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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.

  • zewm@lemmy.world
    425·
    4 days ago

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

  • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
    14·
    4 days ago

    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?)

      • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        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.worldOP
      21·
      4 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        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.

  • skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    251·
    4 days ago

    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…

  • FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org
    233·
    4 days ago

    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
      11·
      4 days ago

      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
        4·
        4 days ago

        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

  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    41·
    3 days ago

    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.

        • MrSoup@lemmy.zip
          3·
          4 days ago

          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.

  • GlenRambo@jlai.luEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

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

  • brzrd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    4 days ago

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

  • cøre@leminal.space
    71·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlM
      5·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • mrnobody@reddthat.com
      5·
      4 days ago

      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

      • cøre@leminal.space
        4·
        4 days ago

        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
          3·
          4 days ago

          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.