RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz
on 25 Sep 22:51
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Quite impressive choice of apps, usually when I look at screenshots of privacy enthusiasts they look more or less like my own phone, and with you I share 3, maybe 4 apps only
Accrescent: Store run (edit: advocated) by the GrapheneOS team for third-party apps
Aegis: 2FA TOTP code generator
AirGuard: Scans for persistent AirTags in the vicinity, notifies if I may be victim to AirTag tracking
AntennaPod: Podcast manager, also supports importing local folders of podcasts
AudioMonitor: Measure sound level
Binary Eye: Support for many types of 1D and 2D barcodes
ByeDPI: routes internet traffic through the DNS port to bypass certain types of filtering
Canvass: doodle app, useful for mid-conversation diagrams and clarifying things visually in the absence of pen and paper
ClassiCube: Minecraft Classic clone
Conversations: XMPP client
Editor: raw text editor
Elementary: periodic table
SimpleEmail: minimalist e-mail app that does not automatically fetch linked images. Refereshes in the background every 15 minutes and sends notifications without need for Play Services or equivalent
FakeStandby: for edge cases when I want something to keep running in the foreground, but don’t want to keep the screen on
Feeder: RSS client
Fintunes: Jellyfin client optimized for music
FlorisBoard: customizable keyboard
Fruity Game: Suika but with MS-Paint art style
Graph 89: Graphing calculator emulator
Invizible: Tor and DNS client
Kiwix: Offline Wikipedia (you can download just the parts useful to you, e.g. medical articles without storage-hungry media files)
Lemuroid: GBA emulator
LocalSend: instant P2P filesharing over WLAN
Markor: notes app with markdown
Material Files: files app with SMB share support and various handy features
Molly: Alternative Signal client
Fossify Messages: I use it over the default messages app since it is easy to block numbers by pattern
Notally: notes app with nice checklists
Open Camera: as easy to use as the regular camera, but with a bunch more features below the surface
OpenContacts: saves contacts as individual .vcf files to a directory for easy backup and allows dropping unknown callers without bothering me with a notification
Organic Maps to be replaced with CoMaps later
OSS Document Scanner: best FOSS scanning app I’ve found so far. Includes auto-cropping (given enough contrast) and adjustable B&W filter to eliminate off-white background colors.
phyphox: view output of sensors like the barometer, magnetometer, accelerometer, etc.
PipePipe: NewPipe but better (except for the occasional memory leakage)
QDict & QuickDic: offline dictionaries and bilingual wordbooks
RadioDroid: IP radio client. Can tune in to international news, music, sports broadcasts
RHVoice: TTS app
RiMusic: NewPipe, but for Spotify, etc. YT Music
SecScanQR: QR scanner and generator with history, useful to save QR addresses for later use since I don’t want to fill out forms or read documents on my phone
SuperTuxKart: the only [edit: other] game on my phone
Symphony: Music app with a slick UI
Trail Sense: Compass with various goodies useful for outdoor activities
Breezy Weather: weather app and homescreen widget with a slick UI
MicroMathematics: Math engine, but I never learned how to use it
Ahhh…I am of the generation that remembers when there were no calculators. When they started becoming available, yes they were quite expensive. All my teachers would say ‘what do you think? You think you’re just going to have a calculator in your pocket all the time?’ Well, yes Mr Mizelle in engineering, I will be walking around with a calculator in my pocket that links to a satellite in outer fucking space.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 26 Sep 15:53
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And it has autocorrect on it, so then I’ll forget these spelling words
somerandomname@lemmy.ml
on 26 Sep 18:41
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Fossify Paint does the same thing without adding the IzzyOnDroid repo, I just happen to have Canvass since it was the first thing that showed up when I searched.
Honest question: I see a lot of people here use their mobile phones as a computer platform. I have a general uneasiness about doing so. Not throwing any shade whatsoever, I just feel there is too much out of my control on a mobile phone, for me to trust it more than I do. My general policy is not to use my phone as a mobile computing platform even tho I have a VPN installed and use Firefox as a browser.
My local network for instance. There is one pipe in and out. I can easily see what is coming in and what’s going out and I can control that with the granularity of a gnat’s ass. I know what my software is doing or not doing. I can allow or disallow anything I want. On a mobile phone, I feel that the control I have on my PC is not equal to the control I have on my phone.
How have you come to terms with what you can’t control on your mobile phone?
