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Altech Freedom Checklist

I am tracking my progress towards freedom here

Cloud (Alternative Google Drive, DropBox)

  • Nextcloud (ownyourbits nextcloudpi is the best for this)

Web Browsers (Alternative to Chrome, Firefox)

  • Brave (This is the worst browser you should even consider)
  • Librewolf (Coming from Firefox)
  • Ungoogled-Chromium (Coming from Chrome)

Search Engines

  • Searx
  • Startpage
  • DuckDuckGo (Idk if I trust these guys)
  • Brave has a new private search you can sign up for

Messaging

  • Telegram (Absolute worst you should be using)
  • Signal (Needs a phone number, not ideal)
  • Matrix (Chad chat app, no need for number or email)
  • Session (Also Chad but a bit newer)
  • Brier (All on device, can be used with no net access)
  • Nextcloud Talk (nextcloudpi works great for this)

Music

  • Plex (This is the worst you should even consider)
  • Jellyfin (Really for video, but can do music too)

VPS (Alternative to AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

  • Filebase
  • Vultr
  • Linode

Password Manager

  • MyKi (Interesting because no cloud, not sure if free tho)
  • Bitwarden (Best with your own server)
  • KeePass (or derivative e.g., KeePassXC)
  • Keepassxc (This is the best, save password file to a thumbdrive)
  • Pass (unix standard password manager, even better than keepass)

Phone (Alternative to iPhone, and other Android Phones)

  • Graphene OS (This is the worst phone OS you should consider, can only load on Pixel)
  • Pinephone (Not powerful enough yet)
  • Librem5 (Not powerful enough yet, and is a absolute unit)
  • /e/OS (Ungoogled OS has good support for a lot of Operating Systems)
  • ubuntu touch (Full ubuntu distro for phone)

Laptop

Must at bare minimum be coreboot Ideally Libreboot

  • Old Thinkpad (X220 and X220 Tablet is the best)
  • System76 (core booted versions)
  • Purism (why is the shift key on the right so small)
  • PinebookPro
  • Chromebook (Coreboot with mrchromebox and you get a rugged laptop for $60)

Video/Streaming Platforms

  • Odysee
  • Theta
  • PeerTube
  • LivePeer
  • Bitchute (chringe but good idea)

Money (Alternative to the Dollar and other Fiat currencies)

  • Bitcoin
  • Lighting (built on Bitcoin but usable like cash)
  • Monero
  • Ethereum
  • Cardano
  • USDC and other stable coins (Send dollars over crypto)

Node (self host)

  • RaspiBlitz (Lighting node on Pi)
  • Umbrel (Lighting node on Pi marketed to be easy for anyone)

Savings accounts

Proprietary but better than bank returns with stablecoins

  • BlockFi
  • Celsius
  • Voyager

Decentralized Finance

  • AAVE
  • Synthetix
  • Saffron.finance
  • Stacks
  • Vesper
  • Bisq

TV/Movies

  • Plex (This is the worst you should even consider)
  • Jellyfin (the best for streaming)
  • Kodi

Maps

  • OpenStreetMap
  • OpenRouteService