Posteo has been fantastic for me, but no bring your own domain as some have mentioned a deal breaker if that’s your bag
Super cheap, unsure on any political stances but they embrace being green / sustainable so that’s usually a give away :)
Use it with betterbird and Thunderbird android just works great
Windscribe has Anonymous Account (Hashed Login)
Blg fan of fedora atomic Cosmic been my daily for awhile but ran into a show stopper bug (for me) with release 44
So as wait on that resolve thought I’d try KDE again, and it just felt so busy & cluttered lol
Back to Silverblue with few tweaks and it feels just like home. Simple, beautiful, elegant & snappy
Gnome is fantastic indeed, no hurry to leave
We each have our personal zen, options are good
Librewolf has done a great job and has a strong stance on disabling/removing AI pieces
But yeah, it’s just sad to always be fighting against the tide
Love my Fedora Atomic Cosmic, but absolutely we all be watching to see where they go, and if needed will play the distro-hop game in attempt to stay in the AI free zone
Similar. Just months ago moved from BW to KeePassXC and android equiv
Nothing bad say about Bitwarden its fantastic & served me well, but wanted to go fully offline
Manually updating the phone is not nearly the deal I thought would be, as my logins fairly static & use my phone as little as possible for most items where logins needed
Of course each of us has separate use cases, but +1 for KeePass really like it
A good read, and yeah along with others comments, I’ll just stick to Opensnitch which really has truly been fantastic for years now
Just got curious when saw the announcement. No need to change anything :)
Years ago as I started research I literally laughed at loud at the thought of buying a google phone to… Degoogle!
Talk about an instant compromise of values! Haha!
Then I saw the toxicity of the GOS devs & their fanz & that sealed the deal
Best decision ever to run away from that group of nasties
Ahhhhhh, the zen life
Niagara was my fav for long time, love text launchers,
Olauncher & YAM are nice similar open source alternative with no trackers less permissions on fdroid. :)
Fantastic love to see it. No recommendations as you will find what suits your zen, Mint is loved by many
I comment to add a cheers for bailing on Amazon & not paying for streaming services. Did so also years ago, its a great feeling. Good luck!
Very cool indeed. Librewolf user and love it, but always need good options because you never know the future.
Definitely be checking this one out. Cheers!
Legit concern & lots of good comments on the device side of things so I’ll just toss in that another perhaps far easier approach for fascist regimes would be to force telcos, ISPs to permit online access only once registered, similar to a hotel guest WiFi. Only of course more rigidly enforced & monitored.
Thus removing the device itself from the equation, and using infrastructure as the chokepoint.
Future generations are largely doomed by the apathy of the “we have nothing to hide” folks of today, or those who buy into the its “for the children” movement.
Horrifying for the generations to come, as it all advances from multiple angles to 1984 reality
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Nice. Similar, I got the N100 off the bay to give a try. VoLTE now works good in USA with Tello /Tmobile, at least in my area, that was certainly a show stopper for some time, huge win!
Got OpenVPN working, uWolf runnng my NextDNS so can filter/watch the logs, MMS has some issues (only works with wifi disabled, but I think they have a fix coming), no RCS as you mention.
As you say, not quite there, but good progress overall. Hope for continued progress, and love to see the many more posts on it than ever before!
Using a privacy focused Android phone project for now, but long term the real answer is Linux or some other new project to tear away completely from Bigtechs dependency & stranglehold. Thanks for your adding development to the cause!
Had no idea. Did some research, very unfortunate. Appreciate the heads up.
You do you. I stand by my principals and don’t feel the need to pretend I’m some sort of Jason Bourne.
Weird how now that Google went quarterly with their older device updates… it’s suddenly just not the big deal the GOS folks used as a hammer, with their ad nauseum attacks on other privacy projects. Back then I could smell their overhyped, overplayed security scare marketing tactics from a mile away. As it turns out, I was right.
Not having any google crap in my household? Absoltely priceless
e/OS is fantastic, IodeOS also IMO, plenty good choices. LineageOS with rethinkDNS in whitelist only mode is also amazing
And for extra goodness supporting open source apps without trackers
All without handing yet more $$$ to nasty google, imagine that
When I started my degoogle process some time back & researching options I literally laughed at loud at myself. Am I seriously going to hand over yet more money to the very beast I am trying to get away from? Talk about instant compromise of values
Years later, extremely proud of that decision. Just a non starter. Buying second hand also creates a market value for selling more google crap
The e/os Advanced Privacy feature is very nice, great way to see which apps have tracker whilst blocking them. Same as running DNS filters but built in experience, easy to view
In itself LOS is fantastic but needs be combined with something like reThinkDNS or another DNS filtering option
Rethink on LOS is fantastic, in particular if you can do the whitelist method - block everything by default, and permit only that which you approve. Takes some time & effort but great control is the reward
I prefer layers, example LOS w/rethink DNS all going thru Control D or NextDNS with Hagezi lists enabled
Overkill? Perhaps , but I love the reporting , helps in learning what’s going on, and apps/sites to be avoided