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

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

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

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    351·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • az04@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    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.

      • Tartletboy1@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Photoprism is what I use. running on a truenas scale server. I find it does a better job in replicating the “google photos” user experience with it’s facial recognition and metadata processing.

  • Szewek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 days 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)

  • the_beach_lasagna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 day 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.

  • GreatSympathy505@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    I would strongly recommend moving as far away from Signal as possible. There’s heavy corruption by the U.S. in that area. It’s not fully encrypted, not to mention it can still be monitored on when and if someone’s sending a message, just not all the content.

    Here’s a good essay by Dessalines on the matter, they’ve been dealing with cybersecurity for a while, though I don’t know anything about the other recommendations on the photo: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    1 day ago

    Or how about instead of using a hallucinating misinformation bot you just think for yourself.

    Also big tip. Don’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 that’s a slippery slope to a large data breach.