Yo [he/him]
I switched to DroidFS from EDS lite (a kinda dead open source alternative) few months ago. It’s soooo nice.
I think it’s the first app that can open a big video without allocating that space in internal storage. Previously, if I had a 1gb encrypted video, apps would decrypt it in internal storage and play it, temporarily taking up an extra gigabyte (this was an issue if I didn’t have enough space).
I’m using gocryptfs because I actually kinda like seeing the file structured, in case I need to delete a folder or file without decrypting the storage, and I can decrypt those files on pc too (I think both windows and linux have an app for this).
It was working till ~7 hours ago, I tried to play some videos few minutes ago, but it failed, rip…
Old reddit redirect or popup off could probably work as well (both are exentions on firefox).
Insular (the degoogled open source version of Island) has a page comparing Island, Shelter and Insular
https://secure-system.gitlab.io/Insular/faq.html
I don’t know if its updated, but you can pick the ones that fits your needs.
I picked Island because I thought I may have issues with my notifications if I had chosen Insular. (Plus, there was this bug I was talking about and thought that it would fix it. Installing Island wasnt the solution, but I had already spent a lot of time/days setting up my phone multiple times and didnt want to try it again, with the possibility of problematic notifications.)
Those “root checks” are a joke. ~Nobody raises a brow if you are an admin user with root privilages on windows, (desktop) linux or macos. But it’s such a huuuge deal when you manage to actually own and use your own mobile device the way you want by breaking free from what they impose on you, ugh…
Any app that doesnt work when you have root access ~shouldn’t be used at first place…
Lsposed is a magisk/ksu module that has its own modules too. Like a manager insude a manager giving you even more options.
I would like to help you with various stuff and customizations but I just don’t have enough time to explain them all.😅
I’m just gonna list stuff you may find useful:
Apatch (root and magisk/kernel modules manager)
Mrepo (magisk modules manager)
Shizuku
Color blender (to tweak metarial you colors)
Droidify (fdroid alternative)
Aurora store (play store alterantive)
Total commander (closed source root file manager)
Canta (used to uninstall system apps, I just use it to see the descriptions of various apps and disable them)
Florisboard beta (I have made a very good copy of gboard with that, I can send you the files if you want)
Smartpack manager (info about the phone and more)
Appmanager (various detailed info about apps)
Hidden settings (settings your rom may not show, closed source)
Island (for dual apps)
Neobackup (root backups, has issues with work profile)
Databackup (root backups, I use it to backup work profile apps)
Sai (installer)
Roundsync (uses rsync or rclone I think)
PrimitiveFTP (to send/recieve files with ftp connections)
DroidFS (to encrypt files)
DiskUsage (to visalise storage usage)
Db viewer (to view databases of apps, closed source)
Termux (temrinal for android, too advanced for me)
UsageDirect (logs app usage)
Motionamate (logs steps)
Neutrinote ce (notes)
Fossify apps (gallery, sms, calendar etc.)
Librera (pdf, epub etc viewer)
Moneywallet (expense/income tracker)
Magisk modules:
Adb and fastboot for android ndk
Advanced charging controller
Busybox for android ndk
Lsposed-mod (maintained version of lsposed manager, after the original went archived)
Zygisk mod
Lsposed modules/apps:
Lucky patcher (hacking apps if you want to)
Free notificiations to manage notifications
Matrix rain (fancy effect with matrix background in notification shade)
messengerEX (to disable adds in messenger app, in case you use it)
And many many more stuff
I was setting up my phone for about two weeks some months ago (the was a bug with xiaomi and work profile)😅
Oh oke oke. I had issues with magisk a few months before I switch. I think there were incompatibility issues between magisk and lsposed manager, so I did a full reset, I upgraded the rom (from a beta version from November 2021 of the rom xiaomi.eu miui 12.6/android 11, I went to xiaomi.eu hyperOS/android13) and installed apatch so that I dont have incompatibikity issues (plus, it hides root much better).
I think the new “safetynet” is “Play integrity”. I think you need playstore installed and activated to pass the test though.
At least, it seems like many apps are ok with passing only safetynet though, so probably not a big issue yet.
I think it may be based on ksu, but also uses superkeys with passwords or something. I don’t know much about its security, you may want to check the issues tab on github or generally the project itself.
Have you tried apatch as an alternative to magisk?
It ~combines rhe advantages of magisk and kernelsu
If you set it up properly (like using apps to sync folders) a big enough sd is like local “cloud” service.
I was thinking about it recently, after my phone data were very close to being deleted (I managed to prevent it eventually), I was angry at how not having an sd slot caused me so many issues. If I had a 1tb sd I would just autosync app backups and files to my card and not worry ~at all about losing data from bootloops etc.
Ah, rip, that may be an issue😆
Haven’t tried Alovoa, but think of it differently; if someone is on Alovoa, they maybe are more similar-minded to you, because they too probably like open source stuff.
There: https://mander.xyz/post/11076441
There was a post recently about people’s favourite open source games and it’s been a nice repository of games for me :)
I dont know, but if you also use it to plug in earphones you may double the use.
Im using my type c port phone for about 3.5years so far (I rarely plug headphones in it though) and the port seems ok.
But either way, this extra wear down is simply another negative aspect of this move and I think so far the disanvantages outweigh the advantages (also I think it’s just so that they can sell their wireless earphones and on a lower degree support planned obsolesence).
As Louis Rossmann also said, using a single port for both charging/moving data and listening music increases the wear on the port. They’re just made to wear down faster with the absence of the audio jack port.
Plus it’s impractical, as it occupies the type c port.
I think firefox pdf reader is one of the slowest pdf readers.😅
On windows I switched to Okular and on android I use Librera (and sometimes the default stuff on my phone).
Been using it for about 4 months, it’s so good and FAST (without the need of searching words online).
I have the open english wordnet and the greek wiktionary for english to english and whatever-language (mainly english) to greek trasnlations when I’m reading my english books or when I want to check the spelling of a word (I use no auto-correct). :)
Often times a chat log is needed when people don’t check it often or right away.
I think the timer on each device starts from when the person who has the devices sees the message.
So if you send the message and the timer is 5 minutes, the message on your account (on all of your devices) will be deleted in 5 minutes from now, while the recipient will first see the message (maybe in an hour) and then after 5 minutes it will be deleted from their devices too.
Wait, I ~never was notified that it got to 25mb, I thought it was 8