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  • What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself?

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  • Yes, I just checked, and it's working. You shouldn't have to do anything special either.

    The only thing I have trouble with sometimes is watching videos YouTube has flagged as age-restricted videos or whatever. I have to click "watch in browser" and open them in Firefox while signed in. But I rarely encounter this.

    You could check their github and see if anyone else has had a problem, but the link I gave you is the version I use.

  • What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself?

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  • I always like seeing the details, and I can't imaging looking at a map and up not being north. It would be like reading a book turned sideways -- hypothetically I could do it, but it would require far more brainpower to interpret than it's worth. I do like my location kept as the centerpoint though. That's really nice, but apparently hard to implement. The "re-center" feature on Google Maps is my friend.

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  • Oh, and I go back and forth between Sear XNG and Startpage for search engine. I know Startpage is Bad, but there's no search engine in existence that really makes me happy.

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  • I wonder if Osmand is the one I tried that was so close to being usable for me, but didn't keep my location centered when North was up. I spent a day trying everything I could find, so I can't recall exactly. I'll give it a go though and see if it works.

    I don't think you'll have much trouble finding one that works the way you want it because everything I tried used POV as the default for some perplexing reason. (Like if I was facing East for example, then East was up.)

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  • Yeah Tubular is basically NewPipe with Sponsorblock. I'll give Freetube a try.

    What I mean though is ... it's still YouTube, y'know?

  • What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself?

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  • These are what I use:

    Browsers: Fennec, LibreWolf

    Email Clients: K-9, Fair Email, Proton Mail, Thunderbird

    Pictures: Fossify Camera, Fossify Gallery

    File Sharing: Proton Drive

    YouTube: Tubular

    SMS Messaging: Textra (It's not FOSS, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a FOSS app in existence that shows the actual name of the person who's sent the message in group chats. They just show an icon, which isn't enough for me to keep track)

    App store: Droid-ify (F-Droid), Aurora Store

    Password Manager: Bitwarden

    eBook Reader: Librera FD

    Books: Bookwyrm

    Translation: LibreTranslator

    Calendar: Proton Calendar

    What I can't find good alternatives for:

    YouTube itself - enough said

    Phone screen translation - I still use Google Assistant, and I'm not aware of anything else that grabs and translates all text on my phone screen

    Maps - Rant time. This one is so annoying because there are FOSS navigation apps based on OpenStreetMap that are excellent in every way except one that makes them unusable for me: Using POV navigation instead of observing the convention of up = north. I did find one that lets you maintain a normal map view during navigation, but it doesn't keep your position centered automatically, which makes it impossible to use while driving. I have no idea who all you deranged people are who actually like the POV navigation, but there are definitely a lot of you because I can't find a replacement for Google Maps. I even tried Mapquest because at least it's not Google, but when I tried using it to navigate the first time, it somehow autocorrected "St" to "Ave" and I ended up lost lol. This maps situation really grinds my gears. I do still try to contribute as much as I can to OSM though because it's an important project, and hopefully someday an uninsane developer will make a proper alternative to Google Maps.

  • If anyone could answer, where did Nicole the Fediverse Chick come from?

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  • blue scream

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  • I'm on the road to despair, and brother I'm driving 100km/hr

  • How do I use a proton e-mail for Lemmy?

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  • I didn't know about this, I'm sorry. I've had my Proton account for a long time. It's good to know it should work after a time.

  • How do I use a proton e-mail for Lemmy?

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  • Could it be?

  • How do I use a proton e-mail for Lemmy?

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  • I just realized I still had my old skiff email address connected to my lemmy account, so I just switched it to my Proton address, and I got the verification message immediately. I'm not sure why you can't. Could it be an instance-specific setting?

  • Do you know anyone who is dual faith?

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  • I know Lakota people who practice both traditional religion as well as Christianity

  • Contraption rule

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  • A perfect addition for my retro contraption and doohickey room

  • ICE moment

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  • I stood next to liberals demonstrating against the border concentration camps in 2020, who immediately started making excuses once Biden took office, even after he had Mayorkas publicly bragging about how he'd imprisoned and deported even more immigrants than Trump. For four years, they didn't speak up against our treatment of immigrants, and even now they're only doing so because the villain wears a red tie. Deeply unserious people.

  • R(ul)ebellious

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  • I don't follow celebrities, but Wallace Shawn seems to have good ideas

  • Why does Firefox on Android raise the sticky filter off the bottom on every site?

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  • That's curious. It doesn't for me.

  • Removed

    Can Elon Musk be charged with domestic terrorism?

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  • The police are assisting him...

  • What’s Going On With 196, Or, Why We Did What We Did

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  • Ultimately, I agree. But what can ya do?

  • combating the assumptions rule 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

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  • Yeah I'm so owned right now

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    This is for my own good rule

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    Ruletube ads

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    Casio rule

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    They rule

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    Delete LinkedIn immediately rule

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    Allegrule

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    Very Moldy Monday Rule

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    Babygirl rule

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    The horse you ruled in on

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    Asps rule

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    Singing rule

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    Seven rule

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    Workforce participation rule

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    I want this job rule

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    On the ruleternet

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    Oh, there is one more thing - something that's been keeping me up at night. I heard some of you queer people ain't having a very good Pride month, and I wanted to let you know that you are loved.

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    Keeping moldy Monday alive rule

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    Air conditioner rule

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    Internet rule

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    No outlet rule