Next week my #Nexus5 should arrive and I'll be switching from #android to #Ubports #UbuntuTouch. I thought I'd take this last opportunity to share the apps I use on android:
Email - #K9
Map & navigation - #OSMand
Face2face - #Jitsi
#Mastodon - #Tusky
Browser - #Brave or #Orfox
Privacy - #Orbot
Text - #Noise
Email - #Tutanota
Podcast - #Antennapod
Video - #Newpipe
#TinyTravelTracker
Repo - #Fdroid
#Keepassdroid
I use the stock phone apps for clock, file access and calendar with no online access
@Trumpy
@Ubports is alive and well. They could tell you more on their project. Look up their work with the #librem5 !
@DistroJunkie
@Trumpy
Nope. It's quite alive and community driven. Despite the fact that they don't have any Shuttleworth money behind them, they're very much alive.
@DistroJunkie also you could check out purism. They seem to making a kick ass Linux phone.
@DistroJunkie well that just made me giddy. I'll have to look into that and possibly buy a nexus device to run it until I can get a librem5
@DistroJunkie of you don't mind, where did you pick up your nexus5?
@Trumpy
No prob, Amazon.
@DistroJunkie What's Noise? I ddg'd it, but didn't find anything.
@joseph
It's the CopperheadOS fork of Signal, no dependence on gapps.
@DistroJunkie Ah ok. Signal works without gapps now, so I guess I'm ok.
@joseph
Are you sure?
@DistroJunkie Yeah. It will use GCM if you have Google Play Services installed, but if you don't, it just runs a background process to notify you of new messages. I'm using it on LineageOS.
@DistroJunkie What about the keyboard? Do you just use Gboard or something different? I was thinking the other day that the keyboard itself is actually a piece of software which we trust with all kinds of personal information and passwords etc, which is different to a physical keyboard on a computer.
That's a problem I have nit conquered yet. Any input?
@DistroJunkie Not really, as I use Gboard. I'm aware that there are alternatives out there, and I know some people who use SwiftKey, but as with many of Google's services, Gboard is a good piece of software. I don't like the Google aspect and I'll probably change at some point, but a lot of Google's tools / services, Gboard included, are very polished and easy to use, so I haven't looked into alternatives because of Gboard's convenience.
@welshgeekboy
I admit their software is good and very convenient but google services aren't really free. One of my life goals is to eliminate them from my life.
@welshgeekboy
I replace and then disable gboard voluntary key logger with anysoftkey keyboard (installed from F-Droid) google know enough already, and its one less way they can transcribe, categorise and sort my life into a searchable index file
@jason @welshgeekboy
I use ASK as well.
@jason @DistroJunkie I completely agree with you both. It's just something I haven't gotten around to dealing with yet. @DistroJunkie I'll be interested to see how your experience with Ubuntu Touch goes.
@jason This toot brought to you by AnySoftKeyboard. Just swapped from Gboard — thanks for the pointer. It appears to be a keyboard that is just as clean and simple to use. No swipe type but I can deal with that.
@Index I guess, now we can say it was the Copperhead OS fork of Signal.
@DistroJunkie but isn't Ubuntu touch dead, like no more updates?