Very good suggestion. Alternativeto.net is a great resource that I return to often. Eased the transition greatly when I originally left the “mainstream apps”.

I use Gmaps WV when OrganicMaps can’t find an address. Then I copy/paste the latitude-longitude into OrganicMaps for navigation.

Annoying, yes. But better than using Google.

Oh yeah? I didn’t know that. I’ll have to look into it, thanks!

Awesome! Thanks!

• Mull is similar to Fennec except with some privacy tweaks. Generally Mull is better.

• You don’t need Ghostery anymore

Congratulations! That’s awesome! I’ve been Google-free for 2-3 years, but I haven’t been brave enough to finally delete Gmail. I keep worrying I might need the message history one day?

Regarding Maps: I use OrganicMaps as my main, & I reflex to Gmaps WV when something isn’t in OrganicMaps. I feel this is a reasonable privacy-friendly compromise.

Agreed

I hadn’t seen that, thanks!! I was also among those confused when Signal pulled SMS, but now it finally makes sense.

Signal could have done better PR to explain the “why” at the time.

Sorry, I meant “GitLab, why’d you do that!?”

(I’m a GitLab user myself)

Why GitLab!?

Well, there’s Stash. Here’s a video demoing the main features.

Once you get over laughing you’ll realize that if a person is very serious about organizing their video, this is actually a really great option.

TrackerControl gives app-level control. It’s FOSS & available on F-droid.

Multiple browser adblockers will also make your browser fingerprint more unique, which is undesirable for privacy reasons.

This is fantastic! Gnome is such a great project! Well done!

This will sound silly, but I didn’t realize that governments support open source like this. But it’s such a good idea! It’s similar to governments funding a park or a road any other public resource. Open source projects fit very nicely there!

Well put!

Same here. Is there a way to spoof a more generic fingerprint or something?

I don’t think you need to worry about this…

Personally, I’ve used many trackers over the years. I currently use Loop Habit tracker but only for recording the information day-to-day. I periodically export my data in .csv format and merge it with my “long term storage” in a big spreadsheet which contains >10 years of data. I like doing it this way because I like to do statistics on it, plot it, etc. and that’s very easy in .csv format on a computer (I’m a nerd).

Because my “long term storage” is just a simple .csv I don’t need to worry about compatibility between apps. Also, if I lose my phone it’s not a big deal because I’d lose, at the most, a few months.

Here are a couple of ideas:

• Loop Habit has the ability to save a full backup. Maybe try setting up your habits, add some fake data, and generate the backup. Open the backup file in a text editor and see whether you can infer the structure. If so, just reformat your old data to match that structure and then import that “hacked” backup file back into Loop.
• Loop Habit says it can import backup files from Tickmate, Habitbull, and Rewire as well. Similar to the above idea, if you can reformat your saved data to match one of those formats you should be able to import it into Loop.

https://www.protondb.com/ is an excellent resource. Before you commit to Linux, look up your favorite games there to double check that they’ll work.

My personal experience is basically all games work on Linux. To the point I don’t even look games up on protondb before I buy. The exceptions seem to be multiplayer FPS games which use anti-cheat (but I don’t play those kinds of games).