Highly recommend people leave Google services. Use Ente to store photos. Proton for email. DuckDuckGo or Ecosia for search. Organic Maps for directions. FreeTube or yewtu.be for videos. Venice AI as your advanced chatbot. Google needs to be broken up and regulated.
That was just one example. There are many more. Like Minstral’s Le Chat or Proton’s Lumo. It’s not about how it responds per se, more about it being more private than Gemini.
I’m slowly working on getting away from Google, but unfortunately, Organic Maps doesn’t offer public transit directions/schedules in my region, and since I don’t have a car, that’s like 80% of what I use Google Maps for.
Check out the apps from your local public transit authority. In my region what Google offers in regard to public transit is utter trash and the “official” apps are having the correct shedule
Coming from someone also without a car - KDE Itinerary is the best thing I’ve used for that purpose yet, and it’s free and open source too. Perhaps it’ll fulfill your use case too?
i never had gmail or used google search. but i dont save my info on anyone else’s server anymore. i use nextcloud hosted on my server, i use immich for my photos. calibre server for my books. everything is mine
Highly recommend people leave Google services. Use Ente to store photos. Proton for email. DuckDuckGo or Ecosia for search. Organic Maps for directions. FreeTube or yewtu.be for videos. Venice AI as your advanced chatbot. Google needs to be broken up and regulated.
Never heard of Venice AI, asked it what it does different, one of the things it said was:
Fuck that shit
That was just one example. There are many more. Like Minstral’s Le Chat or Proton’s Lumo. It’s not about how it responds per se, more about it being more private than Gemini.
Yes, but sounds like it has a fascist bias, so it’s a no go for me
Other options:
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I’m slowly working on getting away from Google, but unfortunately, Organic Maps doesn’t offer public transit directions/schedules in my region, and since I don’t have a car, that’s like 80% of what I use Google Maps for.
Check out the apps from your local public transit authority. In my region what Google offers in regard to public transit is utter trash and the “official” apps are having the correct shedule
Check if CoMaps can work for you in your city. If you want a closed source app: Transit is amazing for bus and subway live arrival times
It is based on data from the Open Street Map project.
If nobody in your area has added that information, it won’t be there.
The good news is, anyone (including you) can add that information and provide a public service to the people of your area.
Coming from someone also without a car - KDE Itinerary is the best thing I’ve used for that purpose yet, and it’s free and open source too. Perhaps it’ll fulfill your use case too?
i never had gmail or used google search. but i dont save my info on anyone else’s server anymore. i use nextcloud hosted on my server, i use immich for my photos. calibre server for my books. everything is mine
Couple of recommended changes if you are self hosting:
never heard of Organic Maps. It’s better than CoMaps?
CoMaps is the less suspicious fork. Organic was made by two shady dudes from Russia and Belarus.
OsmAnd+ for mobile maps
Youre not wrong at all but I’ve found people won’t deal with the slightest inconvenience. Quite sad.