Shizuku and Canta hands down, debloating my phone greatly increased my battery life.

Librera is a pretty good ebook reader.

KISS Launcher is the best launcher bar none.

Of course KeePassDX is a great password manager.

ThumbKey is the best software keyboard I’ve ever used, nothing else even comes close.

There is a platformer called Obsolete in Play Store. I only played a little of it at the moment but so far it’s pretty good.

Streets of Rage 4 has a mobile port. Also Retro City Rampage DX.

Even if it could it wouldn’t matter, what makes art so valuable is the amount of work put into it. It’s the highest effort form of communication you can imagine, it can express so much. An LLM chat bot could never do that.

That’s also a very good use case, but KISS is just the perfect launcher for me. I can get to litteraly anything just by typing it’s name. Apps, contacts, settings, search results, a new tab, a new incognito tab, sometimes specific app functions. You can use it as a calculator too, it’s perfect. No amount of praise can do KISS justice in my opinion.

KISS Launcher.

KISS Launcher.

I don’t use llms myself, but in the past when I’ve heard of Gemini it was in relation to a mess up. It gave the impression that Gemini is even worse than all of the others.

Reclassifying patents as anti-competitive behavior alone would fix so much in the market.

Isn’t Gemini really bad? I can’t recall ever hearing praise for it.

Firefox can’t even export bookmarks, so when Mull got deprecated I had to move my hundreds of bookmarks manually to Cromite. It sucks that people whose phones are still on Android 8 are stuck with that thing.

Using ThumbKey’s “english thumbkey words symbols” layout along with circular gestures for upper / lower case letters and numbers I can reliably score 60 words per minute on MonkeyType. I also don’t need to look down on the keyboard to type, so personally I love it.

With that said, if your free time is limited and you also type on a variety of languages, switching to ThumbKey may not be worth the effort since a lot of languages have their own layouts.

Personally I don’t see myself switching away from ThumbKey, but it’s kind of a vim vs nano situation. I think Traditional T9 will be the happy medium for most people in this case.

Just my two cents, I think using a T9 software keyboard will give you a better typing experience on modern smartphones without sacrificing screen real estate (or portability with Clicks keyboard case).

Personally I use ThumbKey, this one doesn’t have text prediction, it instead relies on gestures. It’s easily my favorite software keyboard, though it’s learning curve can be quite steep. If you don’t have time for it something like Traditional T9 can be easier to get into.

I mainly use LimeTorrent and 1337x, I get 99% percent of my stuff from those two sites. Another one worth mentioning is DigitalCore Club. It’s a private tracker, but it has open signups quite frequently. It doesn’t actually have a ton of content on it, however it has a pretty good requests section. So if you can’t find something anywhere you can try to ask for it there.

If you get what you want without getting viruses into your computer, no.

Ninth circle of hell. It’s a streaming platform that’s infamous for basically never banning anyone, so it attracted all sorts of sketchy or downright evil folk.

…is this process not against the spirit of piracy

It could be against the anti-establishment values of some digital pirates, but it’s not at odds with the nature of piracy itself.

Piracy on the internet is just distributing digital goods protected by intellectual property law without the permission of the copyright holder. Some pirates engage in this practice for political reasons, but for many others it’s simply a matter of economics or availability.

Thankfully the stuff I’m interested in is very easy for the most part. It’s rare for me to struggle with finding something.

I do this with Blazing Chrome, it works in my case.

There are alternatives to YouTube though, there are a lot of them. It’s just none of them are viable for the viewers because content creators are hell bent on never using anything other than YouTube. To the point I believe they aren’t actually bothered by YouTube’s problems and only occasionaly complain about it for easy views.

Personally I don’t care anymore, YouTube’s problems don’t affect me. As long as PipePipe works I’m happy. And if it stops working I’ll just stop watching YouTube, or just minimize my usage to the extent it’s possible.

Lemmy already came such a long way though, when I first tried using it, it was a barren wasteland. Federated social media is the only kind of online platform that can brute force it’s way into viability so I’m confident Lemmy will continue to grow or remain big enough to satisfy it’s users. It just won’t be as big as Reddit.