I donate regurlay to:

• OSMand
• Signal
• Bitwarden

Which happen to be myself. And the datacenter facility owner.

How would that be leaking, home hosters aside?

Yep, that would be the ip adres of my €5 a month VPS somewhere in an german datacenter.

Not until now, thnx, will investigate!

Sailforms Android app!

https://groups.google.com/g/sailforms-users

Use like 12 years for keeping track of lots of personal stuff. It’s a generic database / table / forms app that’s very powerfull. Buttons, queries, reports, calculated fields etc.

But: the app developer stopped despite a rather enthusiastic community. Now it isn’t even on the Play Store anymore and I guess everybody must have an exit strategy.

Agree, also I never encountered other software so flexible in user interface. Every feature can be placed with panels everywhere to your own liking. The whole app interface is like a canvas. Took me a while to get the hang of it but after that …

Wished other apps were this flexible.

If you wouldnt mind getting rid of Google search entirely … settings, search, select Google, remove. I assume there is nothing to pin after that?

Like Felt? https://felt.com/ Not free or anything and although OSM based I dont think their geo-stack is “open”.

One of the few times I miss Files-on-demand for Win11. Connect an Office365 library with 500 GB to my laptop with an 128 GB harddrive. Integrates with file explorer, only caches local what you open, after a while you can “free space”, meaning deleting local cache version. NextCloud has the same on Win11 because its an OS feature.

Sometimes I wish we could re-allocate half the dev hours poured in to the 10th txt/code editor, music player or terminal app in to this kind of thing.

Did you over engineer? Yes! Also: this is very cool!!

One example which was hard for me to remove, at least in bulk: contributions to Google Maps (photos). I also answered survey questions about POI and I dont think they can be removed at all.

All before I discovered OSM…

I prefer another tactic if I may share:

• Database in production: let Bitwarden clients sync the native way Bitwarden offers.
• Database in backup: let a dedicated backup service keep your database save.

I dont know if this could be done automatic (just backup the production database) or if this has to be done by export (by hand once in a while).

Doesnt matter from which device the backup originates because the native sync will keep them all the same usually in seconds.

For my family my setup slightly different for reasons in other comments:

• do change browsers away from Chrome or Edge
• do change search engines
• allow cookies
• drop tracking surveillance traffic at the network level with something like pihole or nextdns

To understand correctly: You have friends that care about moving files of their mobile by sync? Or is their only concern switching to Signal, but the lack of backup besides on the device?

Asking because:

• I have the same solution as you but the android folders - foldersync - Nextcloud variant.
• My motivation comes from privacy / sovereignty.
• My friends lack this motivation so they are happy using the cloud (iCloud or Googles) to “backup” everything.
• Any hassle by not using that needs strong motivation to endure and overcome.

So when their photos are in the cloud and their documents stay happy in mail attachments often there isn’t much more to backup besides configuration. Which all those bigphone (Samsung Lenovo Apple etc) suppliers provide.

For the chat backup:

• I got my whole family to switch to Signal (at least with me and for group chats, we have them for events and topics). The leverage I used was to only use Signal for baby photos of our newborn kids which my sisters and mom just couldn’t live without. 😎
• They complain about running out of local storage and not being able to bulk delete media in Signal.
• As a workaround they sort by filesize and delete a dozen big files (eg video).
• Or they leave a group, delete it along with media and join again.
• I was surprised they don’t care about the files after consuming it (foto video) and happy delete them.
• After that … the backup becomes small again.

Just a remark about “can donate profit anyway” which I understand for corporations doesnt apply to public and semi-public services (ofcourse).

Which often happens to be a target group that is well aware of public values etc and the notion of community-culture among each other. Often other libraries or other schools for example treat each other as collegues etc.

BUT those type of organisations arnt allowed to donate (Giving away taxmoney) AND often cant allocate developer time (because there arent any within those organizations).

Here (NL in EU) we depend on the same FOSS as everyone else, but cant donate. We do must look for other ways to contribute tho.

To illustrate even more: I follow a Lemmy privacy “group” with an Akkoma account.

Agree, no small feat. Two caveats tho:

• These models prioritize plausibility above factual correctness. So verification often is needed.
• Data from after the creation of trainingmaterial is absent of course.

Train it online. Use it offline.