cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63850954

I recently got a Oneplus Watch 3 and I've been looking for any foss apps for wearos. Searching on fdroid doesn't find much, hardly anything in fact.

Can anyone recommend any?

Trying to make some roadmaps with task lists, kanban board, etc. With focus on open source.

Been learning for a year now but trying to get a more natural progression put together to hone my focus of learn/get deeper into this then this then that. To grow bit by bit by bit.

So please suggest anything for any of the below.

My focuses:

1. Helping grow/develop for open source game development/game mods (SuperTuxKart Evolved, The Smash-like, Beyond All Reason, Luanti, 0 A.D., etc)
2. Helping projects that need it gain funding (OpenCollective, NLNet, NGI Zero Core, Liberapay)
3. Helping people find other people for their own projects, and for each others projects
4. Helping grow community, and visibility/knowledge of open source in world (Through growing certain parts of open source communities focused on Videos, Animation, Articles, etc. Even general outreach too)
5. Blogging/Marketing to help projects get more eyes on them (Ghost?)
6. Help out however I can for Operating systems (Kali Linux, Postmarket, Linux Mint, Bazzite, PopOS_Cosmic, Kubuntu, etc)
7. Support various Appimages/flatpaks development (eventually the new Linux standard)
8. To help write documentation (Future after being experienced)
9. Helping to develop open-schematics open-source vehicles/public transit
10. Currently you all deserve funding from all the effort put in over decades, years, months (depending on how long you been around). So I want to help out to get you all funded. I've enjoyed my journey using open source stuff now I want to contribute back however I can not just with donations.
11. Eventually to get my own donations pipeline but eh later on.
12. To get work in Linux/Open Source somehow overtime in future. That would be a dream come true.

Thinking for some fundamentals & tools to learn (Put into groups):

Grant Writing Fundraising Copy Writing OpenCollective Marketing NLNet NGI Zero Core

Networking Cybersecurity Documentation Building From Source GNU/Linux itself with Terminal Computer Science Git Agile Forgejo/Codeberg Programming Small Projects in General Focusing on Learning What is Needed in the Moment A Programming Kanban Board you recommend? A Virtual Machine Program you recommend? Neovim VSCodium Logseq (For Obsidian-like mind palace for learning) Design Principles of GNU/Linux OS, Apps, & Games Docker Kubernetes Godot Penpot Ghost? An AI-Assisting tool? (Won't rely on it as a crutch just as a tool to aid in development but will learn this later when I learn to be an actually good dev) QA for Code (After gaining experience) Maintaining Code (What goes into maintaining code?)

Programming languages, I want to do small projects for, to learn:

Rust Python HTML PHP (Web Dev) Lua (Modding) GDScript

What else would you recommend for fundamentals that I am missing to learn? Or for more in depth learning for any of this? (Whether it is for specific focuses: Software Engineering/DevOps/Game Dev/etc, certain fundamentals: Agile, etc , or for specific tools: Git, etc)

Any online/in-person groups I should join to get to know the community too overtime?

Hopefully this grows to be an additional resource others can use too. I ask here for up to date stuff, and since it feels better to talk to a person with experience than just relying on searching. Which I am still searching alongside this just figured I would ask on top of that.

Will save anything you suggest and put it all together. Please and thanks!!

I want to be helpful for Linux/Open Source by maintaining/creating. I won't burn myself out and will start slow to get deep into each. Just I want to help out however I can overtime and be useful. I may be one person but overtime I'd like to inspire more people to help with those focuses too.

Hi,

From my experience, gamification can encourage users to take action, such as buying things or doing tasks for free. It feels much more rewarding when you receive a "prize" for your actions, even if that prize is not material.

I was thinking - what if there was a game where players could buy items for real money, and that money went directly to open-source projects? Or maybe players could provide proof of their support for an open-source project and receive rewards for it. Alternatively, for every merged pull request into an open-source project, a player could receive a unique in-game item that cannot be obtained otherwise.

I imagine an MMORPG where you can flex your gear or character to other players, multiplying the satisfaction, while simultaneously doing a genuinely good thing by supporting open source.

What do you think? Is it a stupid idea or not?

I'm a techie by trade who matured using proprietary technologies like Windows, but reached my breaking point once ads were introduced at the OS level. Since then I've been on something of a personal vendetta against big tech. It's been about 4 years now, and I thought I'd share my experience.

My first and predominant interest was securing a means of private communication that wasn't centralised. Like many before me, I stumbled upon Matrix. Adoption was problematic; I couldn't help people understand why using WhatsApp, Discord, etc. was a bad idea. But ultimately I managed to convince most of the people in my circle to migrate to my Matrix server by adding IdP (using Keycloak). The login is also tied to various other services, but the carrot that drew most of them in was my Jellyfin instance.

It's running on a home server with ~60TB of hard drive space, and each user also has access to Seerr for requesting content, so it's become quite an extensive library over time. Building the server cost somewhere in the region of 5k to set up (it hosts far more than just Jellyfin), plus a small monthly fee for the VPS I use as a reverse proxy. I offer everything free of charge as a labour of love for the people I care about.

