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,
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Self-hosting Immich as an alternative to Google Photos is amazing, I love it!
Try Aves Library, from fdroid, it’s really nice and has a metadata viewer built in
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.
I know that feel… I’m currently a widow too.
That last part isn’t needed
I use LibreOffice BTW
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.
Should you change your DNS if you have your VPN on?
yes and no, ideally vpn also handles DNS querries but sometimes with faulty implementations DNS can leak. mullvad has a test in their website but only works for mullvad vpn.
i was using this site for testing, does the job
Would a faulty implementation be only if you did it manually? In other words, if I just go through the motions of turning on the VPN, theoretically there should be no leak right?
i don’t know exactly how it happens but somrtimes for example browser uses its own DNS and it leaks this way. mullvad adds a virtual network interface and forces all traffic through it and prevents leaks this way
I know the focus here is privacy, but how is Arch Linux compared to Bazzite or Cachy OS in terms of gaming?
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.
Exactly
CachyOS is Arch. It has some kernel optimizations for gaming, but other than that it’s just prepackaged Arch
Jumping on the bandwagon here.
I didn’t know proton had contacts
Don’t use proton. Ceo is maga, and they are funsing french far right YouTubers.
Worse stuff like them shutting off their transparency should be more relevant than random US politics. The company isnt even murrikkkan
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.
dude, the world isn’t orbiting us fake left/right dichotomy lmao
“Here are the 20 apps and services I use to avoid using one large service because I believe 20 companies are easier to work with than one I dont like.”
Cool. Im sure you’ve beaten the system.
You probably one of those that watch youtube on the default feed. Wonder how did you even ended up here. Instead of just staying at FB, since even Reddit is too daring for you lol
noone said the system has been beaten. as we always say, privacy is a journey. decentralising datafarming does make google’s job worse, and this is something better already.
op also stated, that selfhosting is not an option, so its kinda hard to go full rogue and disconnect from the system.
every privacypack image has brave on it. is this some kind of rule?
Their PR is fantastic
Adding to the list of people warning you away from Brave. It’s a complete scam. Practically malware at this point.
Malware in what manner?
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted for asking a question. I think if Brave is malware, it is important to bring awareness to what the actual problems are and talk about it. This is the right place. I’m not aware of anything that makes Brave malware, maybe besides the crypto stuff. But I’m not sure if that counts as malware, or if anything else is going on I’m not aware of.
Good choices. Congrats
Arch’s recent stance on age verification, and specifically how they said it, has made me switch off of Arch for good, which is… Unfortunate, since it was the first distro I truly loved. Gentoo is what I use now, but that’s a bit farther down the line. I don’t know a good rolling release distro that’s not super inconvenient, unfortunately.
Brave is… Not great. Bad, even. I prefer Vivaldi for my Chromium fork. Mullvad browser for my Firefox fork (I also just. Refuse to use Firefox proper anymore because of their AUP). Note that one of Mullvad’s CEOs donated to a Swedish far right party, so… Make that decision how you will. It’s a free browser, so… Meh.
My default search engine is Wikipedia. When I want to use a general search engine, order of operations is Marginalia, then Startpage, but SearXNG is a good one. I just found it a bit more inconsistent.
Tuta’s a good provider, I just needed a client because I don’t check my email otherwise. I’m on mailbox.org now because of that. They’re cheaper, and private email is kind of a farce anyway. Also mailbox is cheaper, assuming Tuta doesn’t have a free plan now. Given you said you’re not using paid apps, they might?
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Bro…
This, I cringe when Brave and privacy end up in the same sentence. They’re shady af
Mistral AI for chatgpt replacement. And proton is run by a maga trump supporter who is funding french far right YouTubers. So, it is not a good option.
Didn’t they give the authorities access to a French activist’s account?
Very nice. Only complaint is this only existing as a jpeg rather than a vector svg.
What’s the difference?
