Ok looks interesting, it is missing a Mac/iOS version but else, pretty promising. Only downside is, that it looks hard to recommend for family and friends that are not tech savvy.

Did you look at SailfishOS (Linux Smartphone) It supports Android App virtualization.

I like your thinking. Here an example why password manager make sense. If you would use the same password at every website and one of the would be for example Facebook, and they would get breached. Your password associated with your username and email , is now know to some hacker group. And in case of Facebook, the password is not hashed , it was stored in plain text. Now they have fun to try different websites with combinations of your name , email and password.

Alternatively a password manager stores for every website a different password, and your only mission is to keep that manager secure with a good , rememberable password.

Also , what I do , is using an email alias service. So I have a different Password and Email for each account. I don’t have to care if something gets breached, I am safe and aware of what information gets stolen.

And for future, we could all use passkeys and FIDO2 to block most phishing attempts.

You can disable the most bloat and remove the ads. After that , it is a very good Chrome alternative. If you have to use chromium based browsers. Feel free to name a better one that has adblocking (after manifest v3) and fingerprint protection.

Giving it a try is most of the time the first step. I tried GrapheneOS , used it until my device no longer received updates. Then Google Pixels got disappointing and iOS 14/15 got out with big privacy changes, so I switched the first time to Apple. I know, ironic , but it works for me. I remove most permissions from apps, use my own DNS block list enforced by MDM and if possible, self host my apps and services or use paid / open source ones. I am here on Lemmy instead of Reddit or Instagram…. I also tried Jollas SailfishOS v3 , it was ok, but this was back at the time very limited for social interactions, now with v5 it would have been better. Also good to know, at my place , Apple Pay is one of the most secure and private pay systems…. I hate that, this feels wrong.

Tried the Privacy Activist and Enthusiast section. Was not really fun and you loose connection to most of your friends and family. Now I have a balanced setup with something out of each layer. Perfect balanced, as things should be

Never used a Typewriter Never listened to music on a boombox Never send or received a fax Never rented a video from blockbuster Never accessed the internet via dial-up Never used a phonebook Never send a postcard Never owned an encyclopedia Never paid with paper check

I guess then that you have gotten 0 points.

9 Points. Can you guess how old I am with that info?

Oh sorry. Did not know that.

Apple Music can be replaced with Cider on Linux. Many use iTunes on windows for device management, the only thing that I know for this on linux is libimobiledevice.

https://developers.revolt.chat/faq

As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.

However, this does not necessarily mean federation is off the table, possible avenues are:

• Implement our own federation protocol
• Implement a promising up and coming federation protocol, polyproto
• Implement the Matrix protocol (unlikely, obtuse and unstable)
• Implement the XMPP protocol (battle-tested and stable)

Any federation that is implemented MUST exercise caution in:

• Preventing spam and abuse: moderators should be able to block malicious actors
• Protecting user data: users should be able to redact all of their information and messages

https://revolt.chat/

Oh no…… anyway Here something discord alike that you can selfhost or join the existing instance.

Germany tries to make one every two years. The newest one is called Wero/kwitt

There is also nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev But I don’t know where I found it.

I use both. I have NextDNS for mobile and PiHole for the local Intranet. A VPN to the home network for DNS did not work well enough for me.

Using Mullvad Browser + Mullvad VPN could mitigate this a little bit. Because if you use it as intended (don’t modify Mullvad browser after installation) , all Mullvad users would have the same browser fingerprint and IPs from the same pool.

I hope it becomes usable. If they hold there promise. Linux Wayland apps could be run through emulation layer, FreeBSD apps would run native and many MacOS apps should work out of the box.

https://ravynos.com/ Switch to MacOS without Apple when it is finally released.

I have no banking apps on that phone, sorry. So I don’t know if they work.