Using Vowifi to save some juice on android.

I always wanted to cast android to my linux machine. It is especially useful in situations like watching the videos that is already on my phone in a bigger screen without really copying them over or syncing them using tools like syncthing. Oh too much to worry about. I wanted something simpler. Here is a neat tool that lets you do that the same without hassle of connecting over the network (btw you can do that too).

I switched to an open source keyboard for more than an year now, rocking the trusty old ‘Openboard valencia’. I don’t want bigger corporations to peek on what I write (Here is a short post on that). It was pretty good but lacked a lot of features that modern keyboards provide. In a new hunt for a better alternative, I stumbled upon this fork of Openboard that is still being updated.

For the past year or so, I have been trying to find open-source alternatives to the apps that I use on daily basis. Especially trying to replace the ones that need gazillions of permission even before installing, nowadays even a photo editor needs a microphone and GPS access (;¬_¬) In fact, apps know too much about you, for instance, most of the keyboard apps that you use commonly are loaded with spyware to track words that you type.