• Psyhackological@lemmy.ml
    7·
    4 months ago

    FOSS-y

    AbsolutelyProprietary

  • smnwcj@fedia.io
    5·
    4 months ago

    Ages ago someone wrote a bash script that would calculate your “stallman score”, essentially checking the license of every package in your system.

  • mudle@lemmy.ml
    5·
    4 months ago

    Excluding hardware (microcode, UEFI, etc); within my Linux system, the only proprietary software I have installed are Nvidia drivers and Steam (installed via flatpak). When I first made the switch to Linux, I was actually shocked at the minimal amount of proprietary software I actually used/needed.

  • Wild Bill@midwest.social
    5·
    4 months ago

    Edit: I didn’t see the community, sorry, feel free to disregard this comment lol

    Phone OS: GrapheneOS Calendar: Fossify Calendar Files: filen.io Gallery: Fossify Gallery E-mail: ProtonMail Notes: Notesnook Keyboard: HeliBoard Maps: OrganicMaps Passwords: Proton Pass RSS: Feeder Step counter: Forest YouTube frontend: NewPipe, FreeTube Weather: Breezy weather

    I still use services like Spotify, FB Messenger, and Play services for some of my banking apps. I’m a bit new to this whole privacy thing and custom ROMs, but so far it feels good. When I buy a computer I’ll install Linux on it.

  • Wilmo Bones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    Pretty FOSS?

    PC - Thinkpad T14s Gen 4: EndeavourOS, Firefox and Thunderbird with the Proton suite of things such as Mail, Pass and VPN - I do pay for them but I think it’s worth it.

    Phone - Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS and as many F-Droid apps as possible. Proton apps for Mail, Pass, Drive, VPN. Cromite browser. The only that aren’t are probably my banking apps, but I could always switch to web I guess.

    I think my biggest hurdle is a Map app that has traffic data that isn’t Google maps.

    • littleradio@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 months ago

      Have you tried OrganicMaps? You can download the map for your state (or states) and it works extremely well offline, with the one downside, being not all specific addresses have been uploaded… but you can sure find the street and the UI is unmatched for FOSS map apps.

  • njordomir@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    Daily computing is mostly FOSS programs and my laptop is sold with Linux preinstalled (though I bought the higher spec Windows version and installed Linux myself. Cloud is FOSS, self-hosted in the public cloud (until I get fiber). Phone is rooted Android w/ FOSS apps wherever they meet my needs. I’m about 50% through degoogling and de-Microsofting. Ereader is KOReader (FOSS) running on old Kindle brand hardware. Keyboard is Ergodox Ez which I think the firmware is FOSS. Smarthome is still Smartthings which is not FOSS.

    I’m going to give myself a C- 70% FOSS

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      You shouldn’t use root on Android. It throws the security model out the window. Just run something without google

      • njordomir@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Going to probably try this after I build my pihole and I can VPN home for ad blocking. Currently I need root to avoid seeing ads.

          • njordomir@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 months ago

            The browser ad on doesn’t work in apps, and if they have a blocker outside of that, it probably uses a VPN on the loopback interface to strip out the ads. I run a VPN a fair bit, so I would only be adblocking when I’m not on the VPN. Are there any non-root methods that can do full system ad blocking other than the VPN thing?

  • jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip
    2·
    4 months ago

    Id say around 80% since I use a lot of foss programs and only use linux/android/openwrt/brother printers. The other 20% is random proprietary stuff like steam I guess to be generous.

  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
    2·
    4 months ago

    I don’t run Linux anymore, though this should change sometime next year. I use Blender and Krita for work, QOwnNotes for note-taking, Firefox for the web, QBittorrent for sharing holiday films, etc. For image editing I use Affinity, probably the only notable proprietary program on my system apart from Windows.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    Currently running majority FLOSS, and glad for the excellent options that these very capable people have released.

