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Are you just wanting to de-google or take control of your data in general?

Search: SearXNG [public instance/self-hosted], startpage.com, etc.

GMail: Proton Mail, Tutanota

Calendar/Contacts/Docs/Drive/Meet/Photos: Nextcloud [self-hosted]

Android: Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

Maps: OSM, OSMAND+ for mobile GPS

Re:Framework Laptop – pre-orders are now open on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:44PM (#27150463)
Great concept. Would love to see a larger version with the same aspect ratio and peripherals.
Re:Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:19PM (#22003180)
Julie Pelloille, responsible for comms, appears to be going a bit too far with this.
There arw thousands of these repositories all over the place...
Paywalled.
Re:Microsoft’s Azure Kinect AI Camera on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:04PM (#20417760)
Agreed. Doubt sdk will be OS/Linux friendly either. Previous Linux kinect drivers (libfreenect) were all community driven, it worked, but not as polished as the official stuff.
Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:30PM (#19088172)
Many users who use mobile adblockers will use one across the entire device (easy on rooted Android) instead of just a browser extension.
Re:lsix: ls for images on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:25PM (#18766451)
But there is a driving purpose behind that, hidden vs non-hidden is binary. With so many media formats I agree that consistency is very important.
Re:Apple Abandons the Mass Market, as the iPhone Turns Luxury on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:11AM (#18392238)
Disagree. The median laptop price is <$1k and it's not a fair comparison by any metric.
Re:Blocklist Facebook domains on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:50PM (#16633526)
Owned by FB.
Re:A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:47PM (#15992432)
He did independently. Sure, there is a cost barrier but I don't the HS is one.
This is one of many reasons why I think phones should have easily replaceable batteries. I'm on my second Note 4 since launch and couldn't be much happier.
How does the tinder debacle fit into this?
Re:A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:18PM (#15013013)
Interesting, I would assume it would tank since there is a way of undermining the system.