Go to the source. Debian.

If you need banking apps, consider a cheap used/old Android phone with a VNC server on it, then noVNC pointed to that to get it on the web.

Some outside what others may say. Depends on what you’re trying to make private.

Self-hosted Vaultwarden/BitWarden, SearXNG, and Firefox Sync. All things missing from your list to privatize the web.

Signal/Matrix for chat.

Organic Maps when you don’t need traffic for privatizing location.

Self-hosted Nextcloud for file storage.

And Obtainium (and gam for Linux) to break away from the stores themselves.

Oh man, total flashback to when I did this for Owncloud https://github.com/Fmstrat/shorten

Why is it depressing? Plenty of quality conversation to engage in, less bots so far. Feels more like the forum days, I love it.

Nice, I think I just saw you added one of my feature requests, so will have to give ot another look.

Every time I see this I think it needs a Storage and a Conversation branch.

Yea I use it for all kinds of things. About to release some smart sensors with enclosures from it, last big thing was: https://nowsci.com/twystlock/

Love seeing FreeCAD in use.

Hah, yup, that’s me, too. Sorry it didn’t work out, a team have done some updates to it that may work now, unfortunately I’ve never been able to get a hold of them.

I think they did a decent job. They report on compatibility for those that want it, but demonstrate it can be a Google-free experience. The fact that they also recognize they tested on an older device vs glossing over that was appreciated, too. Any journalist willing to install Ubuntu on their phone is probably going to be a bit more reliable to begin with, too.

Bit of a plug, but use gam? https://github.com/fmstrat/gam

Our AI-driven export feature allows you to generate the DDL script in the dialect of your choice.

So many other options without sending my schema to a third party. Why?

Yea, get around that with sand boxing, but will probably switch to the android API layer now that it works with WhatsApp

No, but there will be recordings (ugh, hah). Actually had enough interest from those that missed it that I’m doing the session again tomorrow.

Oh yes, wasn’t trying to say it was a bad decision at all. If it fits your threat model, and it makes life easier, it’s probably the right choice.

surely better than Google

This contradicts your threat model comment, though. If you fear Google’s access to your data, you fear nation states, or hate Google. Cloudflare is in the same boat for size, scope, and US ownership.

A single user Lemmy instance is pretty low overhead if you don’t mind the All feed being the same as your Subscriptions feed.

Very cool. I’ll stick with a WhatsApp Matrix bridge so I don’t have to install a Meta app, though.

I’m betting on the Fediverse, just like I did on Reddit all those years ago.

But, you are currently in a hype machine since you are on Lemmy. As someone who develops with ActivityPub now, there is not a big market for it at the moment.

I expect it will grow, especially as identity management standardizes (I’m actually presenting about this at a conference a bit later today), but it will likely take time.