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Since most people have smartphones, and, at least in Europe, most of those devices are running Android, here’s my list, that allows me to me a tiny bit freer from Google- I also use some extra privacy settings, have a switch to turn off sensors/camera/mic, turned off bluetooth scanning, limited wifi search and turned off Playstore :

*Browser – Bromite ( it’s open source, ad free, available from https://github.com/bromite/bromite/releases ), Firefox with privacy addons (it’s open source, ad free, available from Google Playstore)
*Calendar – etar (it’s open source, ad free, available from Google Playstore)
*Camera – Open camera (it’s open source, ad free, available from Google Playstore)
*Ebook reader- Aireader ( completely ad free, provides TTS functionality out-of-the-box https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neverland.alreader&hl=en_US&gl=US), FBreader ( available in Google Playstore, has an instalable tts plug-in), Bookreader (open source fork of FBReader, available from https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.bookreader/ ); Cool Reader (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.coolreader/ ) [yeah, I read a lot…. 🙂 ]
*E-mail – K-9 Mail (it’s open source, ad free, available from https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/releases )
*File Manager – X-plore (not open source but extremely feature rich, despite the free version having some features that are locked), “Material Files” (from Hai Zhang) – not as feature rich as the free version of X-plore, but great- it lacks integration with cloud drives, if that’s important for you, but allows sharing files via ftp server (it’s open source, ad free, available from Google Playstore)
*Gallery- There’s really no need for third party galleries, but, if you really want a nice alternative: Focus Go ( ad free, on Google Playstore)
*Office Suite – Collabora Office (it’s android’s LibreOffice port, largely compatible with MS Office formats, like .docx, etc, ad free, available from Google Playstore – ideal for viewing all kinds of documents, not so much for editing, at least not at the current time, unless you are in a pinch), Microsoft Office apps (free version, available from Google Playstore, require a free Microsoft account to activate, but can be used off-line, great for both viewing AND editing documents)
*Podcasts – AntennaPod (it’s open source, ad free, available from Google Playstore)
*Pdf reader – Adobe Reader (has a free version on Google Playstore – if it detects an Internet Connection, it makes you log on…), Xodo pdf reader (light, also allows to fill pdf forms, add/remove/reorder pages, create pdf files from scratch/pictures/files, has cloud connectivity, ad free, available on Google Playstore), Gaaiho pdf reader (very light pdf reader with annotation capabilities – has text re-flow but does not seem to always work-, ad free, on Google Playstore)
*Media player – VLC (it’s open source, ad free, available from Google Playstore)
*News/Rss Reader- Feedr – even allows you to download news and then you can read them off-line (ad free, available from Google Playstore)
*Scanner application – you can use your android device as a high quality and extremely fast scanner, that generates pdf files – there are many great apps that do this, “Mobile Doc Scanner” is, for me, the best one, but it’s not free. Strangly enough the best Free, and ad free scanner, for me, is Microsoft’s “Office Lens” (both apps are available from Google Playstore)
*Notes – Joplin (it’s open source, ad free, available from Google Playstore)
*Youtube – Newpipe (it’s open source, ad free, available fromhttps://newpipe.net/#download) -it’s fast, ad free and allows you to download videos/audio/substitles, what else do you need?

EXTRA:
*NetGuard – a free application that acts as a firewall – filtering, per application. access to Wi-fi and/or Mobile Internet – a great application that allows using applications that have intrusive adds (I know adds are the away developers make money, but, sometimes they overkill on adds- for those cases, I black list them on NetGuard, all the rest… hey, devs deserve to be paid for their work, right? Give them a break, pay by watching a reasonable ammount of Publicity)
*GPS navigation – use alternative apps, available in your country (in Portugal we have “Meo drive”, a free, ad-supported, GPS map that works off line)
*Application Store- f-droid.org
*Light Casual games – Patience Revisited (available from Google Playstore)

TIP: Use “web apps” instead of installing applications: for example- I have a Bromite icon to access 9gag, I do not need to install the 9gag app to view their content, same for MS Outlook, some news apps, etc…

You can use opensource alternative applications apps here:
https://www.simplemobiletools.com/

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[Member marcelocripe]

Hello @ ecalderontanti07

Welcome to antiX Linux and the forum.

I do not know how to write in the English language, I will send a text translated by the English language internet translator.

As our languages ​​have some similarity, prefer to translate from Portuguese to Spanish.

