Hellfire103

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  • Kinda. I hadn’t actually heard of ravynOS, so thanks for mentioning it. I’ll be interested to try it out.

    The main difference, however, is the kernel. ravynOS is based on FreeBSD with Mach and Cocoa added on top, which is like creating Mac OS X from first principles. PureDarwin, meanwhile, is based on the already-developed Darwin kernel used by macOS, but with the proprietary bits hacked off and replaced with FOSS tools from other projects (as far as I know).












  • You guys just need time, I think. I’ll probably be a proud Mojeek user in the future, but for now I need something a bit different. That said, I have found Mojeek to be excellent for finding smaller blogs and articles that I wouldn’t otherwise have read, so it’s still pretty useful even if I don’t use it as my main engine.






  • Hellfire103toPrivacy@lemmy.worldWhat do you do to be more private?
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    I cover my webcams, I have almost entirely de-Googled (since they’ve been attacking Invidious, I’ve had to resort to watching the videos on YT if they aren’t on PeerTube or Floatplane or whatever), I use Linux and BSD, I am planning to switch to GrapheneOS at some point, and I try to avoid software and services from countries with problematic governments (e.g. China, Russia, USA). I am also using local software, with data sychronised via SyncThing (currently just my notes and passwords, but the list is growing).

    I also use Mullvad Browser when available, and either Brave or Epiphany when it isn’t.

    I am still on the lookout for a decent search engine, though, as all of the ones I’ve used are either not as private as I thought (e.g. Ecosia, Qwant), or are broken (e.g. LibreY), or did something I disagreed with (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search), or are hostile towards VPN/Tor users (e.g. Startpage), or didn’t have good enough indexes (e.g. Mojeek), or became unavailable to me (e.g. Peekier, MetaGer).