What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?

What writing?

Which browser do you recommend?

What makes you say that? I only switched to it recently

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The client implementation is foss

No, they said BitWarden

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.

I wish they'd fix and release the nightly. It so cool looking

Are there any screenshots of the nightly? I'm curious if it looks good enough to switch back.

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!

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.

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.

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!

Yeah, I remember iSH being on TestFlight and just being blown away. Like what it could do on an iPhone 6S as an app.

Thats the termux they are referring to

Install it though F-Droid, third party app store.

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 !amateursatellites@lemmy.world
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.

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

Pretty much all I know about Minetest is "It's not Minecraft, and my friends all play Minecraft."

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.

Looks like it's only one update behind though. That's not too bad.

I’m not exactly sure what you mean, since Syncthing doesn’t do either of the things I was talking about.

• Syncthing is for syncing files.
• nephele-serve is for running a dedicated WebDAV server.
• QuickDAV is for transferring files.

Syncthing has its own use cases, they’re just not the ones I use these apps for.

Valid

Off topic and cheesy.

“What’s a pirate’s favorite CD?”

“A CD-RRRRRRRR”

I’ll see myself out

See you out there on the bay! Rrrrrrrr

Agreed! I only use it for hobby purposes but the amount you can do is staggering.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

Thanks, I'll take a look at that one as well.

O7

Yeah and neither is paint.net

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.

There is an Open Source Edition

I never hitched horses with OpenSCAD. Do you model each board individually? What's your workflow?

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

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.

Arr matey

They're all related.

Not at the moment, but I suppose I could.