Freedom Tech Index

. The Above Phone was first brought to out attention by Blueghost05 back in Nov 2022, in our Discussion channel. It is another DeGoogled phone option, brought to us by Ramiro Romani (@ramiroro) from Take Back Our Tech, which is partnered with The Greater Reset, which are all similar Telegram groups similar to the Jeff Pro series of channels here on Telegram. The Above Phones are all DeGoogled Pixel phones, and can be ordered with GrapheneOS, CalyxOS or DivestOS. They range in priced from $550 (Pixel 5 with 128GB) to $1,600 (Pixel Pro 7 with 512GB). You can read more about them, and order them 👉 here. You can explore other DeGoogled phone options in our DeGoogled phone thread. ⚡️ Follow | 🗣 Discuss 🗞 Forums #Above_Phone

. It is very important that you prevent as much personal information you allow out there, because a lot of info about you is being submitted by people you know and you don't even know exist, and they don't know they are doing it. The guy responsible for this tech says this could be a game changer for law enforcement to help keep us "safer".   Oh yay. . .🙄🙄 🤡 Here's the video link: 👇 https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/solutionswatch-face:9 #Facial_Recognition

⚡️ Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health @takebackourtech | SOURCE A new report from Sapien Labs analyzed the results of a mental-health survey with ~28,000 18-24 year olds. They looked at the relationship between what age they first got smart phones and a Mental Health Quotient (MHQ) calculated through a mental health assessment (Global Mind Project). The relationship between mental wellbeing at age 18-24 and age of first smartphone acquisition remained significant, even in those with no traumatic or adverse childhood experience. This included the areas of 'social self' (how we compare to otheres), mental function, mood & outlook, adaptability, suicidal thoughts, aggressions, and detachment. Read the full report. The data also shows that females were impacted far more severely than their male counterparts, with MHQ scores 20-25 points lower on average. We all intuitively are aware of the negative health effects of tech on young people. Seeing it quantified is shocking. Its also important to take a closer look at what exactly on the smart phone is contributing to these mental health issues. In my opinion, its not just phone calls & texts - its social media that's the major source of the problem. I know I've felt my mental health improve dramatically ever since I left those platforms. Even as someone who promotes alternative privacy phones - I am in total support of waiting until high school to give children smart phones. And more importantly, we need to take a closer look at the content, apps and algorithms that are damaging younger people and educate on ways to have healthier relationships with tech & social media. ⚡️ Follow |🗣 Discuss | 📩 Newsletter

Dell has introduced their new xx80 series of Precision workstation laptops. Since Dell Linux laptops are not easy to find on Dell's website, here is a list of them: - Dell Linux computers (USA) - Dell Precision Mobile Workstations - 14" Precision Mobile Workstations   - 3470 Workstation $1,484   - 3480 Workstation $1,371   - 5470 Workstation $1,297 - 15" Precision Mobile Workstations   - 3570 Workstation $1,164   - 3571 Workstation $1,454   - 3580 Workstation $1,376   - 3581 Workstation $1,595   - 5570 Workstation $3,036   - 7560 Workstation $1,199 - 16" Precision Mobile Workstations   - 7670 Workstation $2,512   - 7680 Workstation $2,461 - 17" Precision Mobile Workstations   - 5770 Workstation $1,765   - 7760 Workstation $1,429   - 7770 Workstation $2,642   - 7780 Workstation $2,756 - Dell XPS 13 $689 - Dell XPS 13 Plus $1,249

. Sayboard is a newer open source Speech-to-Text keyboard that you can run on DeGoogled phones, making it possible to have voice recognition without using any Big Tech spyware. Sayboard is based on the VOSK project, and runs offline, which means all the speech recognition is done locally on your phone, without sending your data over the Internet. Even though Sayboard is in it's early development it works very great. It takes it a few seconds to open up, and lacks punctuation at the moment, but other than that, it transcribes very well. You can install it and use it in conjunction with your current keyboard. Just tap the microphone icon on your keyboard, and then hit the "Ready" button to begin. You can get the latest .APK installation package 👉 here. (look for the green "Latest" icon. Some good keyboards to use with Sayboard are: Openboard Florisboard Anysoft Keyboard #Sayboard #Speech_To_Text_Keyboards

