(had to add some of my own through GIMP bc the website doesnt have alot of choice)

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[โ€“] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

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.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [โ€“] 28 points 11 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.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 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.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    How about from ChatGPT to nothing?

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 11 months ago

    Too much Proton for my taste.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 11 months ago

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

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 11 months ago

    Would be nice if they added Social Media in there

    aka.
    Reddit --> PieFed

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 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)

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 months ago*

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 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.

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  • [+] 1 point 11 months ago*

    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.

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