Privacy is already hard enough. Keep it simple.

Tools of selection:

Internet

• Brave Browser
• Mullvad Browser

Communication

• Signal
• Proton Mail
• Languagetool (local server)
• Mastodon

Documents and syncing

• Proton Drive
• Standard Notes
• Proton Calendar
• Ente Photos. Referral code: BCXCB2
• Affinity for photo editing and graphic design

Identity

• Proton Pass
• Ente Auth

Streaming

I sync my subscriptions for YouTube, Podcasts, Peertube with:

• Grayjay

Casting to AppleTV is unfortunately broken so I plan to setup some device for Fcast Receiver.

• Apple TV+ has some great series
• Apple Music

Devices

• Macbook, see recommendations
• Laptop with Secureblue
• Google Pixel with GrapheneOS see recommendations
• AppleTV

GenAI

• Proton Lumo
• Ollama (mainly for coding assistance in VS Code)

Network

• Cloudflare Zero Trust networking (i have not found a good alternative)
• TOR VPN
• Proton VPN
• NextDNS
• Gli-Net Flint 3 Home Wifi router

Telecom

• Dubline
• JMP (using Snikket and Cheogram)
• SMSpool

This post is subject to change