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Recommending Arch from Windows is a hot take.
I think this is just a statement what the person did
Not a recomendaton
Maybe it’s CachOS?
Came here to say the same thing
Google -> Kagi
ChatGPT -> Kagi Assistant
highly recommend PeerGOS over Nextcloud
Lumo isn’t really private. If you’re not local, you’re not private. AFAIK it sends to the model in cleartext (zero access) which isn’t E2EE. Signal, for example, is E2EE. Based on internet reviews, you’re better off running the models they offer locally for performance reasons on the cost anyway. I’d say you’re better off without AI in almost every situation you’d want to use an LLM of such such limited capability too so unless you really really want to set resources on fire it’s better to just drop it period.
Netflix cannot be replaced by Jellyfin. That is very disingenuous. To “replace” Netflix with Jellyfin requires a bit more infrastructure and while it might be cheaper there’s risk involved that isn’t present with your other changes.
Jellyfin/Plex is not cheaper than Netflix.
We like to pretend or tells our wives it is, but hard drives and electricity likely come close or maybe even exceed a netflix subscription.
Host your media collection because it’s in better quality, titles don’t leave the service, and overall it’s just cooler. But don’t do it because it’s “cheaper.”
Sure, just don’t tell my wife
Where is F-Droid?
Immich is better than Nextcloud for photos.
I would like to plug Mailo. Its explicitly privacy focused, has a free tier and even has child inboxes with more restrictions. Its like $75 per year and I have had nothing but great luck with it.
I’ve never seen Magic Earth, but as an OSM contributor, I don’t understand why I’d use a subscription service when all the underlying data is free (as in beer and freedom) and contributed by volunteers (and likely not the app devs). One-time app purchases like OsmAnd I understand because you’re doing stuff with the data like routing, overlays, etc., and that requires development work. But a subscription seems absurd.
I use both. CoMaps when I can, but Magic Earth has a better business data set and better traffic data right now. I also contribute to OSM when I can, but there is a lot of missing data.
Because it’s a refined way of showing that information. Because search actually works. And because it adds traffic data. If you don’t see the value in any of those things than it’s not for you.
Well, I just reverted to an old version of Magic Earth so I could keep getting traffic info. That’s literally the only tjing stopping me from other OSM apps like CoMaps. I wanna know if an accident happened or my usual route is blocked for some reason.
But yeah I hate their shitty subscription lol.
Proton is good but “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”
I’ve only got two hands. The basket is kind of necessary.
Learn to juggle.
What if I’m a basket case?
Learn to juggle baskets.
you can carry at least two baskets
I need one hand free to collect the eggs
I need one hand free to… I need one hand free!
put the basket through your arms. then you can have both hands free for whatever you need!
You’ll love our next product: Basket Hands!
Proton is telling people to use baskets in the first place. Instead of just rolling them along the ground and hoping squirrels don’t run off with them
Nextcloud isn’t really a direct equivalent to Google Photos. For that you want Immich.
I’ve also found ente to be a good alternative
nextcloud would be more akin to google drive.
More like Google Workspace.
yes. it’s versatile and works quite well nowadays.
just nextcloud can replace most of google’s webapps.
Not direct, but with Memories installed it’s near identical, and if you already have NC… May as well
I wouldn’t say nearly. I demoed both of them over the last month, Immich has really leaped ahead in features and friendliness.
I haven’t managed to get Immich running on my server, so it’s more comparing the current Nextcloud memories app to the google photos app from about… A little over a year ago? I’m not sure about the web interface for memories, though, as I don’t really use it there
why not just local backup for photos?
So I can show people pictures that aren’t already on my phone lol or my wife took the pic not me.
Ecosia is nice but is it really privacy-respecting?
No it’s not. It got bought out a few years ago.
https://www.ecosia.org/privacy
Not perfect, you’d probably want to change away from Google for example, and Microsoft/Google seem to get your IP address or location along with the search, to get relevant results. Still seems leagues better than Google or Bing directly, and the issue seems to mostly be Google/Microsoft getting data, rather than Ecosia collecting data for itself.
Probably moreso than Google. Bit that’s not saying a lot
Everyone should strive to learn about Alots. They’re an invasive species!
Yeah, but I have Alot of love, so it’s okay
PlayStore -> AuroraStore and NeoStore
Google -> DuckDuckGo
Android -> GrapheneOS, LineageOS, PostMarketOS
Windows -> Linux
Google -> Kagi+
DDG uses bing and bing is owned my Microsoft
Enough said
Kagi uses Bing and Google…
It’s kind of unclear what they use as sources nowadays. What is clear however is that they use their own search engine, Teclis, so it doesn’t just act as a proxy for other search engines but searches will only remain in their own engine.
