Passkeys are basically passwords that you don’t send to the server. So they are safer against phishing.

Basically the server has a message. They will scramble it with your public key. And send it to you. Your private key unscrambles the message and then you send the message back to them. So if they receive the original message back. They know you are you. And they never got their hands on your private key at any point. It’s awesome.

2fa is an entirely different thing. And I do wish it was more standard how it works. Some places if you lose it you lose your account (bitwarden). Others you don’t (protonmail).

Everyone should use passkeys. 2fa you have to decide if your case warrants it.

Edit: example of passkeys:

Step 1: they have the message “cat”

Step 2: they encrypt it with your public key and it becomes “acm”

Step 3: they send you the encrypted message “acm”

Step 4: you decrypt the message “acm” into “cat” with your private key.

Step 5: you send them back the message “cat”

Only your private key would be able to decrypt something encrypted with your public key. So they now know you are you. And they never got a hand on your private key. It’s the same as a password except you never send it directly to the server.

Oh. I tried a bit before giving up. But lack of compatibility plus the insanely unreliable pixel battery just made me switch back to iPhone.

Thank you for the link though.

Tried to switch to graphene for a bit. Way too many apps don’t work in it.

Faster in what sense? Doesnt seem to me as if dark reader makes things any slower.

Doesn’t take nearly as long as you’d think if you start to slowly transition stuff to the new address.

I love the idea of osmand. But it’s not a substitute for maps at all ATM sadly. Im fairly confident that if I tried to use it to navigate somewhere in my city I’d die.

I’ll check immich tho.

Just checked it out. It’s self hosted stuff. Most of the suggestions I had up there were low barrier of entry and high privacy gains.

Self hosting is amazing. I have a server myself. But it’s not something worth suggesting to people just starting to degoogle.

Edit trying the map some more and might be worth an actual fair try. Thank you

Good painless alternatives:

• Chrome -> Firefox

• Gmail/Calendar> Proton

• Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO’d into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.

Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:

• Google Drive -> Proton

• Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice

• ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.

Less than ideal alternatives:

• Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.

• Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.

Is there anything else you need an alternative to?