What to do with a new android phone

Any software recommendations and stuff? I mainly want to use it for streaming videos and playing ps2 emulator, not so much emulating but just to try it out. Anti virus stuff, things in this realm- been using banana phone for years haven’t had android since high school.

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KeepassDX for secure password management without any cloud stuff.

Newpipe for youtube.

Firefox for web browsing because of extensions like Ublock Origin being available.
- Great recommendation. Keepass can do a lot more than password management, you can store documents and contact information etcetera, plus their little gadget keyboard is far more precise than autofill.
  
  Firefox default by itself is basically Chrome these days with the amount of Google crap in it, but at least you can use good addons.
  
  Also get Seal on Fdroid yt-dl is way versatile outside of youtube. Has sponsorblock in it. Phenomenal.
No one uses an antivirus on their phone.

Check out stremio. It's great for pirating movies and tv show. If you're in the US. I'd invest in real debrid($3 a month) which converts torrents to regular links so it doesn't look like you're torrenting to your ISP

Jerboa is my favorite lemmy app

Trunks is my favorite mastodon app
- I second the stremio + realdebrid recommendation, but with the caveat that it's pretty bad for the torrent network, since it doesn't seed... I use it, but I make sure to seed everything I download like crazy on my PC's torrent client
  
  This really kind of annoys me too, I also use realdebrid, I just wish they would add anything that gets requested and used to a pool that then gets permanently seeded. This would stop me from feeling so much like a hit and run scumbag but also preserve the media in another way for future downloads.
  
  Oh I didn't know that. Thank you for letting me know
- https://divestos.org/fdroid/official/Hypatia-3.12-312-1.apk is an option. But yea a bit overkill, still it does not take much to run
cell phones can emulate the ps2 now?

fuck i'm old and the future is now
Cybersex
- Android goon room
youtube vanced, firefox with ublock, i like to go in the developer settings and turn off the window animations making the phone feel a bit faster. also personally recommend niagara launcher.
- Wait, is Vanced back online? I recall it having been abandoned by the developers, just like NewPipe
  
  kinda, should have specified it's revanced which works just the same, just a bit more of a pain to install cause you gotta get a specific version of the youtube app and then use their patcher. worth it though!
  
  https://revanced.app/
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/13rqbiy/revanced_links_guides_help_and_faqs/
Check out this list of FOSS software recommendations I made! https://hexbear.net/post/3091110
- What is foss
  
  Free and open source software
GrapheneOS or CalyxOS or LineageOS if your device is supported by any of these
Adblock by DNS or VPN, GOS, Calyx , or other Decent rom. Neo store for apps, gapps on separate profile, none on main. Keepassdx, syncthing, newpipe, email with k9, tutanota or proton. Shattered pixel dungeon 😃
I use the Connect lemmy app and an app icon changer to have a hexbear app

Instander 3rd party Instagram app, no adds and you can watch things without showing you viewed them
F-Droid or Obtainium for applications. Decouple and log out from the Play Store, if you need a proprietary app there's proxying through the Aurora Store.

For PS2 emulation, theres the NetherSX2/GrindrSX2 community that picked up where the AetherSX2 left off. For streaming it'll depend on what service you're using. F-Droid has alot of Youtube Frontends.
call me bby

I like adguard, it's not on the play store of course but it's easy enough to install and it makes a world of difference (uses a fair bit of battery sometimes though)

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