You said you had LibreOffice already installed, I assume you are using “antiX full 19.3 64 bits”.

I will try to help you …

Try the following steps:

1-Update antiX, Menu, antiX, antiX Updater, if you ask for your password, type and press Enter.

2-After the update, Menu, System, Package Installer or Instalador de Paquetes.

3-In the search type LibreOffice, find and mark the full version LibreOffice Latest, also select the language “Español_LO” … followed by your Office version (ex: “Español_LO_full”).

4-Find other translation options for other programs that you want to install, check all that you want, note that as soon as you mark an item, the “Install” button will be available to receive the left click.

@PPC was kind enough to create a tutorial in Portuguese that is much better detailed than I can do at this moment, with the help of the internet translator or a browser that has the built-in translator (Chromium or Google Chrome) it will be more easy for you to translate the tutorial. Both browsers that I mentioned can be installed easily using this antiX package manager program.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/usar-o-navegador-de-internet-firefox-esr-e-o-libreoffice-em-portugues/

I hope this can help you.

If you are able to install, please let us know.

When you start a topic or participate with a post on a topic, remember to check the option “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese)

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Olá @ecalderontanti07

Seja bem-vindo ao antiX Linux e ao fórum.

Eu não sei escrever em idioma Inglês, enviarei um texto traduzido pelo tradutor da internet em idioma Inglês.

Como o nossos idiomas possuem alguma similaridade, prefira traduzir do idioma Português para o Espanhol.

Você disse que tinha o LibreOffice já instalado, eu presumo que você esteja utilizando o “antiX full 19.3 64 bits”.

Eu vou tentar te ajudar …

Tente os seguintes passos:

1-Atualizar o antiX, Menu, antiX, Atualizador do antiX, se solicitar a sua senha, digite e pressione Enter.

2-Após a atualização, Menu, Sistema, Instalador de Pacotes ou Instalador de Paquetes.

3-Na busca digite LibreOffice, localize e marque a versão full LibreOffice Latest, selecione também o idioma “Español_LO”… seguido da versão do seu Office (ex:”Español_LO_full”).

4-Localize outras opções de traduções para outros programas que você queira instalar, marque todas que você desejar, observe que assim que você marcar um item, o botão “Instalar” estará disponível para receber o clique com o botão esquerdo.

O @PPC fez a gentileza de criar um tutorial em idioma Português que está muito melhor detalhado do que eu consigo fazer neste momento, com o auxílio do tradutor da internet ou de um navegador que possua o tradutor embutido (Chromium ou Google Chrome) será mais fácil para você traduzir o tutorial. Ambos os navegadores que eu citei podem ser instalados facilmente por meio deste programa gerenciador de pacotes do antiX.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/usar-o-navegador-de-internet-firefox-esr-e-o-libreoffice-em-portugues/

Eu espero que isso possa te ajudar.

Se você conseguir instalar, por favor nos avise.

Quando você inciar algum tópico ou participar com alguma postagem em um tópico, lembre-se de marcar a opção “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em idioma português do Brasil)

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Just wondering.
If the windows wireless drivers can bypass this snafu for when you get a desktop with no freezes and no wlan0 recognition .
That is my poke and hope suggestion. I am surprised you get freezes and no desktop with newer kernels using vesa driver with any iso Xll folder.

https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/rtl8723bs-software

Might have to use xp, vista, or Windows 7 driver number .inf file to experiment personally. There is mentioning that ndiswrapper only works on windows xp .inf files.
But I always like to check for myself first.

I got lucky on one install.

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=50525

Hmmmm, Wondering how flaky this is
https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs
Since archived as read only.

The net shows some fixes on tablets with this wifi chip using that github link that now seems abandoned.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1183902#p1183902

Below is above my talent/skillset 🙁
https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/RTL8723BS.html

Tiny core Linux? Wow.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,23214.0.html?PHPSESSID=509f15e7b7392939d085d5511d2f4458

Dmesg section in that thread might be helpful. Those tiny core uploads of kernels in that thread might be hopeful also.

My wireless N usb dish network antenna outside of my shop exposed to the weather in a waterproof setup is years old now. Seems your chip is only 18 months before it quits. That is also mentioned in the last post of that tiny core thread.

