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De-googling so far.
from imjustmsk@lemmy.world to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 14:09
https://lemmy.world/post/44899209

keepandroidopen.org

I LOVE F-droid.

suggest me any more cool apps I can get.

UPDATE: Got rid of Brave 🙃, I wasnt using it anyway but here you go the updated list.

#degoogle

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ada@piefed.blahaj.zone on 29 Mar 14:17 next collapse

Brave is a less than ideal choice…

lemmyng@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 15:47 next collapse

Cromite is a much more secure Chromium browser. IronFox is a much more secure Gecko browser.

ByteJunk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 19:23 collapse

I swear I saw the post and it had brave as #1 app and not it’s gone. I mean, good, but still…

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 31 Mar 15:45 collapse

Read the description, I edited the post, should I make it more clear though?

FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org on 29 Mar 14:19 next collapse

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!

zikzak025@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 14:40 collapse

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…

FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org on 29 Mar 15:30 next collapse

We can Start a civilized discussion about, why you are wrong on every point in your post, right after you acknowledge templeOS as the only right ROM on your Phone!

The audacity… Tsk…

P.s. I love it how eveny when i tried not to offend somebody, you found something you could feel offended about :D

Bell@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 15:30 collapse

+1 for Firefox Nightly with add-ons, anything else is sacrilege

core@leminal.space on 29 Mar 14:37 next collapse

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.

mrnobody@reddthat.com on 29 Mar 14:55 next collapse

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

core@leminal.space on 29 Mar 15:51 collapse

I have purchases linked to the accounts and they can’t be migrated to new accounts. Ie humble bundles, tutorials and educational materials. It sucks that there are services out there that are designed without the ability to change emails.

mrnobody@reddthat.com on 29 Mar 16:29 collapse

Well, tbh, they just use an email as a username a lot of times. As long as you note the old email address and password for an acct you should be good. Another option: Forward those emails with keys and other important info to a new address, or better yet, archive those all to a .PST (if you have Outlook for example) so they’re available offline.

Last but not least, stop using that old email, switch all important stuff over and leave the old dormant. I DO recommend a strong password update and possible MFA since you’ll seldom access it. But then you can disregard the old account and it exist for historical purposes.

CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 15:34 collapse

With some, deleting and recreating accounts may work. Some may be tricky.

The less Google usage, the less data they get, the less they understand about who you are now.

core@leminal.space on 29 Mar 15:51 collapse

Oh have non google accounts, I just can’t be 100% free of them

zewm@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 14:47 next collapse

Yikes. De googles but leaves the brave crypto scam browser installed.

[deleted] on 29 Mar 18:09 collapse

skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Mar 15:20 next collapse

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…

[deleted] on 29 Mar 15:36 next collapse

excursion22@piefed.ca on 29 Mar 15:43 next collapse

I think you may have got autocorrected, Obtainium is the name.

eodur@piefed.social on 29 Mar 15:44 next collapse

Surely you mean Obtainium, unless there is a new fork I’m unaware of.

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 18:11 collapse

Obtaining is literally there?

maupao@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 15:52 next collapse

plainapp

gnawmon@ttrpg.network on 29 Mar 16:02 next collapse

hi, what launcher and app are you using for the dynamic island thingy?

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 18:11 collapse

I hate the dynamic island thingy, Its part of hyperos 😭

gnawmon@ttrpg.network on 29 Mar 22:58 collapse

ohhh, i nuked hyperos long time ago and have no plans going back

good luck if you’re trying to unlock your bootloader!!

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 05:01 collapse

I already unlocked and it was a hell of a fucking pain in the ass, I got magisk as you can see.

I can’t find any custom ROMs for my phone, there is a community build LOS, but I’m not sure if its stable or if I can use it for daily driving.

bruzzard@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 16:21 next collapse

Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 16:48 next collapse

Same! Just moved to graphene and it’s great!

Mangoholic@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 18:46 next collapse

I dislike the ai slop tentacles bg

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 22:56 collapse

Fair. I didn’t realize it was ain’t until you said so, I just like tentacles as an aesthetic.

