feeds, which takes up more of my time than all social media combined KeePassDX and Aegis - passwords and 2fa Vanilla Music Jerboa Droid-ify Quillpad - note app inspired by google Keep SimpleNotes - checklists. I don’t like how Quillpad handles checklists. Newpipe Discreet Launcher FFUpdater - installs and updates browsers
Can I ask where do you get your RSS from? It’s hard to find RSS in sites and topics I’m interested in.
Yeah, not all sites have an rss feed or it’s hard to find. Here is a few tips:
- 1/Share the url with your rss reader, the reader can search for you. This doesn’t always work.
- 2/Add one of these to the site’s url /rss .rss /feed
- 3/If step 2 doesn’t work look for a “blog” or “news” tab and try steps 1 and 2 there.
- 4 When all else fails ask for feeds, making sure to state the topics you are interested in.
I have a lot of feeds for science, environment, privacy, a few for world news, technology, and health which I recently posted on Mastodon https://techhub.social/@bigtechblows/110527513586017980 Hopefully the link works.
If you’re asking what I think you are, I get mine by searching “best RSS feeds” and then manually looking through the list. Then, if I ever find myself going to a site a lot, I’ll see if they have one or if someone has created an RSS for it.
i get mine from Ars, The Register, The Verge, NPR, and Computerworld so far.
