Doodle: Live Wallpapers | F-Droid
Doodle is an open-source Android app that provides colorful live wallpapers with auto dark mode and power-efficient animations.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/xyz.zedler.patrick.doodle/
This is very Pleasant and Soothing.
#android #wallpaper #opensource #freebee #apk
openSUSE Tumbleweed
https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/
Continuously Updated
You install it once and enjoy it forever. No longer do you have to worry every six months about massive system upgrades that risk bricking your system.
We have KDE, Xfce, Gnome options
I am trying out Xfce on a 15 year old computer and it works well.
Screenshot 1.6 MB png format was converted to jpg 360 KB. Carbon friendly.
#linux #opensource #tech #desktop #laptop #computer #productivity
7-Zip Archive Compression
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats.
Powerful File Manager #wine
#freebee #zip #opensource #archive
RedNotebook is a desktop journal
It lets you format, tag and search your entries. You can also add pictures, links and customizable templates, spell check your notes, and export to plain text, HTML or LaTeX. RedNotebook is Free Software under the GPL.
#linux #windows #macos #opensource #productivity #software
this post was made on firefox-opensuse-laptop
windows users get the older version, it has auto preview and tags
Zim - A Desktop Wiki
(if you use one tab for your windows computer and another for a linux computer you can sync same wiki on a cloud with no conflicts)
Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control.
Zim handles several types of markup, like headings, bullet lists and of course bold, italic and highlighted. This markup is saved as wiki text so you can easily edit it with other editors. Because of the autosave feature, you can switch between pages and follow links while editing without worries.
#linux #wiki #opensource #technology
Since 2018, Ontario’s nature protections have been repeatedly weakened. While a few stories such as the ongoing changes to Conservation Authorities or the Greenbelt scandal made headlines, dozens of major changes have flown under the radar, buried deep inside massive government bills. It has been a lot to track, even for us.
Today, Ontario Nature is releasing a comprehensive new resource: Tracked Changes: The Decline of Ontario’s Legal Protections for Nature since 2018. We tracked every single piece of legislation that weakened legal protections for nature and biodiversity from the first term of the current provincial government to today. We broke it all down in plain language, cutting through the legislative jargon to reveal exactly how our environmental laws have been rewritten.
Our review, detailed in the full report, catalogs the changes made bill-by-bill and schedule-by-schedule. Over the past seven years, key environmental laws, built over decades, have been systematically dismantled.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been a primary target. Changes began with Bill 108 in 2019, which created a “Species at Risk Conservation Fund.” Critics called this a ‘pay-to-slay’ scheme, allowing proponents to pay a fee instead of being legally required to provide an “overall benefit” to the species they are harming. This process culminated in 2025 with Bill 5, which fundamentally rewrote the ESA to prioritize economic considerations over science-based recovery and even created a new law, the Species Conservation Act, to eventually replace it entirely.
Conservation Authorities (CAs), our frontline defenders against flooding and protectors of wetlands, have been substantially weakened. Bill 229 in 2020 forced CAs to issue permits for developments authorized by a Minister’s Zoning Order, even if those projects would be denied under their own standards for flood protection. The Auditor General criticized this move for shifting environmental decision-making from qualified professionals to political processes.
Public oversight and democratic accountability have been sidelined at every turn. The independent Environmental Commissioner of Ontario was eliminated in 2018 through Bill 57. The government has repeatedly circumvented the Environmental Bill of Rights, sometimes passing legislation before public comment periods on those very proposals have even closed, as happened with Bill 150 in 2023.
Few of these changes got the headlines they deserved. Nearly all of them were buried inside massive omnibus bills. These are bills that bundle dozens of changes into a single piece of legislation.
For example, Bill 5, the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025, was a single bill that:
This strategy of putting so much into a single bill ensures that major changes to environmental protections pass into law with little media coverage or public awareness. Our new resource cuts through this volume, separating each schedule so you can see exactly what changed and how.
These changes didn’t happen all at once, and taken together, they systematically dismantle many of Ontario’s most significant legal environmental protections.
This report is designed as a tool for advocates, journalists, and anyone who wants to understand what has happened to nature protections in Ontario over three terms of the current government. We hope this will make it easier for people to see the full picture and understand not only what laws have changed, but how these changes have circumvented democratic transparency.
You can read the full report here.
From what I have seen over the years. gentoo is the great grandfather of Android.
You can derive a new Phone OS or Tablet OS from that.
#linux #gentoo #android #opensource
K-9 Mail | F-Droid - Free
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9/
K-9 Mail is an open source email client that works with basically every email provider. POP3, IMAP, SMTP
#email #freebee #opensource #android #apk
XAMPP Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl
XAMPP is the most popular PHP development environment
XAMPP is a completely free, easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. The XAMPP open source package has been set up to be incredibly easy to install and to use.
DokuWiki is an open source wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language.
https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
It works on plain text files and thus does not need a database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki. It is often recommended as a more lightweight, easier to customize alternative to MediaWiki.
(When you are testing out xampp in your computer localhost. the first thing to try is DokuWiki which does not require database)
Image below shows a dokuwiki of flatpress.
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