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[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Other alternatives:

Mail: Tuta, Mailbox.

Search Engines: SearXNG, Mullvad

Alternative to Signal: SimpleX Chat

AI: Ollama, Kobold.cpp, Llamafix

Browsers: LibreWolf, Tor, Mullvad

Navigation: OsmAnd, Organic Maps

Also, recommended for everyone regardless of threat model...

a paid VPN. And not one of the flagship ones either. Pay attention to the VPN's jurisdiction. If it's US-based or Swiss-based, it's imo a no-go.

Whatever goes on stock market can be discarded. If it's on stocks, it'll be far more profit-oriented and that's a problem.

[โ€“] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Calling Molly an alternative to Signal is a bit much. It's, as far as I understand it, a recompile of Signal with Google Service intergations replaced by Open Source integrations

[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yikes, didn't know that. Removed it, thanks.

[โ€“] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

It's still a good alternative to the signal client, just no alternative to Signal as a messaging platform

[โ€“] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They even suspended journalist accounts this month

I don't recommend Proton anymore

[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I was in the process of switching when the CEO ran his mouth. Now Im just another unused account on a server somewhere

[โ€“] roserose56@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There are a lot of EU emails providers not just proton.
Just to list some:
mailbox.org
posteo.de
soverin.com
tutanota.com
infomaniak.com
mailo.com

Also this https://european-alternatives.eu/

edit: general speaking, too much proton.

[โ€“] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

AFAIR none of those allow sending and receiving calendar invitations, that interfunction with outside services (eg Outlook.com, Gmail, Apple). Proton does. Send a calendar invitation from gmail/outlook/Apple to a Proton user; they can accept it and it will automatically add to their calendar and send back an acceptance email that gmail/etc understands. Vice-versa also true.

I trialled almost all of those before I ended with Proton, because it was the only one that felt like they actually tried to get calendar and email functionality on par with major (non-privacy focussed) service providers, and in general was the most polished.

They are all fine if literally all you need is simple email though.

[โ€“] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Tuta does.

Source: I use Tuta as my main driver.

[โ€“] roserose56@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the info!

[โ€“] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why'd you choose HERE WeGo over a FOSS option like CoMaps?

[โ€“] Kalon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be nice to see that in F-Droid. I assume they are working on that.

[โ€“] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Kalon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I realize now that it is on F-droid. I needed to change display options so I could see it.

[โ€“] blinfabian@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

because i like a maps app that functions

[โ€“] az04@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Google Photos -> TrueNAS is too vague, TrueNAS is just an operating system, and it's creator, iXsystems, is American so it doesn't fit here at all.

My solution is Immich running on a docker container in OpenMediaVault. OpenMediaVault is German and Immich is multinational FOSS.

[โ€“] blinfabian@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i use a smb share on truenas. truenas is opensource thats why i included it

[โ€“] Tartletboy1@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

Photoprism is what I use. running on a truenas scale server. I find it does a better job in replicating the "google photos" user experience with it's facial recognition and metadata processing.

[โ€“] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about from ChatGPT to nothing?

[โ€“] bigchunga@feddit.online 14 points 2 months ago

Too much Proton for my taste.

[โ€“] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Iโ€™m currently moving from Proton to Tuta. The fiasco with shutting off journalists accounts without recourse was one straw too far.

Would be nice if they added Social Media in there

aka.
Reddit --> PieFed

[โ€“] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Missing Photoshop --> GNU Image Manipulation Program (doing business as GIMP)

[โ€“] blinfabian@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

ikr? although, GIMP is not the replacement. GIMP is first choice๐Ÿ”ฅ

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I like it. Well done! Didn't even know proton has that many things.

[โ€“] Szewek@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

I used to search with Ecosia, but the Bing-sourced results were sometimes really poor quality. I've recently gave one more try to Karma Search. While it worked really poorly earlier this year, I am very positively surprised by the quality of the results! (Of course, the "quality" is my vibe at the moment, and idk if there are good ways to benchmark search engines)

[โ€“] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Or how about instead of using a hallucinating misinformation bot you just think for yourself.

Also big tip. Donโ€™t put your eggs in one basket. Andy from Proton has gladly licked the Trump boot and proton has repeatedly pumped out new products instead of taking the time to fix the existing ones like full Linux support already. They have also been accused of vibe coding and thatโ€™s a slippery slope to a large data breach.

[โ€“] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How good is here we go with non car locations? Also does it have trains and buses?

[โ€“] blinfabian@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

walking/cycling its pretty bad imo, but i never have issues with the trains, buses and the car

For AI Language models, I have been happy with Mistral's Le Chat. For VPNs, use NordVPN. Both are great European alternatives for US-based tech giants.