Happy cake day! Unfortunately, nothing good can come from surveillance, besides slightly better AI models. The way I see it, privacy is not paranoia, but a modern day revolution.

I knew Instagram was privacy invasive long before I ever started using it. Still decided to use it for some reason. Anyways, glad to have my dopamine receptors back.

You don’t have to switch services based on political affiliation. If the only difference is whether or not the company is public about it, there should be no issues with the software itself. It makes it far less exhausting to use a service. Just my two cents.

To be clear, I’m not taking a stance on the Proton issue. I’m simply stating that I trust code more than politics. The services I use are open source, so unless the code is found to be malicious there is no reason to stop using the software.

I did some research. Joplin is not encrypted at rest (but it is encrypted during transit). The TL;DR is that they see no point in at-rest encryption, because disk encryption should already managed by the OS itself.

Sources:

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/requesting-encryption-of-local-joplin-data-at-rest-encryption/15145

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/289

This video seemed to have been the start of an anti-GrapheneOS movement. I won’t get into details, because it’s been explained to death, but it’s here for your convenience.

I use and love GrapheneOS as well.

+1 for Joplin. It’s the best in my opinion. I started with Standard Notes, but immediately ditched it after I found out Joplin provides the same (and more) functionality for free.

I will continue to use Proton and their services, not because I support or endorse any political decisions from the CEO/board members (and I don’t), but because they provide open source, secure, and private software that I love.

This is no different than arguing about using GrapheneOS based on the behavior of the maintainers.

Every time a significant update to the list has been made, the version code is bumped and a new release is made. Sometimes there are hot fixes such as a broken SVG, for example.

Do you have experience with LMMS or MuseScore Studio? If so, what benefit does Ardour provide over them?

Hi there!

Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll definitely look into QR Scanner. Most camera apps come with some QR code scanning functionality built in, so there’s not much use in having a dedicated app. However, as you mentioned, network permissions can be a deciding factor. Someone may want the camera app to have network permissions, but not the QR scanning app.

Thank you for letting me know that Thunderbird is available for Android now! If you find any other incorrect platforms, please let me know. I’ve based almost all of the platform information based on what is listed on https://alternativeto.net/, so there are likely dozens of mistakes. I’ve found a few myself.

I use Breezy Weather and love it. A quick look at Bura, and it actually looks like an Android clone of the default iOS weather app, which is really cool. From the screenshots, I don’t see many differences, so I’m excited to try it out and see how similar it is. Breezy Weather runs in the background to provide notifications such as upcoming precipitation, etc. so that isn’t much of a deciding factor.

I will note, it’s unlikely that Breezy Weather will be replaced with Bura, simply because Breezy Weather is recommended more often by the community. Even though my list is curated, it doesn’t always reflect my preferred options (hence the “my top choices” stamp).

For example, I prefer Book’s Story instead of Librera Reader as an ebook reader, and Read You instead of Feeder as an RSS reader. However, since Librera Reader and Feeder are recommended more often (and have no major issues), those are what are listed.

I hate the UI of Librera Reader. Feeder is missing features such as a search functionality, but I don’t have any oppositions to it, so I still gave it the “my top choices” stamp, especially since Read You is a little weird about some functionality. Anyways, thanks for putting Bura on my radar. I’ll still check it out and, if there’s a massive benefit over Breezy Weather, it might replace it.

Thank you so much!

Edit: Bura fascinates me. It’s not an exact clone of the iOS weather app, but more like if the iOS weather app was done in Material Design. It’s very familiar to me, having used iOS my entire life until a few months ago. However, its simplicity, while an upside for some, is a bit of a downside for this list. Breezy Weather has a vast amount of customization, including customizing weather sources, which Bura doesn’t have. It’s a cool app though!

Edit 2: I tried out all Android QR code readers I could find, and settled on this one which is nearly the gold standard in my opinion. However, it does ask for network permissions. If you use GrapheneOS you can disable it, and it will work fine.

Tip for OP is to explain wanted outcome, not process to get there. Its hard to do, but gives better results

Besides being able to learn about all of this, this would be the ideal outcome:

• Send the Raspberry Pi to a friend who knows about this
• Have the friend plug in the Raspberry Pi to his Ethernet
• Use the friend’s network as a VPN/proxy/whatever to obscure my home IP address

I wouldn’t want to make the friend set up port forwarding or configure the Raspberry Pi himself, I want to do as much as I can on my own. And, if that friend ever relocates his residence or changes his ISP, setting it up again should be as easy as him plugging in the Raspberry Pi to the new network and I reconfigure it from my end.

So, you want the traffic to go other way around. Traffic from the HomeNet should go to the internet via FriendNet, right?

That is what I would like to achieve, yes. Since I want to avoid setting up port forwarding on FriendNet, I would need to configure port forwarding on HomeNet. The Raspberry Pi would have to act a client, and either the home server or the home computer would act as the server, and the Raspberry Pi would proxy traffic from the server to the internet.

I can’t think of how it would work in practice, though. I’m assuming in this case the home server would act as a proxy between the home computer and the Raspberry Pi, and the Raspberry Pi would act as a proxy between the home server and the internet. Unless there’s an easier way that would remove the home server entirely, that might be the best way to do it.

I’ll let you know if I figure it out! I don’t know much about proxies, but I’m still willing to try

So, you want a box which you can connect to any network around and then use some other device to connect to your raspberry box which redirects your traffic trough your home connection to the internet?

I think you may have misunderstood. I’ll try to clarify a bit:

I have a Raspberry Pi, which I’ll connect to, say, a friend’s network called “FriendNet”

I have a computer at home (which I’ll just call my “home computer”) connected to my home network called “HomeNet”

I also have a server connected to HomeNet, which is always active. Let’s call it my “home server”

I would like to proxy my home computer’s connection through the Raspberry Pi, so that my IP address will show up as the public IP address for FriendNet (i.e. tunneling my connection through FriendNet using the Raspberry Pi).

The Raspberry Pi will automatically send the proxy details to my home server, so that I can get the network details of the Raspberry Pi to connect my home computer to it without needing to figure it out manually. That would probably be achieved with a basic Python script.

I’m not trying to setup a home VPN server, but rather use an external network as a non-permanent proxy.

My own list of software, Open Source Everything, has taken a few suggestions from there. It’s a good list.

Are you one of its maintainers?

What does their router do that any router with openrouter doesn’t lol

It financially supports OpenWrt, for one :)

Well, switching to GrapheneOS shows that you don’t care what those companies do, and that you’re willing to fight. It means those companies lose one more customer. The more people that use GrapheneOS, the more companies will be forced to support it.

This is very bad news, because this means any app that wants your data could do the same.

Ideally, you would have zero iOS or Android devices in your household

*besides custom Android distributions that respect privacy ;)

That’s a good idea! I’ll be sure to include that in my post, thank you!