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,

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    108·
    2 months 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
      12·
      2 months 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
        13·
        2 months 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.)

        • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Its installed in my android head unit in my car, and it just works, and there’s a lot (and I mean a lot) of stuff it can do, so I really enjoy it as my daily driver (ha! Get it?) in my car.

        • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Excellent. Ty for the open letter too. I hadn’t gotten around to understanding why there was a fallout, but now I know.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      2 months 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
        8·
        2 months 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
          1·
          2 months 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
              1·
              2 months 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

                • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I think they mentioned that the (then) upcoming Trixie was running 25.0.1, but Phoronix listed the next version (25.0.2) as the first viable version. Either way, I figured if I was going to risk hosing my machine, I might as well just take a decent backup and try some of the distros I had been eyeballing.

      • mholiv@lemmy.world
        32·
        2 months 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
          3·
          2 months 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
              3·
              2 months 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.

              • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                Its been stable for me except for one update which broke basic privilege escalation prompts. I forget why as I struggle to sleep. I have been messing to try cachy next though

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        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.

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    2 months ago

    every privacypack image has brave on it. is this some kind of rule?

  • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago


    A lot of programs and services I use are not present so I did not include those alternatives.
    Of those I included, I use only a few, too. These are sane alternatives for the common user.

      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’m a big NewPipe fan, but took your suggestion to check out PipePipe. Looks good so far since it only needs 8 permissions but NewPipe needs 11. Installing now.

        Edit: It even has two more default platforms to chose from. Yeah, this is cool! Thanks!

        • Mountainaire@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Superb. I didn’t even think to compare the permissions, haha. Yeah, never have loyalty to anything; if something better somehow emerges than PipePipe, we shall instantly ditch it for the superior alternative, and so on.

    • orioler25@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months 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.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    6·
    2 months 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
      4·
      2 months ago

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

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        11·
        2 months 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/

  • gemakey@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

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

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • gemakey@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        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
          3·
          2 months ago

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

          • orioler25@lemmy.world
            23·
            2 months ago

            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
              43·
              2 months ago

              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
                23·
                2 months ago

                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.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    83·
    2 months ago

    Brave nor duck duck go can be trusted.

    Brave has been known to inject their own referral links in people urls.

    Duck duck go serves bing results and has to give Microsoft special acces to do so.

    The actual alternatives are:

    Firefox based browsers (waterfox, librefox)

    Self hosted searxng for search-engine. This one will get results from all possible configurable engine and allow zero trackers.

    Notable mention: self hosting isn’t for everyone, startpage.net is to google what ddg is to bing, but it hasn’t had any scandals proving that they give special acces to google yet. Still self hosting is not that hard with docker, i do recommend a local searxng.

  • pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    61·
    2 months ago

    You are doing a good job here! I’ll let others fight over your software choices, and just add some things that you might want to add:

    Keyboard app (Android): I’m using Futo keyboard, but there are other options if FUTO isn’t your cup of tea.

    Translation app (Android): “Translator” on F-Droid is a feature rich, fully local.

    These two can replace respective apps from Google that you like have installed by default.

  • jhdeval@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    Just to throw it out there self hosting docker containers you could use your local PC but I started out with 30 dollar 1 litre PCs. I had three 1 hosted my firewall and the other 2 dockers. I had most everything I could need.