They listed their sources before and they removed https://web.archive.org/web/20231228222303if_/https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
But than this month they write a blog https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search and revealed everything again
Vendor Status Mojeek Direct license Brave Direct license Yandex Direct license Wikipedia Direct license TripAdvisor Direct license Yelp Direct license Apple Direct license Wolfram Alpha Direct license Our own Small Web Index Proprietary With Google and Bing, we failed - not for lack of trying. Bing: Their terms didn’t work for us from the start. Microsoft’s terms prohibited reordering results or merging them with other sources - restrictions incompatible with Kagi’s approach. In February 2023, they announced price increases of up to 10x on some API tiers. Then in May 2025, they retired the Bing Search APIs entirely, effective August 2025, directing customers toward AI-focused alternatives like Azure AI Agents. Google: Google does not offer a public search API. The only available path is an ad-syndication bundle with no changes to result presentation - the model Startpage uses.and “it doesn’t just act as a proxy for other search engines” it exactly does this, Teclis is <1% of the results (you can see yourself https://teclis.com/)
I’ve heard… Questionable things about the Kagi CEO that make me hesitant to give them money. I just don’t really use search engines for much anymore.
What have you heard?
I think this blog post sums it all, but it was written in 2024, so some of its information may be dated: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
I read most of it. Nothing of concern compared to Google & Microsoft.
I wish any of those supported my phone. Stuck with stock android
Doesn’t help now, but when I buy a new phone I make sure it’s comparable with a custom ROM. Anytime I’m using a stock android (or iOS) phone it’s unbearable after so many years of custom ROMs. So hopefully you’re in need of a new phone soon.
Ya, hopefully lineage will support it eventually, they already have one for the same model, just a different year.
My last 3 phones are just kind of pain software wise.
Moto G5s Plus - the Android 8 update (latest official) made it a slow horrible mess with frequent crashes and high battery drain. PixelExperience 11 fixed that.
Poco X3 Pro - told not to update to MIUI 13 due to instability. Many bugs I had to learn to work around. Left and right microphones reversed in software. Extreme power saving that doesn’t even spare alarms.
Ulefone Armor 24 - UI often crashes (Quickstep) including navigation. In some cases Android version updates don’t show up. The legend has it they sometimes provide updates after you e-mail them, stored on the Google Drive. Those updates do a factory reset, because of course they do. Alarm also has a chance of being killed, but lower than with MIUI. Charging with fast charger kills USB communication until reboot.I don’t do updates anymore. Check the experiences online, and it’s all just new bugs, often pretty serious ones. So, if it somewhat works, and it isn’t absolutely clear that the next update would certainly fix something important, just keep it as-is.
TWRP could at least give me some peace of mind. I could just back up everything.
As another person said, why put all or a lot of your eggs in one basket (Proton)? To me the value in switching away from big tech is that I can deversify my services.
Because my eggs can communicate with each other and because I can get all my eggs with 1 reasonable price.
Inevitably Proton will enshittify. If you, dear reader that scrolled past this comment, disagree, then i think you dont belong here.
Could you elaborate? Isn’t the fact that it’s owned by a non-profit foundation an obstacle to enshittification? Do you assume the same will happen to services like Signal too?
The service provided is not open source, or source available. The email clients are provided under a GPLv3 license, not the service itself.
It’s Open Washing (Gaining the marketing benefits without providing the freedoms)
OpenAI was also non-profit and sure as shit wasn’t living up to its name of being open in any way. Then it became for-profit in late 2025 because it could, and also money.
Do you think there’s something snowflake-level special preventing Proton from doing the same fucking thing? It’s a corporation trying to make money; non-profit may be used to grift popularity or grassroots support.
If Proton is special and impossible to follow a similar trajectory after enough people use/are locked into their ecosystem, please share with us what your logic would be that would protect us from this. (Hint: you can’t)
Also to note, Proton AG is technically for-profit. They are majority owned by Proton, which is a non-profit, but the company that hosts everything is technically for-profit.
Agreed. I use their mail and VPN, but I use a personal domain, so I could switch email with little trouble and Mullvad VPN can’t really be beat.
I don’t really need anything else Proton offers because I’ve got NextCloud.
/e/OS does not take security seriously. They are often 1-2+ months behind on Android security patches, leaving you vulnerable to literal dozens of high severity vulnerabilities. You would probably be better off with LineageOS.
Maybe the got their shit together since I last checked, but hqving that history and being at the very least 1 month (usually more) behind for years is a very bad look for a ROM that bills itself as private and secure.
According to this well known comparison table they still havent changed: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
They also leave plenty of proprietary binary blobs in the ROM.
