That’s the kind of reassurance I needed to go ahead. Thanks!

Cool, cool. Will give it a shot when I have a couple hours to install it 👍 Thanks for your help!

One followup question, might be out of your ballpark since you’re happily using Iodé: in their FAQ, they answer the question “Can I uninstall iodéOS and go back to Google Android?” with

Yes you can. Please follow this link [to their installation page 🤔] for iodéOS uninstallation.

Caution : uninstalling iodéOS requires coding skills.

I hope those “coding skills” aren’t more involved than being able to run a couple of adb and fastboot commands. Have you seen anything to the contrary, in support forums and similar?

to be clear, I’m not “going back to Google Android”, but I might get adventurous with other custom ROMs.

Uh, okay. Weird use of “uninstallable”, but this is definitely good to hear! I was looking at Calyx that has a suite of apps that will just always be stored on your device whether you install them or not. Glad this isn’t that sort of situation 🙂

Oh, good one! I love a good comparison table, and this one I didn’t know of!

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of … inutile? Unsexy? Old?

Gotcha! Thanks for the ELI5 🙂

local-first

web app

I’m confused, which is it?

Yeah, Newpipe is pretty great. It’s also a Peertube/Bandcamp/SoundCloud client 🙂

Ugh, let’s never mention simplemobiletools or Zipo again.

That’s the one. Thanks!

Youtube — try Newpipe for background playback. There is a version with Sponsorblock, I believe

Gallery — I use the Fossify one. You’ll find a lot of other FOSS utility alternatives searching for Fossify.

Media players — I waffle between different ones, but I always have VLC installed as a fallback. It feels clunky on Android, but it will play almost anything.

Sure, but with the critical mass of videos on Youtube, and the sheer impossibility of consensually mirroring them all on another platform, accessing YT videos with Invidious or Newpipe is at least safer than wading unprotected onto Google’s platforms.

Well yes, pandoc converts between all sorts of files but AFAIR it’s not great converting FROM pdf.

I think Pandoc only converts to PDF? Maybe Poppler will do the trick.

I don’t have a concrete suggestion for your use case, but IM doesn’t seem like the most intuitive tool for this? If you’re going to transfer files or data from one computer to another that is physically in the same room, maybe try a local network transfer instead of opening up an advanced web server with all kinds of moving parts?

I’d look at something like Sharedrop and see if there are alternatives that will offer a browser-based interface.

That sounds absolutely delightful. No new features, no intention of scaling or attracting bigger clients, just… Hobbit SAAS. 🙂

Oh, I totally embraced being that grumpy weirdo who insists that what people see as some sort of benevolent, public utility… isn’t. Friends and family still ask why I have to be so critical of corporate social media; I’ll never understand why they aren’t 🤷

Good on you, man. The network effect is always the most insidious to beat when you want to make the step away from a big platform, and you found a way to hopefully steer the casual contacts onto other, safer platforms. I’m happy for you.

I was referring to the “just skip the hosting step” part. You may be right about Joplin but you’re wrong about the suggestion.

Great suggestion in !selfhosted@lemmy.world…