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  • Wollar@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 天前

    Could you tell me the names of those applications and point me to where I can download each one? Do you have a compiled list?

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    5 天前

    Last I tried RHVoice is was very unnatural sounding.

    Sherpa-onnx is a much much more natural option. I personally use vits-piper-en_GB-southern_english_female-medium because I thought it sounded the most natural. You can also use Glados from Portal

    • monovergent@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      6 天前

      To be fair, I only have a few of my friends and some of my family on XMPP. I’m also guilty of having WhatsApp on my work phone for colleagues and the rest of my friends.

  • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz
    29·
    8 天前

    Quite impressive choice of apps, usually when I look at screenshots of privacy enthusiasts they look more or less like my own phone, and with you I share 3, maybe 4 apps only

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 天前

    Honest question: I see a lot of people here use their mobile phones as a computer platform. I have a general uneasiness about doing so. Not throwing any shade whatsoever, I just feel there is too much out of my control on a mobile phone, for me to trust it more than I do. My general policy is not to use my phone as a mobile computing platform even tho I have a VPN installed and use Firefox as a browser.

    My local network for instance. There is one pipe in and out. I can easily see what is coming in and what’s going out and I can control that with the granularity of a gnat’s ass. I know what my software is doing or not doing. I can allow or disallow anything I want. On a mobile phone, I feel that the control I have on my PC is not equal to the control I have on my phone.

    How have you come to terms with what you can’t control on your mobile phone?

    • monovergent@lemmy.mlOP
      15·
      8 天前

      I definitely agree with you on this. My pet theory is that phones have been getting uncomfortably big, at least from my perspective, since the average consumer is expecting it to serve as a computing and productivity platform, while all I want is a nice little digital Swiss army knife. I’m only logged into my messaging apps and personal email, and don’t expect to do any sort of “productivity” on my phone. When my friends and colleagues assume I’m logged in to this-or-that on my phone, all I can think about is how afraid I would be if I were logged in to so many things on my personal phone. It’s so much harder to inspect what’s going on in the background of mobile devices.

      One of the compromises I’ve had to accept is the closed, yet exploitable nature of the baseband and firmware. Also how much more spying it could do compared to any PC if an exploit were to get through. Compiling Coreboot and neutering the Intel ME taught me a lot about who’s really in control - and how much control we all lose to smartphone manufacturers and telecom companies.

      • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
        7·
        8 天前

        Touch grass? Not OP, but when I’m out of the house, it’s because I need to do something, so I’m barely on my phone except for navigation, the occasional text/call, and paying for stuff. Otherwise, I use my laptop most of the time (at home and at work).

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        8 天前

        On occasion, I do leave the compound, but it’s usually to get staples I don’t grow/produce on the farm. Rarely does that process need a mobile computing platform. (I guess that’s what you’re asking)

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      8 天前

      I run an older android version, no google apps, rooted, and use AFWall/AdAway. I’m sure it’s not as secure with root and older software but I can mostly trust it to not send weird network packets etc.

    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      111·
      8 天前

      It still can’t be done 100% unless you make significant sacrifices to the usefulness of your smartphone…there’s plenty of really useful (and sometimes necessary) things with no FOSS or open source alternatives.

      • Starkon@lemmy.ml
        7·
        7 天前

        Not to mention drivers… many driver blobs are proprietary and if you can find an open source one, there is a chance it works partially or not at all. I have a spare phone and I’ve been hesitating between flashing either PostmarketOS (all FOSS drivers but without the android ecosystem) or LineageOS, or maybe both if I can achieve that.

        • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
          6·
          7 天前

          Even if you fixed the issue with drivers…

          …your modem runs it’s own firmware with a lot of extremely shady behavior, and you can’t touch that regardless of which OS you install. Even your SIM card can arbitrarily execute Java applets and fetch from the network without your command, but at least it’s somewhat contained. Your modem though, it can do a lot without your control and people like Qualcomm have been caught doing nasty stuff with it (plus, of course, giving the US the data whenever they ask for it).

          This is why people like Stallman and Snowden often talk about teaching users how to use libre software on their computers, but rather than pushing for the same with smartphones, they tell you to not touch these at all instead. They’re fundamentally anti-privacy devices, built this way.

          Of course I carry one, it’s fairly hard to live without a phone nowadays, but we must be aware of the impossibility of fully containing the data harvesting they do.

          • Starkon@lemmy.ml
            1·
            5 天前

            I agree with you on all your points. I just wanted to add that there’s openWRT, a linux distro for routers and embedded systems (never used it before and the router I use is not mine), maybe that can solve the router part, I may be wrong though.

            • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
              2·
              5 天前

              openWRT is fantastic and does indeed give you full control over your router… but not your modem. Modems are a complete mess of patents and proprietary software that nobody can control but a select number of companies.

