DeGoogle - expelling Google from Canada one device at a time.

Check out these other Communities:

• Linux Phones
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Alternatives

Recommended alternatives for all the Google products, software and services

NOTE: We're trying to recommend you alternatives which are FOSS (or mostly so) and privacy-respecting. This is by no means an exhaustive list of alternatives.

Notable

• PrivacyGuides
• PrivacyTools

'Google Search' alternatives:

• Ecosia
• DuckDuckGo
• SearX. Find an instance here, or use any of these:

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/france by /u/World_War_Jack on 2025-03-26 14:20:08+00:00.

Bonjour, tout le monde !

Je vois de plus en plus de personnes qui cherchent des alternatives aux produits américains et aujourd'hui, je vous propose de vous aider à remplacer vos produits numériques américains.

Pour la petite histoire, je cherche à remplacer mes produits non-européens depuis environ deux ans, dans une démarche visant à ce que mes "nouvelles" données restent en Europe, voire en France (même si c'est compliqué, je vous en parle juste après).

Avant tout, quelques points importants:

• Ne remplacez pas tout juste pour dire de remplacer : il faut que ça vous soit utile. Vous n'êtes pas du tout obligé de TOUT remplacer, ou si vous le

There are a ton of people using EOL (end of life) Windows versions, which is kinda scary. Not few of them do so because Microsoft has made updating something negatively associated, which is also incredible.

Updating software is essential, please do so. If you don't want to and don't need Windows-only software, there are a bunch of penguin people that happily guide your way through Linux.

I recently installed Win11 for a friend who needs Adobe software, and I think I have achieved a near perfect result, with minimal hassle.

This guide will show you how to do a clean install of nearly unchanged Windows 11, and adapt it with a few free and open source tools, to be less invasive and resource intense.

If you don't want to reinstall, the german tech news channel Heise has made a Registry hack that allows upgrading normally to Windows 11, if your hardware is unsupported.

ℹ️ Update

Microsoft fucked with the "online account bypass" method, so now the batchfile is removed. The comma

Meta note : am not sure if this is on topic for this community, please tell me if it is not. I could not find rules, so I assume it's okay, but i'll remove it if its not. (Also, please consider the info given here with precaution, for they are only based on people feedback and media report, not any technical certainty).

So, after the recent Mozilla privacy drama, I saw multiple recommendations of alternative browsers, each one with their pros and cons. I was trying to get a better understanding of which one was good/bad for which reasons, and I thought i might share it here so people with more knowledge can correct my takes.

Here is what I could get so far, based mostly on Lemmy comments and Wikipedia pages. This is aimed at browser that share some of Firefox values (foss, independency, (maybe) privacy, etc), so I excluded Chrome, Edge, and others. I'm open to any feedback/infos/browser suggestions to get a more accurate summary !

| Browser | FOSS | Privacy | Features | Browser Fami

Link: https://github.com/Panopto-Video-DL/Panopto-Video-DL-browser?tab=readme-ov-file

Instructions:

1. Install the TamperMonkey browser extension if you don't have it already
   • Firefox
   • Chrome
2. Install this script from GreasyFork
3. Open a lecture on Panopto, look for this button in the bottom right:

4. A video will open. Download it with ctrl+S
5. watch the lecture offline without having to deal with panopto's bs

Use the videos for yourself, don't upload them anywhere else. UBC will get yo ass if you do

Betterfox

31% faster than regular Firefox

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about:config tweaks to enhance Mozilla Firefox.

:new: Now with ESR support.

Made for everyday browsing

A secure, blazing fast browsing experience. Without breakage.

Betterfox is an opinionated preference list inspired

Madison.com suffers from a bad ad problem. Even if you pay to subscribe, and you should, the site's ads are intrusive, ranging from flashy app store games to pop-ups and even reports of malicious javascripts embedded within ad iframes.

If you block the ads, the paywall pops up and yells at you for doing so, even though you are a paying subscriber and should NOT be subjected to abusive, intrusive, obtusive ads. Lee Enterprises doesn't get it, so let this guide serve as your instruction manual for allowing madison.com paid-for content without the visual cancer.

So, how do you get 'round the ad-block and get yo' fix o' Rickerts?

Step 0. Determine which web browser you are using. If it looks like a beachball of sorts, it's Chrome. If it's a orange circle with a purplish center, that's a Firefox (or Foxfire as some of my clients

Come già previsto con l'arrivo del Manifest V3 su Google Chrome non sarà più possibile installare uBlock Origin.

Alcune possibile soluzioni:

• Continuare a usare Chrome con uBlock Origin Lite che però blocca meno cose
• usare Firefox sul quale invece uBlock Origin funzionerà ancora bene
• usare Brave perché i suoi shield non verranno disattivati né modificati

WILL BE UPDATE OFTEN Last update : 8/03/2025

THE GUIDE FOR DE-GOOGLED APPS

(🏆 = just the best app ; ❤️ = a more than excellent app)

REMEMBER : Do not install every apps you find, for your security and privacy only install needed apps.

