Linux & FOSS Enthusiast. My cultural touch points are 90s-00s sci-fi references and Mean Girls.
KineStop - After Apple announcef Motion Cues, I went looking on Android because I cannot use my devices in a moving vehicle. KineStop is all I found. I went ahead and bought it because it helps (doesn’t completely get rid of motion sickness). I would gladly switch to an open source alternative if one were available.
Presently, on meet.jit.si, only the moderator needs to be logged in. Everyone else can just join the meeting with no need to log in.
But that’s just the one that Jitsi runs. The Guardian Project has a Jitsi Monitor that can point you to some other Jitsi instances.
Not unlike Lemmy. If you don’t like the way things are run on one server, check a different one.
It depends on the app publisher. The official F-Droid repo has Newpipe version 25.2, which was added August 10, 2023. The Newpipe upstream repo has version 26.1, added December 27, 2023.
There are general purpose repos and specific app repos. Those for specific apps might allow you to download apps not found elsewhere or they might just get you the update a little faster.
I have the repos for Collabora and Newpipe enabled on mine for those reasons.
You might also look at Obtanium if you’re looking to keep specific apps updated.
My lump charcoal smoker.
I moved to LMDE 6 when it came out, moving over from regular Mint. It’s so nice and boring… Which is exactly how I like my computer to be.
While there aren’t any new releases at this point, you could use Obtanium and point it to the repos for the apps you use. That way, you’d get notified once the releases start and you’d get them right from the developers.
May I interest you in Gadgetbridge, when you buy your next wearable ? It’s a local only sync application that does not rely on outside servers.
I switched with Bookworm. It’s great!
I like Flatpak and Appimage. I won’t touch Snaps.
Hi, that’s me! I’ve been using apt and Debian derivatives for 17 years. Bookworm is fantastic!
I don’t know. Opening Windows might result in fewer bugs.
I love Shizuku. I wish more people were talking about it.
Are there certain features you’ve grown to rely on?
I use plaintext documents with markdown. There’s a markdown editor for the web. Markor is an excellent Android app. Take your pick of a number of text editors with markdown.
I’d give LMDE a look. Debian under the hood, everything works, and really slick to boot.
Several Pixels are hitting EOL right now. The 4a received its last update in August. The 5 loses support in 2 days. The 4a 5G loses support next month.
Not everything we used to root our devices for needed root access… It was just a convenient way to accomplish it.
Shizuku does what it does through System APIs and ADB Shell. Because it’s not relying on any sort of exploit but leveraging ADB existing APIs, it’s unlikely that Google would block it.
I am am far from an expert, so if I get something wrong, I’m sure the sages of the internet will correct me with grace and understanding.
I’ve been reluctant to give up my 4a because of the rear fingerprint sensor. Now that we’ve hit October, I’m trying to figure out what to do.
If you want to skip wiring all together, pick up two Aurora Dimmers and put Hue bulbs in all your sockets. It’s not the cheapest or most privacy friendly if you’re using their hub. But going this way, you can put the dimmer near the fixture you want to control, you have no wiring whatsoever, connection to HA, and you’re completely up and running inside of 30 minutes.