Use LibreX or a fork called LibreY, it’s a JS-free proxy for Google search
There’s a list of instances at https://librey.org/instances.php
Something similar exists for DuckDuckGo btw, it’s called 4get
Or you can just use SearXNG, a meta search engine that aggregates results from multiple sources
Anything that doesn’t work on Linux
This might sound weird, but Apple. I was NEVER disappointed by any of the products I bought. Sure, they are fucking expensive. Sure, they sometimes release really dumb products that most people probably shouldn’t buy (e.g. the 2015 MacBook). But if you make all the right considerations before your purchase, I’m pretty sure you will have a product that won’t disappoint you. At least that’s been my experience so far. That doesn’t mean that I’m perfectly happy with everything, for example I’m trying to switch away from an iPhone (I will definitely keep using macOS laptops/desktops though) for privacy reasons. I wasn’t really disappointed here, when I bought this phone, I knew what I was getting myself into, but Google isn’t much better.
Proton for secure email/calendar/whatever they offer now. I’ve been a subscriber to their paid plan for years, really happy so far.
IVPN and Mullvad for a trustworthy, private VPN provider
Darknet Diaries is just amazing, it’s always really interesting, I never get bored
The Lockdown is a pretty good podcast about digital (and physical) privacy and security
The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show by Michael Bazzell @ inteltechniques.com was really great, but they took it down last year. Fortunately there is still a torrent of the full archive of the show floating around: https://lemmings.world/post/11120738
The Ask Noah Show is all about Linux and open source software
Basically everything produced by Jupiter Broadcasting is just awesome, including Linux Unplugged and Self-Hosted
Linux Matters can also sometimes have really good content (Here’s their Mastodon profile: https://ubuntu.social/@linuxmatters)
Brodie Robertson’s Tech over Tea (I’m sorry I don’t have a better way to link to it than Apple Podcasts)
The Linux Experiment’s weekly Linux & open source news podcast (which you can also follow from the Fediverse btw, Castopod is just an awesome piece of software)
Both Wells Fargo and Discover work fine on GrapheneOS:
https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues/63
https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues/64
From https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
I’d like to find something that lets me control the music from my desktop, either through KDE connect or a standalone app. FOSS / F-droid preferred
I recommend a self-hosted music server like Navidrome. !navidrome@discuss.tchncs.de
Unfortunately Stardew Valley. But now I don’t have much time and I lost my save file, so I would have to start all over again.
LibreWolf (which doesn’t store any cookies or other website data by default, unless you allow it) + I still don’t care about cookies or Consent-O-Matic