The most important steps are moving the chip industry to europe, producing sensible meaningful hardware that is compatible with OSes other than Google and Microsoft, and then install proper applications on them.
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Magisk twice is killing me.
I have 2 root πΎ
Can people use tailscale without single sign in. All the SSOs I saw were fascists corps.
It definitely supports self-hosted oicd providers like Authentik and Ophelia. If either of those are problematic I'd like to know, but they both pass the sniff test so far.
Yes you can login without SSO to tailscale
that's true
Would be nice if we couldβ¦
De "futo"ing would be a good idea as well. Them being associated with Curtis Yarvin (literally their peer tube) who is a piece of shit close enough to elon musk and thiel.
Lou's Rossman's right to repair work is great. His ability to recognize and not associate with some of the shittiest people and groups has become legend. (Kiwi farms anyone?)
Good to know. I just decided to try a gboard replacement and heliboard does pretty well.
Yep, heli is what I'm using ATM. They are generally pretty solid and I haven't heard anything to recommend against the project. In fact they're completely voluntary and opt-in data collection to build their own swipe typing Library sounds like an awesome initiative and I hope they succeed with it.
Agree on heliboard. No issues here.
Atleast its better than Gboard lol,Β
any good alternatives? I'm so bad at typing in a phone my accuracy is pretty bad, I barely use my phone and I'm always on my computer that's probably the reason.Β
I'm using heliboard at the moment. They offer swipe typing through the Google libraries currently. But are exploring a data collection process completely voluntarily to build their own swipe typing libraries.
I did like futo's voice typing input method. It's recognition was generally right up there with Google's. Although there were certain words it frustratingly and consistently got wrong no matter how specifically I said them. But the fact that it could infer punctuation rather accurately where Google won't even try was definitely nice. Unfortunately I have not found a truly viable replacement for that sort of input yet. I definitely believe that sometime in the not-too-distant future there will absolutely be a Foss local solution. But I don't believe that futo's solution is trustworthy enough to believe that it was local Etc.
Brave is a less than ideal choice...
Cromite is a much more secure Chromium browser. IronFox is a much more secure Gecko browser.
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Yikes. De googles but leaves the brave crypto scam browser installed.
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Obtainium!
They have new community-suggested install methods for difficult-to-get apps like Proton Calendar and Proton Mail. Usually, you'd only be able to get those from the Play Store. Obtainium lets you install them directly from their Github repos.
I do use obtainium, I think I forgot to include it in the homescreen.Β
An actual answer for the browser instead of just shitting on Brave would be IronFox (hardened Firefox), and the best place to get it would be the Accrescent app store.
But for real don't use Brave...
Librewolf and waterfox over brave
It's android, Fennec for gecko or Vanadium for chromium
What's gecko? Better?
Gecko is the browser engine developed by Mozilla and used by Firefox.
It's better for adblockers, since Google blocked access to features used by them in chromium.
For a performance comparison check this out.
From a security point of view, Blink/Chromium got more people working on it (Google, Microsoft, community, etc.) so potential vulnerabilities get fixed faster but by being way more popular, way more vulnerabilities are found regularly and exploited in the wild.
Im currently using cromite for chromiumΒ
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Brave is a chrome based browser. There are a lot of Firefox forks (and no I dont recommend any because I dont wanna get into a fight...) you van and should use instead.
Otherwise great start /good choice!
How dare you not validate my decision to use Fennec/Mull/Waterfox/Iceraven/IronFox as the one true FireFox fork.
Conversely, how dare you suggest that stock Firefox/Nightly with the right add-ons is not good enough?
People these days...
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Sweet! May I suggest IronFox instead of Brave? https://ironfoxoss.org/docs/installation/
It's obviously degoogled chromium so who cares, but there are all these reasons: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Also, these are my initial impressions: https://programming.dev/post/47806969
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Same! Just moved to graphene and it's great!
Looks cool. What launcher?
Lawn chair off aurora and dollphone icons off f-droid
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Molly is a hardened signal fork. Not sure how folks feel about it but I have no issues.
Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?
I recommend gadget bridge if you have a smartwatch and other bluetooth objets. One app to rule them all.
https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge
Newpipe to watch youtube without ads.
Voyager to surf lemmy
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Good work! You should work on switching away from Proton's apps/services next, as their CEO has indicated his support for fascists, and they have repeatedly turned over VPN logs when nation-states come asking.
I use Mullvad's VPN and KeePass DX + Syncthing for passwords
I'm still not convinced that the CEOs comments conclusively prove that he's on board with the fascists, but I did find it aggravating that Proton sent emails to my gmail account saying that I had new emails from specific parties. How tf is that private?
yes, I don't have any money to pay for a VPN subscription for now but I am definitely switching my password manager.Β
KeePass is awesome!
One issue I've hit when de-googling is some sites/services/orgs/etc won't let me change my email. So I'm stuck with google as long as I use those sites/services/orgs.
Can't you opt you have forgot password or forgot email, then when it goes to validate you chose I don't have access to this account?
I've changed some email this way
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hi, what launcher and app are you using for the dynamic island thingy?
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Get yourself a nice background to make your phone space nice!
Favourite apps from F-droid - Breezy Weather, Binary Eye, Fucks Given (Task app that is hilarious), Newpipe and Antennapod. Oh and also FeedFlow is a great RSS reader
thanks, I usually use a different launcher, I don't know but I kinda like it this way. its minimal and I don't use my phone much. (My desktop is. pretty dope though {arch btw})Β
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