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    •  Dizzy Devil Ducky   ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English
      1·
      2 years ago

      Maybe it’s just a me problem, but I always have had troubles getting KDE Connect connecting my phone to other devices than my desktop. My phone and laptop could both be connected to the same wifi and be within inches of each other but refuse to acknowledge their existence. But I have my phone on the other side of the world and I swear it’ll be able to connect to my desktop with no problem.

      KDE Connect is a pretty good program, but I can’t recommend it because of the troubles I always have.

  •  Daeraxa   ( @Daeraxa@lemmy.ml ) 
    32·
    2 years ago

    Somewhat self promoting for the first two of these items as I’m directly involved. Leaving out the more obvious ones (Linux distro etc.) as they will have been mentioned. I’ll stick to some of the less known things I use.

  •  u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)   ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English
    29·
    2 years ago

    • Termux
      Holy hell. So much it can do. Right now I am using it to transcode MPEG2 videos to AV1. With CRF 25, Preset 5, with a 480p30 video I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop’s Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.
      You can run different server applications. Some are supported natively (e.g.: Tinyproxy, Privoxy, Squid HTTP proxy, apache2, nginx, navidrome, OpenSSH, TigerVNC, rsync, xorg-server, xwayland, xrdp,…) and some can run in proot (e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud). If you already have some web server and want it public, there’s cloudflared too, so you can access it via Cloudflare tunnel.

    • RTL-SDR driver
      Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.

    • SDR++
      The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.

    • KDE Connect
      Nicely connects phone with a computer. Data transfers, remote control, finding your phone, synchronizing notifications.

    • LibreTorrent
      Great client for Android.

    There’s more, but those I don’t use daily, or have already been mentioned.

    •  kratoz29   ( @kratoz29@lemm.ee ) English
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have many doubts, I’ll try to quote each.

      I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop’s Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.

      Is this good or bad for Termux? I’m kinda inclined to think it is good (I have a SD 865 so I’m extra curious).

      (e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud).

      I have read about the self hosting possibilities before for sure and while I will always find it amazing I would die inside if I had to use my phone (and specifically Termux, since I think text selection, copy/paste and overall typing is bad on it), that without proper hardware ofc (like external mouse and keyboard… Or a UI like DeX) so I gotta ask, do you use any of those services? If yes do you have some of those tools I just mentioned?

      RTL-SDR driver
      Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.

      I kinda want to know what you meant here.

      SDR++
      The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.

      I only know SDR from the video format scene, and I know you want HDR or better.

      LibreTorrent
      Great client for Android.

      This is cool, and I didn’t know about it, but surely there are better options to use torrent on Android?

      There’s more, but those I don’t use daily, or have already been mentioned.

      I kinda want to know what more, because honestly, if Termux was paid you would almost sell it to me 🤣

      •  u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)   ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English
        3·
        2 years ago

        I am sorry for not responding quicker, but I was at school and I am also tired, so don’t expect a high quality reply.

        Is this good or bad for Termux? I’m kinda inclined to think it is good (I have a SD 865 so I’m extra curious).

        I have no idea. My phone and laptop are the 2 only pieces of hardware to test with. I also wanted to try OnWorks, but getting the file to that seems fairly painful. Downloading that particular video from archive.org is too slow, trying to get it from FileNow where I uploaded it would hang every 14MB and fail. The only working “solution” was running nginx webserver with that file there in Termux and creating Cloudflare QuickTunnel, but my mobile data is slow and we don’t have internet at home. So I just didn’t get to try it.

        I have read about the self hosting possibilities before for sure and while I will always find it amazing I would die inside if I had to use my phone (and specifically Termux, since I think text selection, copy/paste and overall typing is bad on it), that without proper hardware ofc (like external mouse and keyboard… Or a UI like DeX) so I gotta ask, do you use any of those services? If yes do you have some of those tools I just mentioned?

        I have only tried Jellyfin briefly and want to try running NextCloud when I’ll have time for it, as that seems more painful looking at the guides on internet. Jellyfin just didn’t fit my use case, so I replaced it for nginx with fancyindex module and Material theme.
        I don’t have a problem using the touchscreen. Copy-paste works pretty well, like with any other text. Just a little tip: Home puts you on start of the line and End at its end.
        But anyway, I do often use a hardware keyboard. Sort of. I don’t attach it to my phone, instead I SSH into my phone from some computer, be it my laptop or school PC. For GUI I can also use VNC server. Keep in mind VNC isn’t encrypted by default. There’s VNC-TLS and X509, but I have no idea how to deal with certificates, which allows anyone to do MITM attack on me. Simplest solution is running it over SSH tunnel, at which point I can use unencrypted VNC which is compatible with more programs.

        I kinda want to know what you meant here.

