• Review: CalyxOS

    calendar Dec 19, 2024 · 2 min read · Review
    The moment I have to engage with the world of mobile phones, I feel like flapping my arms like a flustered chicken, and shouting 'I am not a computer person'. So, despite living part-time in a terminal, believe me when I say that CalyxOS, the Android-fork for mobile phones, works well for non-technical users, or at …
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  • Review: FDroid vs PlayStore

    calendar Dec 17, 2024 · 2 min read · Review FOSS
    A direct comparison between the FDroid store and Google's PlayStore isn't possible. When you open the FDroid store, you see all recent apps. You can see everything, and even search in alphabetical order; start to finish. Google will never let you see everything, because of the unfiltered garbage on their platform. They …
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  • Markdown GUIs

    calendar Sep 29, 2023 · 4 min read · Review FOSS

    'Organizers', 'wikis', 'note-taking apps', et c. - these apps are mostly Markdown with an attached GUI. Today, I'm trying each of them out for twenty minutes apiece.

    AnyType

    • Site: anytype.io
    • Size: 383 MB
    • AnyType comes encrypted, meaning you can't easily grab the raw markdown notes and stick them in a Git, or do much …

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  • A Review of Soft Server

    calendar Jun 21, 2023 · 2 min read · Review Git Linux

    Soft Serve is a git server for the command line. You can see the maintainers' version here, with ssh:

    1ssh git.charm.sh

    It looks like this:

     1
 2   Soft Serve 
 3
 4  • Repositories    About
 5
 6  ┃ Bubble Tea …

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  • aerc: the World's Best Email Client

    calendar Feb 24, 2022 · 2 min read · Linux Review

    Pronounced 'ark', this programme lets you send email from the terminal.

    I wrestled with neomutt (another CLI email client) to send emails in the terminal, but the documentation presumed that everyone in the world already knew how to set up notmuch and understood basic email nonsense, and went straight into telling you …


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