It’s on the IzzyOnDroid repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.cyb3rg0d.canvass

Fossify Paint does the same thing without adding the IzzyOnDroid repo, I just happen to have Canvass since it was the first thing that showed up when I searched.

My take is that Proton CEO Andy Yen’s pro-Trump comments were born out of naïvety, not the same mindset that plagues tech CEOs in the US. Combining that with Proton’s benign actions since then, I think it’s a good time to diversify, become familiar with alternatives like Tuta as you say, and make a backup plan should they enshittify, but don’t rush to jump ship now.

Pixel 5, unfortunately a bit out of date since I’m putting off the repair of my 7a. Same app selection on the 7a though since I’ve maintained this as my backup.

I would be in the loop, but not necessarily OP. I am calling out OC to defend their suggestion with more than a simple accusation.

My bad, misremembered that RiMusic fetches from Youtube music instead of Spotify

edit: got the reference. lol

Work phones are unfortunately rare, at least in my field. The number of people who put work apps on their personal phones without a second thought and expect I do the same is astonishing.

F-Droid

Not that I’m aware of. I only used it to diagnose weak signals and frequency band conflicts in the house.

Forgot to put that on my list earlier, it scans for nearby WiFi access points and returns the signal strength, band frequency, and various details about each.

I definitely agree with you on this. My pet theory is that phones have been getting uncomfortably big, at least from my perspective, since the average consumer is expecting it to serve as a computing and productivity platform, while all I want is a nice little digital Swiss army knife. I’m only logged into my messaging apps and personal email, and don’t expect to do any sort of “productivity” on my phone. When my friends and colleagues assume I’m logged in to this-or-that on my phone, all I can think about is how afraid I would be if I were logged in to so many things on my personal phone. It’s so much harder to inspect what’s going on in the background of mobile devices.

One of the compromises I’ve had to accept is the closed, yet exploitable nature of the baseband and firmware. Also how much more spying it could do compared to any PC if an exploit were to get through. Compiling Coreboot and neutering the Intel ME taught me a lot about who’s really in control - and how much control we all lose to smartphone manufacturers and telecom companies.

Of course

• Accrescent: Store run (edit: advocated) by the GrapheneOS team for third-party apps
• Aegis: 2FA TOTP code generator
• AirGuard: Scans for persistent AirTags in the vicinity, notifies if I may be victim to AirTag tracking
• AntennaPod: Podcast manager, also supports importing local folders of podcasts
• AudioMonitor: Measure sound level
• Binary Eye: Support for many types of 1D and 2D barcodes
• ByeDPI: routes internet traffic through the DNS port to bypass certain types of filtering
• Canvass: doodle app, useful for mid-conversation diagrams and clarifying things visually in the absence of pen and paper
• ClassiCube: Minecraft Classic clone
• Conversations: XMPP client
• Editor: raw text editor
• Elementary: periodic table
• SimpleEmail: minimalist e-mail app that does not automatically fetch linked images. Refereshes in the background every 15 minutes and sends notifications without need for Play Services or equivalent
• FakeStandby: for edge cases when I want something to keep running in the foreground, but don’t want to keep the screen on
• Feeder: RSS client
• Fintunes: Jellyfin client optimized for music
• FlorisBoard: customizable keyboard
• Fruity Game: Suika but with MS-Paint art style
• Graph 89: Graphing calculator emulator
• Invizible: Tor and DNS client
• Kiwix: Offline Wikipedia (you can download just the parts useful to you, e.g. medical articles without storage-hungry media files)
• Lemuroid: GBA emulator
• LocalSend: instant P2P filesharing over WLAN
• Markor: notes app with markdown
• Material Files: files app with SMB share support and various handy features
• Molly: Alternative Signal client
• Fossify Messages: I use it over the default messages app since it is easy to block numbers by pattern
• Notally: notes app with nice checklists
• Open Camera: as easy to use as the regular camera, but with a bunch more features below the surface
• OpenContacts: saves contacts as individual .vcf files to a directory for easy backup and allows dropping unknown callers without bothering me with a notification
• Organic Maps to be replaced with CoMaps later
• OSS Document Scanner: best FOSS scanning app I’ve found so far. Includes auto-cropping (given enough contrast) and adjustable B&W filter to eliminate off-white background colors.
• phyphox: view output of sensors like the barometer, magnetometer, accelerometer, etc.
• PipePipe: NewPipe but better (except for the occasional memory leakage)
• QDict & QuickDic: offline dictionaries and bilingual wordbooks
• RadioDroid: IP radio client. Can tune in to international news, music, sports broadcasts
• RHVoice: TTS app
• RiMusic: NewPipe, but for Spotify, etc. YT Music
• SecScanQR: QR scanner and generator with history, useful to save QR addresses for later use since I don’t want to fill out forms or read documents on my phone
• SuperTuxKart: the only [edit: other] game on my phone
• Symphony: Music app with a slick UI
• Trail Sense: Compass with various goodies useful for outdoor activities
• Breezy Weather: weather app and homescreen widget with a slick UI
• MicroMathematics: Math engine, but I never learned how to use it

This was the way on my UEFI desktop, but I gave up getting UEFI to work with Coreboot on the X230, so I settled for the next best thing.

It would have been helpful to explain why, whether that’s privacy, ethical, or political concerns.

But maybe the use of “🤣” says it all

I wonder what desktop environment they are using, perhaps Equinox Desktop Environment?

For the best privacy when you do need a Chromium-based browser, the ungoogled-chromium flatpak is an excellent choice.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember that the anonymous option on the Aurora Store draws from a pool of real Google accounts created by the Aurora team. So it should count.

No idea if Android lets an app run itself in the background after merely installing it though. If it does, that might let trackers in.

Along this vein, a used e-reader with a large screen has cut down my printing needs by about half. Don’t have to burn out my retinas on a backlit screen, but don’t need to print out and carry stacks of paper either.

HP Laserjets are usually decent. Ironically, I’ve had a better time with consumer lasers since the enterprise variants take ages to boot.

Quite lucky, I’d say. Could also come down to some print heads being designed better than others. I rigged my old inkjet up to a refilling tank system and I’d have to run a few cleaning cycles in a row if I didn’t print for a couple of weeks. This was in a room with around 50 to 70% humidity.