I LOVE F-droid.
suggest me any more cool apps I can get.
UPDATE: Got rid of Brave 🙃, I wasnt using it anyway but here you go the updated list.
Brave is a less than ideal choice…
Cromite is a much more secure Chromium browser. IronFox is a much more secure Gecko browser.
I swear I saw the post and it had brave as #1 app and not it’s gone. I mean, good, but still…
Read the description, I edited the post, should I make it more clear though?
Yikes. De googles but leaves the brave crypto scam browser installed.
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De "futo"ing would be a good idea as well. Them being associated with Curtis Yarvin (literally their peer tube) who is a piece of shit close enough to elon musk and thiel.
Lou’s Rossman’s right to repair work is great. His ability to recognize and not associate with some of the shittiest people and groups has become legend. (Kiwi farms anyone?)
Good to know. I just decided to try a gboard replacement and heliboard does pretty well.
Yep, heli is what I’m using ATM. They are generally pretty solid and I haven’t heard anything to recommend against the project. In fact they’re completely voluntary and opt-in data collection to build their own swipe typing Library sounds like an awesome initiative and I hope they succeed with it.
Atleast its better than Gboard lol,
any good alternatives? I’m so bad at typing in a phone my accuracy is pretty bad, I barely use my phone and I’m always on my computer that’s probably the reason.
I’m using heliboard at the moment. They offer swipe typing through the Google libraries currently. But are exploring a data collection process completely voluntarily to build their own swipe typing libraries.
I did like futo’s voice typing input method. It’s recognition was generally right up there with Google’s. Although there were certain words it frustratingly and consistently got wrong no matter how specifically I said them. But the fact that it could infer punctuation rather accurately where Google won’t even try was definitely nice. Unfortunately I have not found a truly viable replacement for that sort of input yet. I definitely believe that sometime in the not-too-distant future there will absolutely be a Foss local solution. But I don’t believe that futo’s solution is trustworthy enough to believe that it was local Etc.
Librewolf and waterfox over brave
It’s android, Fennec for gecko or Vanadium for chromium
Im currently using cromite for chromium
I don’t really use brave, as you can see I also have cromite, I just had it.
Obtainium!
They have new community-suggested install methods for difficult-to-get apps like Proton Calendar and Proton Mail. Usually, you’d only be able to get those from the Play Store. Obtainium lets you install them directly from their Github repos.
I do use obtainium, I think I forgot to include it in the homescreen.
Same! Just moved to graphene and it’s great!
Looks cool. What launcher?
Lawn chair off aurora and dollphone icons off f-droid
I dislike the ai slop tentacles bg
Fair. I didn’t realize it was ain’t until you said so, I just like tentacles as an aesthetic.
Beautiful.
Magisk twice is killing me.
I have 2 root 👾
Sweet! May I suggest IronFox instead of Brave? https://ironfoxoss.org/docs/installation/
It’s obviously degoogled chromium so who cares, but there are all these reasons: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Also, these are my initial impressions: https://programming.dev/post/47806969
I thought I had IronFox installed but it was fennec, but now that I’m trying to install ironfox—
Hm… Are you perhaps on iPhone?
what 😭 how can you possible get any of these Foss apps let alone F-droid in an iphone?
No idea. The settings icon looked a bit like the one from iOS. 😅
Companies like Xiomi are always on the move to rip every bit off from iphone for some reason.
Molly is a hardened signal fork. Not sure how folks feel about it but I have no issues.
The most important steps are moving the chip industry to europe, producing sensible meaningful hardware that is compatible with OSes other than Android and Microsoft, and then install proper applications on them.
One issue I’ve hit when de-googling is some sites/services/orgs/etc won’t let me change my email. So I’m stuck with google as long as I use those sites/services/orgs.
With some, deleting and recreating accounts may work. Some may be tricky.
The less Google usage, the less data they get, the less they understand about who you are now.
Oh have non google accounts, I just can’t be 100% free of them
I recommend gadget bridge if you have a smartwatch and other bluetooth objets. One app to rule them all.
https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge
Newpipe to watch youtube without ads.
Voyager to surf lemmy
I’m currently on blood to use lemmy
Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?
Good work! You should work on switching away from Proton’s apps/services next, as their CEO has indicated his support for fascists, and they have repeatedly turned over VPN logs when nation-states come asking.
I use Mullvad’s VPN and KeePass DX + Syncthing for passwords
yes, I don’t have any money to pay for a VPN subscription for now but I am definitely switching my password manager.
Get yourself a nice background to make your phone space nice!
Favourite apps from F-droid - Breezy Weather, Binary Eye, Fucks Given (Task app that is hilarious), Newpipe and Antennapod. Oh and also FeedFlow is a great RSS reader
thanks, I usually use a different launcher, I don’t know but I kinda like it this way. its minimal and I don’t use my phone much. (My desktop is. pretty dope though {arch btw})