        RTL-SDR is one of the SDRs (Software Defined Radio) that I have. I also have a clone of RSP1. I don’t know where I would start on that. It allows a lot. But after all, you can just search “What to do with SDR” yourself, and find countless answers.
        My most favorite use is receiving satellite signals. So far only in the 137MHz band because I don’t have a satellite dish. In this case V-Dipole is enough. Since I have the RTL-SDR Blog’s extendable dipole, I can fit a satellite imagery receiving station into my pocket.
        Check !amateursatellites@lemmy.world
        Example image that I received over APT (it’s analog signal, old-school tech):

        I used noaa-apt, again in Termux, to decode it.
        Or perhaps this catches your interest: Cracking GSM phone calls and SMS with SDR (YouTube playlist) which is obviously illegal. It also only works for the weak A5/1 encryption and only with GSM (2G). While newer standards are sure safer, don’t trust anything that’s not E2EE at all anyway.

        I only know SDR from the video format scene, and I know you want HDR or better.

        Yep, SDR = Software Defined Radio.

        This is cool, and I didn’t know about it, but surely there are better options to use torrent on Android?

        I am not sure. LibreTorrent works well for me.

        I kinda want to know what more, because honestly, if Termux was paid you would almost sell it to me 🤣

        I meant other FOSS apps, not stuff in Termux. But it’s like a locked down GNU+Linux machine, so it just does a lot of Linux things. Thanks to proot-distro or Andronix scripts you can even have Ubuntu, Arch Linux or other distros on it. That’s what you need for Jellyfin for example. Just keep in mind that your phone is most likely aarch64 and Termux doesn’t emulate other architectures. Though it can run QEMU 😏 (but if you tried Limbo PC Emulator x86 you understand how useless it is with anything better than Windows 98). I did get that to run Windows 7, yes, but even just opening a file browser took a few minutes.
        Anyway, cursed screenshot as a bonus:

        Even though it CAN be done doesn’t mean you SHOULD. I already cooked 1 Poco X3 Pro motherboard to its death.

      •  jawa21   ( @jawa21@startrek.website ) 
        3·
        2 years ago

        RTL-SDR is basically a way of using a digital device as a broadband radio. That is an oversimplification, but that is the idea. There are cheap USB devices out there that will turn a PC into a ham radio receiver (among a really wide range of other bands like weather satellites). I have no idea how they are doing it with Android, however. Maybe using the phone’s antenna.

  •  Helix 🧬   ( @Helix@feddit.de ) English
    27·
    2 years ago
    • Fluent Reader – to very quickly get a lot of news which I need for work
    • Beeper – for the 100 chat apps I need to use to stay in contact with my friends who don’t use Matrix
    • Nheko – for the based friends who have [matrix] accounts and chats with industry professionals in my field
    • FluffyChat – mobile device [matrix] client
    • Logseq – as second brain, works better for me than Obsidian
    • Jameica – for online banking and accounting
    • K-9 Mail / Thunderbird – mail client
    • DecSync CC – for synchronising contacts with multiple devices through Syncthing
    • ActivityWatch – to track everything I do in case I forget to book time in my corporate time sheet, or if I want to know how long I played games in contrast to programming
    • KDE Plasma – best desktop environment boosting my productivity to about 140% of what I could do with Windows 10
    • Qalculate! – very fast and easy to use scientific calculator, can also do conversions like “1h50min → min” or “15€ → $”
    • Aegis – TOTP generator for mobile
    • VLC – plays everything you throw at it
    • mpv – plays everything you throw at it, if you installed the right codecs, and also does fancy ML-based GPU upscaling in my case
    • KeePassXC, KeePassDX – password managers integrated on Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone
    • Syncthing – to automatically and seamlessly sync all my devices (Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Phone, second Laptop, Servers, …)
    • Firefox Developer Edition, Librewolf – browsing the web without Chromium
    • Chromium – for PWAs like Teams, Outlook, Discord
  •  Count Regal Inkwell   ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 
    23·
    2 years ago

    Well, there’s the usual: GIMP. Lemmy & Firefish instances. Linux OS. Syncthing. Firefox. Inkscape.

    qOwnNotes is cool and I don’t hear much about it.

    Also shout out to libre games. GZDoom and UnCiv mostly. But MOSTLY GZDoom. GZDoom is a platform, not a game.

  •  Shurimal   ( @Shurimal@kbin.social ) 
    10·
    2 years ago

    On my server:
    OpenMediaVault (NAS OS based on Debian)
    Syncthing
    Home Assistant
    Zigbee2MQTT
    Docker
    Portainer
    Radicale
    Navidrome

    On my phone:
    Syncthing
    Tailscale
    Feeder
    DAVx⁵
    OSS Document Scanner
    RPNcalc
    DSub
    EDSY

    On my PC:
    Odyssey Material Helper
    EDDiscovery
    EDSY
    ObservatoryCore
    Paint.net and GIMP
    OpenRGB
    Tailscale