Note: This setup is both for my android and pc Edit: For those recommending paid services and selfhosting, I don’t have the money nor resources for either. Also it seams some people are confusing my android setup with my PC setup so I’ll write it down. Android: Brave(movies) + Ironfox, Search: Brave + DDG, VPN: Proton ( not always on), GPay = Cash, Auth= Aegis Auth, Pass: KeepassDX, PC: Firefox= Librewolf, VPN = No VPN (VERY slow internet), Search: Searxng + DDG, Pass: KeepassXC,

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    70·
    10 days ago

    Would switch Organic Maps to its fork CoMaps. (See: this open letter)

    And I would never recommend Brave as the first choice; it’s run by a shady corporation and reinforces Chromium’s hegemony.

    I think it’d also be reasonable to add ProtonMail to email and Mullvad to VPN since you can have multiple.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 days ago

      How about OsmAnd? Is that still a decent project without world domination plans? I actually have CoMaps as well, but have sort of stuck to using OsmAnd.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        10 days ago

        Yeah, OsmAnd is really good; it’s what I use as my daily driver. CoMaps/Organic to me feel too limited, but some people may like that.

        (I use Vespucci for editing on Android.)

        • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          Its installed in my android head unit in my car, and it just works, and there’s a lot (and I mean a lot) of stuff it can do, so I really enjoy it as my daily driver (ha! Get it?) in my car.

        • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          Excellent. Ty for the open letter too. I hadn’t gotten around to understanding why there was a fallout, but now I know.

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          Something I’d suggest if OsmAnd feels too cluttered for you is to change the settings; OsmAnd lets you change a lot, but one of the ones I do is to change “Map Style” to Osm-Carto.

          Carto, for context, is the vector map that you’d find by going to the OSM website. Much cleaner color scheme, imo.

          • qweertz@programming.dev
            2·
            10 days ago

            Tried it out, but since I was so used to the standard OsmAnd style it just felt wrong some way.

            It really like how OsmAnd allows for so much customization e.g. in map styles

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      10 days ago

      I wish Nobara Linux would move off it. Every third or forth update, the Brave repo I disabled is re-enabled. Not a huge deal, but I’d rather see the Librewolf repo instead.

  • Art3mis@lemmy.world
    351·
    10 days ago

    Every time a “privacy” list shows brave, i instantly ignore the rest of it because i know they arent serious.

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    9 days ago

    every privacypack image has brave on it. is this some kind of rule?

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    5·
    9 days ago

    If you use a Chromium Browser there is Vivaldi, instead of GDrive, Filen is good, but kDrive or Murena fit it better (both including online Office and workspace, EU), for YT there is also Aluga, AI > Andisearch, Sketchapedia, WhatsApp > SecureBit Chat, Google Photos > vgy.me

    • FG_3479@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 days ago

      Vivaldi has essentially no fingerprinting protection, and it also inserts affiliate links by default without your constent.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        11·
        9 days ago

        Yes and no, it use affiliate links and search engines (DDG, Startpage, Ecosia…) which pay some money if you use these, but you can delete these without problems if not. Vivaldi use this to create incommings, instead of selling user data and browser logs to third parties as other do. Fingerprints, well, it protects some fingerprints which are an privacy risk, but spoofing all can break some webs. Fingerprint protection is always an balance between what is necessary (eg. tecnical data to show correctly a page, eg your screen resolution) and what is not. Your Public IP is always shown in any browser, if you don’t use an VPN (Proton VPN inbuild in Vivaldi) or Proxy, but the public IP only show the one of the server used by your ISP which can be hundreds of km from your real location, but it made that the page is shown in your lenguage (if it has this feature). If a website use Fingerprinting (not often), it use those from the whole device and OS, not only from the browser. Vivaldi never logs your activity or track you, never share your data with third parties, no third party sponsors in Vivaldi. Sync is encrypted end2end, no knowledge (if you loose your encryption password, you loose your sync data!!!). stored in own servers in Iceland (green energy). IMHO Vivaldi is pretty private.

        https://vivaldi.com/blog/shared-networks-tracking-fingerprinting/

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
    4·
    9 days ago

    If you are on Arch, then I recommend to self host SearxNG meta search engine. There is an AUR package that builds from source and makes it easy to install and update. So if you are on Archlinux and value privacy a lot, then there is no excuse to not use this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/searxng-git and https://docs.searxng.org/

    # Archlinux, AUR

# Build and install from source:
yay searxng-git

# Configure the search engine (shouldn't need to):
sudoedit /etc/searxng/settings.yml

# Start server when needed:
systemctl start searxng.service

# Or automatically start the server whenever you login:
systemctl enable searxng.service
    • pigup@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      Just noting you can have searxng on rhel and mint as well, I know those from experience.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
        2·
        9 days ago

        Oh sure, I wasn’t implying its Archlinux only or anything like that. There are plenty ways to install SearxNG on other distributions, including using Docker in example. I just found the installation and setup in Archlinux thanks to the AUR package extremely easy, as it is not very different from installing any other package.

  • gemakey@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 days ago

    I don’t see much love for Futo apps in here or Reddit (new here from Reddit). Why is that?

      • gemakey@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        I installed Heliboard last night and the autocorrect only works half the time with settings set to always on and force. Yeesh…

        • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          first thing to disable is autocorrect. let me type what i want. if i make a mistake ill correct.

          • orioler25@lemmy.world
            21·
            10 days ago

            Oh, that’s so cool to hear, I love comedians. Tell me a similar joke about a dance-tracking app called “Jigger.” I’m sure you’ll come up with something that is funny and consistent with the joke above.

            • whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml
              32·
              10 days ago

              TIL a racial slur with over a hundred years of use to demean and insult billions of people is the same as the word used to describe big titty dragons having penetrative sex with automobiles.

              Please post the updated slurs.txt so I can call you them.

              • orioler25@lemmy.world
                22·
                10 days ago

                Oh, so slurs aren’t funny if you have empathy for the people whose suffering they reference? Interesting, I wonder what that says about your perception of trans women. I have a hard time believing you give a shit about African Americans or any African diaspora at all either, you just know that there’d be more consequences for making fun of that slur and its violent history.

                Good joke, chud. Now go eat shit somewhere else.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      My one complaint with Aves is how mind-bogglingly terrible its library management is. It uses a blacklist approach with no whitelist (most other galleries use a whitelist with blacklists on top to narrow down where they search) so it scans your entire device by default, and unlike every other implementation I’ve ever seen, blacklisting a folder isn’t recursive.

      That means if you use a different app for video and want to exclude your Movies folder in Aves, you need to manually and individually add Movies as well as every single folder inside of it, plus their subfolders etc, to the list of hidden directories. It also means if you ever add or rename a folder anywhere on your device and it contains media files, it’ll appear in Aves regardless of your previous settings.

      And you can’t pick exclusions to add to this blacklist using a file browser interface. No, that would be too easy. You need to go to the Aves tab that lists every single folder with media on your entire device (displayed/sorted by folder name without their path, naturally, so two folders in the same directory might be dozens of entries apart) and manually find all the folders you want to exclude. The blacklist is also displayed in settings showing only the folder names without the path, so good luck checking if that img folder in JoiPlay is blocked when there are twenty other identical entries labeled ‘img’!

      I know this sounds minor (and it is), but it’s such a headache dealing with what should be a basic feature of any gallery app. Fossify Gallery may be slower at detecting new media, but at least using it on my gaming tablet doesn’t make me homicidal.

    • orioler25@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      It is getting to that point tbh. If you work with people who have to use office suites often, there is a growing presence of the LibreOffice guy.