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,

  • gemakey@lemmy.world
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    3 个月前

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

      • gemakey@lemmy.world
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        3 个月前

        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
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          3 个月前

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

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 个月前

      Why would I trust a commercial venture

      At least with hosting or VPN services there’s the excuse of you have to pay for a finite resource that costs money.

      • gemakey@lemmy.world
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        3 个月前

        Oh. I had no idea it was a commercial venture. I thought it was just another FOSS team. Just found the keyboard the other day and it’s been far better than Fossify.

        • Left as Center@jlai.lu
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          3 个月前

          Try heliBoard, making sure to add swipe library. Futo for voice transcription doesn’t have a match yet.

          • orioler25@lemmy.world
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            3 个月前

            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
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              3 个月前

              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
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                3 个月前

                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.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    3 个月前

    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
      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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        3 个月前

        At the moment it is just for my personal use on my own single computer. It is local only and I cannot access it from local network either.

        My plan is to figure out how to set it up securely for access on other devices in the house. But for that I would need a dedicated little server computer that runs 24/7. Maybe an used laptop, maybe a Raspberry Pi, but right now I can’t afford it. I have a VERY old laptop and old Raspberry Pi 3b. I’m not sure if they are capable enough for this task. I have no plans to do a host for the internet.

    • pigup@lemmy.world
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      3 个月前

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

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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        3 个月前

        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.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    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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      3 个月前

      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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          3 个月前

          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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            3 个月前

            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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              3 个月前

              “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.

              • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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                3 个月前

                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

              • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
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                3 个月前

                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).

                • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  3 个月前

                  «Works for me» is seldom a good advice.

                  That wasn’t the advice; the advice was “try offline tiles and see if that helps.” In their case, it didn’t, but it’s just covering arguably the most likely potential cause. The fact it wasn’t their problem doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth asking.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 个月前

        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.)

  • we are all@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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    3 个月前

    open source software ≠ privacy

    though it is preferable. 3rd party verification of closed source can be accepted in some cases.

  • JadeEast@quokk.auEnglish
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    3 个月前

    Close to what I normally use. I prefer CoMaps instead of Organic, Mullvad VPN instead of Proton & Artix instead of Arch.

  • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
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    3 个月前

    What privacy concerns are there with using your ISP DNS? (honest question, not judging)

    • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
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      3 个月前

      Your ISP can see what websites you visit. But even if you change DNS server it can still see that if you don’t use either a VPN or DoH/DoT.

      So it’s a good idea to use DoH or DoT. It’s an improvement but it’s far from perfect because the DNS server you’ll pick will see what site you visit, you have to trust them. And your ISP still has other ways to see which site you visit.

        • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
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          3 个月前

          Yes, that’s why I ended with:

          And your ISP still has other ways to see which site you visit.

          Even with secure DNS they can still see the domain name with the SNI, which is probably more reliable than an IP address. Last I checked very few websites used ECH. I would still argue that it’s better to have encrypted DNS requests than non-encrypted ones.

    • Snowhuoue@feddit.uk
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      3 个月前

      Depends where you are, and what laws your ISP is required to follow with regards to blocking/tracking. Personally I like Quad9.

    • Engine606@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 个月前

      In my country they implemented national wide surveillance in the network infrastructure and they keep track of everything Edit: that’s why internet is very slow

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 个月前

      ISPs not only have a monopoly on connectivity and bandwidth prices - which they severely abuse by the way, considering the actual operational costs - but they also have everything to gain on analyzing your traffic, DNS queries being one of them. They already have a bunch of personally identifiable information (PII) on you (full name, date of birth, banking information and, in some countries, even social security number). Linking that PII to your DNS requests (read: what websites you visit) and selling that to data brokers is a pretty low effort sweet deal. Long are the days gone when ISPs only provided Internet service.

      Texts on the topic:

      Videos on the topic:

    • we are all@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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      3 个月前

      dns requests flowing through your ISP means they know where you (want to) go and 3rd parties can potentially determine identity based on certain aspects (date time of request, how many, etc) can matter to law enforcement, surveillance/state efforts, hackers and beyond) because ISP may not govern well or, hell, wven sell those requests or just 3rs party manages it without your knowledge etc )

      it’s better to have a known good dns provider that can offer a little trust but realistically nothing is 100%…

    • luci@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 个月前

      Onlyoffice is a little bit shady tho, it might be worth considering staying with libreoffice. But the eu wanted to switch away from ms office and made their own fork of onlyoffice, because of said shadyness, so that might also be worth looking at.

    • taco@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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      3 个月前

      Brave -> Helium (has full uBlock Origin and Ungoogled Chromium patches, and no crypto bloat)

      Does it have a way to sync between devices? This is one of the things Brave does fairly well that the recommended alternatives tend to lack.

      • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 个月前

        I use Librewolf on desktop and Ironfox on mobile, and they sync using the Mozilla encrypted sync service. I haven’t heard of any shady business with their sync yet, and it works pretty well for me.

        That said, I don’t store passwords, addresses or payment methods in my browser, so YMMV.

    • Tundra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 个月前

      the onboarding for family & friends on simplex is too much - Ive had much better luck with deltachat

      • soaringbirdie@lemmy.zip
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        3 个月前

        That is true. I have only managed to convince my wife to use it but I had to set it up for her. Now we can chat about what to eat for dinner securely though 😄

    • qweertz@programming.dev
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      3 个月前

      For normal usage and actually using a messaging app for what it’s intended (contacting people in your life), it’s far too obscure and non-streamlined tbh. Signal is more than good enough for the thread model of chatting with friends and family, and ppl you got to know online

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      3 个月前

      Harder to get people to switch the more obscure the app is. Other than that, I agree.

  • Engine606@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 个月前

    For those recommendeding better services for cheaper prices, I use the free plan in all services, I don’t have money or resources to use a paid plan or to self host.

  • soaringbirdie@lemmy.zip
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    3 个月前

    For DNS I use Pi-hole with Unbound which is used to contact the DNS root servers directly and recursively find IP-addresses. The first lookup becomes a little bit slower than through say Google but the IP is then cached locally and then it actually becomes faster. This is also more private since it doesn’t require a third-party DNS resolver.

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 个月前

    Check out ente as an alternative to Google Photos. I’ve been using them since 2023 when Google announced they own your photos and they were going to be instead ingested into AI.

    Edit: typo. Looks great BTW. Good progress.

    • Engine606@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 个月前

      I’m not using ente because they have a cloud storage, the only safe storage is the one you have