    • monovergent@lemmy.mlOP
      40·
      7 天前

      Of course

      • Accrescent: Store run (edit: advocated) by the GrapheneOS team for third-party apps
      • Aegis: 2FA TOTP code generator
      • AirGuard: Scans for persistent AirTags in the vicinity, notifies if I may be victim to AirTag tracking
      • AntennaPod: Podcast manager, also supports importing local folders of podcasts
      • AudioMonitor: Measure sound level
      • Binary Eye: Support for many types of 1D and 2D barcodes
      • ByeDPI: routes internet traffic through the DNS port to bypass certain types of filtering
      • Canvass: doodle app, useful for mid-conversation diagrams and clarifying things visually in the absence of pen and paper
      • ClassiCube: Minecraft Classic clone
      • Conversations: XMPP client
      • Editor: raw text editor
      • Elementary: periodic table
      • SimpleEmail: minimalist e-mail app that does not automatically fetch linked images. Refereshes in the background every 15 minutes and sends notifications without need for Play Services or equivalent
      • FakeStandby: for edge cases when I want something to keep running in the foreground, but don’t want to keep the screen on
      • Feeder: RSS client
      • Fintunes: Jellyfin client optimized for music
      • FlorisBoard: customizable keyboard
      • Fruity Game: Suika but with MS-Paint art style
      • Graph 89: Graphing calculator emulator
      • Invizible: Tor and DNS client
      • Kiwix: Offline Wikipedia (you can download just the parts useful to you, e.g. medical articles without storage-hungry media files)
      • Lemuroid: GBA emulator
      • LocalSend: instant P2P filesharing over WLAN
      • Markor: notes app with markdown
      • Material Files: files app with SMB share support and various handy features
      • Molly: Alternative Signal client
      • Fossify Messages: I use it over the default messages app since it is easy to block numbers by pattern
      • Notally: notes app with nice checklists
      • Open Camera: as easy to use as the regular camera, but with a bunch more features below the surface
      • OpenContacts: saves contacts as individual .vcf files to a directory for easy backup and allows dropping unknown callers without bothering me with a notification
      • Organic Maps to be replaced with CoMaps later
      • OSS Document Scanner: best FOSS scanning app I’ve found so far. Includes auto-cropping (given enough contrast) and adjustable B&W filter to eliminate off-white background colors.
      • phyphox: view output of sensors like the barometer, magnetometer, accelerometer, etc.
      • PipePipe: NewPipe but better (except for the occasional memory leakage)
      • QDict & QuickDic: offline dictionaries and bilingual wordbooks
      • RadioDroid: IP radio client. Can tune in to international news, music, sports broadcasts
      • RHVoice: TTS app
      • RiMusic: NewPipe, but for Spotify, etc. YT Music
      • SecScanQR: QR scanner and generator with history, useful to save QR addresses for later use since I don’t want to fill out forms or read documents on my phone
      • SuperTuxKart: the only [edit: other] game on my phone
      • Symphony: Music app with a slick UI
      • Trail Sense: Compass with various goodies useful for outdoor activities
      • Breezy Weather: weather app and homescreen widget with a slick UI
      • MicroMathematics: Math engine, but I never learned how to use it
  • AshCircuit@lemmy.zip
    10·
    8 天前

    That’s how my GrapheneOS phone is zero proprietary apps in the main profile and then my own separate Google profile. Essentially get to carry two cell phones with one device.

    • curious_dolphin@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      7 天前

      What does maintaining a separate profile for Google stuff buy you? I’m familiar with GrapheneOS, but haven’t internalized the separate profile thing yet.

      • AshCircuit@lemmy.zip
        3·
        7 天前

        It keeps Google 100℅ seperate or vice versa.

        Then when it’s locked down it shuts down play services and apps to complete non functionality.

        Go into system and create a new user. Set up that user exactly like you would a standard smart phone. And any apps you have on your main profile completely open source. That way it’s 100℅ Google free

        • curious_dolphin@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          7 天前

          Got that part, but what throws me is, in order to install a Google app on that secondary “google” profile, don’t you have to first install the Google app on the main profile so that you can then push it to the secondary profile?

          • AshCircuit@lemmy.zip
            4·
            7 天前

            No… You just install the play store and play services on profile #2 via the Graphene app store.

            • curious_dolphin@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              7 天前

              Oh, I see. I must’ve misread a tutorial at some point then. I did not realize one could install an app directly into profile #2, I thought root had all the apps and then specific apps had to be pushed to the other profiles. Thanks for clarifying that.

              • AshCircuit@lemmy.zip
                3·
                7 天前

                There is a guy in YouTube who does this. Side of Burritos? He has Google play on his main profile and then has a degoogled account for the second profile and transfers all the play store apps to the second profile. (Essentially making it his main).

                I don’t do that for battery purposes.

    • trilobite@lemmy.ml
      2·
      7 天前

      I nave ho learn how ho do these two profile things. How do u switch between them, and IS it on the fly?

      • AshCircuit@lemmy.zip
        3·
        7 天前

        Pull down your notification bar twice. In other words expand it all the way. There is a small person Inside of a circle icon. That is how you can select the other profile. It’s super fast and easy.

        Then when you are done inside the profile. Hold the power button and select “Lock Out” and this will completely close down the second profile and put you back in the Main profile with the other completely shut down.

        Downside is you wont get notifications in one area or the other from the opposing profile when it’s not in use.

        An alternative that is pretty secure too instead of profiles is to do the same thing in Private Space. This is found in the settings under the Security tab. This WILL get notifications to your main profile and when you shut down Private Space all apps stop completely including Play Services. But it’s not as isolated as profiles

        • trilobite@lemmy.ml
          2·
          7 天前

          Wow, this is impressive. I had heard about profiles but never got into the detail and never really understood the benefit. So, a cool way of using this it to have a FOSS only space under the main admin profile and the build up a second “big brother” profile where I stack some annoying apps that in a way or another I’m forced to use like banking app and what’s app. When the “big brother” profile is shut down, nobody tracks you. Would that be correct? If this is true I’m here asking myself why on earth people are not harnessing this more.

          • AshCircuit@lemmy.zip
            1·
            6 天前

            Yes, when you google profile is shut down… It is completely isolated. You could install an application that is 100℅ malware and it would be completely closed down the moment you lock down that profile.

            If you need what’s app, I would either check your side profile a few times a day for messages OR you can stick What’s App on the Private Space area of your FOSS profile so that it’s Super easy to check. Private space works the same way in that when it’s shut down… The apps are 100℅ turned off including Play Services.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
    10·
    7 天前

    I love the mandatory Super Tux Cart anyone of us has installed but played like 4 times