Network other companies you could work for via people, old bosses, etc that you know. Get them to put in a good word for you and then give them a call and schedule a professional interview. I did this (not in the tech sector) and bypassed all the online job hunting bullcrap. I’ve got a really great job now that I’m happy to be at for many years to come. I’m even using a GrapheneOS pixel tablet at work

The customization of your UI is very unintuitive. Worse than Kodi actually. You have to set up things in a particular order as you cannot reorder it after. Also some features require self hosting a server whereas Kodi doesn’t.

Besides that, @irmadlad@lemmy.world makes good points.

Ohhh I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!

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

CoMaps is on both F-Droid and izzyondroid repos.

https://f-droid.org/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/

I haven’t been keeping up with Organic Maps updates to see if they differ but I’d assume they’re basically functionally the same, except for potentially Kayak results.

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

You could add addresses to Open Street Maps

Try CoMaps instead of Organic Maps. It’s a fork because Organic Maps is starting to enshittify

Mullvad is a great example. They also have created numerous anti censorship techniques and work with Obscura for even more privacy

How about using an open source and audited one with a good track record? That would most certainly be better that letting your ISP see all your traffic

Came here to suggest that. We need to gather sentiment

Mullvad, Proton, and IVPN are the most trustworthy. Not sure if the other two support port forwarding

Mullvad has a few obfuscation techniques with a new one that just came out. I’m curious if they’ll help in this application

The inconvenience of switching and learning a new thing is the largest deterrent. People complain but don’t care enough due to those reasons to switch.

I only text people on Signal, except the old grandparents or potential new friends that I will in time get to switch to Signal.

I totally disagree. I’ve had very very minimal issues with anything on GrapheneOS and they use Pixel hardware because they have extra hardware security chips in them

One good thing from email is Delta chat. It’s encrypted messaging built on the email infrastructure which is decentralized. In principle that’s better than the likes of Signal, just not as refined yet. We shouldn’t kill all these existing things but rather leave them for applications that they work well for that benefit the people that need those things.

Uptodown or apkpure

Purchase DRM free music to have locally. HDTracks and 7Digital are two great resources

I know it’s on Linux as a Flatpak, it’s also on Android

Totally agree with the FreeTube recommendation. Libredirect will even open links in FreeTube. I use IVPN and use non obscure servers but every once in a while I do have to try a different one.

You could also try Grayjay instead of Freetube

Do you set static IPs for everything you wish to block?

How do you firewall specific devices with OpenWRT? That’s something I’m about to start attempting myself.

I haven’t heard of this before. The name was curious “Pixel” so I compared it to the Google Pixel tablet and it’s basically identical except for the WiFi chip. You could get a Google Pixel tablet for way cheaper and install Graphene. The Murena tablet seems like a ripoff and it has an account too (not sure if it’s optional)

Sorry, I haven’t tried it as I have no need. I only shared it as an option that people might try and maybe it will fit their lifestyle.

See if the Graphene team supports the 10 when it comes out. If it does then get that and if they don’t then get the Pixel 9 at a discounted cost and put on GOS. Then wait and see what happens with the situation.

Calyx is okay but MicroG doesn’t work nearly as well as GOS sandboxed GPlay. eOS tends to be multiple Android versions outdated. I’d go with GOS, Calyx, Lineage, then eOS.

I’ve read in the past that Google makes the OS for some flip phones, so yes. You could get a Punkt dumb phone that shouldn’t spy on you

Look at the list of available phones for each OS and verify that they can use the cell towers in the USA. Most will be able to. Calyx can work with Motorola phones that are cheaper than pixels but last I used Calyx which was years ago it didn’t function as well as Graphene with their sandboxed Google Play services. Since you’re just beginning I imagine you’ll still use some proprietary apps and Graphene will make that transition much easier.

One that supports the latest standards, though I’d suggest a Gl.iNet router if you don’t know much about networking as OpenWRT is quite confusing.

I understand everyone needs to do what they need to do for their family. However, you need to understand that Apple is closed source and has been proven to not adhere to the privacy toggle option you might enable. You cannot trust them/their devices to respect your privacy.

0AD. Similar to Age of Empires

That sounds familiar

Disregard my OM suggestion. I just became aware of recent drama within It’s community and there looks to be a fork coming soon.

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

https://sopuli.xyz/c/CoMaps

IVPN, Mullvad, or Proton. Criminals aren’t necessarily smart, I remember a ghost phone that criminals thought were secure and it was a honeypot. Shoulda used Graphene for free.

If you try Organic Maps yourself, try using Sherpa Onnx TTS with it. It’s a great open source match and really makes the experience of navigation top tier

https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

Not listing Organic Maps is a travesty. Possibly mention Immich, though I see you’re going more for SaaS and not really self hosted

I recently listened to the Dev discussing his keyboard. They mentioned better support for multiple languages so maybe it’ll work how you want it to now.

Maybe try another app such as FUTO keyboard? I don’t have experience with Gboard fyi

It’s only as safe as Apple, which is to say you can’t trust them. If you have AI enabled it’ll be scanning everything (to include signal) to learn your habits and assist you “better”.