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A developer frustrated with Adobe's subscription pricing used AI tools to build their own alternatives to Adobe products, according to XDA. The project highlights growing frustration with subscription fees for creative software and the increasing ability of AI coding tools to let individuals create functional replacements for expensive professional applications.

XDA Developers published a walkthrough of setting up a Samsung Galaxy phone from scratch, listing the open-source apps the writer installs first. The piece highlights free, privacy-friendly alternatives to mainstream apps for anyone starting fresh with an Android device. Readers are discussing which open-source tools belong on a new phone.

Swiss punk band KODDER has announced two live performances in Switzerland: one on Friday at Akut in Thun and one on Saturday at Box in Davos. The band, promoting itself with the slogan 'the one who shakes the fig tree', describes its style as punk and punkrock with a do-it-yourself ethos. The announcement is drawing attention among punk fans in the Swiss local scene ahead of the weekend shows.

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and a longtime AI skeptic, has reportedly used an AI tool to help fix a bug in the kernel. The report from XDA Developers frames it as a telling moment: critics of AI-generated code in open source now face a choice between their stance on the technology and the practice of Linux's own founder. Discussions are circulating among developers on Mastodon and other forums.