I have been investigating if there is a community dedicated to Photon (a great Lemmy front-end) that doesn't seem to have an exclusive option to search for communities, does anyone know if there is an exclusive community for Photon (or Lemmy front-ends in general)?

DeGoogle Yourself Xirup • 5 months ago • 88%

I really want to try Filen as my main cloud provider but my main brake point is that the app doesn't automatically upload my images in the background. I'm not sure if this is because I'm on the free plan or because of my device, has anyone had better luck with the automatic image upload in the background?

DeGoogle Yourself Xirup • 5 months ago • 98%

I've thinking about ditching my Protonmail email address with Posteo since I need IMAP support (because I hate using the Protonmail app) and honestly paying for Proton Mail Plus didn't worth the money because they are pushing me to buy the Protonmail Unlimited but I don't need all those capabilities nor would I use them and the best alternative I've found is Posteo and honestly I like it, I even got CalDAV support which I didn't have in Protonmail, but personally I don't know anybody who use Posteo, so I post this here.

DeGoogle Yourself Xirup • 5 months ago • 94%

I've thinking about purchasing Proton Mail Plus only and just only to have IMAP support, but I've looked all the features that the Proton Unlimited Plan have, and honestly I believe it's worth, but I hate having all the eggs in the same basket. The features I believe worth the most are the 500GB storage, IMAP support, all the VPN servers with P2P and unlimited SimpleLogin aliases, but when I ask if it is worth the price I mean, the majority of those features I can have them having individually with others services and even at lower price.

🦋 Bluesky Social Xirup • 6 months ago • 91%

I have been looking for some of this on the internet but I can't find any information about it.

I want to upload some videos to Peertube to share here in Lemmy, but I'm not sure how to find an instance where I can upload them. I don't want to be 'picky' since I know I'm using another person's hardware that costs money to maintain, but the majority of Peertube instances I had found the users can't upload videos at all, or have a ridiculous minimum of like 25 MBs per file... And I had found other instances where the user can upload anything he wants, but how do I know that instance will prevail? I mean I had accounts in multiple Peertube instances that after some time are unreachable, it literally gives you an nginx or 'page not found' error... I know I can host it myself and that's the best option, but I don't have the knowledge or hardware to do it.

I just saw in the [admin Mastodon account](https://packmates.org/@Wander/112175178697625004) that you need to clear your cookies, and that's it, which actually worked for me. I'm not sure why.

I have been an active user of different Lemmy.ml communities for a long time but for personal reasons I want to migrate from Dbzer0 to Yiffit, unfortunately to my surprise Lemmy.ml stopped federating with Yiffit a few months ago and honestly it saddens me because there are communities like c/linux, c/privacy, c/firefox, c/fdroid that are extremely useful and I love to participate in them. Is there any chance that Yiffit will be federated again? And why was it defederated from Lemmy.ml? The admin of Yiffit is an incredibly nice person and I'm sure he will want to come to collaborate to be able to federate again with Lemmy.ml. As a user I find it a little unfair not to be able to participate in these communities from this instance but I understand and respect that each instance has its own policies and decisions.

Linux Xirup • 7 months ago • 88%

I have been using Linux for about 5 years and although I don't consider that I know much, I know enough to fix my own problems and that's usually enough for me. Since Plasma 6 was announced I wanted to test something other than XFCE, Gnome or Plasma (or any DE) so I give it a try with ArcoLinuxD i3wm and is increible the amount of things I learn the 'hard way' because there was no GUI to do the things I want to do, or maybe I was too lazy to do it with the terminal since there is always the 'easy way'. Things that might be very easy for a lot of people, but I never take the time to learn, like mounting drives, running programs from startup, setting environment variables, creating desktop entries, and a lot of other things I didn't even remember. I even learned to use things that used to give me a headache just looking at it, like Vim, xdg, the Archwiki (that is super useful) and the manpages. It's ironic because something that started as an experiment is now my daily drive, and now that Plasma 6 has been released, I don't want to leave i3 behind.

Firefox Xirup • 7 months ago • 94%

When you use Alt+Number you automatically switch to the tab that is assigned that number, but when you have more than 9 tabs Alt+9 just switches to the last tab instead of opening tab number 9, and you can't go beyond tab number 9 either, is there any way to go to tabs beyond 9 with Alt+Number?

