For me, I would personally make the adjustment:
chatgpt —> NOTHING
I’d rather go my whole life with people ridiculing me for not using genAI then hand over my status as a person to any form of genAI.
Im fine with local only, but theres so many people that just vomit out exactly what claude says.
Or googles AI overview.
yeah, imo search engines have gone completely to shit. and sometimes AI is literally the only way to find certain things without wasting a lot of time. but i do try to use it as little as possible
Well that is good we don’t have Gen AI yet if ever. I can’t imagine how bad that well be look at what the shut we have now has caused.
unfortunately every foss maps app I’ve tried has been subpar. all the ones based on open street maps can’t even go to proper addresses, it takes you to the street and you just have to look around for it. at least here in the us. so far magic earth has been better but it still doesn’t work with Public transit so I have to have a separate maps app in my private space anyways.
also, not to get nitpicky (I promise) but hasn’t /e/os criticized people for wanting privacy and security and said it’s for criminals? which I found very ironic of them given their own operating system
Not all, I use Cartes (French, OpenSource) which is pretty complete. GPS, public transport, bicycle, by feet, distances, restaurants, shops, administrations, etc… One of the most complete I found, it use Data, apart from OSM, also from NASA, Mapl and Citybic.
It is a good list. Everyone will have their own personal preferences, but I think overall the list is good.
Very good for you! I can’t change a lot of things cause, school, family, or i don’t understand the tech behind it, but it’s good to see other people protecting there own privacy!
yeah switching away from whatsapp is impossible. i only got my parents to switch lol
I have been waging a war of attrition getting people to switch onto Signal. After 5 years I’ve managed to get my spouse, my sister, my mother, 6 of my friends, 6 of my coworkers, and one sports team I play on to begin using it. Only real holdouts are my in-laws, two of my friends I talk to regularly, and another sports team or two. Some I’ve wooed off of basic texting, others off of WhatsApp. It’s been a long hard road, but at this point, I would estimate about 85% of my communications happen over Signal now. Keep fighting the good fight
ngl, thats awesome. i gave up the “fight” after my friends ridiculed me for caring about privacy… got my parents on signal tho :3
I am self hosting matrix server, set up element in my family devices and for once we escaped the network, from time to time I do create a whatsup account while travelling, but I give up on it right after.
Because of the restrictions put on popular messengers in my country, I was able to move my whole family including my 80 year old grandma over to ArcaneChat. It’s weird, but I literally almost never use proprietary messengers now…
It also goes to show how censorship greatly accelerates mass adoption of FLOSS tools.
The ignorant will never switch if even the informed don’t make the move.
Delete it. Inform those you regularly contact that they can contact you via Signal, email, whatever, but that you don’t have WhatsApp any more.
The only way to break the network effect of WhatsApp is to leave the network.
im completely within the proton eco system, the only reason for my 2fa not being proton is because i made this choice before proton had a 2fa app and i didnt want to bother importing everything
CoMaps is great and all but man. Living in an urban environment without traffic details is brutal.
I’d rather use KeePassXC tbh. Local, cloud-free by default password manager.
I much prefer Kagi over DuckDuckGo
An aggregator like SearXNG or degoog is the way to these days imo. Any individual search engine will have its own share of problems, whether that’s privacy or AI nonsense or just bad results.
This setup is telling me you’re spending too much time on computers. Consider a hobby where you make something with your hands, using tools that aren’t electrified.
Also, fuck Proton.
What is Cash+iDeal? Definitely don’t see anything on f droid and words are generic enough to not provide any results on search.
cash is just real money, like coins y’know? and iDeal/Wero is a Dutch (soon european) payment provider
Cash is just the physical cash and iDEAL is a payment system in Netherlands.
Oh lol, my brain couldn’t compute anything on the list is physical solution. Thanks
Anybody know of a good alternative to Google wallet? I’ve looked around on F-Droid but haven’t seen anything.
Theres one literally called Wallet where you can store information of your credit/debit cards but unfortunatly cant use them (still learning the app). Now Catima is awesome but its for anything you need thats a QR code. For example, I mostly use it so far for my gym membership.
Catima? Of maybe Walt in the future?
Catima seems really solid. I’ll probably be using it for a while.
And it’s a shame Walt isn’t ready yet, and probably won’t work for me since I live in the U.S.
Is it tab to pay you want or store tickets and membership cards in it.
I’m specifically looking for credit card storage. When I asked I forgot that Google wallet also does tickets and membership cards.
I think it has been implemented in microG. Even this sounds weird to me. I wouldn’t expect any bank to allow open source NFC card implementations, while blocking unofficial ROMs.
I have an Murena account, this include apart of mail, also e/OS, Nextcloud instance, Oonline Office and a lot more, they even sell Phones (FreePhone). substitute practically all Google apps and services. I also use the Portmaster app (FOSS, Windows and Linux), it includes optional (paid OpenSource) an SPN service, which is an multichannel VPN
Great job!! How are you liking /e/?
i like it :3 the default launcher “bliss” is awful, but ive used lawnchair for a while and it was nice. now i switched to ion just to try it. but yeah, pretty much everything works as exected
iDEAL is Wero now 🤗
