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

⚡️@LinuxTechIndex

#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

⚡️@LinuxTechIndex

#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.

⚡️@LinuxTechIndex

#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.

⚡️@LinuxTechIndex

#PhoneTrack #Tracker #Nextcloud

11 Best Note-Taking Apps for #Linux in 2024

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

@BonesTechGarage
#notes

Ouisync

Store, sync, and share files across devices anywhere.
Secure, open source, peer-to-peer file-sharing.

https://ouisync.net

https://github.com/equalitie/ouisync-app/releases

- Easily share content with your audiences
Need to share news, event documents, videos or educational material to your audiences without relying on centralized platforms that are easily blocked? With Ouisync, you can quickly upload media and share Read-only access to content via QR codes, shortlinks, or other messaging platforms. Ouisync is 100% free and open source, and will never share or sell your data to third parties.

- Quickly share files with a friend
Share a Ouisync repository using Write permissions to allow multiple users to add or edit files within a repository, even in conditions of limited connectivity. Keep data in sync between your personal devices, collaborate on team projects, and create group photo albums. All data in Ouisync is end-to-end encrypted for your peace of mind.

- Securely store sensitive documents
Want to securely back up your data on other devices and make it inaccessible to anyone else? Share your Ouisync repositories in Blind mode. Your friend offers you their spare computer for storage of your data? Let your friends be your cloud! It takes just a couple of taps in Ouisync to securely store your data in Blind mode and you never again have to worry about losing your phone - your data is safely stored for whenever you need it.

- Secure
Data (including metadata such as file name, size or location) is encrypted both in transit and at rest, and can be shared as read/write, read-only, or blind.

- Resilient
Ouisync users are able to share files despite conditions of limited or no internet connectivity, when the centralised servers most apps rely upon may not be reachable.

- You're in control
Easily create encrypted repositories for your data and then distribute the link to friends, audiences, or between devices for effective, decentralized publication and/or backup storage.

@dcntr

#cloud #file #transfer #share #sync #bittorrent #p2p