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
    24·
    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
      5·
      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
        5·
        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
          1·
          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.

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          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.

            • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              2 months ago

              “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.

              • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
                0·
                2 months ago

                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
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  «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.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      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.

      • 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.

  • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
    8·
    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.

      • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I do use PipePipe, but I recommend NewPipe since the former is merely a fork that cannot survive without the latter.

  • xorollo@leminal.space
    6·
    2 months ago

    I host nextcloud and Immich on an old laptop to replace google drive and photos respectively. Very nice, but nextcloud syncing with android is annoying. Looking for alternatives there. Self hosted is a requirement.

    Hosting nextcloud also lets me sync my calendar and contacts completely on my own hardware too. I use davx5 to sync with the Fossify calendar app on my phone because I like it better than the nextcloud app.

    • mirshafie@europe.pub
      3·
      2 months ago

      Agreed, the syncing issue is what turned me off Nextcloud eventually. Now I have Proton Drive which also stalls and skips file synchronization. The only service that I feel did sync well (better than Google Drive) was MEGA which was super clean, but that was years ago so it might not be true anymore.

    • voyage0@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m currently trying out OpenCloud (I think a fork of OwnCloud, where Nextcloud was forked from). It’s working fine on PC where I had syncing issues with Nexcloud as well. I also host a syncthing server for the few things I really want to have in sync for all my devices (mostly my Obsidian Vault). It’s been really reliable, especially compared to other solutions I tried out

      • xorollo@leminal.space
        1·
        2 months ago

        I didn’t mention syncthing, but I also use it for my obsidian vault and other small files that I want backed up. I think my ebooks are on there too. But what I’m really using nextcloud for is to offload large files so that my phone storage doesn’t fill up – but keep my files where I can easily download them when i want. Primarily audio books.

        Also, my audio book player is not great for finding files when there are many. (Smart Audio Player) so I can only keep a handful but can easily download anything I’m missing from local storage.

      • xorollo@leminal.space
        1·
        2 months ago

        Nextcloud hosts whatever kind of files. IRS like a Google Drive, One Drive, Box, etc. I use it primarily for my audio book collection so that it doesn’t use up all of my phone space.

        The issue is that nextcloud sometimes behaves in an unexpected way with file changes initiated on Android. Sometimes large files (like audio book files) placed into my phones local nextcloud folder don’t automatically upload to the server. I have to do extra steps in the app. It seems to work as expected with small files. From what I understand/interpret the file access API is not a favorable design for supporting an external (non-google ) cloud service. OE Nextcloud just doesn’t care about Android.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 months ago

    AlterSend, encrypted peer-to-peer file transfers between devices with no size limits, no cloud storage, and no servers involved, FOSS, no account, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android

    • mirshafie@europe.pub
      3·
      2 months ago

      My first thought was “what app is that?”

      I actually despise cash, but I might go back to it just for privacy.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
    61·
    2 months ago

    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
    • pigup@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

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

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.