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[–] undone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Completely depends on where you are located. What's you country?

 

So... who's excited to finally get detailed specs and pre-order start?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejl-7X74tgc

[–] undone@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got two for Austria if you want to update the list:

[–] undone@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

For me any migration from big-tech is a win. Especially to self-hosted FOSS alternatives that don't require paid licenses.

We don't need a hand full of people doing it perfectly, we need a big mass doing it imperfectly.

That said - I love all those alternatives that we suddenly learn about and hear about. There might be even better solutions for this particular niche.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Self-hosting is possible and without any fees (except your infrastructure) for both Ente and Immich. Personally run Immich for our family at home in our home network and everybody loves it. No cloud fees for Google/Apple photo storage anymore. Handles our current collection of 130K+ photos & videos spanning multiple decades well.

No experience with Ente, but their privacy focus / encryption support sounds awesome. Immich might have a bigger userbase / dev community through Futo / Louis Rossmann. AFAIK no encryption planned there.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Love the idea. Then we don't depend on chains correctly labeling products - if they add indicators at all.

Appreciate you trying to pre-fill with as many products as possible. Would love to see you finding a way to integrate community curation as well.

On another note: how about separating the database in its own service that only focuses on database management & API for other products to use as well? Or does anybody know of a similar database that is already built (community-driven, not controlled by a few)?

[–] undone@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago

Tana let's you only create an account if you log in through Google, Apple, Github, Microsoft.

No, thank you.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the shout-out. Thank you for your endless stream of inspiration. Keep 'em coming! Those links are so valuable.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the shout-out @sag@ani.social

A bit swamped right now, but in my head I'm planning on re-implementing gohug in vuejs and open sourcing the code. The current version was just a weekend hack when I was overjoyed with the change in our thinking that !BuyEuropean@feddit.uk and similar communities are bringing.

Would love to add more functionality like a fully customizable and theme-able speed-dial, search engines, lemmy and mastodon feeds, etc.

Not sure if anybody is interested in a liberated start page though. Will push it forward anyway, for personal use at least. But maybe at glacial pace 😅

[–] undone@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

Thank you so much for that background info! Will migrate my Gitea instance to Forgejo. Was quite fresh anyway, better do it now than later.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Haha. Still running an Xorg session. It's a shame there were so many nuisances in Wayland. They seem to get fewer and by now I think it will be OK for most things. Still don't wanna try as long as Xorg works without issues.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Ohhh... I like that. A very strong contender if I switch.

I like the TOTP scanner that automatically scans the screen for QR codes that was intorduced lately in Bitwarden and just the user interface in general that I very like.

But nothing I would lose much sleep over. Thanks for the recommendation!

[–] undone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Got a used Pixel 7a to play around with. Will be supported by Graphene for a few more years I assume and good enough for everything I do.

My main driver is a Pixel 8. Usually skip a few generations in between, but liked the stock Android experience compared to other manufacturer bloat.

Was thinking about trying Graphene for some time now. The last weeks finally gave me the push to do something about it.

Similar with Qubes OS on laptop, but not sure if I'll ever dig deep there.

Trying out hardware / software is a passion of mine. Got a Pine phone at some point to play around with different Linux based smartphone OS'es and see what the current state is.

I found that LineageOS can be a life saver for "older" hardware that is still perfectly fine but doesn't get updates from the OEM anymore. In my experience tablets often get treated very badly in that regard.

 

Just wanted to share some insights after migrating away from Google et al. Curious to hear about others experience.

Please keep a few things in mind when reading this:

  • the goal is not to be perfect - this is a long process that will never stop and it's just the start
  • personally prefer self-hosted open source to alternatives that might be better at avoiding US, but have too much of a negative impact on my productivity
  • you don't have to tackle everything all at once... small steps count too

Sharing this in hopes of inspiring someone to try an alternative or two. Also to hopefully hear about other experiences and what worked best for you.

TL:DR

Migrated from the big G to Vivaldi (browser), Proton (mail), Nextcloud (calendar, full collabora office suite, storage) , Immich (photos), Graphene OS (android).


DONE

Successfully migrated my Google accounts: private (16+ years) and my business Google Workspace - subscription now fully eliminated.

  • Email: For now my emails will be with Proton. I know about the situation with their CEO, but wanted to make use of my standing subscription. Will be easy to switch again once it runs out. Proton import with the included migration tool was a breeze.

  • Calendar: Tried the calendar but sync interval for remotely subscribed calendars is not high enough for my needs. Happy with the Nextcloud calendar feature.

  • Office: Already running a Nextcloud instance for years and enabled contacts + calendar (caldav sync, carddav sync on android) and their office bundle (based on Collabora). Did an in-depth comparison of Cryptpad and Collabora and preferred the latter.

  • Photos: Immich is just so good. Set up an instance for our family and everyone is so happy to not worry about Apple/Google storage subscriptions - and the awesome features immich brings. Handles our combined 130k images/videos well.

  • Cloud storage: Would love a native Proton Drive sync client for Linux. For now my main storage will stay with Nextcloud.

