That depends on your use case, I personally really only ever use RSS on my phone. Anyway, as others have mentioned, you can connect the app to FreshRSS for syncing.
Also, feel free to ignore this, but you could probably make your point without being so condescending. Something like “Cool, but the lack of apps across multiple platforms is a deal-breaker for me.” Calling someone’s work “cute, but […] useless” after they provide it for free to the community is kinda rude, especially considering it’s honestly one of the best actively-developped RSS apps for Android.
What nonsense is this? It is an amalgamation of NetGuard, I2pd and Orbot, along with a lot of additions to it. Nothing competes with it at all, and has not since years, even though it is FOSS and made by one person. I thoroughly test and use it, and my non root smartphone guide is based on it, that is how great it is.
I just switched some weeks ago from Flym. Flym was my alltime favourite RSS reader, but it is not developed anymore. Read You comes closest to Flym’s minimal design and slowly I am getting used to it.
I’m still looking for a keyboard with predictions which doesn’t require me to change languages manually. I’m currently on Gboard as there is no decent alternative.
I use it, but I don’t use it in VPN mode for my entire device. I use it in proxy mode so that things that are specifically looking for tour on local host, 1950 will connect through it and it seems to work fine for that purpose. I use it for f-droid and SimpleX
This product is produced independently from the Tor®, DNSCrypt, Purple I2P software and carries no guarantee from The Above Projects about quality, suitability or anything else.
why would i use this app “that carries no guarantee” instead of those original projects?
Well, the reason I use it is because it generally tends to carry the newest versions of the tor software, where something like Orbot is quite far behind.
I’m using it, but mostly only as Proxie. it also avoid a lot of ads in the Android apps. I2P and TOR network only occasional. It’s a good app and FOSS.
I like the blocking abilities and the logging more with RethinkDNS. I never used I2P so that was moot for me.
With RethinkDNS I can pick the Hagezi blocklist and No Facebook, as an example, quite easily. I can also individually block domains and IPs. Dnscrypt doesn’t allow that much precision.
It also has features like allow/disallow only on WiFi or data, block apps not in use, block all apps when device is locked, plus a bunch more stuff.
It integrates with Orbot, but Orbot must also be installed.
Really I can’t say anything bad about InviziblePro, I prefer RethinkDNS, you might not though.
I prefer the RethinkDNS firewall as it is more granular in what it can block. Say you have the Wikipedia app, you can block intake-analytics.wikimedia.org and still allow meta.wikimedia.org
InviziblePro can be setup to start on boot. DnsCrypt, Tor, and I2P can all be toggled individually in the settings.
Hmm i remember a while back when i firewalled my browser on invizible pro and it still worked that’s one of the reason i stopped using it maybe they have fixed it now . So can tor also be setup to start on boot and can it stop supplying internet system wide if say tor stopped suddenly or does it just continue supplying unencrypted internet ?
Yes, Tor can be set to start on boot, and there is a run all traffic through Tor setting. I’m pretty sure I remember one time when Tor failed during a session and things still worked though. With RethinkDNS this does not happen tough. When Orbot loses connection, quits, whatever, RethinkDNS will still send it traffic (if configured to do so) but it will not leave the device because Orbot is not running.
Yeah i know of tor browser but that’s just it a browser it can’t pass all traffic through tor . And the browser and orbot was removed from fdroid recently due to having proprietary blobs but they are working on a fix which will hopefull soon get them back untill then if you really want to use those add guardian projects official repo into your fdroid client .
Unfortunately (and incredibly) Gboard is the only keyboard that fits all my needs. I’m on graphene so I feel ok about just blocking its network access. This means voice transcription doesn’t work, but otherwise I get swipe, predictions, and other languages.
The biggest thing keeping me from switching away from Gboard are things like the Japanese and Chinese IMEs. I have yet to find an open source keyboard with both of those, while also allowing me to switch to English.
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Clicked on the article. Clicked on the Trime and Fcxit5 and plugins links. It might be suitable in the future. Hoping this isn’t a situation where I finally find a solution and then the devs suddenly disappear without a trace.
I was in your shoes for ages, but HeliBoard has predictions and other languages out of the box. Voice transcription works if you have FUTO Voice Input. Gesture typing uses a swypelibs binary extracted from Gapps; you just have to download it manually since the app never requests network access (instructions are on the Github page). I started using it today and some of its features actually seem to work better for me than Gboard, like the swipe gestures on delete or space, and it has at least a few more features I’m pretty sure Gboard doesn’t. Give it a look at least.
The typing scheme is highly innovative and the code they used to do it is proprietary so its a little hard to get started replicating. Further, they have a design patent that means you need permission from the company and licensing to replicate that action. The way they do this licensing and permission means its FAR easier to get that permission and include the proprietary binary blob than to reinvent the mechanism. I’m sure there are extreme radical FOSS-heads interested in doing this with code they’re working on, but any big project that wants to create a legitimate daily driver keyboard is going to be more focused on other problems surrounding ethical predictive text and the precision of screen taps. Like this is more a question of what problems are worth solving than anything. There’s plenty of hard problems in the mobile keyboard space that don’t involve lawyers, especially when getting access to the Swype lib to embed in keebs has thus far been pretty trivial and that lib has been found to be not gnarly in audits.
Personally I do have worry about Swype doing a rugpull with this licensing to keyboards that are using it, since that’s one of the paths of enshittification/rot-econony, but I also wouldn’t choose not to use a keyboard without swipe gestures (in fact my current keyboard doesn’t have them because I can type fine enough without them and its one less thing to install or worry about)
Are there any keyboards on f-droid that offer word prediction?
I always go back to SwiftKey (but didn’t update if since they announced AI stuff) because nothing comes close, but I would gladly change it to something FOSS.
Homepage is @ https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard (and it links to the page that contains that binary library, including other architecture versions).
@fri I'm using AnySoftKeyboard. Took me a bit of getting used to and I'm probably still less efficient than I used to be, but it doesn't send what I type to remote servers to train AIs on. @Hirom
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