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Ente Auth is another choice
I am all for this, but have you ever tried Libre office? Omg this thing is like old soviet car: it’ll bring you to your destination point but at what price… I needed it mostly for small writing stuff and Word was fine for that. After Libre I tried Obsidian and it worked perfectly. It just knows what you want to do and it is smooth, predictable and everything makes sense. In LIbre I could not figure out for about 30 mins how to write OP without it changing it to Op.
LibreOffice can be very customizable. I made it look and function very similar to Word. Also there is an online forum and faq on which users help each other.
It might be, but I’d prefer if it would work predictably out of the box. Other things can do that, so it is not like I am asking for miracle. G**gle docs definitely behaves different from Word but I never had any troubles with it, and no customization ever needed. Why tf program decides what I am trying to write? Yeah, I can undo that but it is CTRL+Z ??? It’s like changing the hands position and breaking typing flow. Why not just Backspace to undo suggested change?? Ctrl+Z is to undo what USER done, not machine. edit: it is so stupid and unlogical that i am getting angry again :D
please try onlyoffice. It has the exact same ui/ux as word.
Try CryptPad then.
There’s also OnlyOffice, but I don’t use it because it may be from a Latvian office with ties to Russia.
LibreOffice also has a setting to make its interface more similar to that of Office.
Interface is fine. It’s just those small things that suddenly do not work as you expect. I’ll give Libre second chance sometime later if I will need to do bigger text. I invested my 30 mins already and it is too late to cut my losses /s
Filen anyone?
You can store OTP codes in bitwarden btw
Think about if you care having all your “eggs” in one basket if you use bitwarden for your passwords too, but if you also store recovery codes in bitwarden then realize that the difference doesnt matter.
p.s. using it in bitwarden if better if you would otherwise not use 2fa
Google Tasks isn’t listed here.
This was something I relied upon heavily. When I de-googled, I didn’t want to just move it to another cloud platform, and as a selfhoster I tried quite a few self hosted solutions. Some were very good, but also quite complicated and filled with features I didn’t want.
So I wrote my own - Taskpony - and made it FOSS. It evolved into something that’s not a Google tasks copy, but suits my own needs better. Simple, easy, useful. I’ve really enjoyed the process of writing and sharing this.
Currently using Vivaldi Browser (/e/ OS). Any thoughts and/or recommondations?
Uni prof here- the one that continues to plague me is Google Classroom. It may as well be the default for my department, which means if I switch to Moodle, Canvas, etc., I also have to manage all the student headaches that come with requiring them to use unfamiliar software. Also have to dip way into my budget for features I’m currently getting for free. Would really like to make a clean break from Google but this one hook is still in me. Blarg.
why not have lectures in person?
Pretty sure Google classroom is for classroom management, not specifically for remote learning. A place to put sulybus, assignments, grades, enrollment, etc.
Isn’t that what grad students are for… lol. It’s been a few decades since I wnet to college (in the US). We rarely spoke to our professors. They had grad students as TAs handle most of the student interaction and managment of software tools and such.
I wouldn’t stress out too much. Take what victories you can. Additionally, while institutional change is hard, introducing your students to LibreOffice and other useful free tools is still a powerful avenue for change.
How do they list Nextcloud as an alternative to Google Drive but not to the Google office apps? LibreOffice is not really a substitute, Nextcloud Office/Collabora is.
It’s criminal that https://delta.chat/ isn’t named as an alternative chat especially since its in-chat apps (https://webxdc.org/) contain alternatives for half of googles apps but that are peer to peer, e2ee and offline first unlike most of the alternatives in the graphic.
Forgetting that immich needs a selfhosted server?
Thus it aint really an alternative if you really want it to be applicable to the average user.- An immich user.
proton drive has a photo backup feature
It’s interesting they haven’t recommended anything proton here when proton as a whole works very well in a bunch of these categories… I imagine it could be because they’re a competitor to Tuta
Proton Calendar is listed
Ah yeah, I was looking at the mail/password manager/docs side instead… They’ve also got Proton Drive on there as well though
No worries. The chart is a mess.
Thanks for pointing that out!
I had assumed one of the reasons the list feels so weak to me is because they didn’t want to add selfhosted alternatives.
But since that is not the case, the list is even weaker than I thought.This is a strong list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
I own a Synology nas that i tinker a bit with self hosting stuff, but is there a open source project that makes it so easy and convenient or maybe even better? Cause Synology is cool its stilla big corp that wants to harvest my data.
https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-portainer-on-your-synology-nas/
Keep your Synology and start hosting docker containers with open source replacements for the Synology branded ones.
That way the storage is still solid and maintenance free, but you can experiment with different options on top.
Depends a bit what you want exactly.
You can get the same with trueNAS (or hexOS which is an easy to use wrapper), or Unraid. But that needs more than a bit of tinkering (in my opinion)
I tried some, but would up back on Synology since I don’t have time to waste on the NAS layer
Are we doing ads now here? And are we, like, OK with it now?
On second thought you’re absolutely right. Report created.
edit: oh, this is YSK, I was thinking more about IT communities.
Bruh chill a lot of these are FOSS
This is an ad for Tuta, which server side software is, AFAIK proprietary. You cannot self-host.
Yeah and that Tutao stuff looks pretty appealing with those nice bold letters and top placement.
It’s still better than the vast majority of similar guides that are posted. Most of them seem to be proton ads, which is an objectively worse thing, and most others have stuff like brave on the list. And it’s not like they tried to hide it here, it’s right there at the bottom. Seeing them actually give alternatives to even their own things is great IMO. The only fault here was OP not making it clear in the title where the image is from, no matter how obvious that is.
I was also wondering about the order of the alternatives.
It feels like the first entry is the “best” to replace tge google service but IMO some are not even close to other lower placed alternatives.
I don’t want brands to think there’s a loophole they can exploit by half-heartedly endorsing FOSS for nefarious advertising. “Coke tastes great with the user agency of Linux” is still an ad for Coke.
A lot of these are filler. It’s an add for a specific product disguised as one of this endless lists, but they couldn’t stop themselves from being obvious
Should be said that some alternative search sites, such as Ecosia, share some of your information with their upstream search providers which does include Google.
What I thought as well…
This is using google with extra steps.
Anyone recommending CryptPad as an alternative to Google Docs is pretentious af to me or is only using it on PC. The mobile version of CryptPad is the most unusable clunky bullshit ever.
Some people are willing to contend with less perfect UIs to get away from Big Tech.
The list is incomplete, a bit dumb, and mostly advertising anyhow. Each heading should have many more and often better alternatives.
For most users, Next loud or Libre is far better
This is an ad. At least tuta marked it but that doesn’t make it way better.
All YouTube “options” are YouTube frontends. All android “alternatives” are android - which isn’t the guides fault as there are none in my opinion. Still unserious from my point of view.
It’s once more a catch all “guide” that doesn’t guide but simply mentions enough popular alternatives to get popularity.
OP’s account exists for over a year, but this is the only participation in the fediverse ever. No other posts, zero comments… WTH?
they even listed calyx which is currently taking a long nap and is not secure
And as mentioned elsewhere, many cited alternatives are not degoogled at all.
And once you go that way you should go one step further and look for open source alternatives. I’m pretty sure some listed aren’t that either.
There are better curated, less biased lists out there.
