"Name one cow you're friends with" is such as asshole response to an industry that sometimes treats animals worse than Nazi concentration camps.

This is a nice list I'd consider for new phones.

• Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
  • Fairphone (Netherlands)
  • Hiroh (USA)
  • SHIFTphone (Germany)
  • Teracube (USA)
• Punkt MC03 (Switzerland)
• Volla (Germany) with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch (Germany)
• Jolla (Finland) with Sailfish OS (Finland)
• Purism Librem (USA, manufactured in the USA)

Props to this guy, but please consider donating to Robby Roadsteamer who's putting in much more of the hard work for positive change and being forced to go to court. Plus the guy is hilarious and awesome.

He only has $46,000 raised so far.

Love you Robby.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-robby-with-legal-fees-after-ice-arrest-in-minnesota

f-droid's website https://f-droid.org/ has a link to https://keepandroidopen.org/ which says in Google will lock down Android in September,

If you were planning on reformatting your phone to GrapheneOS, LineageOS, PostmarketOS, or UbuntuTouch, now is the time to do it.

Boycott them, even it means resorting to smaller venues. You will likely save money and not feel guilty giving these guys any money.

I'm curious why Fairphone is not mentioned?

Also if you're in Canada, this site ships internationally

https://www.clove.co.uk/collections/smartphones-fairphone/products/fairphone-gen-6

Firefox based and Chromium addon to redirect YouTube and other links to privacy alternatives. Works for Firefox based browsers on Android too.

https://libredirect.github.io/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

Even more reason to DeGoogle your computers

• https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet/
• https://grapheneos.org/ * https://postmarketos.org/
• https://www.fairphone.com/ * https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
• https://librewolf.net/ * https://www.waterfox.com/
• https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/IronFox * https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
• https://www.ecosia.org/ * https://qwant.com/ * https://searxng.org/
• https://immich.app/ * https://nextcloud.com/
• https://www.comaps.app/ + https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/
• https://signal.org/ * https://element.io/en
• https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
• https://bitwarden.com/ * https://joplinapp.org/
• https://www.qobuz.com/
• https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/ * https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
• https://tuta.com/secure-email

I got an extra 30% battery life after switching to GrapheneOS. I'm guessing whatever is saving my battery, would also bring down the load on the system.

I did notice my phone heats up much less after switching to GrapheneOS.

As an alternative, if you wanted something less secure, and more ethical, consider buying a Fairphone. However GrapheneOS does not support Fairphone at this moment.

https://www.fairphone.com/

Oh fuck, the MAGA crowd has started posting. Get ready for made up stupid shit to distract / confuse you as they are.

We have https://codeberg.org/ as an alternative to Bitbucket, and you can have free public static pages like Netlify or Github pages.

Codeberg also offers private repos.

As a Canadian, yes please! Using the Euros sounds great too if it means less conversion fees.

American news media creeping in again

Use Molly as your Signal client instead. It solves this.

Lentils, beans, tofu, chickpeas. Much healthier, cheaper.

Bandcamp waives their share on Bandcamp Fridays

August 1th

September 5th

October 3rd

December 5th

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

Just a tip, if you guys want to containerize games such Epic Games, GoG, or other Windows apps, there is a program called Bottle which lets you do this. Can be a great added layer of security and containerization: https://usebottles.com/

However there is Lutris and Heroic for easier to use alternatives that do not offer containerized security.

Help encourage your friends to try it on a separate SSD or hard drive.

If you buy your music, say on Bandcamp Friday where Bandcamp waves their revenue, you could host your own streaming server, and eventually cancel your Spotify membership.

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

https://www.navidrome.org/

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

There is also Qobuz as an alternative which pays the artist $. 01873 per stream, as opposed to Spotify's $0.003 per stream. About 5x more. Plus you can buy the music from the platform if you want. And it has higher quality audio, family plans, gift cards.

https://www.qobuz.com/ca-en/music/streaming/offers