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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Hi, thanks a lot, I'll sure try them both!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That one DAW for electronic music... The logo had a hexagon or something.. Caustic maybe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Agree there are no decent daws no real actual one's on Android that are open source and or contain a loop library that's not like an infant made it, they are all primarily proprietary and pretty much a bag of t*rds so far except I hear for FruityLoops but it's expensive and still nothing comparitively to the PC version it's half a job. The only good free one is Garageband on IOS devices but again it's free to use but proprietary software made by Apple's Logic team I think. Android is looking like a complete idot on that front compared to Garageband versus any and all combined daws they have built for it so far in either/and/or open or closed source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hmmm I do need a reason to learn rust... But a cross platform DAW feels like too big of a project for my level of disorganization 😹

Maybe I should try building ardour for android, it would be way easier to rebuild Ardour's UI for mobile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That was the one that came to mind while your at it maybe add a shortcut for extending a sound region to the full length of the track eg. Logic Pro X uses the L key for this I suspect it stands for Loop, but yeah would be awesome to have some ported daw that can also be used on Android TV OS for TV boxes like the Shield TV and these super powerful Rockchip RK3588 chipset TV OS boxes like the Mekotronics R58 mini and R58X range I have one, the idea would definitely work for those as they are powerful S series samsungs definitely to, mouse capability and keyboard for TV boxes obviously would have to be included as they don't have touch screens.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Android Auto

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Universal Copy and Network Signal Guru. former is used to copy on text which usually unable to copy. latter is used to modify some modem setting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I'm actually pretty happy to be using mostly FOSS apps. The exception are banking or services apps, which I'd never expect to be available as open source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All these mouse cursor touchpad for big phones-apps. They seem pretty easy to do and are quite handy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kde connect has that I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, KDE connect has a very different purpose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, I see what you mean. I thought you meant using your phone as a trackpad sorry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Termius

Not just Android, I want a cross-platform ssh client that shares keys. Termius is probably overkill for that, but I haven't found anything else that works on Linux and Android. The real issue that made me stop paying for it is that for rpm based Linux I have to use the snap version and snap is buggy as heck with multitasking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I was in same boat, I ended up going with Tabby for my Linux clients.

It is by no means a like for like replacement BUT you can someshat backup and sync profiles and config across machines.

Is a huge shame it doesn't work on android though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Picsart. I'd like something that can do a bit of photo editing, adjust brightness/contrast/curves, work with layers, and conveniently slap together collages, but that doesn't interrupt me in between every other operation with an ad or a request to sign up for a subscription to the app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Have you tried Image Toolbox? It might not tick all the boxes, but it's fairly good for me

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