Note: This setup is both for my android and pc Edit: For those recommending paid services and selfhosting, I don’t have the money nor resources for either. Also it seams some people are confusing my android setup with my PC setup so I’ll write it down. Android: Brave(movies) + Ironfox, Search: Brave + DDG, VPN: Proton ( not always on), GPay = Cash, Auth= Aegis Auth, Pass: KeepassDX, PC: Firefox= Librewolf, VPN = No VPN (VERY slow internet), Search: Searxng + DDG, Pass: KeepassXC,
AlterSend, encrypted peer-to-peer file transfers between devices with no size limits, no cloud storage, and no servers involved, FOSS, no account, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android
If i wasn’t invested in the proton infrastructure to keep my family away from Google and shot, the only change I would suggest is mullvad VPN instead of protonvpn. Other than that, it’s a pretty sound setup you have there. Enjoy.
Brave 🤮
💳→💵
My first thought was “what app is that?”
I actually despise cash, but I might go back to it just for privacy.
i hate brave. use waterfox with kagi or librefox with kagi or startpage
every privacypack image has brave on it. is this some kind of rule?
No
Seriously. People need to stop suggesting Brave.
I lowkey think it’s viral marketing.
For real, any normal person would suggest Firefox and nothing else. People who have problems with Firefox are savvy enough to find the forks on their own.
I host nextcloud and Immich on an old laptop to replace google drive and photos respectively. Very nice, but nextcloud syncing with android is annoying. Looking for alternatives there. Self hosted is a requirement.
Hosting nextcloud also lets me sync my calendar and contacts completely on my own hardware too. I use davx5 to sync with the Fossify calendar app on my phone because I like it better than the nextcloud app.
I’m currently trying out OpenCloud (I think a fork of OwnCloud, where Nextcloud was forked from). It’s working fine on PC where I had syncing issues with Nexcloud as well. I also host a syncthing server for the few things I really want to have in sync for all my devices (mostly my Obsidian Vault). It’s been really reliable, especially compared to other solutions I tried out
I didn’t mention syncthing, but I also use it for my obsidian vault and other small files that I want backed up. I think my ebooks are on there too. But what I’m really using nextcloud for is to offload large files so that my phone storage doesn’t fill up – but keep my files where I can easily download them when i want. Primarily audio books.
Also, my audio book player is not great for finding files when there are many. (Smart Audio Player) so I can only keep a handful but can easily download anything I’m missing from local storage.
Agreed, the syncing issue is what turned me off Nextcloud eventually. Now I have Proton Drive which also stalls and skips file synchronization. The only service that I feel did sync well (better than Google Drive) was MEGA which was super clean, but that was years ago so it might not be true anymore.
What is the issue with syncing with nextcloud? What kind of files?
Nextcloud hosts whatever kind of files. IRS like a Google Drive, One Drive, Box, etc. I use it primarily for my audio book collection so that it doesn’t use up all of my phone space.
The issue is that nextcloud sometimes behaves in an unexpected way with file changes initiated on Android. Sometimes large files (like audio book files) placed into my phones local nextcloud folder don’t automatically upload to the server. I have to do extra steps in the app. It seems to work as expected with small files. From what I understand/interpret the file access API is not a favorable design for supporting an external (non-google ) cloud service. OE Nextcloud just doesn’t care about Android.
I highly recommend NextDNS. You can also filter domaims with it. It even has lists so you don’t have to filter every one. I use the “No Google” and “No Facebook” lists, along with several others.
Adding to the list of people warning you away from Brave. It’s a complete scam. Practically malware at this point.
Malware in what manner?
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted for asking a question. I think if Brave is malware, it is important to bring awareness to what the actual problems are and talk about it. This is the right place. I’m not aware of anything that makes Brave malware, maybe besides the crypto stuff. But I’m not sure if that counts as malware, or if anything else is going on I’m not aware of.
If you are on Arch, then I recommend to self host SearxNG meta search engine. There is an AUR package that builds from source and makes it easy to install and update. So if you are on Archlinux and value privacy a lot, then there is no excuse to not use this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/searxng-git and https://docs.searxng.org/
# Archlinux, AUR # Build and install from source: yay searxng-git # Configure the search engine (shouldn't need to): sudoedit /etc/searxng/settings.yml # Start server when needed: systemctl start searxng.service # Or automatically start the server whenever you login: systemctl enable searxng.serviceSo do you just leave you computer on all the time or do you only self host when you turn it on for personal use.
At the moment it is just for my personal use on my own single computer. It is local only and I cannot access it from local network either.
My plan is to figure out how to set it up securely for access on other devices in the house. But for that I would need a dedicated little server computer that runs 24/7. Maybe an used laptop, maybe a Raspberry Pi, but right now I can’t afford it. I have a VERY old laptop and old Raspberry Pi 3b. I’m not sure if they are capable enough for this task. I have no plans to do a host for the internet.
Just noting you can have searxng on rhel and mint as well, I know those from experience.
and mint
Go on…
Oh sure, I wasn’t implying its Archlinux only or anything like that. There are plenty ways to install SearxNG on other distributions, including using Docker in example. I just found the installation and setup in Archlinux thanks to the AUR package extremely easy, as it is not very different from installing any other package.
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A lot of programs and services I use are not present so I did not include those alternatives.
Of those I included, I use only a few, too. These are sane alternatives for the common user.I love NewPipe. It’s cool to have all the video platforms in one place!
NewPipe? Change to PipePipe, which includes SponsorBlock!
I’m a big NewPipe fan, but took your suggestion to check out PipePipe. Looks good so far since it only needs 8 permissions but NewPipe needs 11. Installing now.
Edit: It even has two more default platforms to chose from. Yeah, this is cool! Thanks!
Superb. I didn’t even think to compare the permissions, haha. Yeah, never have loyalty to anything; if something better somehow emerges than PipePipe, we shall instantly ditch it for the superior alternative, and so on.
Every time a “privacy” list shows brave, i instantly ignore the rest of it because i know they arent serious.
Bro…
This, I cringe when Brave and privacy end up in the same sentence. They’re shady af
Get brave off that list.