ANDROID

1- Phone and messaging

Phone --> Fossify Phone 🏆

Messages --> Quik SMS 🏆

Contacts --> Fossify contacts 🏆

Whatsapp --> SimpleX ❤️ Briar (For advanced users, maximum privacy concerns)

2- Networking

Chrome (browser) --> Cromite (must be configured) Ironfox ❤️(slower but not chromium-based, must be configured)

Discord --> Element (matrix.org client)

Re

QuickDic, decine di dizionari offline per Android

Indice dei contenuti

• Su QuickDic decine di dizionari offline
  • Alternative a QuickDic

Vi presentiamo oggi un bel progetto open source

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La sorgente della maggior parte dei dizionari è Wiktionary. Non sappiamo se tutte siano prese da qui, ma la maggior parte di quelle che abbiamo controllato avevano come sorgente pr

Perdere tempo online: quindicesima parte

Eccoci a un’appuntamento fisso che ci diverte molto (e speriamo diverta molto anche voi). Questa è infatti la quindicesima parte di Perdere tempo online, una rassegna dove racchiudiamo alcuni progetti open source semplici che altrimenti non troverebbero spazio all’interno del nostro sito. Questa non è l’unica rassegna extra che facciamo, esistono infatti anche Siti belli e basta e Nostalgia Canaglia!

Perdere tempo online: quindicesima parte

Come al solito non c’è molto altro da aggiungere, dunque veniamo subito ai siti di questa quindicesima parte!

• daily.place

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  , un sito dove p

Active User Growth

Lemmy Dadsplain [lemmy.ca], up 17.8% to 116, (49 posts)
> Greentext [lemmy.ml], up 16.6% to 2734, (379 posts)
Socialist History [lemmygrad.ml], up 15.7% to 29, (11 posts)
AbandonedPorn [reddthat.com], up 15.7% to 745, (82 posts)
Queer ∘ LGBT+ [szmer.info], up 14.5% to 75, (578 posts)
Leftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations [lemmygrad.ml], up 14.3% to 69, (123 posts)
Tools [lemmy.world], up 14.2% to 17, (19 posts)
Philippines [ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔] [lemmygrad.ml], up 14.2% to 66, (27 posts)
Imaginary Maps - Your source for fictional maps. [lemmy.ml], up 14.2% to 15, (6 posts)
FediLore + Fedidrama [lemmy.c

I hope that my list of apps will help out people, particularly those new to this world of privacy. These apps fit into the categories that people typically look for or should have and they are all at least fairly recently updated.

Notes

• Required repositories for these apps: F-Droid, DivestOS Official, Guardian Project Official Releases, IzzyOnDroid, Fedilab Apps, FUTO, Molly F-Droid Repo, NewPipe upstream (preferred)
• Simple Mobile Tools has been sold to ZipoApps and thus not worth downloading anymore. FossifyOrg is the "official" fork now and will be releasing their version

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/Trsnaqe on 2023-09-08 17:49:48.

Hello everyone,

I'd like to share our extension with you. It is developed to enhance your steam experience as linux user.

Here are the links:

Chrome

Firefox Load the Extension and Grant the Permissions From 'Manage Extension' Tab. (If vertical lines doesn't have color)

We published on opera as well but that is under review, meanwhile you can install it manually; check out github on how to do that

This extension seamlessly integrates ProtonDB's compatibility data into Steam's

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/1903718

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[Video Game Grooves](/c/videogamegroov

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/632392

• GitHub Repository: Snowflake (Nix Flake)
• Distribution: NixOS
• Keyboard Manager: KMonad
• Window Manager: XMonad
• Status-Bar: Taffybar
• Display Manager: LightDM-mini-greeter
• GTK Theme: Kanagawa GTK
• Icon Theme: Kanagawa Icons
• Cursor Theme: Bibata-Cursor (Modern-Classic)
• Font: Victor Mono Nerd Font
• Terminal: [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritt

Been tinkering with alot of parameters in about:config, but I finally a viable solution:

We all know that changing mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_Any particular Axis values changes the minimum number of lines being scrolled

But what this does not change is the sensitivity of the smallest "fling" gesture when scrolling with a touchpad.

Here's the values you want to alter when trying make the scrolling feel more "tighter" or more "Windows like" or to fix the issue described above:

set apz.fling_friction 0.002 --> 0.005

apz.fling_min_velocity_threshold 0.5 --> 1.5

the above will make the smooth scrolling with touchpad actually feel smooth and in control. As opposed to simply changing the delta multiplier values.

If you have ever seen something you wish you hadn't on Lemmy, now you can filter those posts using this userscript.

To install it you only need a userscript manager extension like any of the following:

• Violentmonkey: Chrome | Firefox -> Open source userscript manager extension.
• Tampermonkey: Chrome | Firefox -> One of the most popular userscript managers, but is not open source.

...Then you just go to the script link and install it:

Lemmy post utilities script

The userscript also has some extra features like enabling you to mark you posts as NSFW by default even if your instance does

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/1670137

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