AceBonobo@lemmy.world
on 25 Sep 23:38
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On occasion, I do leave the compound, but it’s usually to get staples I don’t grow/produce on the farm. Rarely does that process need a mobile computing platform. (I guess that’s what you’re asking)
Touch grass? Not OP, but when I’m out of the house, it’s because I need to do something, so I’m barely on my phone except for navigation, the occasional text/call, and paying for stuff. Otherwise, I use my laptop most of the time (at home and at work).
I definitely agree with you on this. My pet theory is that phones have been getting uncomfortably big, at least from my perspective, since the average consumer is expecting it to serve as a computing and productivity platform, while all I want is a nice little digital Swiss army knife. I’m only logged into my messaging apps and personal email, and don’t expect to do any sort of “productivity” on my phone. When my friends and colleagues assume I’m logged in to this-or-that on my phone, all I can think about is how afraid I would be if I were logged in to so many things on my personal phone. It’s so much harder to inspect what’s going on in the background of mobile devices.
One of the compromises I’ve had to accept is the closed, yet exploitable nature of the baseband and firmware. Also how much more spying it could do compared to any PC if an exploit were to get through. Compiling Coreboot and neutering the Intel ME taught me a lot about who’s really in control - and how much control we all lose to smartphone manufacturers and telecom companies.
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
on 26 Sep 07:31
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I run an older android version, no google apps, rooted, and use AFWall/AdAway. I’m sure it’s not as secure with root and older software but I can mostly trust it to not send weird network packets etc.
Forgot to put that on my list earlier, it scans for nearby WiFi access points and returns the signal strength, band frequency, and various details about each.
abominable_panda@lemmy.world
on 26 Sep 00:30
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you mean comaps? Search is just a bit slow but not a big deal at all. I’d rather that than having Google spy on my ass everywhere I go.
anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net
on 26 Sep 18:02
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Of course, I don’t mean speed, I meant the search format. On Google I can search for an address with the usual format of 123 Street, City. If I search that way on Organic/Co, it doesn’t pop up results the same way. I just never understood it besides being an offline map for my reference.
I don’t know about other countries but here in germany I just type the street and the number of the house and it takes me to it. (as in Street 123, City)
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
on 26 Sep 12:40
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I just ran the two apps side-by-side and barely found any differences other than some subtle UI changes. How exactly is it different? And how is Organic Maps being enshittified?
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
on 27 Sep 04:39
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I haven’t been keeping up with Organic Maps updates to see if they differ but I’d assume they’re basically functionally the same, except for potentially Kayak results.
Pixel 5, unfortunately a bit out of date since I’m putting off the repair of my 7a. Same app selection on the 7a though since I’ve maintained this as my backup.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
on 26 Sep 04:50
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Fucking legend! I’m going to spend the weekend exploring these apps and see what changes I can make on my phone. 👍
phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org
on 26 Sep 05:05
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That’s how my GrapheneOS phone is zero proprietary apps in the main profile and then my own separate Google profile. Essentially get to carry two cell phones with one device.
curious_dolphin@slrpnk.net
on 26 Sep 13:57
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What does maintaining a separate profile for Google stuff buy you? I’m familiar with GrapheneOS, but haven’t internalized the separate profile thing yet.
Then when it’s locked down it shuts down play services and apps to complete non functionality.
Go into system and create a new user. Set up that user exactly like you would a standard smart phone. And any apps you have on your main profile completely open source. That way it’s 100℅ Google free
curious_dolphin@slrpnk.net
on 26 Sep 14:38
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Got that part, but what throws me is, in order to install a Google app on that secondary “google” profile, don’t you have to first install the Google app on the main profile so that you can then push it to the secondary profile?
No… You just install the play store and play services on profile #2 via the Graphene app store.
curious_dolphin@slrpnk.net
on 26 Sep 15:30
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Oh, I see. I must’ve misread a tutorial at some point then. I did not realize one could install an app directly into profile #2, I thought root had all the apps and then specific apps had to be pushed to the other profiles. Thanks for clarifying that.
There is a guy in YouTube who does this. Side of Burritos? He has Google play on his main profile and then has a degoogled account for the second profile and transfers all the play store apps to the second profile. (Essentially making it his main).
Pull down your notification bar twice. In other words expand it all the way. There is a small person Inside of a circle icon. That is how you can select the other profile. It’s super fast and easy.
Then when you are done inside the profile. Hold the power button and select “Lock Out” and this will completely close down the second profile and put you back in the Main profile with the other completely shut down.
