Water is wet

Some Tailscale clients are open-source and you can self-host a Headscale server

Njalla and Kyun

That’s not open source, it’s source-available

GitLab is mean for large enterprise environments. It’s overkill for most users. Gogs/Gitea/Forgejo focus on simplicity. These are also pretty easy to self-host.

I would donate if they accepted Monero

Congrats!

Another reason to never ever touch any Facebook services and to block their shitty privacy-invasive ads

On a separate note, I still don’t understand how trackpoints on HP laptops work. There’s no scroll button, how the fuck am I supposed to use this piece of shit if I can’t scroll??? The thing that is meant to replace the mouse/trackpad for ease of use and ergonomics literally forces me to use a mouse or a trackpad. This doesn’t make any fucking sense!!!

Exactly

Using Signal with disappearing messages set to a really short time is probably the closest thing you can get. You can use a VOIP number from Cloaked behind a VPN to sign up anonymously.

I admit for the very limited things I do and only occasionally I use Paint.net

Unfortunately, it’s not available on Linux

Still in my mind Gimp is much more powerful?

Yes it is, but it’s also much more complicated. I never fully understood GIMP, I prefer simpler options like Paint.net.

Google is a shitty big tech corporation and wants everyone to use their garbage browser that collects and sells all of your data. Thankfully we have great solutions like Invidious and Piped that allow you to watch YouTube content without ever having to visit the ad-infested YouTube website. You can use these in combination with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links, it’s awesome. No ads, no delay, no tracking. Just some free and open source software.

That’s true and that’s the reason I use UntrackMe.

UntrackMe is nice, but it’s not required for YouTube link redirection on Android as LibreTube and NewPipe natively support opening YouTube links.

I’ve never heard of that one, I’ll try it out

Yes, I use it on Hyprland and it works perfectly.

Use Invidious or Piped in combination with LibRedirect in order to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped.

That’s why we need to switch away from this proprietary garbage and use Firefox or LibreWolf (Firefox on steroids with less bloat, improved privacy and even pre-installed uBlock Origin)

Stop giving Google money. Use Invidious, Piped or FreeTube on Desktop, LibreTube or NewPipe on Android, Yattee with this guide on iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.