Team Fortress 2 Xirup • 7 months ago • 91%

Maybe I'm forgetting something, but according to something I read, per week a user can get up to 10 random drops but I've been playing for almost 10 hours and I haven't got even one, why?

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ Xirup • 7 months ago • 95%

I recently started using Violentmonkey and there are hundreds of absolutely great scripts like some that help you go straight to the download link instead of shorteners (very common on pirate sites), and there are also some scripts for downloading music from Spotify (I guess using Youtube), but I hardly know any more, anyone know of some scripts for general use or useful for pirating?

linux4noobs Xirup • 7 months ago • 100%

I wish to change the default Nautilus file dialog that Firefox uses, to Dolphin (my main file manager) but I cannot find any solution. Every single time I download an image, Nautilus is opened instead of Dolphin. I tried adding GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 to my env variables, and It didn't work, then I tried changing mimetype and also did not work, I also tried modifying the xdg-portal (sorry if I'm wrong) to use xdg-desktop-portal-kde instead, but I cannot accomplish this since I didn't understand at all the Arch wiki and IIRC some files aren't exactly where the Arch wiki was pointing them. As a last attempt, I open about:config in Firefox and search for widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal and set it to True, and still I keep having that old Nautilus as my file picker in Firefox, and this last thing usually worked well for me in Plasma. Edit: I just restarted my pc and now randomly seems that Dolphin it's the file dialog for Firefox, I don't have a single clue how this happen.

linux4noobs Xirup • 8 months ago • 79%

I've been using Linux for the past 5 years, and recently I change from DE to WM (i3) which change it my whole workflow. Now I use a lot more the command line to do even simple things. Recently I note that some relatives called me 'hacker' and I find that kinda funny, may be because I'm so accustomed to the terminal and to i3 that I don't notice that "it looks like a hacker thing".

Eternity Xirup • 8 months ago • 100%

I've been using the stable release and I'm fine with it, but a feature that I really miss is the multicommunities (or multireddits, how it's called in Infinity). Does anybody know if the 'multicommunity' feature it's already in Eternity Nightly or it's still WOP? Edit: Never mind, I installed Eternity Nightly and the PR for the multicommunities feature is already merged, it works as intended although if you try to add a community that you don't follow the app just crash, but apart from that, it works!

I been tempted to buy Battlebit and I know it's a great game, but I just wanted to know which is the state of the game to this moment. It still receive updates? Can I find matches easily? How it's the development? And, by the way, how is this game compared to Battlefield 2042? I love Battlefield 2042 despite its problem, but something that I simply cannot fight against it's the fact that the game does not run on Linux because of their anticheat...

Palworld Xirup • 8 months ago • 87%

Sometimes, at completely random intervals, my FPS just drops and keeps dropping until I reset my game. The only thing that at the moment has worked is playing 720p, all low at 30FPS VSync off, and honestly, I hate this, although I love the game so I can live with it but I wish I can improve it somehow. Sometimes, when I see a mountain in the distance my fps just drops to 20 and stays like that permanently, but when I restart the game I can see the mountain without any fps drop... Usually it comes to a point where I feel like I'm dragging my mouse because of the input lag. I have a GTX 1650s 4GB, 16GB RAM and a Ryzen 5 5500, and I use Arch Linux with i3wm, I know it's not the best setup and Palworld uses UE5 which is a high demand hardware graphic motor, but I have read about people playing on even lower hardware than me and they apparently can play perfectly. Edit: Just add -dx12 to your game parameters at that's it, it runs as it should.

F-Droid Xirup • 8 months ago • 100%

I tried some F-Droid and Izzy apps and none of them support lyrics. I suppose that VLC supported this but I didn't find how I can do it at least with audio files.

linux4noobs Xirup • 8 months ago • 100%

I recently started using i3 (my first WM), and I used to use Plasma. In Plasma, when Spotify was opened, I just went to my system tray and there was a Spotify icon, which if I right clicked it, it let me close Spotify to system tray. In i3 the only tray icons are the programs that are actually in the tray (Steam, e.g), so I cannot "close it to tray" as in Plasma.

