I agree. Did try a few searches before I added them and did not see any glaring errors. But checking more of their listings it seems they might have just scraped wrong data. Can confirm your findings and removed them.

Oh, good eye. Typo is fixed.

Thank you for your encouraging words!

Let me know if you miss anything. I’ll keep adding & maintaining anyways, but any recommendations are appreciated.

Interesting. Did not know that:

Startpage is a global privacy technology company that was founded in 2006 in the Netherlands. It is owned by a Dutch company, which is operated from its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. Startpage is also part of System1, a publicly traded company based in the United States. System1, through its subsidiary Privacy One Group, acquired a majority stake in Startpage in October 2019. Despite this acquisition, Startpage has maintained its commitment to privacy and continues to operate under the leadership of its founders, including Robert E.G. Beens, who is the Co-Founder and CEO

Personally I see any switch away from big tech (ideally to FOSS) as win. We don’t need to be perfect, but try our best. In the end a lot of people doing it imperfectly will have a bigger impact than a few people doing it perfectly.

That said I’ll most likely remove it from the selection in the next couple of days.

Edit: replaced it with Karma search

Thank you!

No abbreviation - quite literally a place to show some appreciation for EU/Europe… and short.

At this point it’s mostly personal notes on interesting resources. Saved lemmy posts, reddit posts, and browser bookmarks got too overwhelming. Decided to aggregate all that info there.

Was (and still am) excited when I joined the community that I also needed an outlet to hopefully give something back that somebody finds useful.

My goal is to replace my current start page with the project start page. Ideally in form of a browser extension.

Thank you for the encouragement @blaze@feddit.nl Just posted https://lemm.ee/post/61489696

Nice, added to gohug.eu/join/alternatives/

Where will your non-profit be based?

For me any migration from big-tech is a win. Especially to self-hosted FOSS alternatives that don’t require paid licenses.

We don’t need a hand full of people doing it perfectly, we need a big mass doing it imperfectly.

That said - I love all those alternatives that we suddenly learn about and hear about. There might be even better solutions for this particular niche.

Self-hosting is possible and without any fees (except your infrastructure) for both Ente and Immich. Personally run Immich for our family at home in our home network and everybody loves it. No cloud fees for Google/Apple photo storage anymore. Handles our current collection of 130K+ photos & videos spanning multiple decades well.

No experience with Ente, but their privacy focus / encryption support sounds awesome. Immich might have a bigger userbase / dev community through Futo / Louis Rossmann. AFAIK no encryption planned there.

Can reproduce and just shot the dev of Raccoon an email if we can do anything to fix it on our side. Love when this hopefully is all done within Lemmy natively and redirect services are not needed anymore.

Tana let’s you only create an account if you log in through Google, Apple, Github, Microsoft.

No, thank you.

Thanks for the shout-out. Thank you for your endless stream of inspiration. Keep 'em coming! Those links are so valuable.

Thank you so much for that background info! Will migrate my Gitea instance to Forgejo. Was quite fresh anyway, better do it now than later.

Haha. Still running an Xorg session. It’s a shame there were so many nuisances in Wayland. They seem to get fewer and by now I think it will be OK for most things. Still don’t wanna try as long as Xorg works without issues.

Ohhh… I like that. A very strong contender if I switch.

I like the TOTP scanner that automatically scans the screen for QR codes that was intorduced lately in Bitwarden and just the user interface in general that I very like.

But nothing I would lose much sleep over. Thanks for the recommendation!

Exactly. Used a Pixel 7a to test Graphene. Wanted to for a long time but was hesitant to try on my main phone. Just feel lucky I had the opportunity to get a used phone to test on now. Was well worth it IMO.

Got a used Pixel 7a to play around with. Will be supported by Graphene for a few more years I assume and good enough for everything I do.

My main driver is a Pixel 8. Usually skip a few generations in between, but liked the stock Android experience compared to other manufacturer bloat.

Was thinking about trying Graphene for some time now. The last weeks finally gave me the push to do something about it.

Similar with Qubes OS on laptop, but not sure if I’ll ever dig deep there.

Trying out hardware / software is a passion of mine. Got a Pine phone at some point to play around with different Linux based smartphone OS’es and see what the current state is.

I found that LineageOS can be a life saver for “older” hardware that is still perfectly fine but doesn’t get updates from the OEM anymore. In my experience tablets often get treated very badly in that regard.

Can only speak for myself as I don’t know a single person IRL who uses it.

Was primarily using Chrome the last years. I haven’t had heard about Vivaldi until maybe two or three weeks ago.

THE BAD

Let me start with what I don’t like:

• They have their own implementation of how internal windows / focus works. As a user you notice it that e.g. the little Bitwarden popup stays open even if you click somewhere else. Which can be nice. The downside is that it makes life as a web dev a bit more complicated, as Keyboard shortcuts don’t work exactly as on Chrome - which is just the smoothest (also compared to Firefox)

• The tweaking necessary to achieve the behavior I wanted from it took some initial research and set up time. Happy to say that I managed to get everything right, but it was looking up tweaks in user forums, bug tracker, etc. Not the best experience (e.g. vivaldi:// was not associated by default, had to do that manually, several keyboard shortcuts I rely on, start page focus on address bar, other minor tweaks as examples)

• It sometimes after a long period of usage begins to freeze to the point where I have to restart it sometimes, which can be a nuisance. Don’t really care about it, but want to be honest about that.

• It is impossible to drop a current page by dragging the link deep into the folder structure of the bookmarks toolbar. That works on most other browsers, but here you are limited to the very top level of folders only.

THE GOOD

The good parts why I prefer it over all the other browsers currently:

• They absolutely got the settings menu right. It is structured in a way that just speaks to my brain. It is absolutely clear where you find what.

• Then all the things you CAN configure in the first place. Much is missing in other browser. They could, or can if you heavily tweak random flags and hidden settings, here it’s just in the standard configuration interface.

• Configurability of the toolbars is awesome. I got it exactly right to my liking. On Firefox there are one or two items I was not able to move. Not even with custom userChrome tweaks.

• Their sidebar implementation is just awesome too (for my use case). Has all the features I need and removed all that I don’t.

AFTERTHOUGHT

That said I have to say that during testing of different browser I somewhat achieved almost the same with LibreWolf. Except their sidebar and main configuration interface are inferior IMO. I’ll immediately switch (if or) once manifest v2 gets dropped.

Love the power of userChrome.css in Firefox.

Also discovered the Stylus extension which works in most browsers. I have already created several custom styles for my most frequently visited websites that sync in my cloud storage to all my devices. Mostly tweaks to get dark mode right on some pages that don’t support it yet.

My main point I guess is that actively thinking about what products I use and looking into alternatives made me realize what other great options there are. The spark was all this community. For that I’m grateful.

Uuuuuh. Looks exciting. Thanks for the mention