So. If me. I’d turn off that internal wireless/blutooth off in bios. Use a external usb wifi supported by the kernel presently. But , I have extra wireless g stuff.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-WiFi-Wireless-Adapter-Mini-Network-Dongle-150Mbps-802-11n-Linux-Windows-J1P1/174381267421?hash=item2899eef9dd:g:loYAAOSwQrNfKz8Q
Ships worldwide and is cheapo. Less than a pack of cigarettes.

Or grab one from another source. Good Luck. I spend sometimes a week or 2 figuring stuff like this out for myself.
My looking link

Plus I always check rfkill list and bios to make sure wireless card is turned on/enabled.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
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[Member Xecure]

Just installed it on my antiX 19.3 base system, and apulse firefox doesn’t spit any error here, so it is probably some special dependencies you are missing.
On my system, all alsa related packages I have installed:
alsa-tools
alsa-utils
alsamixer-equalizer-antix
apulse
gstreamer1.0-alsa (I think this one is not needed)
libsox-fmt-alsa (don’t know who’s dependency this belongs to)

You will have to experiment or follow the error messages on a google search to find the exact culprit.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member ModdIt]

@ PPC, Thanks for jumping in.
I had to get out of isolation room for a few hours,

just starting firefox with prefix apulse from console then opening anton gave me sound.
So many sound howto, in the forum, and often same problem for users, maybe you could put your
highly detailed howto for run in browser applications on the wiki..
Same method works for Tor, Ungoogled Chromium Firefox latest and others.

An artikel could be expanded as and when questions roll in.

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[Member PPC]

There seems to be a bit of confusion here, from what I gather from the Original Post:

https://anton.app/ seems to be a web service, running from inside a web browser… If that is so, you can starting it using sound, running the default antix browser firefox-est (like, for example, with the command “firefox-esr https://anton.app ”

If you installed “firefox” itself, by default firefox does not provide sound in antiX, because it uses pulse audio, and antiX does not- this means that you have to force firefox “to think” it’s running with pulse audio- there’s an application for that, called “apulse”, you have to run the app that needs pulse audio from inside it, that’s why it is a “prefix” to the command that runs the app:
for example:
the command “firefox https://anton.app” – does not provide sound output in antiX (if you have not installed and configured pulse audio beforehand), but
the command “apulse firefox https://anton.app” does provide sound…

Please note that chromium and chromium derive browsers, like Google Chrome, Brave, Microsoft Edge, etc, do not require pulse audio do provide sound output- you can start them and have sound out of the box, in any web page…

If you really want to have that website running from inside firefox (and not firefox-esr or Chrome, etc), you can create a .desktop file for it, and have it come up on your menu (or put it in your toolbar/desktop) for easy access-

sudo geany /usr/share/applications/anton.desktop
[enter your password, if asked to]

paste this contents to the file and save it

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=anto.app
Exec=apulse firefox https://anton.app/de/
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Icon=/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/48x48/status/avatar-default.png
Type=Application
Categories=Office;
MimeType=application/pdf;application/rdf+xml;application/rss+xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xhtml_xml;application/xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;image/webp;text/html;text/xml;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;

then update the menu with the command:

sudo desktop-menu --write-out-global

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[Member ModdIt]

First apologys to robin.

was very much off track on 32 bit, only waterfox offers that in my useless for you post.

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Firefox for android, about config was removed in stable. Stayed in nightly but telemetry on compiled in so a
no go area for me.

Mozilla announced a move to userchrome CSS in a company conference and it was repeated in insiders.
The shitstorm was massive on places like G Hacks site so maybe about:config will stay. Fact is nobody knows.
Mozilla makes changes with total disregard to users, often without warning. That affects LTS much less than the latest
with monthly release schedule. Often rapid bug fix releases in between too.
In 83 The option is still accesible,user chrome css still working. policys are stated not on the chopping block as
intended for managed provisioning.

Show about config may well remain a compile option, for sure that and the usage of userjs is disturbing some of mozillas
plans. You can only really turn off telemetry in the config for example. The normal setup tick box is insufficient.
All searches go to google, in a standard setup through cloudflare.

I use vivaldi on computer 64 Bit for access to some PSA vehicle manuals. Seems pretty good.
A 32 bit deb is also available.

Mostly badwolf, for more comfort palemoon, for some sites ungoogled chromium. Two sites Firefox, only edge safari and fox work.
To foil ad blocker blocks and Geoblocking for some magazines and news I use Tor Browser.

