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A quick post tonight, as it has been a long and tiring workday. I didn't even find time to sort through the new records that arrive in the mail!

Though I'm generally keen on using as much FOSS as possible I'm pragmatic, so I my phone is an iPhone 6. Rightly or wrongly I trust Apple with privacy & security a little bit more than Google and the mess of Android vendor updates. I do need to use some commercial apps for work and kid/school related things, so going all in on a Google free Android device isn't an option at the moment.

While the Apple / iOS ecosystem is a walled garden, and doesn't have an equivalent of F-Droid, there are some open-source apps out there. Here are a few I use:

Password Manager -

I switched from the closed lastpass to the open-source Bitwarden a
while ago now. I don't run my own server yet, but it's nice to know
that I could.

RSS

reader - I'd been using Reeder on iOS for some time before I
switched to NetNewsWire. No complaints since switching. I use it
more and more as I try to stay follow more blogs and things,
avoiding big news websites.

File sync - I always

seem to end up back with a Nextcloud install somewhere. Despite
getting frustrated with it frequently it is the best way to sync my
photos to somewhere that isn't iCloud photos.

Video chat -

I've recently tried replacing Skype with Nextcloud Talk for video
calls with family. So far so good!

Weather app - This is a

simple, and not very flash weather app. It's basically an interface
to the data, radar and other imagery the US National Weather Service
otherwise offers at

.

If you are interested in having a look at what's out there, then

this list on GitHub

is a good place to start. Note, though, that much of the stuff there is not in the app store.

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