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,

        • BehavioralClam@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Worse stuff like them shutting off their transparency should be more relevant than random US politics. The company isnt even murrikkkan

          • Man_kind@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            I don’t care where the company is from. If they support fascism and oligarchies, and the far right, they shall not have my business.

            Being in Europe is positive in that maga cant legislate them into obedience. But if they’re willingly maga, then its irrelevant.

  • JadeEast@quokk.auEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Close to what I normally use. I prefer CoMaps instead of Organic, Mullvad VPN instead of Proton & Artix instead of Arch.

  • soaringbirdie@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    For DNS I use Pi-hole with Unbound which is used to contact the DNS root servers directly and recursively find IP-addresses. The first lookup becomes a little bit slower than through say Google but the IP is then cached locally and then it actually becomes faster. This is also more private since it doesn’t require a third-party DNS resolver.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 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
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      3 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
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        3 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.)

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 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
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              3 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.

              • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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                3 months ago

                Sadly that’s not it, I was using offline maps.

                I’m not entirely sure what’s the exact issue, but it only really occurs when trying to change LoD quickly. E.g. clicking on an inter-city bus route and zooming out to see it in its entirety or zooming back in. From 10 km to 500 m can take 3-4 seconds which is enough to feel sluggish if you’re doing it often.

                Probably not the most popular use case but it can get frustrating after a while nonetheless

              • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
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                3 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
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                  3 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.

          • qweertz@programming.dev
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            3 months ago

            Tried it out, but since I was so used to the standard OsmAnd style it just felt wrong some way.

            It really like how OsmAnd allows for so much customization e.g. in map styles

  • we are all@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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    3 months ago

    open source software ≠ privacy

    though it is preferable. 3rd party verification of closed source can be accepted in some cases.

  • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    What privacy concerns are there with using your ISP DNS? (honest question, not judging)

    • we are all@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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      3 months ago

      dns requests flowing through your ISP means they know where you (want to) go and 3rd parties can potentially determine identity based on certain aspects (date time of request, how many, etc) can matter to law enforcement, surveillance/state efforts, hackers and beyond) because ISP may not govern well or, hell, wven sell those requests or just 3rs party manages it without your knowledge etc )

      it’s better to have a known good dns provider that can offer a little trust but realistically nothing is 100%…

    • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
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      3 months ago

      Your ISP can see what websites you visit. But even if you change DNS server it can still see that if you don’t use either a VPN or DoH/DoT.

      So it’s a good idea to use DoH or DoT. It’s an improvement but it’s far from perfect because the DNS server you’ll pick will see what site you visit, you have to trust them. And your ISP still has other ways to see which site you visit.

        • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
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          3 months ago

          Yes, that’s why I ended with:

          And your ISP still has other ways to see which site you visit.

          Even with secure DNS they can still see the domain name with the SNI, which is probably more reliable than an IP address. Last I checked very few websites used ECH. I would still argue that it’s better to have encrypted DNS requests than non-encrypted ones.

    • Snowhuoue@feddit.uk
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      3 months ago

      Depends where you are, and what laws your ISP is required to follow with regards to blocking/tracking. Personally I like Quad9.

    • Engine606@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 months ago

      In my country they implemented national wide surveillance in the network infrastructure and they keep track of everything Edit: that’s why internet is very slow

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      ISPs not only have a monopoly on connectivity and bandwidth prices - which they severely abuse by the way, considering the actual operational costs - but they also have everything to gain on analyzing your traffic, DNS queries being one of them. They already have a bunch of personally identifiable information (PII) on you (full name, date of birth, banking information and, in some countries, even social security number). Linking that PII to your DNS requests (read: what websites you visit) and selling that to data brokers is a pretty low effort sweet deal. Long are the days gone when ISPs only provided Internet service.

      Texts on the topic:

      Videos on the topic:

    • ForeverComical@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Your usage of derangement syndrome is a perfect analogy to how it’s used with Trump. People within the cult can’t see a reason people would dislike something/someone so it has to be a “syndrome”, it’s the only thing that makes sense if you’re unwilling to challenge your beliefs.

  • xorollo@leminal.space
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    3 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
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      3 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
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      3 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

    • orioler25@lemmy.world
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      3 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.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    3 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
      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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        3 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.

    • pigup@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

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

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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        3 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.

  • Mearcfara@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    What’s up with Tutamail? I’ve been looking at switching my email over to something better, and I’ve been hearing Proton for a long time, but I don’t know enough to sway one way or the other.

    Also, how hard is it to self host email?

    • mirshafie@europe.pub
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      3 months ago

      Self-hosting email sucks. Setting up an email server is the easy part, and you’d be able to receive email alright. Sending is a different can of worms and not a fun dinner. Because other email providers will not trust your server and tend to send your messages straight to spam.

      I haven’t used Tuta, but it looks alright. I’ve got Proton which works very well for email and VPN, but it is a bit expensive to be honest. But I like ending my address with @pm.me

    • Forbo@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Haven’t dived that deep yet, but who knows. Maybe I’ll get there eventually. I’ve heard good things about this book: https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms/

      You also don’t need to do everything all at once. You can start by getting your own domain and configuring your mail service of choice to handle it. Then whenever you want to move to a different mail service or run your own, you maintain control over your addresses and just need to update your DNS.

      Edit: Oh, completely forgot to talk about Proton/Tuta. I set up my stuff on Proton back in the day and recently set up Tuta for my partner. I might get around to swapping to Tuta for my stuff as well, I just haven’t bothered to yet.