FOSS or otherwise
uBlock origin
And sponsorblock!
And DeArrow!
A must for actually knowing the content of LMG videos past the click-bait headlines/thumbnails.
Firefox. I hate how inflexible other browser are.
The fact, that you can install plugins on a mobile browser
head blown gifKiwi Browser is Android Chrome with desktop extension compatibility.
Firefox > Chrome
Honestly. I use it at home but atm too lazy to move everything again at work. :|
I’m referring to Android versions. No extensions allowed on Android Chrome, but Kiwi does. Android Firefox allows some small number of extensions, but IceRaven allows many more.
Speaking of which, user scripts. So useful at un-enshittifying the web. Or just personalizing it to scratch those little design itches that annoy you.
any good ones you can recommend?
Eg. I use this for facebook
https://github.com/zbluebugz/facebook-clean-my-feeds
Or eg. for BandCamp I wrote a script that hides the play progress bar so that I can actually focus on the music instead of how many seconds of music there are left.
oh nice – for the second one, you can also use UBO’s eyedropper tool to hide a component by CSS selector
Bitwarden. Otherwise I won’t be able to log on to any of my accounts.
I concur. I would never go back.
I also like Keepass
You can pry Vim from my cold dead hands.
I will!! Right after I look up the key command that does that.
:h pry
Sure and place neovim there
What if I swap it out with helix like that statue in Indiana jones
You know, I’ve heard a lot of good things about Helix; if it gets more people using modal editors then I’m all for it. Personally though, I haven’t seen a convincing reason to leave Vim yet.
The biggest reason though is that my editor works literally everywhere. Even without my custom vimrc, vanilla vim is hugely powerful, and to have that on every random server I need to access is a gamechanger for me. Even if all you have is Vi, you still have a very capable editor available.
I mean uh… Crushed by a boulder! Which on Lemmy means you’ll be downvoted into oblivion until they run you off the instance haha.
I used to use neovim for a while, the main reason I migrated to helix was because it just has everything built in, no need to spend hours getting lsps working and everything
The motions are vastly better than vim though imo, the select as you go thing makes it feel a lot more natural
(For example, w moves you to the end of the word and selects it, then pressing it again deselects and selects the next word unless you’re in v mode)
Meaning to delete a word it’s w+d not d+w
Also very good multi cursor support, instead of typing out a long sed command I can select a block or all, and do S,(regex) and it spawns a cursor on every match which can do everything the normal one can
As for it being everywhere have you ever used sshfs? It’s always my go-to when editing projects on a remote server and then you can use whatever you want
The kernel. I can take or leave most things, but I’m not going back to the days of writing directly into memory-mapped registers.
But that’s my favorite part
Someone always beats me to the funniest response!
Oh, don’t worry. The guy who answered
vmlinuzbeat me to the joke in general :)
Linux, seriously, it’s in my phone, my router, my desktop, my ISP and nearly the entire infrastructure of the internet upon which I rely uses it.
On Android, it’s probably a little utility software called Quick Cursor (it’s not FOSS). It’s incredibly convenient being able to spawn a cursor on your phone from thin air that you can use to reach the “unreachable” portions of your screen, especially if you are holding your phone with one hand. Besides being a “phone touchpad” it has a bunch of ways of triggering actions/shortcuts, for example: volume or brightness control, launching an app (I use it for launching a floating calculator, notes…), opening notification shade, copying text (it can copy any text that is under the cursor, even if it’s not selectable)…
It’s not that I couldn’t go without it, but it changed the way I use my phone and it would feel really weird without it. It feels like it should be a part of the OS.
Used this for all of 10 seconds and fell in love.
This is a nice share. I have used Edge Gestures for years (made by the same dev who created Square Launcher, which was my daily driver coming off Windows Phone) and this is a nice augmentation to that.
I am curious about the usefulness of the functionality behind the paywall. It looks like some of the app launching features could replace what I use edge gestures for, but without a trial to test it I can’t be certain.
If you use the pro version, can you let me know if there is a way to pick from multiple applications to launch?
Here’s an example of the application shortcuts in Edge Gestures:
So, there are 2 main places for shortcuts/actions: tracker actions and edge actions.
These are my tracker actions
I set it so it activates when I tap and hold the tracker, it shows up those shortcuts. If I slide my finger towards one of the shortcuts, it activates it.These are my edge actions
These are actions/shortcuts that you trigger by pushing the cursor to the edge of the screen.You can pick any app from your phone or any of the actions available in the app, there are a lot… Like system controls (volume, brightness control, media playback buttons, screen lock, screen rotation, etc.) and you can also make a shortcut for Tasker/MacroDroid/Automate action. So basically, you can make a shortcut for almost anything you can think of.
wow this will legitimately improve my life daily, thanks for sharing
That seems like a wonderful function. Considering android support external mouse with cursors. I hope someone can make a FOSS version and put it in F-droid.
Legend!
Downloaded and enjoyed. Thanks for the recommendation.
That may be the single most intuitive, and intuitively useful, app I have used in years.
Wow, instant default install.
You can just connect a Bluetooth mouse if you have one and a cursor will appear natively.
I think you are missing the point of the app. The cursor part of it is more of a gesture, or you can think of it as a “thumb extension”. The point is to help you avoid the inconvenience and save time by allowing you to reach farther parts of your screen without repositioning your hand. I called it a “phone touchpad” just because, when you activate it, a part of the screen is acting like a touchpad. You are not using it for a specific purpose of having a cursor on your phone, the cursor is basically just the tip of your “virtual extended thumb”. So it’s a utility/accessibility software.
