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About the FYA:

I’m a little offended some of these are even mentioned on this page. I get it, some things are extremely widely used and, practically speaking, some people need them. But, for things like Pandora? Why not Pithos? I hope they mean third party libre applications or plugins to support additional protocols for most of the proprietary apps shown.

Here’s my list:

Audio

  • Netcasts & Audiobooks
    • AntennaPod (Android)
      Netcast (podcast) aggregator and player. Been using this for years. I don’t seem able to switch to another client. None of the other media players have nearly the amount of netcast-centric features.
    • LibriVox (Android)
      Audio books. All about the public domain and transparency yet, I don’t see source code nor licensing info for the LibriVox app. Suggest an alternative if I haven’t found something yet. LibriVox proper doesn’t seem to have their own application yet.
    • AudioAnchor OR Voice (Android)
      Audio books. Personally, I prefer Voice (long time ago was called Material Player) as I have more experience with it but I’m not sure what the differences are. Both are for listening to audio books. Perhaps LibriVox search just needs to be built in to these.
  • Music
    • QuodLibet (GNU+Linux)
      Music & netcast library, Scrobbling to various servers, Soundcloud, Internet radio, lyrics, tag editing, and much more in a simple interface.
    • DeaDBeeF (Cross platform)
      This would be amazing to have with a full suite of configured plugins. Maybe one tweaker plugin to automatically change the UI like MATE desktop has for different layouts.
    • Olivia (Snap package)
      This is a great and beautiful-out-of-the-box cloud music player. I wish it had support for FunkWhale, Jamendo, GNU FM / LibremFM, Tidal, Spotify, and others but they’re probably on the to-do list. Yes, the other players can handle some of the same services but this one has a unique touch & UI for it.
    • Pithos (GNU+Linux)
      Pandora radio, an improved experience.
    • Tizonia
      A powerful CLI music streaming program. Supports many with many more coming soon.
    • ncmpcpp
      ncurces MPD player. I’m sure this works. lol.
    • Something that submits listens via AudioScrobbler to custom Libre.FM sites & ListenBrainz.

Psst! How about all these in a dedicated hi-fi portable music/media player? :wink: More thoughts on that in another thread…

Communication

  • E-mail: Any.
    Uh, I actually use Thunderbird, Claws-mail, Kmail, or K-9 Mail depending on what system I’m using. Doesn’t matter too much? Needs folder support, aliases/identities, multiple accounts, and encryption/GPG support.
  • Signal
  • A Matrix client
  • A XMPP client (Gajim? Dino is far from finished.)
    Both need to be fully featured. IRC can be connected to through either network protocol.
    Maybe Pidgin could get a major facelift and functionality added to some of the third party plugins. It’s really nice when there’s one application that just handles all communication. Especially on a phone. That being said… Matrix.
  • Fediverse client
    AndStatus and Fedilab are nice applications for GNU Social, Mastodon/ActivityPub, Pleroma, Diaspora*/Pump.io, Friendica, etc. Choqok is KDE and could use devs but will be good again if it can catch up and support more of the fediverse (check out GS’s repo for v3 features).
  • Jami SIP VoIP client (Hey, maybe some free numbers included with AweSIM?)

Utilities

  • A file manager
  • Powerful text editor
    (Hey, emacs anyone?! :rofl: )
  • Joplin
    Notes, to-do lists, text file sync
  • Syndication aggregator (Atom feeds. P.S. RSS is obsolete!)
  • Bitwarden or KeePass with some select plugins like…
    • 2FA
  • GPG key management
  • Tilix terminal
  • XScreenSaver !!!
  • Clock with various alarms and counters
  • Fully featured calculator
    • bonus points for converters & tip calculators
  • A crypto wallet (multi currency)
  • GnuCash finance manager
  • Calibre or something for PDFs (editing support please!) and ePubs.
  • OpenCamera (Android)
  • An image viewer
  • An OpenVPN client is coming. Need TOR as well. Can’t use the Internet without these!
    What would be really interesting is if one application could elegantly, easily handle both. No?

It goes without saying that all the hardware related things need to be top notch. Those shouldn’t even be included but I guess some people were just curious?

I think I covered everything I’d want out of a non-Android computer-phone. All the audio I’d much rather have on a separate device. Likewise with feeds (plus a way to post article links to fediverse), epubs, and graphics stuff on a high end e-ink tablet. Phones are primarily for communication & socialization, and aside from hardware wallets & authentication, handling money & MFA related things. And, I suppose a camera because laymen don’t need a DSLR.

Thanks for reading! :sweat_smile:

P.S. @Kyle_Rankin Here’s my long form vote.

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Very nice list!

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I’m a little offended you mentioned a snap package.

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Me too :confounded:

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I just did my first donate to Purism HKS.

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