Buzzkill is very nice. I’m in a group chat that gets huge bursts of activity (like a hundred messages) and then goes dormant for a bit, so I set buzzkill to only give me at most 1 notification every 30 minutes, and keep the rest of them silent. That way I can still keep up with it without my phone blowing up
I also highly recommend libby, which lets you check out ebooks and audiobooks from your library. I don’t have a kindle myself, but this help article says it’s supported “Reading Kindle Books on a Kindle ereader”
You can also add multiple library cards, so if you wanted to go crazy you can find libraries that let you sign up for a card even if you don’t have a local address and get access to both library’s collections to read on your Kindle
I also highly recommend the movie, one of my all time favorites (and not because of this scene)
Blokada 5 has been very nice to me, no root, and doesn’t use much battery (android tells me 4% after a full day). Only downside is that it counts as a VPN connection, so if you want to connect to another VPN you have to turn it off temporarily.
Otherwise definitely Firefox with ublock origin
Haven’t tried it personally, but this might work: https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox
Basically, instead of creating a fedora distrobox and installing davinci resolve in there, this is a pre built image that has all the dependencies and such ready to go.
Ooo and there’s even a serious looking page “explaining” it as the first result when looking it up on Google
I’m definitely stealing this idea
Funny enough, that’s a feature of GitHub copilot: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/github-copilot#_generate-git-commit-messages
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/write-your-git-commits-with-github-copilot/
You might be interested in https://inworld.ai/origins , a detective game where all the characters can be interviewed in natural language and respond with AI. They seem to be doing a pretty good job so far
I have no idea, but that would be pretty cool
The PDF multitool I’ve been using is Stirling-pdf, which has support for adding/removing passwords
Funny enough, I also learned about this tool from a previous edition of this newsletter haha
With such lines as
If it has to be Christmas for you to be nice
You’re an asshole
If you think the season is the reason
You’re a piece of shit
And calling people spineless if they can only make a change for the better if it’s New Year’s and hints that so much of the holiday just appearances
You can even hook up tachiyomi to your home stuff through something like komga as another source
I let syncing run in the background all the time, the app has a ton of settings to configure when it runs so it respects battery/data usage
Android reports the app has used less than 1% of my battery in the last 19 hours
A couple of favorites that are different from what others already said: