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 ====== Software and Services ======
-Software and Services / Websites I use.  I have a strong preference for open source software because it means you are the on controlling your data and it gets out of the cycle where someone makes a good app and then makes it progressively shittier to "monetize it". And if you dont own the software do you really own your device? Consider donating to the ones marked open source if you like them they're run mainly by donations and volunteers.
+Software and Services / Websites I use.  I have a strong preference for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) because it means you are the one controlling your data and it gets out of the cycle where someone makes a good app and then makes it progressively shittier to "monetize it". And if you dont own the software do you really own your device? Consider donating to the ones marked open source if you like them they're run mainly by donations and volunteers.
 ===== Guides/Info =====
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 [[https://www.torproject.org/|TOR]] - The Onion Relay Networks Browser.  Open source firefox based.  For improved anonymity and circumventing censorship.  Don't use it to download big files if you don't have to it has limited bandwidth.  If you're going to use it for crime make sure you read all the info you can and actually understand what it can and can't do. Consider using it legally just to add some cover to people who need it. (you won't find CP unless you look for it)
+[[https://www.7-zip.org/download.html|7-Zip]] - Open Source Compression.  Refresh that free trial of winrar no more.  This can open and make them all and 7z format is actaully better compression.
+[[https://www.retroarch.com/|RetroArch]] Open Source and basically all the emulators from atari to n64.
+[[https://dolphin-emu.org/||Dolphin Emulator]] Open source wii and Gamecube.  Amazing how good some of the old games still look with upscaled graphics and framrate.
 ==== Android Only ====
+Some of these might have IOS versions but I'm not gonna look. Be sure to edit a note in if they do. I'm going to link to Fdroid but most of them will be on play store too.
 [[https://f-droid.org/|FDroid]] An open source google play alternative, all the apps here will be completely open source and wont rely on google services. More software repos can be found [[https://forum.f-droid.org/t/known-repositories/721|Here]] They're unoffical so use at your own risk.
+[[https://auroraoss.com/|Auroro Store and Aurora Droid]] - Aurora store is a FOSS replacement for the play store allowing you to download from google play anonymously. Aurora droid is a Fdroid replacement with a better UI
+[[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.proninyaroslav.libretorrent/|Libretorrent]] - FOSS torrent client. Works fine receives updates.
+[[https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/|Antennapod]] - Good FOSS podcast app seems to have all the things without bugging you for money.
+Bitwarden - You need to add the repo to get it from fdroid.
+[[https://f-droid.org/packages/com.pitchedapps.frost/|Frost]] - Facebook app that basically just adds some bells and whistles to the mobile page.  Works good without giving facebook any access to your phone.
+[[https://f-droid.org/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/|Slide]] - FOSS reddit app.  Currently redgif links dont seem to work right on any reddit apps which is a real disaster for jerking off on your phone.
+[[https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/|Adaway]] - Blocks ads at the device level which means even those shitty free games adds should disappear.  Using firefox mobile with adblock and using mainly these FOSS apps I actually dont bother using this anymore since it does drain battery slightly.
+[[https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/| Firefox focus]] - Mobile Firefox built with adblock and tracker blocking turned on by default.  Honestly a pretty good choice for your browser. It's in permanent incognito mode so your logins won't persist is the main downside. Works on IOS as well.
 ==== Sysadmin / For Nerds ====
 Mostly linux only some might have windows versions.
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+[[https://jellyfin.org/|Jellyfin]] - FOSS Plex replacement, a selfhosted netflix.  Has some issues but seems to work ok. Now just need some bandwidth.  You might have to fuck around and read some docs to get transcoding working.  Also handles a music library.  You can download files for offline but annoyingly they download one at a time so not amazing.  Why I'm working on the torrent of my library.
+[[https://wiki.servarr.com/|*ARR's]] - Automated Media Libray Management. These used to be a bunch of different projects but they've recently united to share codebase and syntax making my life way better. I use:
+  * [[https://sonarr.tv/|Sonarr]] TV Shows, I usually have to download the anime myself if I dont want it to be a mess but otherwise it's been pretty great. I run them in docker.
+  * https://radarr.video/ For movies. Has some trouble with foreign movies sometimes.
+  * https://lidarr.audio/  Music. Dont really use. I need to find some good trackers to make proper use of this one.
+[[https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/transmission| Transmission Web]] - Easy to setup and use for headless torrenting. Can be fed torrents from Sonarr etc.
+[[https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/qbittorrent| Qbittorent Web]] - I've recently switched to this from transmission as it has a built in torrent tracker server.
+[[https://www.dokuwiki.org/|DocuWiki]] - This wiki. Seems to be pretty good so far, Took almost no setup.
+[[https://sabnzbd.org/|SABNZBD]] - The Best usenet download client I use it with the *arrs from docker.  You need a usenet account.  Consider signing up for whichever one they have an affiliate link for so they get some cash.
+[[https://nextcloud.com/|Nextcloud]] Self-hosted google drive / onedrive replacement.  Havent got this playing nice with the other stuff yet right now.  definitely one of my priorities.
+[[https://nginxproxymanager.com/|Nginx Proxy Manager]] - Haven't got this playing nicely yet but when I do it will probably be what all the web traffic gets directed through.  I plan to have it in it's own VM to limit attack surfaces. As you can see right now we aren't using https for this wiki which isn't great.
+[[https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy|Matrix Synapse]] - Matrix is the protocol that Element uses to chat and Synapse is the name of the matrix server that we use.  This ansible script use docker and does all the config and updating for you it's what I'm using.  I keep the Matrix server in it's own vm to limit attack surfaces and to limit the downtime from me fucking around with other software.
 ===== Operating Systems =====
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 [[https://grapheneos.org/|Graphene OS]] - Best privacy focused OS no google services by default but you should be able to run almost everything but bank apps through their compatability layer. Only works on pixels
-[[https://lineageos.org/| Lineage OS]] - Has the most devices supported based on android open source project. Allows root and customising anything you want I noticed my samsung camera performed significantly worse. Apparently thats because a lot of cameras use closed source drivers that the open source devs cant use.  So if camera is a super important thing for you that might be a problem.
+[[https://lineageos.org/| Lineage OS]] - Has the most devices supported based on android open source project. Allows root and customising anything you want I noticed my samsung camera performed significantly worse. Apparently thats because a lot of cameras use closed source drivers that the open source devs cant use.  So if camera is a super important thing for you that might be a problem.  You can install the microg packages to get most of the functionality of google play without needing an account.
 Stock android is pretty much a privacy disaster.  Funny enough iOS is very secure but you still have to trust Apple.
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 [[https://archlinux.org/|Arch Linux]] - If you want to know exactly whats installed on your system and why and if you want the very latest pacakges set up exactly how you want it.  I used to use this as my main but I couldn't be bothered to keep up with the updates.
-[[https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve|Proxmox]] - Debian based for running multiple virtual machines and managing them remotely easily, even has options for load balancing between different location or machines if you manage to get fancy. It will nag you to upgrade to pro but you can just remove the package that does that  the community edition has all you'll nee and is completely opensource.  melm.xyz currently runs on this as it's base.
+[[https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve|Proxmox]] - Debian based for running multiple virtual machines and managing them remotely easily, even has options for load balancing between different location or machines if you manage to get fancy. It will nag you to upgrade to pro but you can just remove the package that does that  the community edition has all you'll nee and is completely opensource.  melm.xyz currently runs on this as it's base. The FOSS answer to VMwares Hypercube or whatever the hell they call it.
 ==== Specialty ====