    Desktops, laptops, HTPC:

    Trisquel GNU/Linux on Libreboot BIOS hardware

    –//–

    Phones and tablets are:

    GrapheneOS + Fdroid only apps

    –//–

    Rockbox audio players

    (+ Open Tunes from FMA, Argofox, CC netlabels, jamendo, bandcamp etc)

    –//–

    Gadgetbridge + Amazfit Bip (watch)

    [Looking to switch out this watch for a FLOSS smartwatch like: pinetime or bangle.js]

    –//–

    and dd-wrt on the router

    • njordomir@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      This guy has mad FOSS cred. I bet even his socks are made of free range organic open source wool released under a Creative Commons attribution share-alike licence.

      Seriously though, that sounds like an amazing setup. I always wanted to mess with gadget bridge some more. I have a number of old MiBand devices lying around as well as a Bip. The third party apps for that thing had more features than almost every fitness tracker I’ve had potentially even including my Garmin watch. What tools do you use to analyze/review/visualize the gadget bridge data?

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Thanks for the props :]

        I usually look at the session graph data on Gadgetbridge, or export a bike GPS track to OSMand to look more in depth at position, height, speed etc.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        Thanks, I was checking both before going with ddwrt.

        Looks like OpenWRT has more options and less hand-holding. Would that be right?

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Yes but the wiki is very solid. Also the basic functionality doesn’t require much to setup. Just make sure you set the WiFi country

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    On my home PC everything is FOSS. I’m a serious hobby user of Inkscape and GIMP. No advantage to using commercial alternatives.

    Work PC is all commercial software. For me FOSS CAD doesn’t come close.

          • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
            3·
            4 months ago

            Well for libreboot i had to program the bios eprom (SOIC-8 SPI programable). For that i used a chinese CH341a programmer which didn’t work (IMPORTANT: first i had to fix the chinese design hardware problem that the ch341a has were it uses 3.3v as vdd but 5v as high level for digital spi signals) because of the shitty cables of the kit. I tried with a rpi pico with the same cables and also didn’t work. Then i literally knitted cables one by one in each of the eprom pins in order to program it and it worked. My advice: don’t use cheap chinese SOIC clips/cables. The CH341a can be fixed but if you can, also don’t use it. They have a bug in their hardware design and they don’t fix it.

            After that i just installed Guix system iso in a pen and proceeded with the installation. I did a full encryption install (FULL all /boot included) because with libreboot you can have grub in your eeprom which is awesome. So basically i have a permanent bootloader that launches at start (besides all the other stuff libreboot does about neutering intel management engine, etc)

            Then i followed more or less this in order to create the config file of the system. Once the config file is created you gust run guix and it does everything: configuration, compiling software if needed, etc.

            And basically that’s it. Well i also searched for a pci wifi card that had free software drivers in h-node.

            Libreboot is very cool. You can change bios “variables”, like for example modifiying your laptop hardcoded company MAC address for a random one (which I did). You have to do that when you are compiling the image that you will write into the eeprom.

            Ah and btw Linux-Libre is just the default kernel for guix system. Basically 0 bloat. There are people channels that have guix system with bloat, but Guix by default is bloat free (well in reality only if you install libreboot too like i did :) ). That’s why i bought a libre software compatible wifi card.

            But Guix system can also be build with Linux, systemd ( the initd is shepherd) and other stuff if you configure it like so. But in order to do that you will have to read the Guix manual probably.

            Basically a hobby project. I wanted to have a fully free computer. So i bought a x220 on ebay and did all that to have the fully free laptop.

            Guix can be used as a kind of package manager in any other distro. And it has super cool features. It’s worth checking out just for that. It follows the classical GNU filosofy of “hack with your computer as much and deeper as you want”.

            Guix system is perfect if you want to mess around, because you can just revert back in time your whole system.

  • Drew@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    4 months ago

    All FOSS except Nvidia drivers and processor microcode!

    next graphics card will definitely be an AMD