A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Could you tell me the names of those applications and point me to where I can download each one? Do you have a compiled list?
F-Droid is the way
Last I tried RHVoice is was very unnatural sounding.
Sherpa-onnx is a much much more natural option. I personally use vits-piper-en_GB-southern_english_female-medium because I thought it sounded the most natural. You can also use Glados from Portal
I second sherpa! Love it. I use with with Librera FD so basically made PDFs audiobooks.
Ohhh I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!
Congratulations!!!
I wish I had friends to use xmpp apps to text…I’m a whatsapp hostage
To be fair, I only have a few of my friends and some of my family on XMPP. I’m also guilty of having WhatsApp on my work phone for colleagues and the rest of my friends.
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I love the mandatory Super Tux Cart anyone of us has installed but played like 4 times
Stop, you’re gonna make me cum
WifiAnal
I see you have freetube. Grayjay is also a great addition as it has plug ins for lots of sites
Unfortunately FreeTube and Newpipe never worked for me. Only NewPipe works, but I have to disable my VPN.
Quite the kinky lineup; WiFiAnal, Wetter, QuickDic… 😏
Lol. Last picture at the bottom third. “WiFiAnal” xD (Sorry, I’m childish)
Hey, that’s the only safe way to let others control your buttplug.
Attack surface who dis?
Whoa, I have like half of these, nice!
That is the way! Excited to flash my phone to LineageOS. Thanks for sharing the apps !
They said it couldn’t be done…
It still can’t be done 100% unless you make significant sacrifices to the usefulness of your smartphone…there’s plenty of really useful (and sometimes necessary) things with no FOSS or open source alternatives.
Not to mention drivers… many driver blobs are proprietary and if you can find an open source one, there is a chance it works partially or not at all. I have a spare phone and I’ve been hesitating between flashing either PostmarketOS (all FOSS drivers but without the android ecosystem) or LineageOS, or maybe both if I can achieve that.
Even if you fixed the issue with drivers…
…your modem runs it’s own firmware with a lot of extremely shady behavior, and you can’t touch that regardless of which OS you install. Even your SIM card can arbitrarily execute Java applets and fetch from the network without your command, but at least it’s somewhat contained. Your modem though, it can do a lot without your control and people like Qualcomm have been caught doing nasty stuff with it (plus, of course, giving the US the data whenever they ask for it).
This is why people like Stallman and Snowden often talk about teaching users how to use libre software on their computers, but rather than pushing for the same with smartphones, they tell you to not touch these at all instead. They’re fundamentally anti-privacy devices, built this way.
Of course I carry one, it’s fairly hard to live without a phone nowadays, but we must be aware of the impossibility of fully containing the data harvesting they do.
I agree with you on all your points. I just wanted to add that there’s openWRT, a linux distro for routers and embedded systems (never used it before and the router I use is not mine), maybe that can solve the router part, I may be wrong though.
openWRT is fantastic and does indeed give you full control over your router… but not your modem. Modems are a complete mess of patents and proprietary software that nobody can control but a select number of companies.
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I nave ho learn how ho do these two profile things. How do u switch between them, and IS it on the fly?
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Wow, this is impressive. I had heard about profiles but never got into the detail and never really understood the benefit. So, a cool way of using this it to have a FOSS only space under the main admin profile and the build up a second “big brother” profile where I stack some annoying apps that in a way or another I’m forced to use like banking app and what’s app. When the “big brother” profile is shut down, nobody tracks you. Would that be correct? If this is true I’m here asking myself why on earth people are not harnessing this more.
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What does maintaining a separate profile for Google stuff buy you? I’m familiar with GrapheneOS, but haven’t internalized the separate profile thing yet.
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Got that part, but what throws me is, in order to install a Google app on that secondary “google” profile, don’t you have to first install the Google app on the main profile so that you can then push it to the secondary profile?
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Oh, I see. I must’ve misread a tutorial at some point then. I did not realize one could install an app directly into profile #2, I thought root had all the apps and then specific apps had to be pushed to the other profiles. Thanks for clarifying that.
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