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AuthPass (free open source iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac, android) password manager
Qrafter Pro ($5 iOS) create QR codes for websites (URL) or your Wi-Fi password so guests can just scan them.

I tried about five different online ones and these two seem the best (just had ads on webpage) to generate your own QR code.) https://qrgenerator.org
https://qr-code-generator.org

In LibreOffice Writer choose Insert | Object | QR Code and you can put a URL or any text.
PhotoLayers (free with ads or $2 iOS). Can do 10 overlay images with automatic masking (cutting out background) and can edit any layer at a time. In Juxtaposer ($5 iOS) app it’s good also but can’t go back to edit a top image or layer once it’s done.
Linux
- Document Viewer (xreader 3.0.2) is very fast PDF viewer, double pages, CTRL-I inverted mode (night mode), select and copy text but no Annotation or highlighting.

- sudo apt install evince which is pretty much same as Document Viewer but has highlighting CTRL-H

To reduce a size of a PDF though by compressing JPEG images and lowering the DPI

/prepress (default) Higher quality output (300 dpi) but bigger size
/ebook Medium quality output (150 dpi) with moderate output file size
/screen Lower quality output (72 dpi) but smallest possible output file size

ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook input.pdf output.pdf

To
extract, delete, rotate, split PDF pages use PDF Arranger
sudo apt install pdfarranger
Host Minder (Linux app) uses /etc/hosts file to block 100,000+ bad domains with 0.0.0.0 ...free and easy to change levels. These consolidated hosts files allow you to block websites from various categories such as Ads, Porn, Gambling, Social, and Fake News. Linux
Linux to remotely control your computer

sudo apt install tigervnc-scraping-server
x0vncserver -SecurityTypes=none
connect with any VNC client with encryption disabled and anything for a password since SecurityTypes=none means no password at all. Only do this at home on a local LAN and don't port forward your port on your router.
Make your own epub with free open source LibreOffice Writer

Tools | Chapter Numbering and Paragraph Style choose Heading 2 (or 1 or 3)
Highlight each chapter then right click and choose paragraph | Heading 2 you wish to include in the Table of Contents (usally each one...just in this bible I'm doing every 5)
Quicker way is double click on chapter then use the keyboard shortcut
At the top of the document choose Insert | Table of Contents and Index | Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography
After you've made a few chapters with paragraph style of Heading 2 right click on a TOC Table of Contents and Update Index. This is invisible part of the epub just put in the Outline of the epub when you export it.