Mangoholic@lemmy.ml on 30 Mar 11:10 collapse

www.artstation.com/artwork/2x84rA

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 17:19 collapse

Beautiful.

xorollo@leminal.space on 30 Mar 02:15 collapse

Looks cool. What launcher?

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 03:13 collapse

Lawn chair off aurora and dollphone icons off f-droid

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev on 29 Mar 16:56 next collapse

Sweet! May I suggest IronFox instead of Brave? ironfoxoss.org/docs/installation/

It’s obviously degoogled chromium so who cares, but there are all these reasons: thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

Also, these are my initial impressions: programming.dev/post/47806969

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 18:14 collapse

I thought I had IronFox installed but it was fennec, but now that I’m trying to install ironfox—

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev on 29 Mar 18:29 collapse

Hm… Are you perhaps on iPhone?

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 18:32 collapse

what 😭 how can you possible get any of these Foss apps let alone F-droid in an iphone?

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev on 29 Mar 18:51 collapse

No idea. The settings icon looked a bit like the one from iOS. 😅

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 04:57 collapse

Companies like Xiomi are always on the move to rip every bit off from iphone for some reason.

LLMhater1312@piefed.social on 29 Mar 16:57 next collapse

Librewolf and waterfox over brave

MrSoup@lemmy.zip on 29 Mar 17:36 next collapse

It’s android, Fennec for gecko or Vanadium for chromium

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 05:04 next collapse

Im currently using cromite for chromium

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Mar 06:35 collapse

What’s gecko? Better?

MrSoup@lemmy.zip on 30 Mar 07:23 collapse

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.

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 18:03 collapse

I don’t really use brave, as you can see I also have cromite, I just had it.

alexquiniou@lemmy.zip on 29 Mar 17:14 next collapse

I recommend gadget bridge if you have a smartwatch and other bluetooth objets. One app to rule them all.

f-droid.org/…/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridg…

Newpipe to watch youtube without ads.

newpipe.net

Voyager to surf lemmy

f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 18:06 collapse

I’m currently on blood to use lemmy

starlinguk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 17:31 next collapse

Brave again?!

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 18:05 collapse

I’m not a big fan of brave either, Im currently using cromite, Brave is just there in the phone I font really use it lol

howmuchlonger@lemmy.org on 29 Mar 18:12 next collapse

Still got a Gmail account?

Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com on 29 Mar 18:18 next collapse

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

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 18:31 collapse

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})

Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Mar 19:50 next collapse

Good boy

Takeshidude@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 19:57 next collapse

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

berty@feddit.org on 29 Mar 23:33 next collapse

KeePass is awesome!

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 04:58 next collapse

yes, I don’t have any money to pay for a VPN subscription for now but I am definitely switching my password manager.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Mar 06:33 collapse

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?

GlenRambo@jlai.lu on 29 Mar 20:14 next collapse

Molly is a hardened signal fork. Not sure how folks feel about it but I have no issues.

GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 20:51 next collapse

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.

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 04:59 collapse

I do use obtainium, I think I forgot to include it in the homescreen.

Eldritch@piefed.world on 30 Mar 00:40 next collapse

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?)

xorollo@leminal.space on 30 Mar 02:18 next collapse

Good to know. I just decided to try a gboard replacement and heliboard does pretty well.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Mar 06:30 next collapse

Agree on heliboard. Not issues here.

Eldritch@piefed.world on 30 Mar 14:24 collapse

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.

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 05:03 collapse

Atleast its better than Gboard lol,

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.

Eldritch@piefed.world on 30 Mar 14:23 collapse

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.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Mar 06:28 next collapse

Can people use tailscale without single sign in. All the SSOs I saw were fascists corps.

darkmogool@feddit.org on 30 Mar 06:49 next collapse

Would be nice if we could…

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 08:41 next collapse

that’s true

Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Mar 11:52 next collapse

Yes you can login without SSO to tailscale

some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 17:44 collapse

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.

kieron115@startrek.website on 30 Mar 07:35 next collapse

Magisk twice is killing me.

imjustmsk@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 08:41 collapse

I have 2 root 👾

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de on 30 Mar 16:57 collapse

The most important steps are moving the chip industry to europe, producing sensible meaningful hardware that is compatible with OSes other than Android and Microsoft, and then install proper applications on them.