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guyrocket, in VLC used to be epic, now not so much. What do you recommend?
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What do you recommend?

VLC

agame,

VLC for life.

lenz, in What's the best money manager app to keep track of your expenses and has good privacy?

Actual Budget went open-source a while back! It’s self-hostable and fantastic alternative to YNAB. YNAB’s budgeting philosophy has garnered a bit of a cult following, and I highly recommend their budget method (which is a mix of envelope and zero-based budgeting, iirc). Actual Budget is built to mimic YNAB, so it’s perfect. There’s a community of contributors adding features. There’s an option to encrypt your budget, so that whatever server you host it on cannot see it. I highly recommend this app.

Another up-and-coming alternative to YNAB is Budget with Buckets, which is not free. But does have an unlimited free trial lol, and a good privacy policy. It’s still developing though, but it is good!

stephaaaaan,

And with the latest update, adding transactions via mobile in Actual has been added, too :)

alphacyberranger,
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Can you share the download link because I can’t seem to find it anywhere?

stephaaaaan,

You’ll need to set it up locally and can then access it via browser (since it has a mobile view). There’s no more mobile apps since they went open source, as it’s just too difficult to maintain them. To get you started, check out actualbudget.org/docs/install/ :)

alphacyberranger,
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Thanks.

alphacyberranger,
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Thanks. I checked it out but it’s currently web only . I can’t find any android version for it.

alehc, in Vector Pinball
Ephera, in Vector Pinball

I’m so bad at this game. I’ll usually shred through those 3 balls in less than a minute. I’m not sure, if that’s just how pinball is or I’m doing something wrong. 🫠

ace_garp,
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Most tables are very hard, try the starter-table first(large white circle in the middle).

Then go for the banks of drop targets(green and blue banks).

Ephera,

Ah, thanks, that table is a bit easier. I was mostly playing on the smallest table, because that looked the simplest, but I guess, that just puts the ball a lot nearer to the bottom…

massive_bereavement, in Vector Pinball
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Fantastic pinball, even better coming from fdroid repo.

My favorite table is the one with the laser/triangle lights in the middle.

squeakycat, in Vector Pinball

Heh, haven’t seen that name in a while. I remember playing with it on my first smartphone back in 2013

guyrocket,
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Try it again. Pretty sure you'll find new boards to play.

thepreciousboar, in Fossify File Manager released on f-droid

That’s like, almost 100% identical to the Simple File Manager from Tibor Kaputa, why make a new one?

slurp,

Simple File Manager (and the other associated apps) got bought by a company, so this is a fork by a long-time maintainer that keeps it FOSS

max641,

Great !

thepreciousboar,

So are they going to repackage those apps and sell on the playstore? What’s the purpose of buying open source apps? Or it’s just to limit open source competition?

slurp,

I think it’s all speculation so far, but I’ve heard the company is an analytics one, so it’s likely to try to sell user data

FARTYSHARTBLAST, in VLC used to be epic, now not so much. What do you recommend?
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I highly recommend VLC

MagneticFusion, in F-droid is working on locking down

Can anyone give a summary of this is simple terms? Are they going to be signing apps with developer keys now? Or are they doing a mix of both?

incogtino,

F-Droid used to build and sign the APK for each app they distribute using keys owned by F-Droid

That meant you had to trust F-Droid to distribute the app as per the source, and hope that the source hadn’t been compromised (as the developer wasn’t signing anything)

Now when a new app is added to the repo, they build an APK from source and compare it with an APK distributed by the developer

If they match exactly (and if there is no reason to think the developer key has been compromised) then F-Droid will instead distribute APKs signed with the developer key, and verify that the same key was used for each update

If the same key was used, F-Droid doesn’t need to build the APK themselves but can distribute the update as-is

The advantages then are that F-Droid is acting as an additional layer of security and assurance to the developer signing the APK, and updates can be distributed faster as F-Droid doesn’t have to build them

MagneticFusion,

Is this pretty much a solution to the problem brought up in this video? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE&t=0

incogtino,

Yes, that video is primarily complaining about F-Droid self-signing, and that it creates: a requirement to trust them; a single point of failure for security; and slows updates

The trade off is that developers must maintain their key, if they lose it the user must uninstall and reinstall the app, as Android will not trust an update signed with a different key

Nakres,

What alternative does the video promote? Trusting Google and the Playstore? Trusting each dev of every app to deliver apks which match the code? I don’t want to give the video more clicks if it’s scaring away people from F-droid towards worse alternatives.

incogtino,

No need to click, it complains about exactly what has now been changed. In essence you are always trusting the dev, why add other parties to that chain

Nakres,

Wrong, if you are using F-droid, you aren’t trusting the dev, you are trusting F-droid and the source code, the dev CAN NOT give you an app that doesn’t match the code, and the code can be seen and reviewed by anyone.

sv1sjp, in What's the best money manager app to keep track of your expenses and has good privacy?
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Personally I use MyExpenses. It is FOSS but You have to do a small donation (4.30€) to have DAVx support

heyfrancis,
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@sv1sjp @alphacyberranger i don't know if there's an app as good as MyExpenses in fdroid. I also just use the export option then manually save to my DavX web dav folder to avoid cost

guyrocket, in Any weather apps that use the NOAA api?
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I don't use an app for weather. I use Weather Underground in my web browser. I'm sure they use some of the sources you mentioned but they also have a network of people with personal weather stations that you can access.

shortwavesurfer, in Any weather apps that use the NOAA api?

Its a pretty complex app for just normal weather, but f-droid.org/en/packages/joshuatee.wx/

Hotspur,

This app rules. It’s also on iOS for Apple users. It has the basics you want, and loads of extras. Still learning how ti use it.

HurlingDurling,

That’s cool, but I can’t even figure out how to set my location.

shortwavesurfer,

3 dot menu at bottom right > settings > locations > tap home > edit location > locate icon (top rightl

pH3ra, in AntennaPod
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I use it daily, it’s got a ton of features and it’s customizamble. Hands down best FOSS podcast app

pnutzh4x0r,
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I agree 100%. It’s one of the first apps I download on a new phone and I’ve been using it for about a decade.

baseless_discourse,

*the best podcast app

pH3ra,
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Probably, but I haven’t tried any proprietary one, so I had to specify

janNatan, in AntennaPod

Great app that I recommend. I never listened to podcasts before I discovered the app, so I can’t even compare it to others. It works.

newIdentity,

I did. It’s the best (for me)

20kHz,

Me too. And i have used from the day i found it till now

catboss, in Which FOSS keyboard are you guys using ?

I use OpenBoard most of the time and it's good if you are more privacy focused.

loadsas,

Is it possible with this keyboard to swipe instead of type?

AlexPewMaster,

If you install a fork of it with that feature, yes. I personally use this fork: github.com/erkserkserks/openboard

bigoofn,

Same. Except i had to modify it a little bit because I got used to Swift keyboard having suggestions on inputs that don't support it by default.

Jomn,

Same here. It works well, and it actually was the only FOSS keyboard for which I managed to properly set up a Bépo layout like I wanted.

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