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i live in Australia, if this makes any difference to you. My digital life is simple - i am into tech...but not tech companies ideas of tech. I dont subcribe t

i live in Australia, if this makes any difference to you. My digital life is simple - i am into tech...but not tech companies ideas of tech. I dont subcribe to any services. No facebook, linkedin, google of any sort, X, tiktok, whatsapp and so on Phone - use grapheneOS - no apps installed. Only APK's for basic things like audio recorder, note taking. Google maps on separate graphene profile - with throw away email address (this part is the only one that sucks...i have garbage back sense of direction and the OSS options dont work) Close profile as soon as trip is over. Banking - use a laptop - i dont know when or why it became acceptable to bank on phones. Friends - this sucks - but you need friends who understand the decision you're making - many/most dont, and will not understand your reasoning or think you're insane. *Media - self host, and build personal media library. Support bandcamp/owned and drm free media, physical media, no streaming of any sort (spotify, netflix and so on) It's definitely not unavoidable - you have to choose what you value more - privacy, and choice - or "fitting in"/"convenience". none of the above is easy, it sucks, it makes you question your sanity...it might not be possible in the blink of an eye-lid.

bcye 3y ago
> Google Maps Have you thought of Organic Maps? It's a really great OSM open source mapping app, obviously still missing public transport+ traffic data, but the quality of OSM data is surprisingly good and it's completely offline (auto downloads the region you're viewing a few MB at a time, or just download the whole world which is ~37GB (aside: it feels really cool to fit so much content on your phone - You can fit global Wikipedia + Wikivoyage + World Map on a 256gb phone) > Spotify Can you recommend a good self hosting setup for music? I'm aware there are pretty cool setups for movies but for music I haven't yet discovered any > none of the above is easy, it sucks, it makes you question your sanity...it might not be possible in the blink of an eye-lid. That's what prompted this Ask HN, it's crazy to notice it's quite hard to not have an account with any big tech
- an_aparallel 3y ago
  i think i tried organic maps - i tried punching in a destination - nothing happened. i can try again - do you use it for navigation? self hosting music - with a preface that you have drm free audio/mp3/flacs etc: airsonic works for cloud streaming music. rune audio is open source - if you have music on a computer/rasbpi with a HD connected to it - it has an android based remote control app so you can browse collection on phone - and press play from phone - then it plays off the physical rasbpi. nice solution imo. Looks good too :) See: www.runeaudio.com
  - bcye 3y ago
    Yes I used it for navigation (when I was on GrapheneOS). it's a bit unintuitive maybe at first, when you punch in a destination a few buttons are in the bottom bar for depart from, depart to, favourite and so on. If you choose one, it will let you select the start/end and transport mode. It worked quite well, but obviously without public transport/traffic data. Thanks for suggesting those music services, will look into it :)

bcye 3y ago

> Google Maps Have you thought of Organic Maps? It's a really great OSM open source mapping app, obviously still missing public transport+ traffic data, but the quality of OSM data is surprisingly good and it's completely offline (auto downloads the region you're viewing a few MB at a time, or just download the whole world which is ~37GB (aside: it feels really cool to fit so much content on your phone - You can fit global Wikipedia + Wikivoyage + World Map on a 256gb phone) > Spotify Can you recommend a good self hosting setup for music? I'm aware there are pretty cool setups for movies but for music I haven't yet discovered any > none of the above is easy, it sucks, it makes you question your sanity...it might not be possible in the blink of an eye-lid. That's what prompted this Ask HN, it's crazy to notice it's quite hard to not have an account with any big tech

an_aparallel 3y ago
i think i tried organic maps - i tried punching in a destination - nothing happened. i can try again - do you use it for navigation? self hosting music - with a preface that you have drm free audio/mp3/flacs etc: airsonic works for cloud streaming music. rune audio is open source - if you have music on a computer/rasbpi with a HD connected to it - it has an android based remote control app so you can browse collection on phone - and press play from phone - then it plays off the physical rasbpi. nice solution imo. Looks good too :) See: www.runeaudio.com
- bcye 3y ago
  Yes I used it for navigation (when I was on GrapheneOS). it's a bit unintuitive maybe at first, when you punch in a destination a few buttons are in the bottom bar for depart from, depart to, favourite and so on. If you choose one, it will let you select the start/end and transport mode. It worked quite well, but obviously without public transport/traffic data. Thanks for suggesting those music services, will look into it :)