I also provide free tech support to any of my users running any instance of Linux, both hardware and software. Windows users are advised to search their issues online, or allow me to install a dualboot Linux option to help them reach a resolution. I even go as far as offering a free 256GB NVMe for this purpose, provided they've a free M2 slot in their builds.

In my experience, bringing the layperson into the open source world is definitely possible, but it comes at great personal expense. People don't like change, but evidently they hate adverts even more so.

I'm keen to hear about others with similar experiences this far down the rabbit hole. what have you found that works in helping with wider adoption of open source technologies in your communities?

I've been working really hard those past 3 months to deliver what I can consider to be the best android IPTV app; fully open-source, intuitive, bloat-free and ultra-fast. Today, I release Fred TV 2.0 on the playstore!

• Optimized to be the fastest IPTV app out there, with a fully re-written backend made in Rust.
• Full Android TV support, D-Pad support on every view
• New easy-to-use redesigned TV Home for Android TV
• Robust playback, even on shoddy streams and on low-end devices
• Full support for Xtream and M3U

Try it out! You won't regret giving it a shot if you're already using other IPTV apps.

If you had tried the app previously under 1.X.X, please try it again, 2.0 is a massive upgrade.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.fredol.open_tv

https://github.com/fredolx/fred-tv-mobile

Which is your preferred messaging app? I just want some insights about these two.

You may share other messaging apps too.

Their compatibility list notes 75.33% are Playable, 22.93% can go in-game but not be finished and only 1.69% can't get past the intro.

I have lost my TOTP key assigned to codeberg account. Recovering it won't help much, because TOTP is required, so I wrote an email to support in February. 5 months and 2 mails later I have still no response.

I will slowly trasnfer my repos to my gitea/forgejo repo I guess.

For me MPV is the best.

So many people think open source games are a no-go. But there are many good FOSS games. Luanti CTF is one of those games I really enjoy. It is based on the open source voxel game engine Luanti which has similarities with the closed source Minecraft game.

I have been playing this game since youth years. And now I also develop the game :)

Server address: jmaminetest.mooo.com:30001

Some YT channels posting CTF vids:

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCijfes-g3g_gi3vYBUWCy0A
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClzNKLkV5ReEiUBSOp-nMXQ

Edit: See this post from rubenwardy on history of CTF. He started the game. And as he lost interest, he did a wise choice to hand it over to someone else.

Edit2: This server, and also other servers in the JMA network is strictly family friendly. Bear this in mind when playing on the server. This also means it could be a good playground for your kids, if you've got any :)

systab -e has very much become part of my workflow for dealing with systemd timers and services.

It now colors the output a little and there is a nvim syntax highlighing extra.

#linux #opensource

https://codeberg.org/opennomad/systab

There is a pro player on the server who kills you over and over?

This pro player is so annoying but also you are too noob to combat him/her? That's no problem!

We offer Capitalism as a Service in JMA CTF. You can use your match score to put bounty on the offending player. The teammate who kills the target, receives a sum of the normal kill score + the bounty you have put!

Furthermore, the game puts a skull above the target visible only to enemies. So the bounty hunters on your team can easier find the juicy meat!

Also, with /lb command short for "list bounties", your team can see a list of targets and the prices on them!

PS: I already introduced the game in this post

PS2: I am also a developer of the game. As I added the skull feature, I also became the first victim xD

Die Macht der #Apps #Stores

Have you ever wondered why everything always has to go through the Play Store or App Stores

https://tube.the-morpheus.de/w/5KSf1DtsL6MwNgM94qLfgu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhTPHlPyDI

#AppStores

@diday
@TheMorpheus
@fdroidorg
@opensource
#DiDay
#Apple
#Google
#IOS

As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired.

The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in FreeBSD's base system. The FreeBSD installer previously transitioned to using bsddialog in place of dialog and then dpv was the last user of dialog but itself since turned off and now retired.

This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for what will become FreeBSD 16.0.

With dialog removed, the latest FreeBSD code now retires the GNU sub-tree of the FreeBSD base system now that no more GNU code remains.

FreeBSD 16.0 is working its way toward release that is expected to happen in December 2027.

A year of strong growth in income

Total income for 2025 reached € 2,175,997, a substantial increase on the € 1,387,589 recorded in 2024. The growth came from three distinct sources, and it is worth being precise about each.

🔴 Donations The largest share, € 1,976,825, came from donations — overwhelmingly from individual users and small businesses, mostly in Europe. Part of this increase was organic, reflecting the continued strength of LibreOffice downloads.

A further part can be attributed to a concrete change: in mid-2025 we introduced a new update notification on Windows, which periodically — after every major release and selected minor ones — informs users that an update is available, presents the new features, and invites them to support the project with a donation. The effect was immediately visible as a step-up in donations from the moment it was deployed, and it is keeping donations at a higher level into 2026.

🔴 Online stores The second source was income from the sale of LibreOffice through online stores, sponsoring and related commercial activity, which together generated € 168,975. The Apple App Store (€ 118,942) and the Microsoft Store (€ 35,393) accounted for most of this.

