Nextcloud now offers AI integration for your Nextcloud server.  Apps aren't installed by default, except Smart Mail, Background Images & Sus Login.

AI comes with risk, so #Nextcloud rates their #AI apps at 4 levels, based on 3 conditions.

Conditions
1. Is it open source?
2. is the trained model free for self-hosting?
3. is the training data available and free to use?

Rating levels
🟢 = All condition met
🟡 = 2 conditions met
🟠 = 1 condition met
🔴 = 0 conditions met

The AI apps are listed
below w/their ratings.
👇

IMAGE GENERATION
🟡 Online StableDiffusion
🟡 Self-Hosted StableDiffusion
🔴 Online DALL-E 2

TEXT GENERATION
🟡 LocalAI
🔴 ChatGPT

SPEECH-2-TEXT DICTATION
🟢 OpenAI Whisper
🟡 External Whisper

SPEECH-2-TEXT TRANSCRIPTION
🟢 OpenAI Whisper
🟢 LocalAI

SMART INBOX
🟢 Built-In
(can be disabled in low-left settings)

FACE/OBJECT RECOGNITION
🟢 Recognize

BACKGROUND IMAGES/BLUR
🟢 Built-In

TRANSLATION
🟢 Opus
🟢 LibreTranslate
🔴 DeepL

SUSPICIOUS LOGIN
🟢 Built-In

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Butterfly

🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app 🎨

Website 
https://docs.butterfly.linwood.dev/

Download 
https://docs.butterfly.linwood.dev/downloads
Or
https://www.f-droid.org/packages/dev.linwood.butterfly.nightly/

Sources
https://github.com/LinwoodDev/Butterfly


Butterfly is a #note taking app where your ideas come first. You can paint, add #texts, and export them easily on every device. This app works on android, windows, linux, and in the web.

Features
⚡ Simple and intuitive Every tool is in the right place. Open the app and start drawing. Change your tools by clicking on it.
🎨 Customizable: Change everything to your needs. Choose your custom color, create a palette, and add your pages to the paper. The paper has an infinite size, perfect for your ideas and notes.
📝 Support your favorite formats: Import and export are supported for images, pdf and svg. Register the app to open these files to edit them.
📱 Works on every device: The app is available for android, windows, linux, and in the web. You can use it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
💻 Choose where your data is stored: You can choose to store your data locally or in your favorite cloud (webdav). You can also export your data to a file and import it again.
🌐 Available in many languages: The app is available in many languages. Help us to translate this app to your language.
📚 FOSS: The app is open source and free. You can contribute to the project and help to make it better.
🔋 Use it offline: You can use the app offline. You can draw, paint, and export your notes without an internet connection.
🖊️ Use your favorite stylus: The app supports stylus and touch devices. You can draw and paint with your favorite stylus.
📜 Write text: You can write text on your notes. You can change the font, size, and color.
📸 Take photos: You can take photos and add them to your notes. You can also import photos from your gallery.
⚙️ Editable: You can change the size, color, and position of every element after you added it to your note.
🟦 Add shapes: You can add shapes to your notes. You can choose between a rectangle, circle and line.
🔳 Structure your notes: Add areas and waypoints to your notes to keep them organized.

For anyone using any Simple Mobile Tools app be aware that they were sold few days ago (4 dec 2023) to a very privacy unfriendly company:

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241

Is suggested to remove them or stop updating them.

BTW the company is an israeli publisher that buys apps and fills them with ads asking weekly fees to avoid them...

Someone has made an alternatives list:
https://libreddit.nullnet.services/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/18929pq/simplemobiletools_was_sold_alternatives/

One of the dev of SMT has forked them:
https://github.com/FossifyOrg

And another group of dev announced a fork too:
https://github.com/goastian

Fully Customizable ROM + Latest Treble Patches & Features
#GSI #AOSP 14

https://xdaforums.com/t/gsi-aosp-14-fully-customizable-rom-latest-treble-patches-features.4637632/

https://github.com/tabletseeker/treble_build_aosp

OSS Document Scanner

Android Open Source app to #scan all your #documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.

Once the document is created you can detect text within the document using #OCR.

