Hello everyone! This is my list of FOSS software I use 😃
Android FOSS alternatives to proprietary apps
Google Board -> FlorisBoard
Google Play -> Aurora Store[1]
Termius -> ConnectBot[2]
Discord -> Element
Xiaomi Fit -> Gadget Bridge[3]
Google Gmail -> K-9 Mail
YouTube -> LibreTube
Google Authenticator -> Mauth
Google News -> Nextcloud News[4]
Google Drive -> Nextcloud[4]
Google Keep -> Nextcloud Notes[4]
Spotify -> SubTune[4]
YouTube Music -> ViMusic
Google Chrome -> Mull
1- You need a Google account.
2 - The UX is not as good as Termius.
3 - The UI looks like garbage, but does it’s job.
4 - You need to selfhost a server.
Android FOSS alternatives to FOSS apps
Jellyfin -> Findroid
F-Droid -> Droid-ify
Desktop FOSS
Windows -> Fedora 38 Workstation
Firefox -> LibreWolf (telemetry free, hardened firefox)
Other software
Android -> Lineage OS
Linux server -> Debian (without GUI)
Smart home -> Home Assistant
SMS -> Signal
DNS -> Adguard Home (selfhosted)
Other services
Google -> Qwant (it’s so good!)
YouTube (desktop) -> Piped
Suggest me:
- Google Maps
- Shazam
For Google maps I’ve been using Organic Maps and has been a smooth experience.
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They have
I tried it the other day. I couldn’t do SMS. So I think the answer is yes, it’s dropped.
Yes. I use QKSMS for text messages now instead.
@olof @OrthoStice Simple sms messenger ❤️
Such an answer 😍
Yes: source
Yes but I do not use generic SMS. I use it instead of SMSes
I used signal for 2 years. Only got 2 friends to join. Dropped it when they removed SMS. I’ve settled for Facebook messenger lite and my social life is booming again.
whats the point of discord alternative if none of my wow friends will get off discord?
I told my friends that I am ditching Discord. I gave them my matrix ID and deleted the account. It was also a test of who cares about me as a person.
You would have stayed on discord if you cared about them.
they would leave discord if they cared about yours and their privacy
How many cared?
All my close friends, so 9 people. It’s a good test for friendships too. If they can’t bother to create an account on Matrix for you, do you think they will do something more in the future when you need them?
Thats some quality friends you got there
That’s the thing I am having problems with currently
On Android, I use OSMAnd if I want to use a map and the openstreetmap.org web app if just quickly checking a distance, because OSMand can be quite bulky and my phone quite slow. For public transportation (in Germany) I have Öffi.
Is Floris Board still maintained? Latest stable release was in June 2022 and latest beta in September 2022.
Their GitHub says that stable versions are released “1 release per 1-5 months” and beta “up to 1-2 releases per week”.
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I use AnySoftKeyboard
I’ll check that one out.
I prefer to use Fcitx 5 for Android instead of GBoard, not FlorisBoard. Because f5a has much better Chinese input experience than FlorisBoard, and I use Chinese.
Google Maps - Organic maps
Google Maps: Osmand~
Signal does not support sms
Nobody cares about them outside the US.
I care, I live outside of the US
it does, though
No, it really doesn’t. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Can-I-send-SMS-MMS-with-Signal-
It used to; however, the functionality only existed on the Android version, and they got rid of it.
Google maps the best alt is OSM (open street map) but personally I think it’s not quite there yet direction wise.
Shazam is easy tho, Mousai is the shit
it’s a desktop program, while most of the solution OP has posted are Android exclusive.
This looks like exactly what I want if it had an android app.
I actually found it two days ago. Seems to work really well. Thanks!
I would suggest Brave search. I’ve been using it for a year now and the results are very accurate.
I’ll try it. Thanks :)
What Xiaomi device are you using with gadget bridge? What’s you’re experience with it? What can it and cannot do?
Aurora store doesn’t need a google account
Google Maps - OrganicMaps
Just a small note that K-9 is slowly bring turned into Thunderbird
I wonder if it will get forked by anyone.
Why? Why wonder, why should anyone fork?
