Hello everyone, I want to use more free and open-source tools that also protect privacy. Can you please share the FOSS apps or tools you use every day and find most helpful?

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    14 hours ago

    I use librewolf for browsing (with the temporary containers addon), nheko for matrix, thunderbird (of course)… that has pgp functionality built in.

    When it comes to web browsing I think it is a good idea to use more than one browser. For most general use stuff I use librewolf and already mentioned. I do all my work related stuff, banking and purchasing in chromium. Unfortunately we’re back in the days of internet explorer when a lot of mainstream sites are broken and only work well on one browser. But the uses I mentioned are not as important in regards to privacy so it works for me.

    Crypto sites are also often to be built for a chromium base, but I like to keep those separate and use Brave for that.

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      12 hours ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but I heard that client is lagging behind the others in terms of cryptography?

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        11 hours ago

        I don’t know. I’d be interested in learning more about that as well.

        I do like it better than element, though. It is more light weight.

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          Nothing could be worse than an Electron client. Honestly for me it’s XMPP > Delta Chat > Matrix > SSignal/Telegram/etc. Matrix integrations (apps) don’t even work on any client and they moved the bloated server improvements into a walled garden