I’ve been really liking the KISS Launcher, it’s power is in it’s simplicity. It also looks relatively comparable with Smart Launcher. What’s super impressive about the KISS Launcher is that 93% of users that try it for a week are still active users after 3 years! So definitely worth a gander for sure.

Well, since SearXNG aggregates results from more than 70 search engines and not solely Google, it’s a safe bet they’ll be fine regardless of Googles moves. However, sourcing results from Google may be impacted, but they still have many other options built in aside from Google. Whoogle being a proxy only for Google makes it reliant on Google, so their upstream changes will be very noticeable. This being the case, I’d say switching to SearXNG is going to be the best move as it has redundancy built in making it not dependent on any one engine.

I’d recommend https://privatebin.info/, https://toptal.com/developers/hastebin, or https://rentry.co/. All are open source and awesome replacement options. PrivateBin is a software package you download, while the other two are webapps.

Use latlong.net/convert-address-to-lat-long.html, life saver with osmand+!

When I say “don’t think of a panda”, what do you think of? Pretty much the same thing with saying “don’t recommend me FOSS options” lol

Classic example of judging a book by it’s cover I guess. The fact big tech is embracing open source software more and more, you’d think this assessment should no longer be the case.

Even without being a programmer, associating Free Software with a MASSIVE purchase is bonkers.

Graphenes PDF Viewer is a good option.

OSS Weather has decent radar for rain and solid stats in the home screen too. There’s three different sources for weather data you can select, so I’d bet one will be better than the others for radar mapping.

Maybe Orson’s scientific notebook (https://orsn.io/) could work. For basic spreadsheets it’s cryptpad.fr or bust in my book

I don’t think this has been rolled out yet unfortunately. Systray-x or KDocker will make it happen until it’s native though.

QKSMS has been great over the past year and change I’ve used it. Simple, clean and customizable. Simple SMS Messenger is another solid option as well.

I know www.open-assistant.io was looking for help from anyone to put the final touches on their AI a little while back. Haven’t kept up recently but it’ll be a solid option once live.

Mull (Firefox privacy fork for mobile) allows an external download manager to be used, would this work?

Some Sony and Canon camera’s save in .hif as it’s better quality than JPEG while requiring less space. It can also be used for a sequence of images, audio, & video. So makes sense Shotwell added .hif functionality as it’s quite versatile.

At this point it’s only a bit crazy to assume Elon is doing this to force folks to a platform more dialed in with the OG internet concept behind it!

It’s a journey to get fully free and open sourced. I’m 5+ years into it and only earlier this year began running FOSS based privacy and security focused software on all my devices. I love learning and the more I learn the more anonymous I’m able to be, so I enjoy it. Plus, fuck any company selling my data without me making a cent!

Of course

I’ve used the app for over a year and a half, for me it always takes a bit for new messages to load. Give it a second and I’d bet they’ll be there.

Nope, any click whatsoever results in the page loading with no account and the login option.