Linux Xirup • 8 months ago • 84%

I started to use i3 and I love it so far, and then I tried to enable i3-gaps on i3 but when I tried to enable it I receive this error I don't understand at all... ``` ERROR: CONFIG: (in file /home/$USER/.config/i3/config) ERROR: CONFIG: Line 214: # Gaps ERROR: CONFIG: Line 215: for_window [class="^.*"] border pixel 2 ERROR: CONFIG: Line 216: gaps inner 10 ERROR: CONFIG: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ERROR: CONFIG: Line 217: gaps outer 10 ERROR: CONFIG: Line 218: ERROR: CONFIG: Expected one of these tokens: <end>, '#', 'set ', 'set ', 'set_from_resource', 'include', 'bindsym', 'bindcode', 'bind', 'bar', 'font', 'mode', 'floating_minimum_size', 'floating_maximum_size', 'floating_modifier', 'default_orientation', 'workspace_layout', 'default_border', 'new_window', 'default_floating_border', 'new_float', 'hide_edge_borders', 'for_window', 'assign', 'no_focus', 'focus_follows_mouse', 'mouse_warping', 'focus_wrapping', 'force_focus_wrapping', 'force_xinerama', 'force-xinerama', 'disable_randr15', 'disable-randr15', 'workspace_auto_back_and_forth', 'fake_outputs', 'fake-outputs', 'force_display_urgency_hint', 'focus_on_window_activation', 'title_align', 'show_marks', 'workspace', 'ipc_socket', 'ipc-socket', 'ipc_kill_timeout', 'restart_state', 'popup_during_fullscreen', 'exec_always', 'exec', 'client.background', 'client.focused_inactive', 'client.focused', 'client.unfocused', 'client.urgent', 'client.placeholder' ERROR: CONFIG: (in file /home/$USER/.config/i3/config) ERROR: CONFIG: Line 215: for_window [class="^.*"] border pixel 2 ERROR: CONFIG: Line 216: gaps inner 10 ERROR: CONFIG: Line 217: gaps outer 10 ERROR: CONFIG: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ERROR: CONFIG: Line 218: ERROR: FYI: You are using i3 version 4.20.1 (2021-11-03) ``` According to Debian i3 wiki, you just need to add 'gaps inner 10' to your config file to make it work, but I do exactly that and it didn't work, I receive the same exact message.

General Discussion Xirup • 8 months ago • 100%

Is there any youtube channel similar to Unusual Videos that you know? I know there are infinite youtube channels that upload memes and short videos but they all usually upload the same content or doesn´t have the same 'quality' that Unusual Videos have...

General Discussion Xirup • 9 months ago • 76%

I know this is human nature and this is nothing new. It's absolutely impossible to make something that everyone is happy with, but what's the need to be so destructive? I recently finished The Callisto Protocol and in my opinion it's a great game but I remember people saying that "The game was so bad that they (Krafton) had to give it away (PS Plus) for someone to play it". Oddly enough I probably like to contradict most people because another game I'm interested in playing is Immortals of Aveum and when I read one or another review people say that "It's just another generic dead game, like those generic trash Netflix series", I mean, is it really necessary to be so destructive? And I want to clarify, I don't give a shit what people say, if I like a game and I enjoy it I don't mind paying full price for it, and if I don't like it, I just don't do destructive reviews. What I least understand about the gaming community and what I find most toxic is when they criticize others for playing something they like, like the phenomenon of criticizing Genshin Impact players or in the past the same with Minecraft. Do I commit a sin by playing something I like?

LibreTube Xirup • 9 months ago • 100%

As I said, when trying to open a downloaded video the app crashes immediately with the following log: ``` java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSource failed: status = 0x80000000 at android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever._setDataSource(Native Method) at android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(MediaMetadataRetriever.java:313) at android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(MediaMetadataRetriever.java:254) at android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(MediaMetadataRetriever.java:359) at com.github.libretube.util.OfflineTimeFrameReceiver.<init>(SourceFile:18) at com.github.libretube.ui.activities.OfflinePlayerActivity$playVideo$1.invokeSuspend(SourceFile:595) at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(SourceFile:9) at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(SourceFile:116) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8663) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:571) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1135) Suppressed: kotlinx.coroutines.internal.DiagnosticCoroutineContextException: [StandaloneCoroutine{Cancelling}@d19729e, Dispatchers.Main.immediate] ``` I already tried to reinstall the app from scratch, clean the cache, download the videos without using proxy, change instance and download them from another (although I think all downloads are directly from Youtube anyway) and still nothing helps, it always crashes the same. Investigating a little in the Libretube Github I didn't find anyone else with a similar problem (or I didn't see it), but until recently I started to have this problem that I didn't have before.

