With Deb packages you’re safe. With Flatpak I would be a little careful because with Debian apps that have been abandoned get some maintainer love or will be removed, while with Flatpak you can install apps that have not been updated for years, not very often but I’ve seen a few of them. Because of that I prefer to check the Flathub page of a Flatpak app before installing.

I think Kbin development is either abandoned or stalled. Perhaps Kbin fork Mbin supports the same feature ? https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

Strato has one Euro per month Linux VPS plan (1GB RAM, 10 GB disk) which you pay per quarter, so that’s three Euros each time, four times per year. You can use a swapfile in case the lack of RAM would be a problem.

This is on their Spanish language site but also available in German language and more (see at the bottom of their pages).

https://www.strato.es/servidores/vps-linux

Ask a friend to do the first payment ? Then you’re off to run Lemmy for at least three months.

Most Firefox forks still have support for Mozilla account sync and the extension malware blacklist, as those are useful features to have. But they do share info with Mozilla.

I believe that Tor browser and Mullvad browser do not phone home to Mozilla. That’s my conclusion after using OpenSnitch for some time. Firefox and LibreWolf do phone home Mozilla at startup.

IMHO Zulip is a great choice for text chat for teams for companies. In your case take a look at Movim, XMPP based, Movim can do blogs and more: https://movim.eu/

signal-cli software can do this without physical phone. https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Linking-other-devices-(Provisioning)

👍 Readeck looks nice. https://readeck.org/

👏 Thanks.

That bug report is from May last year, is it really about the same bug ?

This one is recent https://forum.manjaro.org/t/bluetooth-connection-leads-to-gnome-crash/184614 and as a work-around downgrading wireplumber is suggested.

Before that I used Gajim but had to compile it myself and sometimes issues with plugins. Maybe it’s as easy as Dino nowadays.

I’ve used Gajim last week for testing and installing it with Flatpak was easy. And I think I remember that for OMEMO no extra plugins were needed with Gajim.

😀

During the Covid-19 pandemic I was very happy to use Conversations for video calls. Quality seemed better than with Signal during that time, and with Conversations you could resize the video window if you needed to do something on your phone during the call. I was not sure Signal could do that in these days. I also like Dino IM on the desktop but lately I don’t have any other people I know who can be bothered to use XMPP over Signal or email.

There’s a Dino fork https://dinox.handwerker.jetzt/ I’m not sure what to think about it, it looks too fancy and I dislike the Most secure part but it claims to do calls better than the original Dino IM.

Another way to try to fix dependency problems, including complicated ones that apt cannot solve, is to use the magnificent aptitude deb helper. If you have aptitude not installed you can possibly still install it with dpkg. Download aptitude deb file and the aptitude-common deb file and save them to disk. For example for Debian : https://packages.debian.org/trixie/aptitude With dpkg it is in dependency problems situations still possible to install new software. Maybe dpkg --force-all or something like that is needed.

Make sure to make backups of your valuable things first via a Linux live session.

After you have aptitude installed, try e.g. :

sudo aptitude update

or

sudo aptitude install ncdu (or install some other small program you didn’t have installed already)

It may already show a suggestion solution.

This is usually the recommended way to fix such dependency problems.

sudo apt-get -f install

Posteo, 1 Euro/month since many years. https://posteo.de/ Germany based, and you can even pay with cash. I noticed Proton does not allow email forwarding with the free plan. With Posteo you should be able to use pop3 (not possible with Proton free plan I think) and fetch your inbox content if you like.

Thanks. Requires root though. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.ukanth.ufirewall

Have you looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilizon and https://gancio.org/ ?

Besides having a go at removing apps you can install NetGuard https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.netguard and then block all apps including system apps from using network. From there allow only the apps like Signal you want to give network access to. Drawback is that NetGuard needs an internal VPN connection to work so you can’t use a VPN services and NetGuard at the same time.

Friendica is an alternative for Facebook. https://friendi.ca/ There’s an Android app for it : https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.livefast.eattrash.raccoonforfriendica

With /e/os you will also have microG. And /e/os has a new installer which can make flashing much easier. https://doc.e.foundation/devices