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DeGoogle Yourself

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't really recommend threema and would include SimpleX

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Based around a company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Any iOS alternative to Google Tasks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe anytype

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After further inspection, I would recommend Joplin for most private

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your tips :-) I have been trying both Anytype and Joplin, and might use either, but they seem to be primarly note apps not task/todo/reminder/list/priority apps.

Your first links looked interesting, so I will do some research on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Would you be willing to pay? Some of the apps aren’t currently being developer unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe omni focus?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe a Joplin? Sorry this is a kinda half arsed andwer I’ll be back with a better one in a mo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Aren't Brave and Vivaldi supposed to have blue bullet instead of yellow?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone please help me find a browser that has the Chromium gestures.

I want o be able to pull the URL bar down to go into the tab selection screen and pull the page down to refresh, and all the Firefox based browsers are so different it drives me crazy and I go back to chrome or brave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Brave I think If not then ungoogled chromium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would it be better to replace Gemini with a local model run through ollama or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, but unless you have god hardware it won’t be a direct replacement ):

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

As an email provider there is also posteo which is a nice email provider from germany that costs only 1 € a month. And with posteo and mailbox you can use 3rd party email clients which is not something you can do on proton or tuta.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Most KeePass clients have built-in OTP support too. That being said I still prefer Aegis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bitwarden also makes an OTP authenticator app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has TOTP built-in for paid accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'm not paying them, and I have their authenticator app. It's a free download from the app store.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Some of those suggestions are not exactly degoogling, in the strictest sense. If you're just going to keep using Google services but through a different frontend, you are not freeing yourself from Google.

That's not to say piped and invidious and Aurora and so on aren't worth using if you absolutely cannot wean yourself away from Google entirely. It's a step in the right direction, certainly.

Still, it might be nice to label those suggestions differently in a list like this, for clarity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Seafile as a Google Drive/Dropbox replacement. You can self host but they also offer paid accounts I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Youtube alternatives invidious and piped really works dude ? I don't think so... youtube don't want users to watch it in a privacy focused way.

Peertube is awesome but without enough contents. Am just limited what to watch.

Quitting youtube is so hard because i even cared about my online privacy because of some privacy focused youtubers. And this youtubers too not leaving youtube or choosing peertube as an another playform to post contents.

Eg :- the hated one, mental outlaw, switched to linux,...

There are tons of foss services available but most of them are based on big tech. Am not saying it is bad, but how limited our options are...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I initially had problems with Piped, but I've been using PipePipe for ages and have never had an issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Is there a graphene option for is broke folk? I'd love to move away from android but it only works on phones I can't afford.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

lineage os has a pretty extensive device support or in theroy you could compile base android with none of the spookieness or bloat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Pixel 7a is still supported for 3ish more years and can be had refurbished for like $200. Still a solid phone as well. My daily driver.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I guess pixel 9a would be the best choice or a supported older model

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