sonalder's Open & Private Slopware

Darlene Sonalder4 appsUpdated Nov 10, 2026

With the new capabilities of LLM models I started to fill the hole in some specific niche needs I have with a privacy manifesto attached to it and sharing the result on GitHub under Free and Open Source License.

Some calls this AI Slop, but to me these apps are less slop than the human or corpo slop I was using before

dd-Etcher
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A minimal image flasher for macOS (and soon Linux). Think Balena Etcher, but without the telemetry, the bloat, or the bundled Chromium. It wraps the reliable dd(1) shell tool directly under the hood.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Bootable USB Creator
Platforms
Mac
Darlene Sonalder’s note
A WiP image flasher for macOS written in Rust and using dd under the hood. Goal is to bring BalenaEtcher simplicity and straightforward UX without the telemetry and all.

It is not capable of creating Windows or mac bootable USB. Although Windows is WiP with privacy tweaks similar to Rufus.
Sofa TV Browser
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Sofa is a Free and Open Source private web browser for Android TV and Google TV, built to be used with a remote. No ads, no accounts, no tracking.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Web Browser
Platforms
Android TV
Fire TV
Google TV
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Darlene Sonalder’s note
A privacy focused web browser for Android TV, Google TV or Fire TV to be experienced with a remote on from the couch.

No ads, lightweight, no telemetry, System WebView based and customizable.
Libremote for Android TV
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A private phone remote for Android TV and Google TV. On the phone it is called Libremote.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Android
Darlene Sonalder’s note
A simple reimplementation of Google's Remote Android TV Services
Libremote Receiver
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A small companion app for Android TV / Google TV that enable more features out of Libremote such as File Transfer.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Android TV
Google TV
Darlene Sonalder’s note
An optional companion app for the TV that extend the possibilities of Libremote.

Encrypted File Transfer

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