🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

The worst is when you run out of monospaced fonts and have to use variable-width variables.
https://xkcd.com/2309/

@gioypi has posted a nice new topic in our Discourse Forums server -- listing a variety of Open Source apps you can use, to reduce Google dependency (and their constant espionage).

"What if you don’t want to run Linux on your smartphone or your device is not supported, but still want to have (some) control over your apps and data? This is another incomplete :upside_down_face: Android tweaking guide, focused on replacing pre-installed/popular apps with powerful open-source alternatives."

Thank you!!

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/android-limit-google-apps-with-foss-alternatives/243/2

#Android #IT #FOSS #Privacy #mobile #FDroid

hello everyone！ I'm Chinese and I'd like to answer any questions about china. and I'd like you guys to help me improve my English! thank you!

Happy face!

-F-Droid instead of Google Play.
In F-Droid you will find a variety of open-source apps, like the following.

- QKSMS instead of the pre-installed messaging app.
Support for multiple SIMs and MMS messaging.

- Firefox instead of Chrome.
The debate for the perfect browser is out of scope here, but obviously your browser is one of the things you will consider changing.

- NewPipe instead of YouTube.
NewPipe is a front-end for YouTube, basically YouTube with privacy and without ads. It can also play in the background (!) if you like. Since, PeerTube is not always enough, no matter how substantial.

- OpenMultiMaps (based on OpenStreetMap) instead of Google Maps.
Crowd-sourced maps for all countries. Special filters included, like wheelchair accessible places, vegan/vegetarian restaurants and more.

- Carnet instead of Google Keep.
Simple but feature-rich notepad.

- CPU Info to complement pre-installed hardware monitoring apps.
Displays hardware specs, current CPU frequency per core, RAM usage, temperatures and more.

- Orbot to access the Tor network.
This app works mostly as a VPN. No need for access to specific (paid) servers.

- Simple File Manager Pro to view and handle directories.
Google’s Files are designed to show only files saved directly from the user. Finding system folders is not that simple. The Simple File Manager belongs to a series of apps for basic operations by Simple Mobile Tools, most of which are worth trying. The apps require a payment in Google Play, so they are not Free anymore. Yet, you can still install open-source versions via F-Droid, without payments or ads.

This is a cool study and raises some questions:

Study of #COVID19 clusters associated with fitness dance classes in South Korea. Interestingly, participants in yoga and Pilates classes sharing the same venue were not infected. Vigorous exercise in enclosed spaces is risky, even in small groups.

https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1261980479240036358?s=20

I wanted to kick off the #QotoJournal hashtag by sharing a free open-source book I started writing some time ago...

I started writing a book in an attempt to help explain how to do circuit analysis by hand. Originally it was going to include both time-domain analysis as well as frequency-domain analysis. The book is incomplete and I never got to cover the time-domain but has several complete examples showing frequency-domain analysis on many common circuits. I’ve gotten some compliments over the years, particularly from HAM radio operators, on how useful the book has been to them. I’d like to share here what I have so far in case anyone might find it useful.

As a side note if anyone would like to revive the project and work with me on expanding and completing the book it would be most welcome. Please feel free to contact me. In the meantime here is the compiled book in its current form. I don’t currently have the latex source code published anywhere but if there is any interest I will happily publish it and open-source it on github.

Here is a direct link to the book: https://discourse.qoto.org/uploads/short-url/tFY6qFBUnmFFVdnBErQ8mJdZuBF.pdf

You can also view the book as a feed in my blog here: http://jeffreyfreeman.me/frequency-domain-circuit-analysis-tutorial/

If you wish to comment or discuss it there is a discourse post for it here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/frequency-domain-circuit-analysis-tutorial/41

#ElectricalEngineering #Electronics #Science #HamRadio #Radio #RF #math #mathematics

@nolan @design_RG @freemo

Relevant ones highlighted in yellow.

1. Compartilhar -- Share (with other apps);

2. Copiar -- Copy (to system clipboard);

I was thinking about the usefullness of this feature, and thought you could consider it?

Thank you!

And maybe @a1batross might consider adding this to Husky as well -- Thank you also.

@nolan Feature Request for Pinafore :

Could you consider adding a context menu option to a Toot -- offering Save, or Share, or Copy possibly?

Useful to recover good info from DMs, which I could import into our Forum for permanent records for example. I woudl like this feature, and found it is implemente in Fedilab.

Screenshots attached. (all menus in Portuguese)

The screenshot with possible options, lots of them.

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