Also from the “European” recommendations, Vivaldi is Chromium, and Mullvad is Tor, which is Firefox.

Patric Breyer usually posts in German. The UK flag in the tweet is just to indicate the language of the tweet.

I dislike ads as much as the next person, and find uBlock Origin necessary for browsing the web, but the cold fact is that the internet is run with advertising, whether you like it or not.

If that is done without creating a profile on me, and without crippling the reading/viewing experience, I can tolerate advertisement.

I assume this is also an action towards becoming independent from Google funding; which is a good thing.

I’m always advocating for Signal, but I’m worried for the time their billionaire-backing eventually runs out.

Can you disable the app and download another gallery from F-Droid?

I’m done fiddling with software and want stuff that works without much hassle. Unraid is super easy, I am in the process of building a home server with it, similar setup to OP.

I plan on moving my media files to the server through my LAN via FreeFileSync.

Usually the only things locked behind an application are custom equalisation, and modifiable earphone buttons. You probably can even uninstall it after you’re happy with the above settings.

Waiting for phone manufacturers to integrate physical camera covers like on new laptops.

While not open source, Here WeGo is also an alternative to Google. I think Here may be more focused on driving.

With bank transfers I am referring to services like Paytrail/Klarna where you authenticate with your bank, and choose which account the sum is taken from.

I think bank transfers are more popular in Northern Europe. I only use a credit card if I want additional buyer protection / insurance from my bank.

Only other downside I could think if is when my catch all cant be used to send a mail or reply.

On Protonmail, I just create a new address if I need to send email from that address. Afterwards I just delete it, freeing up the address slot.

Both are fine choices depending on your requirements. The thing with external alias services, you are not in control of the addresses/domain. Catch-all addresses are essentially aliases you manage, but something like Simplelogin does have the benefit of hiding your domain name.

Spam is not a big deal on catch-all. A couple of times a year I do get a spam mail to some arbirtary address, but that’s more or less it.

Maybe I’m just not hip anymore

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