Downside is you wont get notifications in one area or the other from the opposing profile when it’s not in use.
An alternative that is pretty secure too instead of profiles is to do the same thing in Private Space. This is found in the settings under the Security tab. This WILL get notifications to your main profile and when you shut down Private Space all apps stop completely including Play Services. But it’s not as isolated as profiles
Wow, this is impressive. I had heard about profiles but never got into the detail and never really understood the benefit. So, a cool way of using this it to have a FOSS only space under the main admin profile and the build up a second “big brother” profile where I stack some annoying apps that in a way or another I’m forced to use like banking app and what’s app. When the “big brother” profile is shut down, nobody tracks you. Would that be correct? If this is true I’m here asking myself why on earth people are not harnessing this more.
Yes, when you google profile is shut down… It is completely isolated. You could install an application that is 100℅ malware and it would be completely closed down the moment you lock down that profile.
If you need what’s app, I would either check your side profile a few times a day for messages OR you can stick What’s App on the Private Space area of your FOSS profile so that it’s Super easy to check. Private space works the same way in that when it’s shut down… The apps are 100℅ turned off including Play Services.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 26 Sep 08:25
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They said it couldn’t be done…
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 26 Sep 09:26
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It still can’t be done 100% unless you make significant sacrifices to the usefulness of your smartphone…there’s plenty of really useful (and sometimes necessary) things with no FOSS or open source alternatives.
Not to mention drivers… many driver blobs are proprietary and if you can find an open source one, there is a chance it works partially or not at all. I have a spare phone and I’ve been hesitating between flashing either PostmarketOS (all FOSS drivers but without the android ecosystem) or LineageOS, or maybe both if I can achieve that.
To be fair, I only have a few of my friends and some of my family on XMPP. I’m also guilty of having WhatsApp on my work phone for colleagues and the rest of my friends.
Catalyst_A@lemmygrad.ml
on 28 Sep 06:14
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Congratulations!!!
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
on 28 Sep 16:11
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Last I tried RHVoice is was very unnatural sounding.
Sherpa-onnx is a much much more natural option. I personally use vits-piper-en_GB-southern_english_female-medium because I thought it sounded the most natural. You can also use Glados from Portal
Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Sep 00:57
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I second sherpa! Love it. I use with with Librera FD so basically made PDFs audiobooks.
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
on 29 Sep 05:09
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Ohhh I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!
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Quite impressive choice of apps, usually when I look at screenshots of privacy enthusiasts they look more or less like my own phone, and with you I share 3, maybe 4 apps only
Thank you. Most of thoese i even dont know. Can you make a list?
Of course
run(edit: advocated) by the GrapheneOS team for third-party appsSpotify, etc.YT MusicYou had me going til that one.
My bad, misremembered that RiMusic fetches from Youtube music instead of Spotify
Btw Accrescent isn’t run by the GrapheneOS team, they just advocate for it’s use
That TI calculator app is the shit. I am in the generation who used those in engineering school. Goddamned things were like $150.
Ahhh…I am of the generation that remembers when there were no calculators. When they started becoming available, yes they were quite expensive. All my teachers would say ‘what do you think? You think you’re just going to have a calculator in your pocket all the time?’ Well, yes Mr Mizelle in engineering, I will be walking around with a calculator in my pocket that links to a satellite in outer fucking space.
And it has autocorrect on it, so then I’ll forget these spelling words
Cannot find canvass on f-droid, got a link?
It’s on the IzzyOnDroid repo: apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/…/com.cyb3rg0d.canvass
Fossify Paint does the same thing without adding the IzzyOnDroid repo, I just happen to have Canvass since it was the first thing that showed up when I searched.
Thank you!
Honest question: I see a lot of people here use their mobile phones as a computer platform. I have a general uneasiness about doing so. Not throwing any shade whatsoever, I just feel there is too much out of my control on a mobile phone, for me to trust it more than I do. My general policy is not to use my phone as a mobile computing platform even tho I have a VPN installed and use Firefox as a browser.
My local network for instance. There is one pipe in and out. I can easily see what is coming in and what’s going out and I can control that with the granularity of a gnat’s ass. I know what my software is doing or not doing. I can allow or disallow anything I want. On a mobile phone, I feel that the control I have on my PC is not equal to the control I have on my phone.
How have you come to terms with what you can’t control on your mobile phone?
What do you do when you leave the house?
