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Go to the settings on your android device. Then enable the developer options, enable USB debugging. Then set a tic to enable the settings

Here you can find the commands to back up your data

First, install these packages to manage everything more elegant

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb

Plugin your USB cable and accept the access

adb start-server

adb backup -apk -shared -all #or you can use also this command
adb backup -apk -shared -all -f mybackupfile.adb

To restore everything you can use this command

adb restore mybackupfile.adb

Enable USB debugging

https://net2.com/how-to-backup-and-restore-your-android-device-with-adb-on-ubuntu/

Some additional further reading in German, maybe for future articles in German? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.droidwiki.org/wiki/Android_Debug_Bridge

Bonus: https://tutswiki.com/access-internet-on-linux-using-android-tethering/

FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.

Please note that FreeTube is currently in Beta. While it should work well for most users, there are still bugs and missing features that need to be addressed.

This is the easiest way to get the latest version

https://flatpak.org/setup/Ubuntu/

flatpak install flathub io.freetubeapp.FreeTube

Enable flatpak support fot Ubuntu 20.04 based systems

sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

To update flatpak packages simply run this in the terminal

flatpak update

Flatseal for permission affirmation of flatpaks

flatpak install flatseal

Your personal research assistant

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

https://www.zotero.org/

flatpak install -y zotero

After the installation, you can log into it and then install better-bibtex and synchronize your research

flatpak install -y masterpdf

sudo apt install -y ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Latex Stuff

sudo apt install -y texlive texlive-font-utils texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-base texlive-formats-extra texlive-lang-german texlive-metapost texlive-publishers texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-latex-base texlive-metapost-doc texlive-publishers-doc texlive-binaries texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-science texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-extra texlive-science-doc texlive-fonts-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-pictures texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pictures-doc texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-humanities texlive-lang-english texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-humanities-doc texlive-luatex texlive-pstricks perl-tk

sudo apt install -y texstudio

Grab a cup of coffee, this will take a while :)

Git Stuff

sudo apt install -y git git-lfs
git-lfs install
flatpak install -y gitkraken

Unpaywall

Read research papers for free.

Click the green tab and skip the paywall on millions of peer-reviewed journal articles. It's fast, free, and legal…

https://unpaywall.org/products/extension

VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode

https://vscodium.com/

Easiest installation if you have flatpak and the flathub repo enabled

flatpak install flathub com.vscodium.codium 

Firefox is after setting the privacy settings correct a good and user-friendly software, but there are better alternatives. For example LibreWolf.

The easiest way IMHO is the flathub installation. First you have to enable the flathub and its repos

https://flatpak.org/setup/Ubuntu/

flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-community

flatpak run io.gitlab.librewolf-community

The easiest way is snap

sudo snap install ungoogled-chromium

Ungoogled Chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, Ungoogled Chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium. It also features tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency.

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/about/

Source: https://github.com/Joffreybvn/ungoogled-chromium-snapcraft

sudo apt -y  install k3b cdda2wav cdrecord mkisofs smake

Open K3b.

Then open the menu, go to settings > Configure K3b > Advanced. Don't forget to check the Advanced GUI!

Go to Programs tab in the settings windows and select cdrecord.

During burning, the project affirm that crdrecord and writing medium is selected.

sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image_name.iso status=progress && sync

or

sudo dd if=/dev/sr0 of=image_name.iso status=progress && sync

You can also use isoinfo to determine the block size, example

isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom

dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=1621535 of=filename.iso status=progress && sync

And no, you can't copy a Windows ISO like this. Well you can but it wouldn't boot. Just download it as an ISO

ISO use Linux instead of Windows :)

If you have installed libdvdcss2 you can also copy commercial DVDs with brasero which is a gray area, please check your laws.

Wikiless

wikiless.org

A free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

No JavaScript or ads. All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Wikipedia. Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address. Self-hostable. Anyone can setup a private or public instance.

XMR: 832ogRwuoSs2JGYg7wJTqshidK7dErgNdfpenQ9dzMghNXQTJRby1xGbqC3gW3GAifRM9E84J91VdMZRjoSJ32nkAZnaCEj

https://wikiless.org/

Source: https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless

Unfortunately, Wikimedia and their legal team had inquired Codeberg to strike the WikiLess project with a copyright claim, because Orenom, e.g., Monero, had just slightly altered their logo :(… Come on, man. Facepalm.

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101301 https://framagit.org/tom79/nitterizeme/-/issues/61

Hi, recently I started to perform small screencasts for Linux newbies. I needed a keystroke capturing program. After a swift DuckDuckGo search, I've stumbled upon Screenkey

https://snapcraft.io/screenkey

I've just installed it via snap

sudo snap install screenkey

And I was good to go. I noticed that the indicator seems to be missing. Probably, one has to kill the process via terminal to stop it. :(

I also did a little demo on a Windows 10 system, there I used this program.

https://github.com/bfritscher/carnac/releases/tag/v3-beta

The demo actually demonstrated how to create a Linux live USB stick in Windows to explore Linux :)

There is also keystrokes capturing tool for macOS which can come handy for a screencast KeyCastr

brew install --cask keycastr

https://github.com/keycastr/keycastr#keycastr