What application have you recently discovered?

Nice collection! Thanks for sharing!

I had just a quick look. You might want to remove the link for Aurora Droid to F-Droid from the list as it is no longer offered in F-Droid. I realized this a few days ago when I wanted to install it on a new device.

Thats a great collection of Android FOSS Apps. i use most of them already :wink:

Thanks. Yes some apps are abandoned including Nethunter Store. I’ve noticed few more apps I’ll add them to the list.

IDK why Kali devs still kept the website running while everthing the site shows are outdated. The only app in the whole appstore they actively develop is Nethunter. Instead of their Store app/website you can use F-Droid repo + any 3rd party F-Droid client.

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Thanks.

Speaking @ the Ventoy replies earlier, I’m sick of USB sticks entirely. Every time I write an ISO to a cheap one, it can’t be re-used for anything after that. I have a 8GB Patriot XPORTER XT from like 2008 and it’s still AWESOME! I’ve written and re-written so many ISO’s to it and formatted it so many different times it’s crazy. I can’t hardly work with modern USB sticks these days. I have my trusty Patriot from 2008. Otherwise, I use a NVME to USB adapter and just use an M.2 drive for ventoy. I’ve also made a 2.5" SATA SSD into another ventoy using a USB to SATA adapter. Between the failure headaches with writing ISO’s to USB sticks I’m experiencing these days, AND the fact that even USB 3.0 sticks are SLOOOOW, I’ve found the USB NVME/SATA adaptations with Ventoy MUCH more accomodating. I can dump an ISO on there is mere seconds.

With all of the issues I was having writing USB sticks, I was seriously ready to break my DVD/RW out of cobwebs and just start burning discs again. Thankfully, Ventoy saved me from that. …(for now? lol)

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Having some Android fun, browsing the forum, listening to a podcast and keeping an eye on the device if it is connecting to any sketchy domains behind my back.

:mag:

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what system wide adblocker you use.

1 aur/hosts-update 1.38-1 (+58 0.00) (Installed)
    Injects the mvps blocklist to /etc/hosts to prevent thousands of parasites, hijackers and unwanted adware/spyware/privacy websites from working.
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)

Is what I use.

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It’s a fork/copy, the original repository is here :

https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software

Please don’t promote the copy, its owner copy other well known repos, modify few things, especially donation infos, trying to get credits from other people work.

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Never used it and never do i. But maybe interesting for someone

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GPU Screen Recorder

This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a window using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows. This is the fastest screen recording tool for Linux.

This screen recorder can be used for recording your desktop offline, for live streaming and for nvidia shadowplay-like instant replay, where only the last few seconds are saved.

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AUR link
Flathub link

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the story of enhanced ls continues.

first there was lsd - https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd
then came exa - https://github.com/ogham/exa
then exa became unmaintained and eza was born - https://github.com/eza-community/eza

and now we have g - https://github.com/Equationzhao/g
(and quite possibly the worst chosen name)

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This latest build 5.11 is called Floorp Lightning, a lite version.
The founder/developer is proactive on Discord, so that’s a plus.

Well, as far as Chromium based Browsers… I recently found Thorium and I’m impressed, it has privacy features and stock extensions installed and seem to be fairly fast. Enjoying it thusfar:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thorium-browser-bin

Well, even IF someone would make a thorium fork without google (so, ungoogled thorium), it would still lead to support of the enemy of the web, so nono. It is quite fast and secure, though.

Yeah, I guess I jumped the gun there… I didn’t realize how heavy the google integration was, when I watched the video he talked about ungoogled updates so assumed it would be free of those things upong playing with it.

Is Ungoogled Chromium the best in this regard, would you say?

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Of which regard do we speak here? I only use Chrome-based Browser for one specific purpose - using VIA to program Keyboards via USB. For actually browsing the web I use Librefox with user.js and some privacy focused addons.
I try to avoid google at any cost, because google is the enemy of the web as we know it. Google is worse than Microsoft ever was in this regard.

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In regards to Privacy, I will agree with Librewolf though. Would you be willing to share the stuff you use to make it more secure? I thought it was similar to ungoogled chromium in the sense it was stripped of all the tracking/cookie garbage

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If you want/like/need/… to use Chromium or a Chromium-based browser, I think Ungoogled Chromium is the better option.

I wouldn’t say it is a private browser but at least it won’t phone back to Google. You could always use some or other extensions like uBlock Origin to make it more secure and private.

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