Buildapc Xirup • 9 months ago • 90%

I need suggestions for a build (using AMD GPU) that will run AAA titles at about 60fps but at high or ultra graphics quality and I am not interested in playing at 1440p at 144hz, although I would like to if I could. I consider that the only drawback is that I am interested in playing PS3 and Switch games emulated, so, I need a good CPU and that will increase the price although I would prefer to have a bottleneck by the CPU than by the GPU. Thanks and sorry if details are missing but I had written a much longer post but there was a blackout and everything was deleted, and I'm too lazy to write it again. Considering in some parts I have seen the Ryzen 9 5900X and 6700XT 10GB as good options.

Linux Crack Tips Xirup • 9 months ago • 80%

I've been considering buying a Steam Deck but already having a decent PC I don't know if it's worth upgrading my PC or buying a Steam Deck. I have a mid-range PC that runs any game nowadays, but I'm used to playing on console and I'm really more into programming and working on my PC, and what I like about the Steam Deck is that I just take it wherever I want to use it and I have everything ready to play, unlike a PC where for example, for emulated games I would need to look for a controller. I guess I will buy the Steam Deck, but there are two things that concern me: 1. How can I add pirated games to my Steam library? Honestly I'd be lazy to have to go into desktop mode every time I want to run a game. Is there a way to add it directly to my Steam library? I understand that Heroic (Epic Games and GOG Launcher for Linux) has an option to add the games automatically to the Steam Deck library, adding my pirated games there would add them to Steam or is there a similar method to do that? 2. What is the emulation situation in the Steam Deck? I guess the Steam Deck is able to run almost any Switch game and some PS3 games, but I remember there was an emulator launcher specifically designed for the Steam Deck, does anyone know which one it is and if it is possible to open it directly from Steam?

Linux Crack Tips Xirup • 9 months ago • 93%

I've been pirating on Linux with Bottles for years and I've never had any problems, I would consider myself an "experienced user" because I always solved my problems on my own but lately I can't run any pirated game on Wine with Bottles. To start with, I first downloaded Terraria and the game wouldn't open, so I ran the game with the terminal and got this error: ``` wineserver: using server-side synchronization. wine: RLIMIT_NICE is &lt;= 20, unable to use setpriority safely 002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L "C:\windowsystem32\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126). 0084:err:hid:udev_bus_init UDEV monitor creation failed Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specifi ed file. ShellExecuteEx failed: Internal error. ``` Investigating I simply realized that it is a generic error, so I started to install the dependencies of the game (from the Redist directory) and they do not open either, I get the same error, literally no executable opens through Bottles, and the funny thing is that I tried everything and nothing changes. I already tried to change the prefixes, disable GPU acceleration, remove the prefix and create another one (that is, the Bottle) and obviously Bottles has permission to write and read the directory where the games are, so I really don't know what could be causing the problem but it's pretty fucked up. The curious thing here, is that I have a Bottle where I have EA Play and Battlefield V, and the game opens perfectly, but the Terraria executable does not. I wonder if it is simply some misconfiguration of my system, or the Bottles devs made some change that affects running executables, and I doubt it is the fault of the games being pirated because they are DRM-free games, such as Terraria. Edit: Nope, reinstalling Bottles did nothing.

Android Xirup • 10 months ago • 100%

Does anyone know any call recorder that works well on Android 12? I have tried several but the one that seems to work the most is Cube ACR, which because Google changed the Android policies is no longer possible to work as it used to, and in my case I can hear my own voice in calls and not the other person's, which in my use case makes it useless.

Free and Open Source Software Xirup • 10 months ago • 100%

[Linux Command Library](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.inspiredandroid.linuxcommandbibliotheca/) is a Android app that works as a manual for Linux commands, something like tl;dr or manpages but for phone with GUI and can directly search for categories such package manager tools, ssh, git, etc. The neat part of it is that you don't have to guess a command, for example, if I want to descompress something (and I don't have internet connection) and I don't know the command I'm pretty much fucked, I can use the manpages but first I need to know the command to use it.

Privacy Xirup • 10 months ago • 97%

I guess there is no need to introduce what a Degoogled phone is (or a custom ROM without google services, like GrapheneOS is) and the Aurora Store is basically said in a crude way the Google Playstore but without the need to log in to your Google account, quite useful in my opinion. At first, what really concerns me is to run the risk of violating Google's TOS by logging in with my Google account on the Aurora Store to access my purchased apps, but at the same time I think, since Android is Google's operating system, can't they also retaliate against people using a modified version of their OS? And I know that sounds especially stupid when your phone is your phone and not Google's, but we all know how companies like Google work. I don't use Google services on my device, but I do use it as a secondary email that I don't want to lose, hence the question, I know I can create another email but I don't want to have so many email accounts.

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ Xirup • 11 months ago • 93%

I know this is not a Christian community, but I recently discovered Tachiyomi looking for alternatives to Saikou and a good alternative to read manga (which I don't do much, but it makes me curious) is Tachiyomi and although installing extensions is really simple the vast majority have NSFW content (or hentai?) and Jesus, I want to look for Pokemon manga and if I install extensions randomly I end up finding things I'd rather not have seen before, and many SFW extensions "don't work" or give an error that something went wrong.

Ask Android Xirup • 11 months ago • 100%

I've had a humble A10s for several years that has worked well for me but I want to replace it with something a little better and I don't want to go broke either, and besides, I want to emulate some simple Switch games like Hollow Knight, so I've been researching different devices in the $150 to $300 price range and although there are many interesting used devices in that price range (Like the P30 Pro) the one that catches my eye the most is the A71 because it has a Snapdragon 730, an AMOLED screen and between 6 and 8GB of RAM with a 64MP camera and a 1080x2400 display and can be upgraded to Android 13. Maybe I'm a bit outdated because I don't know much about the phone market, but from what little I know it seems to me that it's a very good device and definitely an upgrade to my current device. So my question: Why in general is this device so cheap? Is there something wrong with it? I mean, even on Ebay it has pretty acceptable prices when used phones with worse hardware cost more. And, does anyone know if I can really emulate Switch on it? Either with Strato (Skyline fork) or with Yuzu. From what I've read in some forums and seen in some Youtube videos, it is in theory supposedly able to run Warzone and Fortnite, and even emulate some Switch titles like Smash Bros and having a Snapdragon (which I've read is the best option to emulate) does not have problems of emulation incompatibilities as other processors.

Despite I more or less handle myself in the PC world, I am a complete ignorant when it comes to Android, and in my country for some reason the Xioami Note 12 have a very good (I've never had a Xiaomi device) and I would like someone to help me decide if it is a good purchase or not in my case, and even better if someone can give me details that I am not taking into account, and I say this because according to some forums and comments I read, depending on the processor of the device sometimes Yuzu does not run and sometimes Skyline either. And also in many comparisons that I found people in the comments for reasons I do not understand defines the power of the device according to the amount of storage it have, as they say "The 128GB version of the Xiaomi Note 12 is worse than the 256GB version", does that make sense? As I mentioned, I'm really lost on how to decide a good purchase of a device, the most logical is to look for generic comparisons but it's a bit more complex than PC, or so it seems to me. For example, in my country they have the Xiaomi Note 12 (128GB 8GB, Snapdragon 685 6nm) at the same price as the Xiaomi Redmi 12 (256Gb 8Gb RAM, MediaTek Helio G88) and I do not see any sense that they cost the same because according to what I researched the Xiaomi Note 12 has a better CPU, then the price difference with the Xiaomi Redmi 12 is compensated with double the storage? I want to clarify that I have no expectations of playing BOTW at 4K or any of the latest Pokemon, my expectations are to play quiet things like Celeste or Hollow Knight or some rogueslike, do you think any of these devices are able to emulate Switch with a playable experience? Edit: Something I forgot to mention, why some models say 6GB+4 RAM or 4GB+6, etc. What does that mean? Thanks!

Open Source Xirup • 11 months ago • 94%

After using Nextcloud for a year and having a wonderful experience I'm not quite convinced, and it's not Nextcloud's fault, it's because I feel like I'm putting all the eggs in one basket (my notes, my ToDos, my calendars, my contacts, etc). First of all, this feeling of putting all the eggs in the same basket came when one day I needed to access my Keepass database that was synchronized by Nextcloud to make a payment, and the problem is that I had the bad luck that for some reason the Nextcloud provider had their servers down at that time, so I had a bad experience because the database never charged and I could not make the payment (And it was a bank transfer, so it was necessary to make the payment immediately), and I really understand that neither Nextcloud nor Keepass were at all to blame in this case, it was my fault for depending on a Nextcloud provider but that really made me think again and since that day I have been migrating all my services that I used in Nextcloud to other open source services, for example, I changed Joplin for Notesnook and Keepass for Bitwarden, but I have not found an alternative to Nextcloud's ToDo, the closest is Vikunja which in my opinion is very expensive ($40). I would gladly self-host my own Nextcloud instance and that's it, now everything depends on me, but I really don't have the time nor the knowledge to take care of a Nextcloud instance at the moment, and besides, I want to clarify that I am not naive, just stupid, since I had my Keepass database synchronized locally on my device with FolderSync but the pressure and the stress of the moment made me forget it. Thank you!

