FrostyPolicy

joined 2 years ago
[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

email, calendar, contacts

Fastmail. Migration to some European provider is planned. K-9 for email on phone. For email/calendar/contacts Thunderbird on desktop. Contact and calendar sync Davx5 on phone. Fossify for contacts and etar for calendar on phone.

cloud storage

Filen. Zero knowledge e2ee service from Germany

maps & navigation

OSM-AND+

search

qwant (from France) and sometimes DDG or startpage

browser

LibreWolf + uBlock origin

notes

just a text editor (Pluma)

office

Latex & LibreOffice when needed

messaging

Signal, some contacts are still in TG

video calling

Don't use

social media

Lemmy & Mastodon

music streaming

Don't use. I get mine either on physical media if possible (cd) or in flac format (Bandcamp)

video streamming

Nebula, Odysee and FreeTube for youtube content

password manager

keepassXC. DB is synced via cloud to other devices

vpn & dns

Mullvad

firewall

Linux built-in (netfilter) configured thru Yast

android os

Graphene OS

app store

F-droid and some via Aurora store

photo gallery

Digikam locally on desktop. Fossify gallery on phone.

weather

Finnish meteorological institution

smart assistant

Don't use

anything else

I ditched google mostly years ago. Graphene OS is the latest one and that was only this year. FreeTube is also fairly recent (sometime last year). Before that I used piped but that was nuked by google. More precisely they made it impossible to use. On software I've been FOSS first for over 10 years. Using OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my desktop and laptop (Thinkpad L580).

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a mod. Valve approved I believe. https://store.steampowered.com/app/440000/Portal_2_Community_Edition/

Have had it on my wishlist since 08-2021. Still not available.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 3 points 1 month ago

Would have used sopuli.xyz but they weren't taking registrations at that time.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Aurora is just an anonymous front-end to google play store.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 63 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Laughs in FreeTube.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very good article. Thanks OP for posting.

“Microsoft is dedicated to strengthening innovation, competitiveness and cybersecurity in Europe”. So? MS is still an American company.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 6 points 1 month ago

Does the US government want Google’s developers of the Chromium codebase to work on another company’s payroll instead?

Probably. The point is that google can't have any direct control of the browser as there's a conflict of interest between google's ad and other business and how web is developing. Take manifest v3 for example. Blocking content blockers directly benefits google's ad-business. Also removing support for third party cookies etc benefits google's ad-business while hampering others.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 5 points 1 month ago

Default Tumbleweed one: Linux 6.14.4-1-default

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 1 points 1 month ago

Just checked. At least the windows installer on their website is for v138. And their rpm repo is at 138 as well. I'm using an unofficial build due to it not being available in Tumbleweed repos and that version is at 137.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The feature is in FF 138 and LibreWolf is at 137.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 4 points 2 months ago

I would quit youtube immediately but there are some good content creators that don't post their videos elsewhere and I do want to watch them. Gladly there's FreeTube for that.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Curious choice to write a c++ program for this instead of doing the same thing in a powershell script.

One feature it should have: delete itself after running to leave no traces of such a tool.

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