On occasion, I do leave the compound, but it’s usually to get staples I don’t grow/produce on the farm. Rarely does that process need a mobile computing platform. (I guess that’s what you’re asking)
Touch grass? Not OP, but when I’m out of the house, it’s because I need to do something, so I’m barely on my phone except for navigation, the occasional text/call, and paying for stuff. Otherwise, I use my laptop most of the time (at home and at work).
I definitely agree with you on this. My pet theory is that phones have been getting uncomfortably big, at least from my perspective, since the average consumer is expecting it to serve as a computing and productivity platform, while all I want is a nice little digital Swiss army knife. I’m only logged into my messaging apps and personal email, and don’t expect to do any sort of “productivity” on my phone. When my friends and colleagues assume I’m logged in to this-or-that on my phone, all I can think about is how afraid I would be if I were logged in to so many things on my personal phone. It’s so much harder to inspect what’s going on in the background of mobile devices.
One of the compromises I’ve had to accept is the closed, yet exploitable nature of the baseband and firmware. Also how much more spying it could do compared to any PC if an exploit were to get through. Compiling Coreboot and neutering the Intel ME taught me a lot about who’s really in control - and how much control we all lose to smartphone manufacturers and telecom companies.
I run an older android version, no google apps, rooted, and use AFWall/AdAway. I’m sure it’s not as secure with root and older software but I can mostly trust it to not send weird network packets etc.
Threat level analysis.
So about that Wifi app in the third screenshot…
Forgot to put that on my list earlier, it scans for nearby WiFi access points and returns the signal strength, band frequency, and various details about each.
Does it grant “backdoor” access?
Not that I’m aware of. I only used it to diagnose weak signals and frequency band conflicts in the house.
Blessed be thy innocent soul.
edit: got the reference. lol
Lemuroid and PipePipe <3
Btw if you’re signed it with your youtube account on pipepipe you might not be able to watch videos. There were recent changes to the youtube
Where did you get super tux kart?
F-Droid
Really?? It’s not appearing on mine :(
I’ve got an old Samsung J7 from 2016, maybe that’s why
you can get it from GitHub:
github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/releases
and you can use obtanium to automatically update it (or any apps from GitHub/ the web)
I’m sorry but those are all for desktop if I’m not mistaking. There is Winlator but OP has the apk.
If you press show all assets, there is an .apk for each release as well.
its called SuperTuxKart-[version].apk, doesn’t have android in its name
Thanks for pointing that out !
Turns out the releases were just not shown in openhub
Niiiiice! Thanks a bunch. It had never ocurred to me I could play it on mobile
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The GOAT
Try CoMaps instead of Organic Maps. It’s a fork because Organic Maps is starting to enshittify
Man, I had hoped they fixed the search.
Those apps are fictionally useless for me. Does anyone know how to use it?
you mean comaps? Search is just a bit slow but not a big deal at all. I’d rather that than having Google spy on my ass everywhere I go.
Of course, I don’t mean speed, I meant the search format. On Google I can search for an address with the usual format of 123 Street, City. If I search that way on Organic/Co, it doesn’t pop up results the same way. I just never understood it besides being an offline map for my reference.
I don’t know about other countries but here in germany I just type the street and the number of the house and it takes me to it. (as in Street 123, City)
You could add addresses to Open Street Maps
I just ran the two apps side-by-side and barely found any differences other than some subtle UI changes. How exactly is it different? And how is Organic Maps being enshittified?
I haven’t been keeping up with Organic Maps updates to see if they differ but I’d assume they’re basically functionally the same, except for potentially Kayak results.
openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shar…
Thanks for the link. I just made the switch to CoMaps because I’m tired of enshittification.
Is there a reason for CoMaps not being on fdroid? I must be missing other app stores. For example, Accretium (a privacy appstore?) is not on fdroid.
CoMaps is on both F-Droid and izzyondroid repos.
f-droid.org/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/
Thanks, how strange when I searched for it in fdroid it didn’t come up 🤔
Is that a pixel 4?
Based on the placement of the time on the status bar I would guess it’s a Pixel 5, as it needs to make space there for the camera punch out
Pixel 5, unfortunately a bit out of date since I’m putting off the repair of my 7a. Same app selection on the 7a though since I’ve maintained this as my backup.
Fucking legend! I’m going to spend the weekend exploring these apps and see what changes I can make on my phone. 👍
damn bro gat the juice
That’s how my GrapheneOS phone is zero proprietary apps in the main profile and then my own separate Google profile. Essentially get to carry two cell phones with one device.
