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Kiwix is a pretty good tool. The only real disadvantage (as far as I know) is that edits to the pages often take a long time to come through after they're made on Wikipedia (or whichever wiki you're looking at); sometimes weeks or months.

Services I Use:

• LibreX (search engine)
• CloudTube (YouTube proxy)
• PeerTube (federated YouTube alternative)
• Tutanota (mail & calendar)
• Organic Maps (maps app based around OpenStreetMap)
• Cryptee (encrypted notes)
• Matrix (chat)
• LibreOffice + Collabora Office (office suite)
• Kiwix (offline Wikipedia & other wikis)
• NetNewsWire (RSS reader, for news)

Arms of the Fediverse I Use Regularly:

• Mastodon
• Pixelfed
• Lemmy
• PeerTube
• WordPress

Dormant Arms of the Fediverse:

• Friendica
• Kbin
• Funkwhale
• WriteFreely

I have installed Linux on all four of my laptops, and I'm hoping to migrate from my iPhone to a Pixel with DivestOS as soon as I move out of my parents' house (I'm currently 17), or sooner if possible.

I have also swapped many web apps for desktop apps, and my music collection has been based around CDs and DRM-free files since it started in 2016. In addition, I still use DVDs, VHS tapes, and (to a lesser extent) good old-fashioned Torrents for my films and TV shows.

If the internet becomes altogether too bad, there's always Gemini. Making web apps is trickier, but entirely feasible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

I think there was also a federated social media site on Gemini, which could interact with Mastodon, but I can't find it.

I'm afraid a PWA might be the only way to go. uYou, Cercube, and Yattee are the only apps that aren't crammed full of ads, tracking and in-app purchases.

I have an iPhone. The storage I have is all I've got.

Now THIS is epic!

• It's fast
• It's FOSS
• It's private
• It supports accounts
• It has an app
• It can play YouTube Music tracks
• The UI is pretty nice

Very well done, everyone! Please accept a star on GitHub.

I think it was this one, but I just went onto SearXNG and searched for "vaporwave wallpaper".

I'd be surprised if Google completely stamped it out. They're on Codeberg now, so that'll make takedowns trickier. It's also distributed, so taking down the Invidious websites is virtually impossible.

Also, while Google probably has pretty good lawyers, I'm not sure how well they'll stand up if they go to court.

What absolute wankers! In case anyone's adblock goes south, here are some YouTube alternatives:

For Watching YouTube

• Invidious
• Piped
• CloudTube (personal favourite)

For Uploading

• PeerTube
• Idk, make a video blog or something.

Well fuck. What would you recommend for a mid-2010s ThinkPad, on which Firefox is slightly too heavy, which runs Arch. Bear in mind that I'd prefer to avoid Blink (despite having been using Brave).

My last experience with Win10 vs now:

(FOSS in bold)

• Edge -> LibreWolf, ~~Brave~~
• Windows Mail & Calendar -> Thunderbird, Tutanota
• Windows Explorer -> Thunar, PCManFM
• Todoist/iCal -> fruux + Thunderbird
• NCH VideoPad -> Kdenlive
• iTunes, Spotify -> CDs, Audacious, DeaDBeeF, Bandcamp
• VLC -> mpv, Parole
• OneNote -> ~~Obsidian~~ Joplin + Backblaze B2
• Firefox Lockwise -> Bitwarden
• WPS Office -> LibreOffice, ONLYOFFICE
• VSCode -> Micro
• Visual Studio -> Micro + GCC + Glade
• Finale -> MuseScore
• NT -> Linux (obviously)
• Windows 10 -> Debian, Arch Linux

And now, the online services:

• Ecosia -> LibreX
• YouTube -> CloudTube
• Twitter -> Mastodon
• Reddit -> Libreddit, Lemmy
• Dropbox, Google Drive -> MEGA, Filen, USB sticks
• Blogger -> Neocities, Flounder (gemini protocol)

Sorry for the long post. Here are some potatoes:

I have three:

• They don't make things like they used to
• We don't need all these damned computers in everything
• Modern music sounds like crap

I'm 17.

Mostly distraction. I listen to a lot of music, watch cartoons (I'd recommend The Owl House, if you haven't seen it), and (for an unknown reason) I can hyperfocus. I'm also growing Padrón chillies and chestnut mushrooms.