Freedom Tech Index

You can also find audio books here hon Telegram, such at this channel: https://t.me/AudiobooksArchive This channel doesn't post any audio books, just links to audio book posts on other Telegram channels, which you can then stream using Telegram's music player.

. Project Gutenberg is another good Amazon Books alternative that has been around since 1971, and was the project that created the first eBook ever. Here is their website: https://www.gutenberg.org/ #Project_Gutenberg

A publishing company has been launched to counter the oppression of free speech that is being inflicted upon conservative and libertarian authors. That publisher is called "All Seasons Press" Here's the website: https://allseasonspress.com/ #Printing_Press_Alternatives #All_Seasons_Press

. Tyler from the Tyler's Tech channel on Odysee has a collection of great introductory overview videos for most Linux distributions. Do you want a quick look at ZorinOS, or Garuda Wayfire to help you decide if you really do want to distro hop to them? This is the place to get a quick look at what to expect. Here's his Odysee channel: https://odysee.com/@tylerstech:5 #Tylers_Tech_DistroOverviews

. Tyler from the Tyler's Tech channel on Odysee has a collection of great introductory overview videos for most Linux distributions. Do you want a quick look at ZorinOS, or Garuda Wayfire to help you decide if you really do want to distro hop to them? This is the place to get quick look at what to expect. Here's his Odysee channel: https://odysee.com/@tylerstech:5 #Tylers_Tech

Security Resource. A firewall to rule them all. Most firewalls only block incoming traffic. Open Snitch can block incoming and outgoing. It tells you which application and the places it goes. #Open_Snitch https://itsfoss.com/opensnitch-firewall-linux/

Security Resource. A firewall to rule them all. Most firewalls only block incoming traffic. Open Snitch can block incoming and outgoing. It tells you which application and the places it goes. https://itsfoss.com/opensnitch-firewall-linux/

. According to https://SearchEngine.Party, DuckDuckGo and Brave Search are neck-n-neck for the most private and secure search engines. (See attached table) So the question is, do you want a search engine that feeds money back to the Big Tech, or do you want a Search Engine that is run by a conservative and makes an effort to NOT feed money to Big Tech? DuckGo uses the Microsoft Ad network, so using it feeds money back to Microsoft. Even if you don't click Ads, there's still a chance viewing them feeds MS money. DuckGo also used Big Tech search indexes originally, and may still be using them. On the other hand, Brave's CEO is Brendan Eich, who was wrongfully fired from the Mozilla Firefox CEO position for donating money to Prop 8 in California (traditional marriage). Brave says they won't use Big Tech's ad network, but instead will created their own. Brave also has it's own search index. More info on search engines may be added in the future, so check the 👇 comments. #Search_Engines

. There is a PinePhone keyboard case that comes with a 6000mAh (milliAmpHour) battery pack. The case makes the phone fairly unusable as a phone when it is attached, as you can see in the video, but if you Bluetooth a mouse to the phone, you can have a mini laptop that will run all of the ARM desktop apps that are available for Linux ARM devices, thanks in part to years of Linux development on things like the Raspberry Pi and the Pine64 Rock64 credit card computers. This keyboard was supposed to be available in October 2021, but global supply chain shortages have pushed it to December 2021, and maybe later. This case will also work with the new PinePhone PRO. The video was taken form this PinePhone forum thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13684 #PinePhone_KeyboardCase

. There is a PinePhone keyboard case that comes with an 6000mAh (milliAmpHour) battery pack. The case makes the phone fairly unusable as a phone when it is attached, as you can see in the video, but if you Bluetooth a mouse to the phone, you can have mini laptop that will run all of the ARM desktop apps that are available for Linux ARM devices, thanks in part to years of Linux development on things like the Raspberry Pi and the Pine64 Rock64 credit card computers. This keyboard was supposed to be available in October 2021, but global supply chain shortages have pushed it to December 2021, and maybe later. This case will also work with the new PinePhone PRO. The video was taken form this PinePhone forum thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13684 #PinePhone_KeyboardCase

How about proton mail?

