I've made a one-page guide to help with the latest call to action and hopefully help you discover some awesome Canadian tech
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42135952
There are a few Canada specific Social Media platforms coming up as well. EH Social and Monnett.Social are topping the list.
I hope this can help you or others make the switch to support a local business 💪
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Nice list, though do be careful with Shift (browser). It's Chromium based and so heavily dependent on Google's continued development.
Yeah, but had to include it given that it is the only Canadian option. Personally, would recommend an open-source alternative like Waterfox
Sorry to nitpick. I am sure you know what you are talking about but people are easily misinformed and so definitions matter.
Chromium is Open Source. Waterfox is no more Open Source than Chromium.
Chromium is primarily developed by Google. So, you should be vary of their intentions and also aware of the potential fragility of a project dominated by one large player.
That said, Waterfox has exactly the same problems. As a fork of Firefox, it is dependent on Mozilla.
Completely agree on this, and maybe I mispoke. I meant that Shift isn't entirely open-sourced. You are right that Chrome based on Chromium is open-sourced.
I tend to favour Firefox forks though as I have more trust in Mozilla as the primary developer.
Amazing stuff, thank you!
Some other things I've learned:
Fediverse specific:
Thanks for the resources! Will look at included it for the next version
And lemmy.ca
the lack of Brave in your browser recommendations makes me question the motivation behind your other recommendations
I think you replied to me instead of the post itself
Brave is listed on their website, and maybe it wasn't included in this shortlist because it's US based and has had a number of controversies
Is Kobo and Ratukan Kobo two separate companies. Otherwise it is Japanese owned I think ?
I was actually curious about the same thing but I guess while they're owned by a Japanese conglomerate, they were/are Canadian based? From their Wikipedia page:
What a subtle detail... I'm actually disappointed in myself for not noticing this before:
Their online book store is way more expensive than the competition, but if that's the cost of supporting some fellow Canadians, I'll gladly sacrifice my capital. 🫡
Kobo supports ePub; I just run my own Calibre server and buy my books from those who publish DRM free, or sign it out from my local library.
The website explains it better - https://ca.purchasewithpurpose.io/
They are owned by a Japanese company, but are headquartered in Canada. So helps with employment.
Fair enough - haven't tried it myself so went off some peoples comments. I'll do a deeper dive into EndeavorOS but likely needs to be put in a different category.
For Operating Systems, both OpenBSD and GhostBSD are Canadian.
https://www.openbsd.org/
https://www.ghostbsd.org/
Didn't know that! Will add it to the list
What are people using as a 2FA app, Google authenticator doesn't require an account for now but I obviously want out. I wnat it to be fully local and not tied to a password manager.
You can give Ente Auth a go OR Aegis
I use Aegis
I use a Yubico Yubikey (German) and use passkeys where possible. Manual setup means you don’t have to pass the key through GAAMM servers.
most password managers integrate 2FA
From experience, 1Password does it perfectly and Proton Pass got ot recently-ish and it's working great
I don't want to store my passwords in the same place I store my 2FA codes, so in the case where my password manager is breached I'm hopefully not completely pwned. I also do not want them to have any sort of syncing (that's why we have those 1 off emergency codes). I tried Ente from another comment and that meets my needs.
Both are app-only, no desktop version available.
I already have far too many single purpose apps cluttering up my online existence.
What are your thoughts on Filen? I need a good solution and it works okay. Not sure if I should keep shopping.
If we want Canada specific Linux distros:
https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=Canada&basedon=All¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=All&status=Active#simpleresults
Damn, I don't know why I thought Bitwarden was European. Is Bitdefender any better?
I didn't know about stingray, thanks!