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,
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.
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.
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.)
I think OsmAnd is great, but I personally prefer the cleaner feel of CoMaps. Just preference.
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.
My problem with OsmAnd is that it’s so very slow. Like, you zoom in and it takes seconds to display the map.
“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.
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).«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.
Jumping on the bandwagon here.
Don’t use brave. Brave is a cult at this point.
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.
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?
I’m using CachyOS an optimised arch-based distro. I was searching for an alternative to brave on desktop, the top recommendations were Vivaldi and Helium, so i will try both. From experience, Mullvad is very good especially against fingerprinting. Tuta has their own app on android and for desktop I use the website, they’re the most secure option out there, they also have a good free plan.
I’ve been using Vivaldi for browsing on desktop and mobile. Seems pretty nice. Any concerns people have with them as an app or org? I’m staying away from Brave, the consensus seems to lean toward bad acting org and bloated app.
Vivaldi sells your data.
dont use brave
Thoughts on Vivaldi?
Still a proprietary black box you shouldn’t trust and chromium based so you reinforce the chromium monopoly
Why is vivaldi helping a chromium monopoly?
I understand it is based on chrome tech, and I guess that means it can use chrome extensions maybe? But how does it help chrome if people use it?
It uses Google’s browser
enginebase called Chromium, which Chrome is based on (the used engine is called “Blink”). A lot of websites are made to just function well on Chromium and maybe Safari
Just use Firefox with uBlock Origin and PrivacyBadger.
uBlock and Privacy Badger should not be used together.
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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.
Just curious for the firewall one, did it have two built in NICs or were you using a USB dongle? If two NICs, what model?
It had a wifibcars ibpulles and put Ina 2.5GB card in its place. I don’t recall the model. Mini PCI maybe?
Suggest adding keyboard to the chart. Replace google or other proprietary keyboard with fossify keyboard or heliboard. No keyboard should need or be granted internet permissions.
Florisboard also exists, which has more features than e.g. Fossify.
I use Unexpected Keyboard because it lets me write in many different languages with the same layout, and I don’t have to go on an expedition to find a special glyph.
Good to have options. I prefer fossify keyboard mostly because it just does what it needs without ‘added value’ features.
Aegis is redundent since KeePassDX now has authentication built in.
I know but i could find how to make it work, you know how?
It’s “TOPO” in Keepass. Edit Entry and paste the code the website gives you into there. Then just verify and you should be good.
Thx
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.NewPipe? Change to PipePipe, which includes SponsorBlock!
I do use PipePipe, but I recommend NewPipe since the former is merely a fork that cannot survive without the latter.
Don’t agree with a lot of them. Like choosing Brave. Please do a critical search on it.
And the most private mail, is either a self host, or a mail hotel… And then something like Thunderbird. You can host your own calendar there too… Because Fossify Calendar don’t host your calendars.
Don’t use AI…
And Arch is certainly not for everyone. Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu and the likes are a lot better.
Firefox has a great Password manager, if you are one of the poor sods, who can’t remember all your unique passwords. ;-)
Signal is Trump/fascism supporters… Shouldn’t use that either…
I’ve been using arch for a year now, but i think I will go with Debian soon.
I’ve been thinking of an alternative to signal but other than simplex I can’t find any
How about Session?
Signal supports Trump? Source? I know the trump administration uses Signal, but that’s like saying Air supports Trump because he also breathes air.
I’ve noticed that people who even look at anyone who is right-wing are accused of being pro-Trump on Lemmy. It’s getting really dumb.
Good for you. What does that have to do with what I write?
I think the user wanted to know how Signal is pro-Trump. I noticed recently that there are many false equivalence conclusions with being pro-Trump on the other side.
Get brave off that list.
Another good gmail alternative is kmail. Another good WhatsApp alternative is matrix. Change organic maps to comaps, it is fork of it but community focused. Another google photos alternative is aves, much better than fossify gallery. When using obtanium, you might want to install appverifier to check if app is legit. Another YouTube alternatives are peertube and odysee. Brave is bad, its CEO likes crypto and ai. Mullvad vpn is good vpn, you can also use tor. Instead of google wallet you can use curve wallet or upcoming Walt. Also, good alternative to google search is 4get
Fairmail
Fairmail is bad, Thunderbird is much better
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?
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