Other than messing with my scaling and two incompatible applets it just runs absolutely fine. Glad I waited for a week - was thinking about installing it from testing.

You may have a look at places like xda-developers forum to find out about the support your phone has. Some devices are hard to run custom ROMs on. If the support is good there’s nothing in the way to use it reliably on a daily basis

I like Thunder a lot.

If you’d install something like lineageOS you might be better off, because your phone doesn’t have to run all the bloatware Samsung ships with their devices. Some nice features of the device may not work then, though. I run custom roms on all my android devices.

Some of them are not underrated, but I’d just share my favorites…

• AntennaPod for podcasts.
• Aurora Store if you need some Google apps to be updated.
• Binary Eye is a nice and slim qr code scanner and generator.
• CriticalMaps is a good tool if you’re into critical mass events.
• GadgetBridge can be a companion app for your smartwatch (if you have the right one).
• GPS logger just logs your position in an interval you can set. I use it to track my movement in 30min bits.
• GymRoutines is a privacy friendly gym exercise app with a database of your progress.
• K9 mail (soon to be rebranded as Thunderbird mobile) is a powerful mail app.
• KeePassDX is an android password manager compatible with keepass files.
• LibreTorrent is a nice way to torrent your favorite linux distros while on the go.
• Location Map Viewer I use with the gpx files I get from GPS logger to visualize my movements.
• mpv just plays a lot of media without being a bloated thing like vlc. I use mpv for videos, vlc for music.
• NewPipeSponsorblock is available in a custom repo only.
• Ning is a nice way to get an overview over a local network.
• OpenTracks can be used in combination with GadgetBridge to record your sports with gps.
• OSMand gives you a frontend for using openstreetmap with offline maps, navigation and more.
• PDF Doc Scan is my way to digitalize important letters as a pdf on the go.
• StreetComplete is a gamificated way to fill in missing things in openstreetmap. it’s fun.
• Syncthing-Fork (important to use the fork) is a file sync tool I use to backup a lot of my phones folders to a pc.
• Tusky is my favorite way to browse mastodon.
• VLC is a powerful media player (I then use only to shuffle through my mp3s).

I use rofi (on my machine with dmenu theme) and after some digging I found this: https://github.com/Dartegnian/rofi-metro You may use this on any distro as there are very few dependencies to run this simple launcher :)

Steps, sleep, stress, workouts work quite nice. PAI is supposed to have a tab within the next few releases of gadgetbrigde iirc. My approach is more like… I use gb to collect the data from the watch and then use grafana for a visualisation. which might be overkill.

I only use devices supported by gadgetbridge. This way I can track me without giving all the data to somebody else. Currently I use a Mi Band 7, but I’m thinking about getting a device with onboeard GPS.

I use it all the time and sync it between devices without problems…

I use KeepassDX on Android and it feels alright

I like to explore lemmy. Sort by “Top Last Hour” and with “All Communities” to find something you like. I am subscribed to about one hundred communities so far :3

I used it on i3wm without problems. Just install and use it

I installed todays update and it got better. It happens quite regularly though

Thing is, if there was in instance or community doing ads, I now can simly block, mute or defederate them. With reddit I had to use an adblocker, scriptblocker and the reddit enhancement suite to be adfree. And I could not be sure it’d stay that way.