I intend to share with my friends (or have my replays stored somewhere easily accessible) but I refuse to use Youtube and I can't self-host a Peertube instance just for this purpose at the moment. Does anyone know of an instance where I can just upload occasional videos without limits? I know storage is expensive and I don't want to abuse it either, but there must be some instances that allow this.

pythonhelp Xirup • 11 months ago • 100%

Hi, to learn how to use QStackedWindow from PyQt6 I was watching at [this](https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=82v2ZR-g6wY&amp;t=585s) video but following the tutorial and trying to run the code I get the error in the title, does anyone know why? I want to clarify, the tutorial is for PyQt5 and I use PyQt6 but I made some modifications to the code to adjust it to PyQt6, unfortunately I had to do that because I did not find any tutorial to learn QtStackedWidget in PyQt6.

F-Droid Xirup • 11 months ago • 98%

Recently I remember someone had made a post asking about apps that "unlock special things" on android, and this post is for all of you who want to unlock your android device to the max! I wanted to share the link to the repository for each app but besides I'm tired of writing, there are apps that have migrated to Gitlab (like Droid-rec) and then back to Github and I really can't find the link to their repository and I really don't want to create a mess of missing links that don't work and apps without links to their repositories! If someone has time and manages to find the repository of each app please add it in the comments and I would really appreciate it. If you have Droid-ify make sure to enable Izzy's repository and you will be able to see absolutely every single app in this list. AutoMute: Have you ever been sent a moaning video or opened a noisy video/audio and forgot you had left the multimedia audio on max by mistake? AutoMute allows you to mute your device's multimedia audio after a certain amount of time, and has different settings to customize. Droid-Rec: Droid-Rec is undoubtedly the best app to record your screen on android, besides being considerably customizable it has the great feature of being able to record the internal audio of your device, unlike other apps that you need to use the microphone of your device for that and the audio ends up being disgusting. Coffe: Have you ever needed to keep your screen on for a while but going to your system settings is a pain? Coffe allows you to change the automatic timeout of your screen with a single click from the tray (the buttons that appear where the notifications are) of your device, you can even make it never turn off at all. RethinkDNS: RethinkDNS is an app that works as a VPN to provide a system level firewall (meaning that if an app has ads and you have the filter to remove ads, you may not see them anymore). Besides having functionalities to work as a proxy and a DNS changer, RethinkDNS has the absolutely great function to see the logs or pings of each app by IP, absolutely useful if you suspect that an app is doing something weird, and you can even cut its access to the internet in one tap. OpenContacts: This app is an app that may not really fit in this list but it has a functionality that I'm sure many will love! Have you ever wanted to send a message to someone on Whatsapp or Telegram without having to add them to your contacts? OpenContacts is simply an app to manage and make calls but it also allows you to open phone numbers in Whatsapp or Telegram without adding a number to your contacts! Termux: A simple shell for Android, basically a terminal emulator to execute commands. For me it is especially useful in different scenarios, for example, using ffmpeg to edit a video or using yt-dlp to download videos without needing a GUI. URLCheck: URLCheck is an extremely useful app that opens automatically when you open a link, it allows you to shorten links or skip link shorteners, detect dangerous sites (you need a VirusTotal account) and even redirect your links to privacy related front-ends, like Piped. Shizuku: Shizuku can be defined as a kind of "root" that uses the Android debugger mode to use adb commands without any kind of modification to your phone! (IMPORTANT: To use some apps from the list below you need to have Shizuku or adb) Droid-ify: With Shizuku active, Droid-ify (an F-Droid client, note that this one doesn't need Shizuku) allows you to activate the "Shizuku Installer" which allows you to update apps in the background or install them without interaction, just press "Install" and that's it, just like in the Playstore. Canta: Canta is a special program in my opinion. Canta allows you to uninstall any app from your OS and gives you labels telling you if it is recommended to uninstall it or not, and also most apps have a description about why it is recommended to uninstall it. In my special case using a Samsung device I got rid of all Samsung bloatware and I can swear that my device is at least 30% faster overall. aShell: aShell is an app that allows you to launch adb commands directly from your phone without the need to connect it to a PC, very convenient in my opinion. LogFox: Have you ever had an app that crashes indescribably and you don't know why? LogFox allows you to save and record the logs of your whole system, including the apps you have installed and you can even set filters to save logs about a specific app and share it with its developer (you don't need Shizuku either, but you need adb and with aShell you can access it). SystemUI Tuner: This app is an absolute gem that I never heard anyone talk about! It allows you to customize parameters of your android that your manufacturer doesn't let you, for example and for me the coolest: Move apps to SD memory. SaverTuner: This app allows you to customize the battery saving mode of your device with different saving modes that really save a LOT of battery. (Like logfox, you need an adb command for this app)

