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YouTube: Grayjay
Mail: Riseup, Disroot or Posteo
Cloud storage: If you only want to backup photos, videos and the like, self hosted Immich, PhotoPrism or Ente is good. Online Ente otherwise.
Gallery app: Fossify Gallery
Video player: NextPlayer or VLC
Music player: InnerTune (also supports YTMusic and downloads)
2FA app: Aegis
Mail app: K-9 Mail
Password manager: Bitwarden or self hosted Vaultwarden
Payment app: GNU Taler (in the future; EU only)
Noooo is a demo app :( I guess there's no alternative someone can trust/free and open source for that
What's a demo app? GNU Taler? Yeah, I said in the future. The preparation phase for the digital euro just started. If GNU Taler gets selected, you can start using it after 2025-2027
I know and 2025/2027 is a lot! I was hoping for something to use now but it's okay, thanks anyway
I mean, you can use XMR if you want the most private and anonymous way to pay ig?
I meant with my cards, apps like Samsung Wallet or Google Wallet, not crypto currency
YouTube: newpipe
Mail: fairmail
Cloud: nextcloud (you need to host a Server or join one hosted by someone you trust though)
Music: phonograph
Video: vlc
2FA: freeOTP
Passwords: keepass(XC)
I am using grpahene on a refurbished pixel 6a for 250€
I was coming from lineage os, and while I loved lineage for not having ads, possibility for no google etc. I AM SO HAPPY WITH GRAPHENE
it is better optimized, has higher security and the multiple users, sandboxes Google and stuff are soooo nice and easy to use
Also the pixel is a very nice phone (crazy camera, perfect oled) but I don't like that it doesn't support wired headphone and SD cards. Still very much worth it IMHO
I'll check them but why keepass over bitwarden?
Is the battery good with GrapheneOS? I know is refurbished but how bad is it? I would love to try it but spending for a refurbished to use it as second phone?🤔
I think most use who use keepass instead of bitwarden do so because keepass is offline, unlike keepass. At least that's what I understand.
KeePass is offline unlike KeePass 🤔 something is wrong. I get what you mean and finally someone answers
Yeah but I prefer have them on my phone and pc and If I lose a phone I still have everything..?
So you can use KeePass + Syncthing to synchronize the database file across your devices. Keeps it distributed and I've heard a lot of recommendations for this, although I haven't tried it.
If you don't want to do that, Bitwarden is well regarded and probably would suit your needs based on what you've said.
For my threat model, I don't trust any online password manager, so I host my own local Bitwarden server (Vaultwarden) and use Tailscale to securely access it from any device, and if the server goes down, the Bitwarden client keeps a cached copy on the device itself.
Recommend you a post from some times, but it's still up to date : https://lemmy.ml/post/13094884
The problem is youtube... LibreTube is great but it doesn't shows up to date subs videos, the official shows some videos and other instances shows others
Since them it was working really good, know since 2-3 weeks it's kind of a no-go
NewPipe works great, probably because it uses YouTube backend 🤔 I liked LibreTube for the ui though
NewPipe is fetching content directly from YouTube, Libretube use Piped to do this, this is why they added the option to fetch everything directly from YouTube. But the subscriptions are not refreshing correctly. All this is the fault of YouTube they block everyday new stuff, streaming on Tor is more difficult .. Sadly this is the world that we live in
As Video player VLC, it's fantastic.
See my Awesome Android Apps list.
A great list! Do you know of a launcher with paging app drawer like nova? Or folders support. Currently using Lawnchair
Neo Launcher is based on Lawnchair and has some extra features I believe. Check the telegram group for newer releases
I tried it and uninstalled when I tried to change the font and icon size in the desktop lol
Gonna try it again
I will! Thanks 💚
For email, you can get Migadu and use your domain (in fact, I think that's their only option unless I'm mistaken ie no foo(at)migadu.com). I'm biased cause I use them but I think their prices are fair and they have a student discount, if that applies to you. It works with K9 nicely.
For gallery, I use Aves Libre.
Also idk if I missed it but if you're looking for a calendar the Fossify calendar is good.
I was thinking about using my domain with cloudflare, postman on an ubuntu based server I own so I could make mails like: myname@, spam@, service@ but I don't know if Migadu allows it and if I have to do something with cloudflare
I'll check it later at home for the gallery. Calendar yes, I'm interested In switching and I thought to see for the most used first
Migadu hosts it all for you, you don't need postman or the like. I don't recall how many addresses you can make at the moment
This is something I really want to check later at home. Thanks for the suggestion