Previous part: https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/54095201
(Changelog at the bottom)
Universal prefernces:
- Lightweight
- FOSS
- Resource-effeciency
- No or human-checked vibecoding
Nice-to-have but non-garenteed features:
- Eco-friendly (by using the money for environmental purposes DIRECTLY)
- Decentralized
- Complete independence from original service. Use frontend or client if possible
- Self-hostable
- Offline-capable
- Not hosted on Github (eww Microslop product)
- Hardware sustainability
Avoiding alternative software developers (or companies/cooperations):
- Proton
- Mullvad
- Tuta
- Mozzila
- Signal
- FUTO
De-Boogle
Boogle Search:
- SearxNG
- Marginalia
- YaCy
Boogle Chrome:
- FREE Browser (Obscure)
- Librewolf
- Tor Browser
Boogle Mail:
- Service provider - Custom domain, Thundermail
- Client:
- FairEmail
- TutaNota
- Thunderbird
Boogle Maps:
- Modified PWA - Gmaps WV
- Map data - OpenStreetMaps
- Public transportation data - Transitious
- Navigation client - CoMaps
Boogle Gemini:
- Duck.ai
- Ollama
Boogle Play:
- Repo:
- F-Droid
- IzzyOnDroid
- Obtainium
- Client - Aurora Store
- Client for repos:
- Droid-ify
- ObtainX
YouTube:
- Platform:
- PeerTube
- Odysee
- Frontend - Invidious
- Frontend instance:
- materialio.us
- ytchocolatemoo.com
- Self-hosted
- Client:
- FreeTube
- PlasmaTube
Boogle messages:
- Fossify Messager
- NovaDial
Boogle My Files:
- Fossify File Manager
VirusTotal
- Veto
- Hypatia
Android - GrapeheneOS
Android Auto - Phone stand for car
De-Microslop
Windows:
- CachyOS
- Linux Mint
Office (or "Microslop Copilot 365"):
- MA Office
- LibreOffice
- OnlyOffice
De-Meta
Facebook and instagram:
- Platform - Mastodon
- Client for platform - Smither
WhatsApp - SimpleX Chat
De-ByteDance:
TikTok - Loops
CapCut:
- LibreCuts
- Kdenlive
- Shotcut
Hypic (photo editor):
- Pocket Paint
- Pinta
- Inkscape
- GIMP
Gaming
- Minecraft:
- Luanti + Mineclonia
- Cubys
-
Universe Sandbox - Cosmogon
-
Space Engine - Celestia
-
Territorial.io - OpenFront
-
Tetris - Block Drop
-
Wordle - Code Word
-
Friday Night Funkin - Etterna
-
Geoguessr - GeoGuessLite
General internet:
Domain name system:
- Adguard DNS
- NextDNS
- Quad9
Network tunnels:
- Manual Wireguard VPN tunnel
- Manual OpenVPN tunnel
- Tor Network
Proxy:
- HTTPS Proxy
- SOCKS5 Proxy
- Orbot
(not really related for De-googling or opensource but mpreso for de-bloating) File types and codecs (wheneber possible):
.png/.JPEG:
- .webp
- jxl
.exc:
- .ods
.mp4:
- .webm
- .VP9
.mp3:
- .OPUS
- .m4a
Other:
Reddit:
- Platform - Lemmy
- Platform instance - reddthat.com
- Platform client - Voyager
- Frontend - Redlib
- Frontend instance:
- saferreddit.com
- self-hosted
SearxNG search rssult sources:
- DuckDuckGo
- Brave
- Qwant
- StartPage
- Ecosia
- Mojeek
- GOOD
Github:
- Repo:
- Gitlab
- Codeberg
- Frontend - Gothub (no chosen instance yet)
- Client - Octolab (Gitlab-only)
New additions:
- Privacy Flip
- Shizuku
- Canta
- EnforceDoze
- SaverTuner
- Wine
- Virtual Box
- Librefind
- sustysubs.net
- Yagni Launcher
- LTE Cleaner
- SquirrelDisk
Main sources of help:
- YouTube videos and comments
- Lemmy comments and posts
- Reddit comments and posts
- sustysubs.net
- Librefind
- Possibly PeerTube in the future
Useless reccomendations for me:
- Termux
On the sidelines of comsideration:
- WizeStream (NewPipe fork)
- Flow (YouTube client)
- Skylib (Bluesky frontend, unlikely to actaully use)
- YT-dlp
Could use reccomendations for:
- Linux file manager
- Linux non-cloud-based photo gallery
- Linux malware scanner
- Long-term Linux distro if I find my beginner-friendly distros a bit pale in the future
Remaining questions:
- If you tested or use QubesOS, how's the experience?
- Do you use a non-Linux-based FOSS operating system (like ReactOS)? If so, how's the experience?
- If you used SailfishOS, PostMarketOS (or NuraOS) alongside GrapheneOS in your lufe, how's the experience?
- Any alternatives I missed?
- Any other software categories I missed?
- Any other new additions that I missed?
Changelog (NOT TOO IMPORTANT):
(Somewhat) Important changes
- Added "No or human-checked vibecoding" to Universal preferences
- Added "Not hosted on Github" and "Hardware sustainability" to "Nice-to-have but non garanteed features"
- Added note to "Eco-friendly" (Nice-to-have but non-garanteed featueres)
- Added "Signal" to "Avoiding alternative software developers"
- Replaced "Posteo" with "TutaNota" in Email clients
- Added "Public transportation data" with "Transitious" as the service
- Added "Odysee" as a new altermative platform to YouTube
- Replaced "Nobara" with "Linux Mint" as an alternative to Windows
- Added "Shotcut" as an alternative to CapCut
- Replaced "Galaxy Engine" with "Cosmogon" as an alternative to Universe Sandbox
- Added "Geoguessr" with "GeoguessLite" as the alternative
- Added "reddthat.com" as Lemmy instance
- Added "Voyager" as Lemmy client
- Added "SearxNG search results sources" with DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, Qwant, Ecosia, Mojeek and GOOD
- Added "Octolab" as Gitlab client
- Added "Squirreldisk" as a new addition
- Added "Main sources of help" with YouTube, Lemmy, Reddit, sustysubs.net, Librefind, and PeerTube
- Added "YT-dlp" on the sidelines of consideration
- Added "Linux malware scanner" to "Could use reccomendations for
- Asked about the SailfishOS and PostmarketOS (or NuraOS) experience
Changes you might notbcare about:
- Added changelog
- Added link to the previous part
- Added thumnail
- Updated format
Chill with the password managers. I sometimes forget to mention certain things. I plan to use KeePassXC and KeePassDX
I had to look up keepass I knew I heard of it before but there where reasons I did not go with it, syncing does not happen automatically, without other services and it is unclear to me that if you make a password on one device and than another on another device which new password gets saved when whatever you use syncs later.
Vaultwarden is the true thing to use, you selfhost vaultwarden and you get to use all the premium features of bitwarden and the syncing all happens in vaultwarden.
I personally will take the no-sync incovenience as I won't even use the same account across devices
So you will have to make the same password across multiple devices each and every time? Vaultwarden is self hosted so it can only sync when you are connected to it, I have it running on a pi5. Sure I could expose it to the WAN with my domain name, but I keep it locked behind my VPN and firewall.
Look, I said that I won't use the same accounts, services, frontends, networks, and/or clients cross-device. It will be a rugged experience, sure, but rugged is what I'm looking to