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Reviewing “Calculator the Game”– A FOSS PWA Math Game For Android
Calculator the Game is a free and open source progressive web app game that can be installed on devices running Android and Android-derivatives (see home page). The object of the game is to perform a...
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What is an “Android Alternative”?
On August 10, 2022, my November 21, 2021 article titled Review of /e/ – An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones made the top-3 articles on Hacker News. The post inspired 231 comments on Hacker News....
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FOSS Inflation Calculator for Android
There are signs around us that a dollar does today does not go as far as a dollar a few years ago. In this article, I will take a quick look at a long-maintained free and open source Android...
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Saving Internet Archive URLs in Wallabag
Wallabag is a free and open source bookmarking and read-it-later service which replicates some of the core functionality of Pocket. While it can be self-hosted, and I briefly hosted it on a couple of...
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DecSync Review
DecSync (“decentralized synchronization”) is a free and open source decentralized synchronization tool for synchronizing certain data between devices without a server. As of March 15, 2023, there are...
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Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6a
I just installed GrapheneOS, a security-hardened fork of the Android Open Source Project, on a Google Pixel 6a. I am not the end-user of this case, but I thought that it would be worth sharing my...
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Streaming from Android to PocketBook
I previously wrote a couple of short-format posts on a device called the Dasung Link, an e-ink monitor for phones (see first post). Having noted that my ideal phone would have an e-ink display with a...
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From Murena Teracube 2e to Pixel 3a XL with LineageOS
I reviewed my Murena Teracube 2e phone and its /e/ OS operating system back in November 2021. Those two articles proved to be among our most-read pieces, with the latter being the most-read article at...
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Reviewing Keikai Launcher (Android)
Keikai Launcher is a free and open source Android application launcher. While it can be used as a stand-alone launcher, I use it as an alternative launcher in conjunction with the Tiny Bit Launcher....
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Upgrading Pixel 3a XL from LineageOS 19 to 20
In early June, I wrote about using a Google Pixel 3a XL with LineageOS as my daily phone driver. While I am still using that phone as my daily driver, I have had periodic issues with the charging port...
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Organizing RSS and ATOM Feed Sources
I use The New Leaf Journal to advocate for using feed readers to follow internet writing and media using RSS, ATOM, and JSON feeds (see our feeds). While the big tech social media platforms such as...
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EDDA Café – Visual Novel Review
EDDA Café is a freeware original English language visual novel created by Mushroomallow Studio, a visual novel studio based in Indonesia. The final version was first released on Itch.io on August 7,...
View ArticleRevisiting My Ideal E-Ink QWERTY Phone
On February 23, 2023, I published an article titled The ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY. The headline was not misleading. My ideal phone would have an e-ink display and a QWERTY keyboard. For that...
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