Using a physical mouse would be the opposite of what this app is trying to achieve.Okay, I tried it, it’s not for me. Would be WAY better if the track pad was logarithmic so the cursor was closer to your thumb as it got lower on the screen, eventually meeting your thumb when dragged low enough.
If it had that feature (and played well with the bluelight filter I use, twilight) I’d be sold on it.
I’m not sure what system you’re on, but mine does do that. Not all the way down so they’re touching but it goes from a little above my thumb when at the bottom, to my thumb being around the middle of the screen with the cursor at the top of my phone display.
Edit: I think if you dig around in the settings you can change the distance. But it’s probably behind the paywall.
I think it might be possible only in the paid version, but that’s exactly how it works, you just have to increase the Cursor area in Swipe zones settings.
And it does stay under the Twilight if you give Twilight the accessibility permission.
That’s stupid, so good. How haven’t I heard of this before?
no F-droid?
firefox
Android. As bad as it is, if I had to use iOS or Linux phones it would be even worse, at least with the current state of Linux phones.
But actually, maybe if Android didn’t exist, the FOSS community would focus more on Linux phones and they would be an actually good option. Maybe Android shouldn’t exist?
For me it’s iOS, funnily enough. I use Windows for all of our video game machines and Linux for everything else, but I don’t use any Google products or services. After messing around on my computers all the time, I don’t want to even have to THINK about doing things to my phone to make it go. My current phone is six years old and the only reason I’m upgrading this year is to get a 120hz screen, USB-C, and for better low light pictures of cats. And a terabyte would be nice.
Google is a bad company, and Apple isn’t any better. Probably the best option for you would be GrapheneOS on one of the latest pixels, they have intuitive software, 120hz screens, have had USB-C for years, a good camera, lots of storage, and most importantly GrapheneOS doesn’t use Google or Apple, it’s FOSS.
GrapheneOS is awesome, but like I said, no google products and I don’t want to fuck with my phone at all. Apple isn’t perfect, but it’s leagues better than stock Google with app permissions and overall privacy. My six year old phone is still fully supported for at least another year, and I enjoy the OS for the very few things I do on my phone. This is definitely the best option for me.
My biggest concern with graphene is that I don’t really trust that my apps will work on it.
I haven’t looked into it for years, but I do need to use apps like Microsoftone drive, WeChat, banks, etc.
Even if they work I’m concerned that they will see I’m on some modified OS and block my account.
Maybe just a feature phone and tether it to a laptop?
7zip
Leisure Suit Larry
Firefox, uBlock Origin, uBlacklist KDE, Dolphin, Kate, LibreOffice, CherryTree Kid3, Flacon, LosslesCut, qBittorrent, VLC Musicolet, Simplenote, F-Droid, AuroraStore
I agree with everything and also with Musicolet, like no other mp3 player felt right until this one, it has everything I like, I listen to downloaded audio books, and can effortlessly change audio speed and pitch, sleep timers, and folder directories.
I desperately want a Linux desktop version of this.
Obsidian.
Since the Internet in general is getting harder to find genuine information, it is becoming increasingly important to save anything important to you. One day it could just disappear without warning. Obsidian can be used for an offline knowledge base. Design it however you like. I do recommend NOT watching YouTube Obsidian “gurus”, their system works for them not you.
What’s the premise?
Personally for me, it allows me to dump stuff out of my noggin good or bad. That way I can stop thinking about it and move on. A form of self reflection. I have a bad habit to hold onto thoughts and go down a rabbit hole with them in an unhealthy fashion. Basically journaling but I can store things I have learned long term.
The beauty of it is Obsidian (or really any other writing app) allows you to develop a system of writing for you. I’m not the typical writer but Obsidian allows me to write without worrying about the organization so much.
So it’s a writing app?
Note taking multi tool: https://obsidian.md/
After reading the site, I’m still not entirely sure how to use it.
Is there a decent demo site somewhere? The examples they show are very simplistic
It’s a notepad.
But then you go down a rabbit hole if you look beyond that Basically think about what could happen if your notes in different tabs could link to each other and extrapolate from there.
It takes up 6 of my 24 hours each day just to think about starting to actually take some notes. It’s awesome.
At its heart, Obsodian is a flat file markdown-based not taking app. It is pretty simple. To understand where it gets more involved, look at all the plug-ins available for it. There’s more stuff that can be found in the docs pretty easily.
Yep, today I’d say obsidian and syncthing, they’re the bread and butter of my life right now. Although it feels sad and weird to see the small app I discovered 2 years ago starting to enter the «selling template» and «enhance your experience» that notion also took a few years ago «althought it’s a completly different company culture»
I do recommend NOT watching YouTube Obsidian “gurus”, their system works for them not you.
One of these is actually what got me started with it. I do not rigidly adhere to their system but it was a nice starting point I have since adapted to my own style. If I had gone into it blind I would have made a lot less progress because I’m kind of dumb when I have nothing to go off.
Vi/Vim - had it on every computer I’ve owned or used since about 1991.
Vi for me too. Mostly because I’m trapped and cannot exit it.
Just head down to the basement, find the circuit breakers for your building and flip them all to off for 10 seconds. That usually gets you out of Vi.
That unfortunately appears to be the best way to exit. Please tell me if you know a better method.
The best alternative is to take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
qBitorrent, undoubtably
100% agreed
