Yo yo!
I’ve been working on making my life more private and need some assistance picking suitable replacement options. Please let me know what you think of my list of if there are any opportunities for improvement! Here’s where I’m at …
Apple Maps -OSMandMaps. Seems like a good option, but it’s not ready out the box. I need to do more tweaking with it. -Magic Earth. Haven’t tested it yet, seems good. But I’m looking for free options first before I dabble with paid stuff.
AI (ChatGPT) -Lumo. Chat is really good. But I understand they are good because they syphon data illegally, so I’m ok “downgrading” when switching AIs. Lump seems pretty good so far. I can tell it’s not as advanced but it will do me fine for what I need. Also, i assume once I pay for lumo pro it will be more “powerful”. -Maple AI. Seems dope, also I like the pay model, pay for what you use over “x” amount of inquiries. Does anyone know how I owledgable/powerful it is? -local AI OR Ollama. These 2 are beyond my knowledge. I don’t understand how I run these on my own server? If you know anything about these please ELI5.
Google Docs -OnlyOffice. Seems like it does everything I want. -cryptpad. Just heard of this today, need to explore more. Seems dope, but it doesn’t have an app? From what I’ve seen definitely a strong contender.
Photo App (I haven’t looked into any of these yet) -Protón Drive. -ente photos. -I’mmich.
Google Drive -protón drive.
Ive heard of Venice! But tbh I skipped over it because I thought it was a sexy chat bot because their main feature is uncensored. I will add that to the list and check it out, thanks!
I was just looking at it. And I should preface, I do not like or trust AI chatbots. I saw “uncensored” in the headline, but when I scrolled down to the pricing, it’s actually censored unless you pay. So for free you have a limited number of prompts (seems quite generous though) but there’s a maturity filter implied on the free tier which is “disabled” on the $18/mo tier.
I’ve just been using Duck.ai (DuckDuckGo) for simple and stupid questions (e.g. who would win in a fight between X and Y, dumb shit like that) and it’s been fine. You should know DDG has been linked to Bing (Microsoft) for searching. They claim their AI is private. Doesn’t really concern me, I think all AI is inherently shit, so I take them at their word that it’s private… because I’m not sharing anything with it that matters. Just asking it dumb questions.
That does slightly concern me that ddg is linked to Microsoft. If I’m going thru all this trouble to make my life more private then I believe I need to cut out the major companies as well.
The farther away you get, the more you realize just how far in their greedy claws are. At that point, just remember your successes so far and the habits you have successfully broken. That is starting to help me.
Sheesh, that sounds like a Black Mirror episode. I know a majority of my info/data now is most likely compromised, but moving forward I can make a difference. Also, I can prep these tools for the young ones in my family who aren’t on the internet yet.
Every little bit helps. If you can not completely conceal yourself, just make it more expensive for them to collect data. Data centers are hard to maintain. The more you complicate things, the harder it is for them.