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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • It’s funny how Snapchat was huge in Europe like a decade ago, this was before it even introduced chat feature or stories, it was only disappearing photos, then it died, then 3 or 5 years ago Americans picked it up as the foremost alternative to SMS/iMessage, and at the moment the European Gen-Z is getting into Snapchat again, or so I believe judging by the sample of 2 (two) cousins I have











  • PC:

    1. Libreoffice – the best, most customisable and powerful office software available
    2. Onlyoffice – alternative for less-advanced users who are used to the UI of contemporary MSO
    3. Zotero – great bibliography manager useful when writing scientific papers: lets you collect books, journal articles and all other types of sources, automatically finds full text PDFs online, fills in metadata and then inserts dynamic citations in thousands of different, customisable styles. Also generates bibliographies. Works with LO, MSO and GDocs
    4. Caprine – clean Facebook Messenger client (web wrapper based)
    5. TeXStudio – my LATeX editor of choice; integral (ha!) when formatting maths-heavy documents

    Android:

    1. Cloudstream — free streaming app, works with SFlix, Sodastream, PH and other legally dubious streaming providers. Takes some trickery to set up though.
    2. Osmand — OpenStreetMap client with offline (optional online) navigation and plenty of plugins; loads of customisation
    3. Material Files — nicest file manager, especially for rooted devices
    4. Showly — freemium open-source TV and film tracker. Syncs with Trakt.tv
    5. Simple Gallery — out of all Simple Apps by this developer, this is the only one which is in fact superior to its alternatives. Highly customisable, powerful, lightweight gallery app