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Thanks for reading all of this, even if you didn't read all of this, and your eye started somewhere else, have a watermelon slice ๐.
There's a nifty simple FOSS app called SOS Flashlight, that translates your text into Morse Code, to be flashed via flashlight, the screen, and/or emitted as beeps.
It would be neat if it could actually detect and decode the flashing codes from another device though.
I currently have the SOS Flashlight app set to emit Morse Code for this message from our sponsors...
"We have been trying to reach you regarding your vehicle's extended warranty."
A working gnu/linux
It would be sooo nice.
Hook up 2-3 screens, a keyboard and mouse and install Linux.
Well if you have various phone models that support display over the USB port, then you can plug the phone into a PC dock and you will get the screens, keyboard and mouse working. If you need a Linux terminal you can setup Termux.
Samsung's flagship have DEX mode when you dock and you get a full Desktop experience, many versions back it was a Linux environment... Now its a more closed android desktop, but still great for travelling light and connecting for work stuff when at hotel or office has workspaces.
I know ๐ but my Xiaomi doesn't really do that out of the box...
Next phone will though, or I'll stay on an old one til there is one (fairphone or other with graphene os I guess).
IDE. I don't want to write code on my phone, but it's useful to be able to do so on occasion.
This may exist, but looking for one all I find are IDEs for developing for Android.
For iOS?
Android
Something like google assistant phone control, but local, open source, compatible with most fdroid apps. Dicio isn't there yet.
Also something that uses google/apple car screen connection without the google /apple part.
Something that would let me actually control when I receive notifications
Can you give an example?
I haven't found a really good audiobook player like the Voice app that is NOT on a phone. Its very simple to use. I tried on one of the ebook readers and it didnt work very well. Freezing up and the interface is horrible, at least on the kobo. Great ebook reader, but not so good at audiobooks.
Wait, are you talking about audiobook players/managers, or text-to-speech aloud readers?
audiobook players/managers
I didnt really think of text to speech to be honest. espeak is probably good enough there haha.
Speech Central is best for that
Are you on iOS or Android? Where are yoour audiobooks from?
soundbooththeater, audible, librevox, etc...
Theres scripts that let you pull your audio books into files. Then run on any device. It works really well.
I believe in paying the authors/voice actors for their work. But I want to have the files. Incase they enshitify their platform. Which has happened in the past for a lot of apps like these.
I mean, what I have is kinda permanent but it's not perfect.
I want an app that will let me remote control my phone while in VR, without having to let the app on the phone that needs to run having access to shit it does not need at all. I've only found one app to remote into the phone and it wants permission types I've never even seen any other app ask for, and giving it that permission breaks a bunch of other apps.
I thought there would be a built in solution for this, maybe in the dev tools for Android, but those don't let you remote into the phone like Remote Desktop for PC; it just lets you send command line commands to it from a terminal.
If you run Linux then there is KDEconnect phone app, you have permissions and access stuff on phone end and PC end. I.e. I can SMS from my desktop, or use they keyboard input for phone, access phone folders, copy clipboard between them etc.
There is a Windows app but I find it really poor and broken, compared to the Linux app.