I have pretty efficient ad blocking, that has a marked effect on memory usage for all browsers. Firefox is returned as far as possible
to being just a browser. Not a reccomendations (advertising) machine. That needed a lot of changes in user.js on top of the now
Thorin Oakenpants template from Git Hub. A user chrome css to get rid of the awesome bar, I dislike it intensly. And a policys to
mitigate some other wonderful features. I just want a browser to browse, nothing more and fox is moving ever further away from that.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Using Firefox 83.0 (64-bit) in the Distro: MX-19.3_x64 patito feo, Firefox is using 3262M of Virtual Memory, 428M of Resident Memory and 217M of Shared Memory according to the output of htop. Palemoon was slightly less, but pretty close to these numbers. Firefox 83.0 appears to be following the recent methods used by Chromium, Chrome, and other browsers from that family in the sense that they all tend to grab a lot of memory, if available, to put as much content into memory as possible for speed; I suspect they’ll release memory sooner, and possibly not use as much if it’s not available, but then response time performance suffers.

I recall, about a decade and a half when both Google and the Chrome browser were much newer and simpler that they had a very simple interface, so their initial invocation, both the search engine and the browser, were quite fast for their time. They’ve since added a LOT of features, and they are still pretty fast, but only if you happen to have enough memory to keep the cache, images, etc, in memory; Firefox and the majority of the mainstream browsers have done the same thing.

As of Firefox 83.0, about:config remains available. I will check Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly; I have both available, so I can see if these features are still available.

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[Member ModdIt]

Perhaps a good time to remind that the famiar about:config may be removed from firefox, Mozilla does not wish
for users to thwart its monetizing changes. It may or may not be possible to change behaviour by using a custom
chrome CSS entry. Possibly only an Enterprise policy on a special version of the fox.

Robin mentioned old bugs not fixed by Mozilla. Marked Not fixed, Will not fix is common, can stand next ot bug
posts for years, ask why a couple of times you will be banned as has happened to many users.

Take a look in a freshly downloaded latest firefox bundle, in mine experiments, Remote Debugging, an APPLE VPN
were all enabled. You will find a lot of “Interesting development ongoing, er user Improvements” All are about
monitising. Mozilla gets money from Google, Cloudflare, Apple and I do not know where for providing data diversions
allowing those companys to improve profiles and make even more money with your data.

Take a week off, you will need it to read mozilla privacy policy. For Badwilf less than five minutes even if your
english is not so good. For Palemoon maximum 15 Minutes, as a slow reader.

On android Firefox has about:config functionality removed, you can not turn off telemetry in any version which comes
directly from Mozilla.

STILL ON ANDROID
Fennec from F Droid, Privacy Browser, Bromite, Duck Duck Go Browser, on the last one my gut feeling is very mixed.
I took it off my Google Free Phone.
Fennec still has accesible about:config, if you want privacy you will need it, default settings can be improved.
beacons, disable, geolocation, disable plenty more in there.

Net Guard uses a virtual VPN and gives an additional layer of control.

But GPS is on even if set to Off, see NSA advisory, if your back end chip is from US company it can and probably
does have a lot of special functionality.

I have a non google honor 9x pro, an Xiaomi phone with google still tries to call to 83 sites.
The Honor found to date total 7.

I am convinced the Huawei Ban came about because that company refused to install backdoors in their products.

[Member ModdIt]

Hallo Robin, thanks for posting.
The users with older machines are generaly advised to use a lighter browser than firefox.
One good choice, Palemoon is lighter, faster and is not misinforming about appropriating user data.

Even on a fast machine I find firefox uninspiring in as delivered form, after cutting out the
“user experience Improvements” it is way more responsive also is not sending my data to mothership.
Google, Apple and others any longer. And has no noticeable lag on even on my oldest eepc.

Yes you have a switch in settings, does it completely turn off telemetry new tab ping etc – NO.

Badwolf is another browser growing in popularity, pretty spartan though.
I also recommend ungoogled chromium. Latter does tend to hold available memory more than palemoon
but not bog down my computer.
Nearly forgot: Waterfox is also often used on older machines.

I have no influence on config for firefox as delivered, others may comment on that.

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[Member ModdIt]

Hi PPC, are you reading minds ?,
been discussing the subject with BobC using PM to discuss what might be best concept.

Needs are Add, Position, Remove. and application name shown on mouse hover.

