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Recommend DeArrow extension to drastically reduce YouTube clickbait. PeerTube of course is preferable to YouTube but DeArrow makes YouTube tolerable

I settled on Kopia myself but I always seem to see the others mentioned

Oldie but Goldie & the saddest song I’ve ever heard: Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)

Saw a red squirrel on Isle of Wight. Was lucky not to hit the blighter when it ran across the road in front of us. Hopefully the little fellas thrive with this initiative.

Ive used OsmAnd+ for years & I still find it confusing to find specific settings! Thankfully OsmAnd settings can be backed up & exported/imported.

That said, several times in new cities in both in my home country & abroad late in the day, it’s found us places to eat, toilets, late night supermarkets etc etc. I was grateful to the mappers & I vowed to do the same in my home city suburb to help any fellow visitors who find themselves here. I kept my word & mapped it extensively though I’ll not reveal where.

Several months ago we visited a European capital for a city break, the public transit navigation in OsmAnd was fantastic. The offline wiki articles are amazing when visiting new places.

Top tip: utilise the “Quick Action” shortcut button. Add fuel, parking, parking location, wiki & “show nearest POI”. You can toggle them on/off in an instant when needed

These days only when they break. Had a used Note 20 Ultra for 3 years. Brilliant phone but the screen broke. After watching the Fold range & thinking we’d been beamed into the future I finally took the plunge & got a used Fold (a 6 for the S Pen).

What I would say is some apps that were broken on the Note work fine on newer Android version (for me, YouTube on Firefox used to kaput after exactly 60 seconds).

Fully intend keeping this bad boy until Android finally shits itself with the whole sideload debacle & all the general war on privacy/FOSS. Hopefully Linux phone will become a viable alternative

I too use Keepass2android offline, never had a sync issue though recently I inexplicably encountered an issue where the keyfile couldnt be found or had become corrupted on mobile. This may have been a phone thing rather than a Keypass thing as I never had such issue in many years of use. Luckily I had the forethought to keep an encrypted backup so I was back up & running quickly.

If I remember Keepass allows pdf attachments without restriction which is excellent for vehicle insurance, breakdown cover etc as its good to have these available offline anytime “just in case”. I think this feature is restricted in Bitwarden (though maybe not Vaultwarden).

I once bought our son a transparent practice lock picking set. Great fun. Not the cheapest but he has since been able to repay me many times over from the proceeds of various jewellers shop robberies & bank heists

Best 3D movie that wasnt Avatar? Dredd was awesome in 3D.

Most of my family said the active glasses induced headaches.