  • OS: Can highly recommend Ubuntu - a bit biased as long-time user. Finally made the switch from stock Android to Graphene OS. Love it so far. Would not recommend it to inexperienced users / non-tech people. Lineage might be more suitable. Love the discussions in this community lately introducing us to /e/OS, Sailfish, PostmarketOS, etc. I hope to see Sailfish and PostmarketOS go mainstream within a few years.

  • Browser: Hard to decide as there are so many schools of thought and very vocal groups. Did some in-depth comparisons and decided to at least break free from Chrome for now. Went with Vivaldi and if they are forced to abandon manifest v2 I have LibreWolf and Floorp already set up as alternatives. Can highly recommend Floccus to sync bookmarks between devices (including mobile).

WIP

  • Notion: Self-hosted AppFlowy looks promising, but have not tested it lately if it covers all my needs.

  • Bitwarden: Hardest to let go for me personally, but might look into Vaultwarden. If Vaultwarden sucks and I really need to ditch Bitwarden it will most likely be Keepass based.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by undone@lemm.ee to c/photon@lemdro.id
 

Hey,

if you are a fan of shareable instance agnostic Lemmy links and Photon UI you can now use lemsha.re for shareable links with built-in photon support.

Why? Because I love the interface and use it daily.

Code hosted at https://codeberg.org/lemshare/lemshare

 

lemsha.re now supports Photon UI for Lemmy

Try Photon UI at phtn.app

The lemsha.re source code is available at https://codeberg.org/lemshare/lemshare

 

A bit hesitant to post, but here it goes.

When Buy European started it got me immediately hooked into implementing practical changes in my everyday life. One of the first steps was de-googling myself (as much as possible), and with that change my default search engine. For that I built a custom simple start page that offers a European alternative at random https://gohug.eu/

My collection of saved posts, bookmarks, and notes became a bit cumbersome. So I decided to add a bit more to the website and list the main resources, to always come back to. Hope some of you find it helpful too: https://gohug.eu/join/

So here it is. A web devs way of trying to participate and give something back. Cheers

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by undone@lemm.ee to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
 

Hey 👋,

I am amazed by what's happening. This community is great.

Two thoughts:

  • The main reason this whole thing is so exciting for me is because it means change. It's such a great feeling to disrupt old habits and re-evaluate everything that I got so comfy with over the last decades. Please keep your recommendations coming. So much new (and better) alternatives to discover.

  • While I love "Buy European", in reality my heart realized it's more about "Avoid US". Hey friends from non-European countries!

Thank you!

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by undone@lemm.ee to c/photon@lemdro.id
 

Hey 👋

Just started self-hosting photon app a few days ago and am very interested in your experiences?

Running on v2.0.0-rc.4 and just love the UX in comparison to lemmy native. I am experiencing some issues though. Nothing too major. Some issues might be due to me being inexperienced self-hosting. Also don't want to clog github issues with unwarranted claims.

Hope some of you can chime in with your experience here and help me find the root cause. List ordered by personal preference:

  1. Random loading issues when sorting by Hot/Twelve hours. Might be related to my main instance lemm.ee. I think they did change some server settings (cloudflare, DDOS IIRC and downtime a few days ago) and around the same time the issues started. I click my bookmark for the photon front page and the screens stays black with only the logo in the center. If I manually remove the sort setting from my browser local storage it starts working again, but can not select Twelve hours. Happens a few times a day at random. Other times it works. Have not tried to reproduce in phtn.app when it happens, but will the next time. Browser console says failed requests, might be some server-side blocking of lemm.ee? Would be great if photon did catch the exception and show at least the UI instead of the loading screen. You can not navigate anywhere / fix the UI when it was opened with a direct link.

  2. Posts don't refresh after changing sort params, only after hard page refresh. Seems to be an issue - saw it on github already and a comment that this was fixed a few hours ago. => Is there an easy way to run master branch bleeding edge instead of tagged releases? Currently only self-hosting for myself and nobody would notice restarts / downtimes.

  3. Pinned custom menu items gone since the latest stable version. Might have just been dropped on purpose? Could not find an explanation or issue on github though. Was a nice feature.E.g. there seems to be no way to go to the front page other than clicking the photon icon in the top left corner. Or a quick way to jump into my own submissions, etc.

  4. Custom favicon not working I think I set the param right and I see my favicon path inserted into the source code. Path works and image is served if I open it manually in browser. Maybe only if photon is not tied to a single instance?

  5. Minor personal preference: on really large screens it would be great if the top navigation bar would not stretch full screen width, but start and end with the main sidebar & content area. The top left logo and buttons in the top right corner disappear to the very far edges and make photon harder to use.

Looking forward to hear about similar experiences and find out what I'm doing wrong / raise valid issues & feature requests on github.


Edit: Also automatic "mark read" of the inbox notification badge seem to be wonky. Have not had time to debug in detail, but it only works some times. Not that big of a deal though as there is a dedicated "mark all read" buttons.


Edit 2: 2.0.0-rc5 was released a few hours ago and fixes the major two issues. Thank you @Xylight@lemdro.id !

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