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Detroit: Become Human fits the bill perfectly! It’s a great game with some of the hardest choices you’ll ever make in a game period.


Waiting for autocorrect to be implemented on it for years now :) Good to see new commits on the project.


Ah got it. Must be because I’m using the Simple Gallery app and it does have issues when cropping PNGs.

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Gallery/issues/2349



They have it planned if you go through the ReadMe in the repo, some work needs to be done before that.


If you have ever searched for open source keyboards, you might have come across OpenBoard. But that project hasn't seen development in more than an year. Thankfully, there is a [fork of it](https://github.com/Helium314/openboard) that is being worked upon quite actively. It already supports autocorrect, glide typing, user-defined dictionaries, multilingual typing and now material you themeing as well.
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$18 per week?! Damn Netflix and Disney+ prices aren’t even that high.


Now that’d feel like paying for adware :(


One of the devs has already forked it and plans to maintain the project.

https://github.com/FossifyX


Wait the Libre version also has full network access.


Ah sorry, I didn’t know there was a Libre flavor of Aves, had just checked the regular Aves on FDroid. Thanks for this!



I donated to them directly once and then again opted for the PlayStore versions to buy these apps. Sadly, I will have to move to the FDroid version now because the PlayStore one, the ones I paid for, can get infected with adware any day now.


Contact YOU app has SMS inbuilt. The SMS support is in very early stage so buggy but the dev is going on at an amazing pace. Just give it a few more months.

For dialer, I’d keep using the simple app for now. There’s Koler with material you theme but it hasn’t seen dev in 5 months and doesn’t have all the feature like regex-based call blocking.


Isn’t offline though and doesn’t have a feature-rich video editor like Simple Gallery had :(


Keep using the current version for now, it’s perfectly stable.


Simple Gallery has a feature rich photo and video editor as well. I haven’t found any FOSS app that can edit videos. Also, any Material You themed Dialer app? Don’t want to use the old AOSP one :(

Other than these two, I think all other apps have good alternatives.


For Contacts and Clock, use YOU apps. I don’t think anything can replace the Gallery, I’ll continue using the current version for as long as there’s a new community-maintained fork. It’s quite stable really, doesn’t really need changing this very moment.


[Source](https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241#issuecomment-1837102917). Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I've personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It's a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.
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Here’s why I bought the Phone (2):

  1. Didn’t want to buy a Chinese smartphone because of privacy issues, shitty UI, bloatware, ads, update policies and the lack of any brand value really. I know Google isn’t any better but tackling a single devil is easier than two. OnePlus, RealMe, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola are out.

  2. Pixel with GrapheneOS looks ideal but the G2 chip has some serious thermal efficiency issues leading to poorer battery life. I’ve seen my friend’s phone stop video recording due to overheating lol. Heat aside, it isn’t even powerful enough to beat the older 8+ Gen 1, let alone competing with Apple’s A-series chips. Plus, no 120Hz or LTPO.

  3. Around this budget, you’ll get Samsung’s A73 not their flagship S-series. Apart from the plasticky back, a snapdragon 788 processor?! No 4k 60 fps recording? Ads and bloatware?! Sorry.

  4. Went with Nothing because it checked all the right boxes for me. Good software, good build, good hardware, good update support, some party tricks. Degoogled it the old fashioned way. It’s something different and a head turner. They’ve really managed to create that brand value somehow in such a short time. I’ve had 3 people ask me to check my phone in just a week.


FYI, there’s a fork of OpenBoard that enables swipe/glide typing! Literally was a game changer for me!


There’s a fork of OpenBoard that enables swipe/glide typing. It’s pretty darn good!



I know there’s a lot of hate on the crypto stuff that Brave pushes in their browser. Heck I don’t use their browser because of it (and also because I don’t support Chromium). But I’ve been using Brave search as the default on Firefox since a few months now and it is honestly pretty good. Much better than Google and Bing/DDG most of the time (for the other times, I do switch to Google). I really really like their AI summarizer and the discussions tab. With them now serving images as well, Brave search is feature-complete as far as I’m concerned. Just happy to see a real competitor to the big tech search, not even leeching off of their index like most others do.


And then they wonder why they can’t compete with Steam and end up crawling back to Gabe for every game.



Have tried Thunder, Jerboa, Liftoff. I’m finding the web app wefwef.app better though, since it’s based on Apollo and has a really nice UI/UX.


Try wefwef.app. It’s a web app for mobile, the UI is based on the infamous Apollo app.


Exactly. For a multimillion dollar company, their app sure is shittier and buggier than 3rd party apps maintained by single devs. It lacks absolute basic features like text formatting shortcuts with Bold/Italics/Quote/List/etc options that should pop up over the keyboard while typing. Every 3rd party app I’ve used has had that.