Brave is a less than ideal choice...
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Cromite is a much more secure Chromium browser. IronFox is a much more secure Gecko browser.
I swear I saw the post and it had brave as #1 app and now it's gone. I mean, good, but still...
Read the description, I edited the post, should I make it more clear though?ย
Yikes. De googles but leaves the brave crypto scam browser installed.
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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!
How dare you not validate my decision to use LibreWolf/Fennec/Mull/Waterfox/Iceraven/IronFox as the one true FireFox fork.
Conversely, how dare you suggest that stock Firefox/Nightly with the right add-ons is not good enough?
People these days...
We can Start a civilized discussion about, why you are wrong on every point in your post, right after you acknowledge templeOS as the only right ROM on your Phone!
The audacity... Tsk....
P.s. I love it how eveny when i tried not to offend somebody, you found something you could feel offended about :D
Librewolf and waterfox over brave
I don't really use brave, as you can see I also have cromite, I just had it.ย
Same! Just moved to graphene and it's great!
Looks cool. What launcher?
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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?)
Good to know. I just decided to try a gboard replacement and heliboard does pretty well.
Agree on heliboard. No issues here.
Yep, heli is what I'm using ATM. They are generally pretty solid and I haven't heard anything to recommend against the project. In fact they're completely voluntary and opt-in data collection to build their own swipe typing Library sounds like an awesome initiative and I hope they succeed with it.
Atleast its better than Gboard lol,ย
any good alternatives? I'm so bad at typing in a phone my accuracy is pretty bad, I barely use my phone and I'm always on my computer that's probably the reason.ย
I'm using heliboard at the moment. They offer swipe typing through the Google libraries currently. But are exploring a data collection process completely voluntarily to build their own swipe typing libraries.
I did like futo's voice typing input method. It's recognition was generally right up there with Google's. Although there were certain words it frustratingly and consistently got wrong no matter how specifically I said them. But the fact that it could infer punctuation rather accurately where Google won't even try was definitely nice. Unfortunately I have not found a truly viable replacement for that sort of input yet. I definitely believe that sometime in the not-too-distant future there will absolutely be a Foss local solution. But I don't believe that futo's solution is trustworthy enough to believe that it was local Etc.
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
I thought I had IronFox installed but it was fennec, but now that I'm trying to install ironfox---
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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.
Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?
Molly is a hardened signal fork. Not sure how folks feel about it but I have no issues.
Magisk twice is killing me.
I have 2 root ๐พ
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.
With some, deleting and recreating accounts may work. Some may be tricky.
The less Google usage, the less data they get, the less they understand about who you are now.
Oh have non google accounts, I just can't be 100% free of them
Can't you opt you have forgot password or forgot email, then when it goes to validate you chose I don't have access to this account?
I've changed some email this way
I have purchases linked to the accounts and they can't be migrated to new accounts. Ie humble bundles, tutorials and educational materials. It sucks that there are services out there that are designed without the ability to change emails.
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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.
Voyager to surf lemmy
I'm currently on blood to use lemmy
Good boy
hi, what launcher and app are you using for the dynamic island thingy?
Check out unobtainium. It let's you install apps directly from github.
I think you may have got autocorrected, Obtainium is the name.
Obtaining is literally there?ย
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
thanks, I usually use a different launcher, I don't know but I kinda like it this way. its minimal and I don't use my phone much. (My desktop is. pretty dope though {arch btw})ย
Still got a Gmail account?
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