You can also share your document as a #PDF. If you want you can synchronize the app data with a webdav server (like nextloud) to never loose anything!

https://github.com/Akylas/com.akylas.documentscanner

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.akylas.documentscanner

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Fossify Mobile Apps branched from the Simple Phone's "Simple Mobile Tools" in response to Simple Mobile Tools being sold to ZippoApps, raising privacy concerns.

Here is a list of the new apps under development w/their GitHub links for Obtainium, & F-Droid w/IzzyOnDroid links.

Calculator
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet

Calendar
- GitHub URL
- F-Droid

Contacts
- Github URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
- Simple Contacts Pro SE
(Another Branch that is
more compatible w/standards)

Draw
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet

File-Manager
- GitHub URL
- F-Droid

Flashlight
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet

Gallery
- GitHub URL
- F-Droid

Keyboard
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet

Launcher
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet

Music-Player
- GitHub URL - (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet

Phone
- GitHub URL - (No Released)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet

SMS-Messenger
- GitHub URL - (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet

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#Fossify

Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
Article, Comments

https://github.com/j-fbriere/squawker/issues/180

With nitter announcing it's dead and #twitter's increasing aggression towards anonymous front ends the end of #Squawker and #Nitter was inevitable.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983

Nitter d420
https://nitter.d420.de

15 Best Tools for #Linux #Font Management

https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-linux-font-tools-and-how-to-install-linux-fonts-on-ubuntu/

@BonesTechGarage

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KDE Connect is an app that makes it easy to connect your DeGoogled phone and/or Linux Phone to your Linux laptop using your phone's hot spot, or any network.

KDE Connect can do these things:

- Share files
- Share clipboard
- Control Slideshows w/phone
- Send/Receive texts on laptop
(Using KDE Connect
Taskbar Indicator)
- Control laptop media player
- Move laptop mouse pointer

1. Install KDE Connect on phone

Use KDEConnect on F-Droid

2. Install on laptop

For Debian based distros:

sudo apt install kdeconnect

On your laptop firewall, make sure you open ports that KDE Connect uses.

To do this, open up terminal and enter these commands:

sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/udp

sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/tcp

sudo ufw reload

3. Connect both devices

- Connect both to the same network
- Open app on both devices
- Find and pair devices

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#KDEConnect #transfer #Files #share

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Google's Pixel / GCam is a great, easy to use, feature rich camera app that competes well with the excellent open source Open Camera. GCam brings things like portrait mode, and easy to use slow-motion.

Because of this, there are many developers porting the app to work on as many phones as possible. GCam can increase the performance of your phone's hardware camera, and the ports can also bring the GCam app to DeGoogled phones.

GCam Hub is a website dedicated to tracking all the GCam ports.

Here is the 👉🏻 web page listing many Stable GCam Version:

You can work you way through the list until you find one that works on your phone, but then you may try 100 versions and never get one that works.

Keep in mind, these ports will not auto update.

Note: Shamim's SGCAM version 8.5.300 V5 works on Pixel 3a running Lineage.

If you find a version that works on your phone, let everyone know in the comments.

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#GCam #camera

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You can log and track the phone locations of your family and friends in complete privacy, using your Nextcloud server.

To do this you need to install the Nextcloud PhoneTrack App on your Nextcloud server, and the Android PhoneTrack App on every DeGoogled phone you want to track.

The F-Droid version is old and buggy.

To get the newer Dev Android version, you:

1. Go to the PhoneTrack Dev GitLab page, scroll down and click the "APK Direct Download" link

2. At top "Pipeline" option, click the Download arrow and select "AssembleDevDebug:archive"

3. This downloads a zip file. Extract the zip and install the APK.

CONNECT ALL PHONES AND TRACK

4. On Nextcloud create a dedicated account for PhoneTracking.

5. Create a PhoneTrack "Session" in the Nextcloud PhoneTrack app.

6. Sign each phone into the Nextcloud PhoneTrack account, and on the phone, add a "PhoneTrack log job" to the Session on Nextcloud.

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#PhoneTrack #Tracker #Nextcloud

11 Best Note-Taking Apps for #Linux in 2024

https://www.tecmint.com/note-taking-apps-linux/

@BonesTechGarage
#notes