I feel like #degoogle seems to embody a greater movement to leave bigtech. Here are the crazy things I’ve done over the last month or so.
- Installed Arch on my laptop about a month ago
- re-engaged my Mastodon and Bluesky while deleting Twitter and unfriending everyone on Facebook
- Installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel
- Moved email to custom domain and Tuta from Gmail
- Moved to NextCloud in place of Google Drive
- Moved photos from Google Photos to Ente Photos
- Moved my PKM and Notes to Logseq
- Moved from Chome and Google Search to Firefox, Tor and DuckDuckGo
- Just deleted Reddit and started a Lemmy account.
It’s been a ride and I’m open to other suggestions and guides.
If you’re in need of GPS for android auto, I recommend organic maps as an entirely offline and privacy respecting alternative to Google maps.
comaps is the new community one
Oh thanks for the tip. Trying it today.
Apart from being a fork, why would I move to Comaps? I checked and Organic Maps was still being updated. I wouldn’t mind moving given a reason, though I don’t see the point yet
organic maps has taken steps to move toward privatization. here is the open letter by the CoMaps founders about why they stopped contributing to organic and started CoMaps
Thank you for explaining it and the source, I’m swapping over right now
I’ve tried this one I got fined because it sent me through a road that was recently switched to “license holders only”. Mostly my fault because I didn’t see the sign but another time it tried to send me through roadworks and refused any alternatives. However great the idea of OpenStreetMaps is, community based maps are only as good if you have community members nearby.
I’ll stick with Waze for navigation.
Didnt Google buy Waze? I used Mapquest recently.