Will take a look at your scripted setup once my very broken, runit test stick is fixed.
My fault, one too many experimental change.

perfection would include adding starter for self contained applications like ungoogled
chromium, Firefox, Tor dropped in a home directory but that is easy enough for
anyone more advanced so likely better not to bother.

You wrote: The downside is that, for this feature to work, a small script that searches for .desktop files,
opens them and extracts the localized name is tun on the app’s startup. On my single core test CPU, this takes almost 3 seconds…

Compared to adding even a single application with present tools that seems a small wait. @ present if position or grouping is
wished for it means either pre planning or moving items in text files. Pre planning is far from ideal as wishes change with time
and usage, removing applications back to text files. Many new users have never heard of hidden files, that is fun.

[Member PPC]

This got me curious and I tried my old tabled (SM-T230)- it, in fact, does not display any “hotspot or tethering option”.
My tablet, despite being some 5 or 6 years old remains stuck on android 4.4.1 – and I had to perform root to disable to android lock that did not let me directly save files to the sd card (and then I removed the unroot)- this old machine fits my “if it still works, keep it” mentality – it’s an almost perfect machine to read my pdf documents.
I use it to run adobe pdf reader, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Firefox (and, gasp, Google chrome), VLC media player, Kindle and a nice file manager that even mounts cloud drives. I also can access my HP printer from this device and print/scan from it… I installed a web conference software I may need to use (but still haven’t tested), I have some open source games (like solitaire, tetris, sudoku, etc) and some games I acquired on promotions and do not run on my android 10 phone…
It still acts like a tiny laptop, with basically everything I need to use on the move (with the sad exception of Collabora Office- android’s LibreOffice port, that does not install on this old device- other than that, it has everything – except a physical keyboard- it lacks OTG support, that was present on older Tab devices).

P.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Next time you get undefined video mode. Go make some tea or something.

I used to get that message during testing distro. I would walk away and my 1024 x 600 display would finish boot process and and my desktop would come up.

I tried video modes like you did when you got that message. It did not work for me either.

Along with inxi report asked for.

rfkill list

As far as firefox not loading. Google old gear running modern browsers. If firefox does open . It will run like it is under water. Slow and with problems.
Kinda hard to climb pikes peak with a skate board.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

After finding mozillas dirty tricks department had brought in yet more serious challenges to keeping firefox in check,
I decided to give ungoogled chromium a trial.

First Impression: Minimalist, customizable and very fast, both start and loading webpages.

Unfortunately no 32 Bit version is available for Linux.
I am using the 64 Bit standalone version, it offers several advantages for the future, largest of which is portability.
I set up following the instructions on avoidthehack website links below, including adding some extensions.
The cited addon method to install extensions failed repeatedly with errors.
I thus followed the no google login method, searching and initiating the download with Tor Browser.

The browser comes without search engine enabled, included are Ecosia, DuckDuckGo and Searx. All are considered privacy respecting. Adding a default search engine metagerger was very easy.

Following advice from skidoo, to reduce remote attack vectors the binary was renamed with a generated version. I put a starter in the personal menu and on the toolbar. The included icon was copied from the bundle to /usr/share/icons so it could easily be selected in the menu tool from control center.

I am not qualified to make a meaningful assessment on the security of this browser, web rtc and java script are now set to off (personal setting). Up to date the browser has not crashed to relaunch headless. Something which is a menace in group experience with firefox and derivatives including tor. Reason for renaming the binary, not just for this browser!.

Moving the browser bundle to another machine: copy the bundle, carry over the config after first browser start. The config files are located in /home/username/.config/chromium.

https://avoidthehack.com/how-to-install-configure-ungoogled-chromium

https://avoidthehack.com/manually-install-extensions-ungoogled-chromium

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[Member kouroukinos77]

back on my fresh install, firefox esr and chromium said me for google trad :

You are seeing this message because ad or script blocking software is interfering with this page.
Disable any ad or script blocking software, then reload this page.

so two different browser; and I don’t have anti popup or anti ads, and I can’t consult the website: where he come from this bug ?

Does I need to install an another web browser ? Oh yeah, of course I want to try a lot of browser. Maybe Bad ISP or DNS ? Is it government censor internet ? Or ?

$ uname -r
4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp
Mon retour de inxi -Fxz : https://pastebin.com/kqRMrRZZ
my xmpp : weerbor@jabber.fr