Brave is a less than ideal choice...

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

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...

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!

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?)

Sweet! May I suggest IronFox instead of Brave? https://ironfoxoss.org/docs/installation/

It's obviously degoogled chromium so who cares, but there are all these reasons: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

Also, these are my initial impressions: https://programming.dev/post/47806969

Librewolf and waterfox over brave

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.

Same! Just moved to graphene and it's great!

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

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

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.

Magisk twice is killing me.

I recommend gadget bridge if you have a smartwatch and other bluetooth objets. One app to rule them all.

https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge

Newpipe to watch youtube without ads.

https://newpipe.net/

Voyager to surf lemmy

https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager

The most important steps are moving the chip industry to europe, producing sensible meaningful hardware that is compatible with OSes other than Google and Microsoft, and then install proper applications on them.

hi, what launcher and app are you using for the dynamic island thingy?

Get yourself a nice background to make your phone space nice!

Favourite apps from F-droid - Breezy Weather, Binary Eye, Fucks Given (Task app that is hilarious), Newpipe and Antennapod. Oh and also FeedFlow is a great RSS reader

Brave again?!

Can people use tailscale without single sign in. All the SSOs I saw were fascists corps.