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  • I’ve considered CalyxOS but prefer the hardening of GrapheneOS with no gapps - still means a phone decent on privacy. However I do try to keep an open mind, so if CalyxOS has additional privacy benefits to my existing setup I’d be interested.

    I agree with the proprietary style of ProtonMail point, and my workaround for multiple accounts has been to use my own domain and have email rules for delivering messages to the respective folder. I don’t have immediate plans to move from them, but I am watching the news cycle and have considered Tuta as an alternative.

    I haven’t used ReVanced, but I remember the original YouTube Vanced was a mod of the original YouTube apk - if that’s still the case, I feel like ReVanced would offer even less privacy than Invidious or NewPipe. However I’m happy to be corrected.

    I personally use Nextcloud notes but the Obsidian setup you have sounds interesting, especially if it’s like OneNote - I’ll keep it in mind!

    Completely agree on your Nextcloud points - I uploaded my uncompressed Telegram archive to it, which took like 12 hours over my Gigabit lan. I suspect it hated the sheer amount of small files


  • Been degoogled for years at this point:

    • Stock Android --> LineageOS or GrapheneOS (no gapps)
    • YouTube --> Invidious*, NewPipe
    • Google Search --> DuckDuckGo, Brave Search
    • Google Play Store --> F-Droid, Aurora Store

    I’ve also decoupled from other similar services:

    • Outlook --> ProtonMail
    • Calendar --> Nextcloud*
    • OneDrive --> Nextcloud*
    • Windows, macOS --> Linux (after years of distrohopping, I found LMDE is incredibly stable while still being a nice “out of box” distro)
    • Google Maps, Apple Maps --> OSMAnd, Organic Maps

    I never used any online password manager myself, I went from writing passwords in a literal book to KeePass, to now Vaultwarden* for that

    * - self hosted



  • SMS is incredibly antiquated as soon as you want to do anything multimedia, or heck sending an SMS longer than 144 characters.

    My mother received a video over SMS the other day and it legitimately looked like it was filmed on a Nokia 6310.

    I’ve encouraged my family to use Signal to replace SMS and it functions really well as an SMS upgrade. It’s more secure, private, supports sending decent quality multimedia, the interface is simplistic, it has formatting, does video calls well, and you can send a long message without it being a hacked together string of 5 messages.

    From both a security and usability perspective, it wins out on SMS in my opinion.

    Edit: there’s also the nightmare of group chats with SMS. I hate when extended family try to use it









  • I just use Linux Mint Debian Edition for my study laptop, sounds pretty much the same - in over a year of use, I have literally never had a single problem with it (other than things directly caused by me like leftover fstab entries for testing). I know it’s what Debian is renowned for but god damn that is a stable operating system.