Linux Xirup • 11 months ago • 93%

A moment ago I unmounted my 1TB HDD with 400GB of content and I partition it into two different partitions, obviously keeping the space that was already occupied. I did because I don't care if the content get corrupted, but after I did it everything is still working perfectly, when I thought everything would be corrupted. I am possibly a complete ignorant on this subject, but due to the nature of the HDD and how it writes and reads data I expected it to corrupt everything, why didn't it happen? On an SSD on the other hand I would not consider that possible because it is not even a mechanical part where the information is stored.

No Stupid Questions (Developer Edition) Xirup • 11 months ago • 100%

After some time of practicing PyQt I found out about Kivy, as a beginner which one can be considered with an "easier" syntax to learn? After several days of practicing PyQt I feel I would be throwing away my learning for Kivy. PyQt is not that complex really but what I hate with all my heart is using Qt Designer and then exporting that to a .py file, I really don't like the way it formats the text, but that's just a personal detail. I know I can perfectly do it manually but all the tutorials and I mean ALL of them always do it in that way. I want to clarify that I'm interested in Android application development, that's really a strong point for me of Kivy.

No Stupid Questions (Developer Edition) Xirup • 11 months ago • 100%

I've been learning Python by myself for about 3 years now and I can say that I know quite a lot but I don't really feel confident in my own programming skills and always after a while of practicing or reviewing I end up quitting because I feel exactly this. I don't know how to explain it, but I really feel like I'm in a cycle repeating the same noob exercises over and over again. For example, lately I have been practicing a lot PyQt but I really feel that I am wasting time when I don't learn a new concept or I don't memorize something and I need to look at my notes to remember how to do it, and also that practicing with online courses, especially with Youtube is often a challenge because the authors do things differently and I get confused by that. And when I want to learn something new the amount of information overwhelms me and I feel tired because of that. As a Linux user I know that what I just said is stupid, because for example it is impossible to learn all the commands in the world, you just really learn the ones you use most regularly but in programming I feel that for example asking ChatGPT (or any ChatBot) counts as cheating for some reason, I don't know how to explain it. I really consider this probably a mentality problem more than a skill problem because honestly even though I know I can I don't feel sure how to program, many times I even doubt the name of my variables or my functions. Thanks for reading my silly post!

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ Xirup • 11 months ago • 96%

I know the question is rather awkward at first and I am possibly overlooking something, but I would like to know something I really don't understand. In the past I have used modified versions of Spotify and they are fine but obviously no modified version allows you to download songs because it is a premium function at server level and honestly I would like to have my songs on my device, so if I don't have internet I can still listen to them. After those modified versions of Spotify, I have used apps like ViMusic, Spotube and SimpMusic which are basically Youtube Music apps but without ads and with more features, including downloading music, the problem is that they do that at the level of the app itself, not in a separate file. And I love these apps and I can not recommend them enough but my phone is a little old and I see 0 need to change it since I use it for basics usage and although this can sound dumb the interface of these apps are full of blur and unnecessary effects that make my device slow, including Spotify, and I don't like Spotify Lite because I feel it is a very trimmed version of Spotify. So this is where my question comes in, for those who exclusively download music, how do you discover new songs? Spotify's recommendation system is great and Youtube's radio mode is very good but obviously I need to use Spotify or Youtube Music to use it and I prefer to use light apps for local playback because of what I already mentioned. Edit: Thanks for all the recommendations! I never thought this post would get so many answers and there are too many comments to answer one by one, but I admit that the old-school method of reading blogs or magazines works well, and I also like the idea of sites like Last.fm or discogs.