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,

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    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
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      9 days ago

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

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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        8 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/

        • FG_3479@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          It uses “direct match” by default which inserts affiliate links when you type in a shopping site and press enter. It is opt-out, not opt-in.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Very nice. Only complaint is this only existing as a jpeg rather than a vector svg.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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
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      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
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        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.)

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          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
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            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

            • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              9 days ago

              “Takes seconds” seems like a strange experience. I remember OsmAnd years ago performed like that for me – clearly, painfully loading in the individual tiles. But nowdays, it smoothly transitions between LoD and has no problem smoothly scrubbing over e.g. a major city.

              I’m using offline vector maps, for context.

              Edit: Trying online tiles again, I’m assuming your problem can be resolved by switching to offline. You can have the offline data update automatically such that you don’t have to worry about it. CoMaps and Organic only use offline maps, which is why they’re similarly snappy to offline OsmAnd.

              This is under Configure Map > Map Source, and you only need to download for the region (usually e.g. a province) that you’re using.

              • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
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                9 days ago

                Not everyone uses a powerful smartphone.
                «Works for me» is seldom a good advice. OsmAnd is perfect on my Google Pixel 4a (2020), but can’t run decently on my father’s Sony Xperia L3 (2019).

              • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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                9 days ago

                Sadly that’s not it, I was using offline maps.

                I’m not entirely sure what’s the exact issue, but it only really occurs when trying to change LoD quickly. E.g. clicking on an inter-city bus route and zooming out to see it in its entirety or zooming back in. From 10 km to 500 m can take 3-4 seconds which is enough to feel sluggish if you’re doing it often.

                Probably not the most popular use case but it can get frustrating after a while nonetheless

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 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.

      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        9 days ago

        You can raise the issue to the developers but from what I see, they don’t have a public page for bug reporting so who knows how many issues actually exist within the distro.

        Given that Nobara is just a fork of Fedora, and I assume you’ve gained a little CLi experience, why not just switch to Fedora?

        • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I switched to Nobara last spring from MX Linux (Debian) when my brand new GPU needed brand new mesa driver, but MX said it was months away from being added to the stable channel. Nobara is (or was, Dev has slowed down) bleeding edge for most things. I no longer need that, but I like it okay, and my setup… Look, I’m just Lazy when it comes to setting up all my games and apps I have installed all over again…

            • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              9 days ago

              I was running AHS at the time. I asked in the support forum about my GPU and they warned me against forcibly upgrading Mesa. They told me it would be months before they got to the required version (25.3? 25.0.2), so I started distro shopping.

              ETA: link to my post in MX support forum, fixed Mesa version

      • mholiv@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        I bet one of the maintainers is a cult member (or is being paid to re add it) either way eww.

        • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          IIRC, the sole Nobara Linux maintainer is GloriousEggroll, AKA, the creator of GE-Proton that is the go-to for some windows-on-linux gamers.

            • DPEWGF@sh.itjust.works
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              9 days ago

              I have an older comment regarding GE supporting AI use by Lutris dev & using AI for Nobara’s wallpapers. I also felt like Nobara wasn’t too stable. GE has done a lotta work for that hobby project, but I’ve switched to CachyOS since & it’s been a much smoother experience.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      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 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.

  • Mearcfara@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    What’s up with Tutamail? I’ve been looking at switching my email over to something better, and I’ve been hearing Proton for a long time, but I don’t know enough to sway one way or the other.

    Also, how hard is it to self host email?

    • mirshafie@europe.pub
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      8 days ago

      Self-hosting email sucks. Setting up an email server is the easy part, and you’d be able to receive email alright. Sending is a different can of worms and not a fun dinner. Because other email providers will not trust your server and tend to send your messages straight to spam.

      I haven’t used Tuta, but it looks alright. I’ve got Proton which works very well for email and VPN, but it is a bit expensive to be honest. But I like ending my address with @pm.me

    • Forbo@lemmy.ml
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      8 days ago

      Haven’t dived that deep yet, but who knows. Maybe I’ll get there eventually. I’ve heard good things about this book: https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms/

      You also don’t need to do everything all at once. You can start by getting your own domain and configuring your mail service of choice to handle it. Then whenever you want to move to a different mail service or run your own, you maintain control over your addresses and just need to update your DNS.

      Edit: Oh, completely forgot to talk about Proton/Tuta. I set up my stuff on Proton back in the day and recently set up Tuta for my partner. I might get around to swapping to Tuta for my stuff as well, I just haven’t bothered to yet.

    • orioler25@lemmy.world
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      9 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.

    • Lonk@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      Don’t know about Bazzite but performance wise, there isn’t a huge difference between Arch and Cachy.

      If I recall, CachyOS comes preconfigured with a few things, including Steam. Most of it is quite simple to setup on Arch. You can also use Cachy’s kernel in Arch to test for any performance gains if you want to.

      I would say if you already have CachyOS installed, there’s no point replacing it with Arch. CachyOS is Arch underneath anyway.

        • BehavioralClam@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          Worse stuff like them shutting off their transparency should be more relevant than random US politics. The company isnt even murrikkkan

          • Man_kind@sh.itjust.works
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            6 days ago

            I don’t care where the company is from. If they support fascism and oligarchies, and the far right, they shall not have my business.

            Being in Europe is positive in that maga cant legislate them into obedience. But if they’re willingly maga, then its irrelevant.