. Here's another email service to help you get away from Big Tech's anti-freedom platforms. This one is advertised by Bongino on "The Dan Bongino Show" Reagan.com claims to be a conservative email service out of Texas,USA, that doesn't collect or sell you information, or so they say, but the presence of Google scripts running on their website tells a different story. They still have quite a few scripts running on their home page, and the Google AJAX script is running as you're reading through your emails on their email web-page. You can block this with the NoScript add-on. So they're either clueless, don't really care about privacy, or they're a honeypot. https://www.reagan.com #ReaganDotCom_Email

. Tip of the day (Gnome Shell Desktop Environment / Ubuntu) Install the "Overview All Windows" Gnome Shell extension. This Gnome Shell extension will cause the windows thumbnail picker (aka Activities Overview) to zoom out to all of the windows, on ALL of the workspaces, instead of just the windows on the current workspace you are on. https://t.me/TechChatIndex/128?comment=355 This is the fastest way to switch to a window on another workspace, especially if you bind the thumbnail picker to a mouse button, or drag your mouse pointer to the upper left Activities "Hot Corner" It's not quite as fast as the old Compiz version, but still much faster than any other method. You can find the extension here: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/873/overview-all-windows/ #Thumbnail_Picker_ShowAllWindows

. The Tor Browser is possibly the most secure and private browser out there. It focuses on anonymity. Neocities gives it a spyware ranking of NOT SPYWARE, which you can read about here: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/tor.html Tor Browser offers these features: - Block trackers - Defend against surveillance - Resist Fingerprinting - Multi-Layered Encryption Websites can tell if you are using Tor, but that's about it. Many websites will block you if you use Tor, so this browser will not work for everything. You can get Tor Browser via Flatpak: flatpak install flathub com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher This is how you uninstall it: flatpak uninstall com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher This is the Tor Browser Homepage: https://www.torproject.org/ #Tor_Browser_NotSpyware

. The Flatpak package manager is a cross-distro package manager that can install the same packages on any distribution that supports it. Flatpak comes pre-installed, and pre-configured with the FlatHub repository in Linux Mint, but what about other distros that don't have it by default, such as Ubuntu? How do you install Flatpak on those distributions? Flatpak installation is different for each distro. Flathub is best resource for info on installing Flatpak onto various distros. Go there, and click the icon for your distro for instructions on how to install it on your distribution. https://flatpak.org/setup/ For a nice quick overview on how to use Flatpak, go to this website: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html FlatHub.org is the main Flatpak repository where you can browse available Flatpaks. There you download a ".flatpakref" file that you can double-click to install. You can go here to comment on this post: https://t.me/TechChatIndex/154 #Flatpak #Flatpak_Package_Manager

Do you realize that if you have a have a resource that fits under one of the category hashtags in the Table of Contents (pinned at the top ☝️of the Main channel) , you can go to that category's comments, and post it there yourself? If you attach a relevant picture to your messages, it makes it easier for everyone to quickly scan through the messages without having to read them. If you have a resources that doesn't fit into any of the categories, you can post a comment anywhere requesting a new new category.

. Botacera is a Linux distribution dedicated to running retro gaming console games. https://batocera.org/ You can install it to a USB stick and boot to it on any machine whenever you feel like playing some retro games. Installation guide here: https://wiki.batocera.org/install_batocera It is a good distro to put on a Raspberry Pi, and supports quite a few other Linux handheld game consoles, as well as many other Raspberry Pi like Linux computers, which you can be seen here: https://batocera.org/download #Batocera_Retro_Game_Distro

This channel is a collection of information and things that people new to Linux ask about, such as which alternate apps can be use in place of Big Tech's spyware/malware. Here's a link for joining the "Discussion" chat associated with this "Main" channel. https://t.me/+kvtRUA2LItFmZjAx If you join the Discussion chat: ——————— - You will see every comment made to any of the posts in the main channel - You can post your own questions and comments for everyone else to see and respond too. To navigate this Main channel, click the pinned Index message at the 👆 top ☝️, and scroll down through categories. Categories are slowly being added, so be sure to check back regularly. Make sure to share this channel with everyone. Let's help freedom lovers gain their digital freedom by getting them off of Silicommie Valley's tyrannical platforms and onto open source software. #JoinDiscussion

Send secure, encrypted email with ProtonMail. Swiss Privacy "ProtonMail is incorporated in Switzerland and all our servers are located in Switzerland. This means all user data is protected by strict Swiss privacy laws." End-to-End Encryption "We use end-to-end encryption and zero access encryption to secure emails. This means even we cannot decrypt and read your emails. As a result, your encrypted emails cannot be shared with third parties." Get your account here: https://protonmail.com If you are using an email client, such as Thunderbird, you will need the ProtonMail Bridge. This will grant you the actual credentials you will need to place within Thunderbird for it to use. The reason is to encrypt/decrypt your messages locally. https://protonmail.com/bridge/ #ProtonMail