In my developer career, the littlest commit I did was the removal of a single ‘;’ which was causing a wonderful to debug bug ;)

Didn’t knew this one, still a fan of osmand but why not give a try

Definitely for osmand+, I think this is one of the best opensource app on Android (and the fact being openstreetmap based is a definitive plus because you can correct the map for benefit of the community).

What is considered as active ? Is someone connecting to his account and lurking considered active ? Or, someone who just up/downvote without commenting or posting ?

Learned a few (meaning of foobar,…), remembered some and enjoyed a lot. thanks for the link.

Now from the article (which might have been updated since posted, no criticism of OP), it’s clearly unrelated to the football (soccer) match. Seems more related to the events in Israel…

Nowadays it’s video for everything… Am I the only old bear that prefer plain old textual tutorials?

Dumb question, but I’m sure I’m not the only one … What is CSAM? And what the acronym means?

IMHO the website is sufficiently usable on a mobile browser. You can still use “add to home screen” to have a shortcut on your favorite launcher.

If you want or need something chromium based, a good alternative IMHO is Vivaldi, although partially open source.

Very nice project, at least I can try to switch from gboard and degoogle me a little more … For code, CLI, … I, however, prefer Unexpected Keyboard.

Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less “sponsored” results, …

yetCalc

Simple calc in portrait mode, you put in landscape and you have a full featured scientific calculator.

Additionally it feature a unit converter and logical operations programmer mode

Nice tool, didn’t knew about it, seems far more convenient for dumb end users than what I use right now.

Either setup http/ftp servers but that’s painful to explain, or use services over Internet which is a shame on local network…

I think that one of the structural change that helped a lot to have less stalled or unmaintained open source projects is the improvement in the DevOps tools.

I mean that, until recently, I always had been an open source user and supporter but, despite being a professional software engineer, I never coded in open source projects. The reason to this is that I did not wanted to commit myself into a project that I cannot afford to work regularly on because of professional and/or personal time constraints.

Now with the broad use of git and related platforms for open source projects (GitHub, gitlab, …), it’s possible to work only a little on open source projects. You can fix a bug impacting you as an user, translate some strings in your native language, improve the doc, … without commiting to work regularly on the project. You just change the stuff, have no requirements to inform anyone, make a pull request and it’s merged or not by the maintener …

I think this is really what contributed to improvement in the way open source projects evolved.

Don’t know if it’s what you thought about but there is Breezy Weather which allows setting a location in one of the supported service. This means that you can specify several times the same location with different providers and access them by swiping right/left or setup a widget for each. It’s available through Obtainium or on IzzyOnDroid F-droid repository.

For day to day use, I think it’s a bit hard to use. But I use unexpected Keyboard as secondary keyboard for editing code, or using CLI (termux, ssh to servers, …). I will however give a try to anysoft for other uses…

So I’ll contribute with my list too.

Most used utilities apps:

• Droid-ify: F-droid repositories client in modern design for Android. (NeoStore is nice too but I find this one more stable)
• Obtainium: For stuff either not available on f-droid mirrors or for “young” projects, in order to have latest updates sooner.
• MJ PDF
• Barcode Scanner
• Simple Gallery
• Unexpected Keyboard: for programming/CLI stuff
• yetCalc: Calculator and units converter
• Acode editor: Android code/text editor
• Termux
• OsmAnd: Maps and navigation software (Using it from play store because I pay a subscription to support the devs while doing hiking)
• Copy to clipboard: Add an action in Android “share to” to copy shared text to clipboard
• Coffee: Utility to force keep screen on for a configured delay
• LinkSheet: Allow to configure App chooser properly for URL opening even with Android 12+
• Breezy Weather: Provide weather from many providers in a beautiful UI
• Fedilab: Mastodon client
• Voyager: Lemmy client
• Feeder: RSS client
• LibreTube: Android interface to piped to watch YouTube videos with privacy in mind
• Authenticator Pro: Two-factor authenticator TOTP/HOTP manager
• BitWarden: Password manager

Games (because it can help fighting boredom when in a waiting room or so):

• Nonocross: Nonogram puzzle, with random generator
• Anuto TD: Tower defense game (dev says ugly, I don’t agree ;))
• Antimine: Mine sweeper (like the former Windows default game)
• Super Tux Kart: Classical Linux game, inspired by Nintendo Mario Kart
• 2048 Open Fun Game
• SolitaireCG: a collection of solitaire card games
• Blockinger: Tetris clone

I recently started using Duck Duck Go instead of Google.

I still had this thought that Google was the best technology as I went from the early web (remember… altavista.digital.com, yahoo, …) and I remember that Google was really a game changer when it started to become popular.

I tested setting DDG as default search engine in my desktop and mobile browsers, thinking that when I don’t have expected results I would go to Google… I never had to switch to Google because I was wrong, DDG is as good as Google while being better from privacy point of view.

For the browser I use Vivaldi on both android and desktop.

Didn’t knew this existed at all, will look at this definitely because I have problems with usb C plug on my phone that doesn’t hold very well the connector…