What does maintaining a separate profile for Google stuff buy you? I’m familiar with GrapheneOS, but haven’t internalized the separate profile thing yet.
It keeps Google 100℅ seperate or vice versa.
Then when it’s locked down it shuts down play services and apps to complete non functionality.
Go into system and create a new user. Set up that user exactly like you would a standard smart phone. And any apps you have on your main profile completely open source. That way it’s 100℅ Google free
Got that part, but what throws me is, in order to install a Google app on that secondary “google” profile, don’t you have to first install the Google app on the main profile so that you can then push it to the secondary profile?
No… You just install the play store and play services on profile #2 via the Graphene app store.
Oh, I see. I must’ve misread a tutorial at some point then. I did not realize one could install an app directly into profile #2, I thought root had all the apps and then specific apps had to be pushed to the other profiles. Thanks for clarifying that.
There is a guy in YouTube who does this. Side of Burritos? He has Google play on his main profile and then has a degoogled account for the second profile and transfers all the play store apps to the second profile. (Essentially making it his main).
I don’t do that for battery purposes.
I nave ho learn how ho do these two profile things. How do u switch between them, and IS it on the fly?
Pull down your notification bar twice. In other words expand it all the way. There is a small person Inside of a circle icon. That is how you can select the other profile. It’s super fast and easy.
Then when you are done inside the profile. Hold the power button and select “Lock Out” and this will completely close down the second profile and put you back in the Main profile with the other completely shut down.
Downside is you wont get notifications in one area or the other from the opposing profile when it’s not in use.
An alternative that is pretty secure too instead of profiles is to do the same thing in Private Space. This is found in the settings under the Security tab. This WILL get notifications to your main profile and when you shut down Private Space all apps stop completely including Play Services. But it’s not as isolated as profiles
Wow, this is impressive. I had heard about profiles but never got into the detail and never really understood the benefit. So, a cool way of using this it to have a FOSS only space under the main admin profile and the build up a second “big brother” profile where I stack some annoying apps that in a way or another I’m forced to use like banking app and what’s app. When the “big brother” profile is shut down, nobody tracks you. Would that be correct? If this is true I’m here asking myself why on earth people are not harnessing this more.
Yes, when you google profile is shut down… It is completely isolated. You could install an application that is 100℅ malware and it would be completely closed down the moment you lock down that profile.
If you need what’s app, I would either check your side profile a few times a day for messages OR you can stick What’s App on the Private Space area of your FOSS profile so that it’s Super easy to check. Private space works the same way in that when it’s shut down… The apps are 100℅ turned off including Play Services.
They said it couldn’t be done…
It still can’t be done 100% unless you make significant sacrifices to the usefulness of your smartphone…there’s plenty of really useful (and sometimes necessary) things with no FOSS or open source alternatives.
Not to mention drivers… many driver blobs are proprietary and if you can find an open source one, there is a chance it works partially or not at all. I have a spare phone and I’ve been hesitating between flashing either PostmarketOS (all FOSS drivers but without the android ecosystem) or LineageOS, or maybe both if I can achieve that.
That is the way! Excited to flash my phone to LineageOS. Thanks for sharing the apps !
Whoa, I have like half of these, nice!
Attack surface who dis?
Lol. Last picture at the bottom third. “WiFiAnal” xD (Sorry, I’m childish)
Hey, that’s the only safe way to let others control your buttplug.
Quite the kinky lineup; WiFiAnal, Wetter, QuickDic… 😏
I see you have freetube. Grayjay is also a great addition as it has plug ins for lots of sites
Unfortunately FreeTube and Newpipe never worked for me. Only NewPipe works, but I have to disable my VPN.
Stop, you’re gonna make me cum
WifiAnal
I love the mandatory Super Tux Cart anyone of us has installed but played like 4 times
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I wish I had friends to use xmpp apps to text…I’m a whatsapp hostage
To be fair, I only have a few of my friends and some of my family on XMPP. I’m also guilty of having WhatsApp on my work phone for colleagues and the rest of my friends.
Congratulations!!!
Last I tried RHVoice is was very unnatural sounding.
Sherpa-onnx is a much much more natural option. I personally use vits-piper-en_GB-southern_english_female-medium because I thought it sounded the most natural. You can also use Glados from Portal
I second sherpa! Love it. I use with with Librera FD so basically made PDFs audiobooks.
Ohhh I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!
Could you tell me the names of those applications and point me to where I can download each one? Do you have a compiled list?
F-Droid is the way