🔴 Securities The third source was € 30,197 in income from securities held under the foundation’s asset management.

How the money was spent

Total expenditure for 2025 was € 1,457,343.

The breakdown by category shows where donor money goes.

🟢 Staff and operations remained by far the largest commitment, at € 1,091,032. This covers salaries (€ 406,736), statutory social security contributions (€ 93,244) and freelancers (€ 591,052) — the people who keep infrastructure, communication, administration and project coordination running, in order to share knowledge, support the community in its activities, and enable contributors to do their work.

🟢 Tenders. As in 2024, no development tenders were funded in 2025. Tenders related to LibreOffice development remain on hold, and will be resumed based on the development strategy currently under discussion according to the new Procurement Policy.

🟢 Events and community support amounted to roughly € 87,000, including the LibreOffice Conference (developer conference, € 51,184), community projects (€ 15,014) and student scholarships (€ 17,368), together with marketing initiatives.

🟢 Infrastructure and hosting came to € 51,420, covering the hosting, virtual machines, services and domains that underpin the project’s technical independence — a foundational asset we continue to prioritise.

🟢 Legal and administrative expenses totalled roughly € 92,000, including accounting and the preparation of financial statements (€ 34,164), legal advice and counselling (€ 36,597 across project and general legal work), and insurances (€ 4,626).

🟢 Cost of fundraising Receiving donations is not free. In 2025, payment-processing and banking fees came to roughly € 98,000 — Stripe fees of € 46,446 and bank transfer and money-transfer fees of € 51,190. These are simply the cost of doing business: they scale with the volume of donations we receive. It is worth adding that these figures do not capture the full picture, because PayPal’s currency-conversion costs are embedded in the transactions and not separately visible — though they are comparable in scale to the Stripe fees. We report this plainly so that no reader underestimates what it costs to collect the donations that fund our work.

Results and transparence

After expenses, we closed the year with a result of € 554,476, asset management contributed €21,263, and the commercial business operations returned a profit of € 142,916.

Our accounting is handled by a professional accountant, and our complete ledgers, listing all income and spending broken down by project, are published on our public wiki

To everyone who contributed time, skills, resources and money in 2025: thank you. The foundation’s strength is your achievement.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/13/financials-and-budget-tdf-annual-report-2025/

Hello everyone.

I'm developing an open-source visual novel engine. And I'm struggling to choose between the two licenses: MIT and BSD 3-Clause. I wasn't much about licenses until this moment, so I have to ask someone else. Which one should I pick and why, if someone knows?

Thank you in advance.

Does anyone here actually support Google's Developer Verification?

I don’t. I’ve put a warning about it in my repo because I’m against policies like sideloading restrictions, forced ID verification.

Curious what other devs here think. Is Play Store still worth the hassle?

Hi everyone,

I’m happy to share that Portabase now supports backup and restore for Docker volume!

Portabase is an open-source, self-hosted backup and restore platform, currently supporting 9 databases including PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, and more.

We’re now expanding it to cover Docker volumes too, because many self-hosted apps do not store critical data only in databases.

Typical use cases include WordPress uploads, Nextcloud user files, media libraries, app configuration data, and more generally any self-hosted service where critical data lives in Docker volumes.

The goal is still the same: make backup and restore simple, reliable, and easy to operate. Portabase uses a central server with lightweight agents running close to your workloads.

If you find bugs, please open an issue on GitHub, we’re actively looking for feedback.

Thanks!

URL for the crowdfunding: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

Specs:

• Display: 4.26" e-paper touchscreen, 480 × 800 px, warm + cool frontlight
• Processor: ESP32-S3 dual-core, Wi-Fi + Bluetooth LE
• Memory: 16 MB flash, 8 MB PSRAM
• Formats: EPUB and plain text, no DRM
• Storage: microSD card slot
• Interface: USB-C with integrated LiPo charging
• Dimension: 78 × 120 × 10 mm, about 85 g
• Open source: MIT-licensed firmware, open hardware (to be released at shipping)

It also has a replaceable 800 mAh battery, I found it cool :)

I'm trying to help out one of many collectives stuck on Crabgrass (https://we.riseup.net/), but most tools I can see don't really seem like a much better option. If not that the software is really ageing and is very much not adjusted to mobiles - it would still serve pretty well.

In this case it's some 40 users, with mostly very little computer skill and old hardware and many years of notes and documentation to be moved. Some of it could be public or semi public (think volunteers), some is for the collective eyes only or an even smaller internal group.

Nextcloud with the Collectives plugin would be the most obvious choice... But from what I understand/tested there's no way to stop anyone with access to the notes from ie. downloading or deleting them all. I'd expect that to at least be impossible by mistake, and preferably somewhat more complicated to do for anyone.

Most other tools I've seen are either crypto-, esoteric language based maintenance nightmares which will be a overkill, or a pure wiki, which tends to be confusing for non-tech's or a niche French software for associations.

I'm interested in what would be a actually 'battle tested' software for internal use and how if fares against an old drunk punkrocker or in another extreme a deliberate sabotage attempt.