I am FOSS-friendly? How can I do better?
Tiktok 🤮
Any1 alternative?
- Lemmy with an alternate frontend.
- Touching grass
I don’t feel like Lemmy has been rotting my brain enough; no matter how much I refresh, the posts always show up in the exact same order, they only change the order once a day.
That’s a benefit. It helps break the addiction.
Being hooked on short form video is literally fucking up your brain (until you stop).
my comment was totally a joke, anyway, I don’t use tiktok to watch videos, just to talk to some friends that I can only get a hold of specifically through tiktok
set it to sorting by “new comments”, it’s what I did to make sure I see somewhat different things most of the time I refresh it
I did that, I’ll see if I notice any improvement, thanks for the suggestion (:
Alternative to brain rot?
Yeah
Not downvoting you, please get help and real hobbies. I quit Instagram and similar brainrot and it immensely helped my brain functions (focus, ability to form thoughts etc.), anxiety, and happiness levels.
dude, the only point of my comment was just to be funny hahaha lol lmao xd; I don’t even watch tiktok videos, I only have them to keep the streak going with my friends
(note: a streak on tiktok is a number that goes up the more you talk, I know, it’s pretty stupid)
a streak on tiktok is a number that goes up the more you talk, I know, it’s pretty stupid
Whatever floats your boat. I care about the content of messages, not the number going up. Even more so, I prefer IRL interactions to digital ones.
I don’t think I’d appreciate ranking my friends by number, but interesting food for thought – imagine a regular chat app telling you the frequency of messages per day, so you can be fair dividing your attention to all your friends 🤔
Look, you know, the human brain loves closure; I don’t feel right mentally knowing I could lose a 27,392,919-day streak tomorrow if I don’t reply to my friend Wallace. We’ve only been communicating through stickers for 3 years now—I don’t even know where he is or what his face looks like anymore.
There’s always Loops.
Does anyone have a FOSS BROWSER recommendation?
Seriously, saying what they have is shit and providing no alternatives is counterproductive. I still use chromium on my device because firefox runs like buns. Y’all are saying Brave is not better, but again, do you have alternatives?
Thanks
For me firefox, or rather fennec, runs really well. What issues do you have? Maybe open a bug report after checking if others have similar problems. Maybe your specific performance issues can be fixed by someone with programming socks?
Can’t use apps that require google play services.
Trying fennec now. Seems much better than last time I had it installed.
I’m running a modified Light phone 3. It’s a bit of a janky setup but it’s definitely been an interesting tinkering project
Have you tried microg to allow gapps to work? Or is that just not something you want to do?
No microg.
It’s difficult to function in society these days without a smart phone, but I wanted to fully move away from Google systems and big tech in general.
I try and use mine as a phone(call/sms/MMS) and mp3 with limited functioning otherwise. No social media apps; browser only if I do access them. FOSS for everything.
Having a non google platform for browsing is so helpful. A basic search function is hard to live without.
I’ve never had any issues with ff’s performance personally, what is your specs?
Modified light phone 3
The website says “The Light Phone III will never have […] internet browsing”? Is this the ‘modified’?
Yeah basically the ‘light os’ is just a launcher not a full operating system. It’s running android 14 under the hood and if you know the work around you can get to the base layer and build up from there.
It’s really a nifty device. I quite enjoy what it has to offer. The problem I have with it was that the company shipped it before the software could utilize all the features. It’s got a fingerprint reader and front facing camera that aren’t utilized out the box (selfies work but video calls, no). I liked it enough to tinker with it and make it ‘smart’. The form factor and other constraints make it so it’s much less intrusive than my other smart phones. Which has helped me stay focused. I won’t lie there are still times that I find myself scrolling reddit on it but it’s janky enough where it’s not as bad as it could be. It has definitely highlighted how addictive these apps and sites are.
Still ironing out some details on my own but I look forward to what they do with their software updates in the future!
Ironfox
I’d suggest Cromite as a good option if Firefox based browsers run terrible, I use it since Firefox browsers are not recommended on Grapheneos for security reasons.
Not fully Foss but I really like Vivaldi. Think the back end is foss
Remove tiktok and you’ll be free from spying on you by US-Chinese Corps
What’s the green UI / Launcher i like it.
Smart Launcher
Thank you very much.
Out of curiousity, is there a reason you picked K-9 over Thunderbird?
Aren’t they the same thing these days (genuine question)?
There are several apps that do the same
- Mullvad (the Browser?) and Brave
- K-9 Mail and Proton Mail
- Aegis, Aurora and F-Droid
- Brawl Allstar, Roblox and Tiktok
Think about deduplication.
none of the things you mentioned are the same Mullvad: VPN Brave: Browser K-9 mail: email client, I use it to access my gmail without using the gmail app Proton mail: the gmail app itself Aegis: authenticator (I really have no idea where you got the idea that it has anything to do with email) Brawl stars & Roblox: Games, but they are COMPLETELY different games Tiktok: Entertainment (even though I don’t use it for that)
My bad
Aren’t Aegis a 2fa app? Aurora and F-droid have different use cases? Or can you add F-droid (and other) repos to Aurora?
