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Maybe a setup FIDO2 LUKS unlocking, but that requires a security key: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/security-keys/

You could setup LUKS TPM unlocking.

Definitely agree. If they could somehow make it a Flatpak with minimal permissions I would def check it out. Otherwise, I don’t use any unsandboxed software to avoid apps having arbitrary permissions.

I dont know

What you want is Xournal++

It allows creating a layer which can be saved as a separate file and edited later, then if you want a modified PDF with the overlaid changes just “export as PDF”

Link: https://xournalpp.github.io/

I liked qdirstat

If all you need is a simple note taking app, I recommend Notesnook. It is free and open source and offers E2EE cloud syncing. That is what I used as a Google keep alternative. Silverbullet is good, but may be too feature-full for something as simple as a Keep replacement.

Varia is a download manager written using GTK4. Simple, easy, and best of all speeds up downloads significantly on most sites. There also is a extension for Chromium and Firefox, but I haven’t tried them.

The link to the Joplin’s website is https://joplinapp.org/

I recommend Notesnook. It is open source, cross platform, and cloud synchronized E2E encrypted. I know cloud based wasn’t something you wanted especially, but I thought it was worth mentioning because it is encrypted.

It is recommended for activists, but it really can be for anyone. It is basically just Android and your grandmother could daily drive it about as well as any other Android OS. It’s solid, security hardened, gives extra security toggles, and extends device longevity past being made ewaste by EOL. I was hesitant at first to use it, especially given its cult-ish community, but it really has “just worked”.

openSUSE Tumbleweed is a great rolling-release distro. The Yast tool is a powerful GUI System Admin/Settings app. Plus the openSUSE logos are green which is a good color lol.

Fedora is promoting their KDE Spin to a full Edition, alongside Fedora Workstation (GNOME). Nothing really is changed, the KDE Spin has always been good.

Not really needed on Android or in general. If all you want to know is whether your system is compromised, use Auditor by GOS.

Even if documentation can be time-consuming, it is such a lifesaver and makes the whole process of coding much smoother. It means not as much time wasted backtracking. If you think there is any part of your code you won’t understand when you coming back to it, document, document, document.

Sometimes I write some multiline psuedocode comments or/and an explaination of specific choices, especially those invisible choices you make while debugging that aren’t apparent when your just reading through your code.

Good thing to do is make code that is generally readable too lol.

Or are you? Try it, just a lil 😼

I don’t know any YouTubers other than “Let’s Game It Out”.

My fav game to speedrun is Neon Boost (free on Steam) because of several bugs I have found in the game. Otherwise a small boring indie platformer about rocket jumping is made fun (to me) through exploitation of its physics.

1. Diagonal movement is faster (hold two adjacent directional keys). Sliding makes you even faster.
2. Precise rocket jumps can receive more velocity than the developers intended, allowing you to skip many parts.
3. You can touch the end of stage goal post from underneath the platform.
4. You can wall jump off of the top of walls, allowing for many skips and time saves.
5. You can get massive upwards velocity by sliding into a small couple-pixel ridge and jumping precisely once you touch it. This is possible on the starting platforms of all World 1 levels. It basically only improves individual level speedrun records, except on one level where you can skip the whole level and complete it in 1 second (an 9x faster than intended.

My crowning achievement was completing the final level of World 1 (1-12) in 18 seconds. The Devs expected a fastest time around 40 sec.

Dying to a stupid bug is a great way to suddenly get frustrated though. Hard agree with you though, buggy games are my favorite. Especially small indie projects because I you can find the great bugs.

Not from f-droid, but Piper TTS models are great and performant. You can install the apk and the app requires no permissions. They also have other models other than Piper (eg Coqui). For English, I recommend recommend vits-piper-en_US-lessac-medium for the model.

Here is a link to the list of prebuilt APKs: https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

Here is the Github repo: https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

Basically, its a customization of Fedora Workstation with Steam, Proton GE, and some system tweaks for better gaming support.