. F-Droid has many apps, but many apps are not included on F-Droid for one reason or another. So IzzySoft has put together a 3rd party F-Droid repository called "IzzyOnDroid" Disclaimer from IzzySoft: "I have not thoroughly checked the .apk files available here. As stated above, they are directly taken from the repositories of their respective developers. Some basic measures are taken, though" The APKs are scanned with VirusTotal, and then given a security ranking according to that result. See the 👉 IzzyOnDroid Security Section. To add the repository, go to their 👉 web page, take a screenshot of the QRCode, and then send the image to your QRCode app, where you need to copy the info to your clipboard. (Barcode scanner can do this) Then you open F-Droid, and go to —> Settings —> Repositories —> + (in the upper right) A window w/info pops up w/boxes auto populated. Click OK and it will add the IzzyOnDroid repository. After that, you refresh the repositories. #FDroid_IzzyOnDroid_Repository

[Graphic Forwarded from Gohkan in our Discussions channel] Most private messaging apps can NOT be trusted, as recently reinforced by Musk's tweet today. The graphic above shows how bad some messaging apps get. Signal will also attempt to connect to your contacts, but only if you allow it. As you can see, Session is the most private (and secure) . . . then Signal . . . and then Telegram. It is highly recommended that you use more private chat options. so below are links to instructions on how to install the best three. Session Here are instruction on 👉 how to install Session with using Google Play Store. Signal (rumors are Signal is a CIA spy tool 🔍👀. Who really knows) Here are instructions on 👉 how to install Signal Messenger free from Google Play Store spy code. Telegram Telegram is available in F-Droid, so all you have to do is install F-Droid, and then search and install Telegram FOSS. #Messaging_Apps_Data_Collection

. Brave Search (search.brave.com) has comepletely severed it's ties to Bing, and dis now 100% independent, giving only results from it's own search index. This means Brave Search is no longer feeding image results from Bing, like they were openly doing in the past. For nopw Brave Search will redirect you to BIng or Google, until Brave can index more images into their search index. See this article: https://brave.com/search-independence If you want to use a different search engine for images, make sure it isn't one using that is using Google or Bing as a backend. See the 2nd attached image for a list of which search engines use which backend, and to see which search engines are truly independent. #Brave_Search_100_Independence

. John in our Discussion Channel has brought to our attention the official F-Droid repository for the Collabora Office Suite. This is an easier way of adding and keeping the the Collabora Office app up to date on your DeGoogled phone. The repository can be found 👉 here. On the website, you take a screenshot of the QR code, and then send the image to your QR code reader app, where you can copy the info to your clipboard. (QR Code & Barcode scanner can decode the QR Code) Then you open F-Droid, and go to —> Settings —> Repositories —> + (in the upper right) That should bring up a window with the clipboard info auto-populated in the text boxes. You click OK and it will add the Collabora repository. After that, you refresh the repositories, search for Collabora and install. #Collabora_LibreOfficeSuite #Collabora_Android_OfficeSuite #Collabora

. Bring new life to your existing video cameras, keep your data in your hands, and run your video surveillance yourself without paying a monthly subscription fee. ZoneMinder is an integratred set of open source software that you can install on your own hardware, and then view and control with any device from anywhere. ZoneMinder Features: - Monitor From Anywhere - Use any camera - You control your data - Run a really small, or super big system - Advanced AI powered detection - Actively maintained and built You can get more info ate their website: https://zoneminder.com/features/ ZoneMinder is available in the Debian/REdHat repositories, or if you want the latest, plus setup instructions, you can go here: https://zoneminder.com/downloads/ People could even use this to constantly keep an eye on government officials and 3-letter agents by watching and recording their every move. 😃💪 #Video_Security_Surveillance #ZoneMinder_VideoSecurity

Oh geeze. What the hell? Utah's tech industry ( Silicon Slopes ) is going to far on this one. BlackRock being involved is a HUGE red flag. https://www.infowars.com/posts/blackrock-installs-brain-chips-in-50-americans/

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. Kdenlive is one of the better free and open source video editors for Linux. They just released their latest version 23.04.0 a few days ago. More info here: https://kdenlive.org/en/ You can download the latest here: (They have an official PPA for Mint/Ubuntu/Debian users) https://kdenlive.org/en/download/ This video on Odysee gives you a quick run down on how to download, set Kdenlive up, bring in a video, edit, and then save to a new video file: https://odysee.com/@Photolearningism:8/complete-beginner's-guide-to-kdenlive:0 #Kdenlive_Video_Editor

. The PineTab2 and the PineTab-V are now available for pre-order, with delivery time estimated sometime in May. They both come in 4GB/64GB and 8GB/128GB memory/storage variants. The PinTab2 runs on an ARM processor and comes with a silver/gray metal casing. The PineTab-V runs on a RISC-V processor, and comes in a black metal casing. Since the PineTab2 runs on an ARM processor, it comes with software, and thanks to years of Linux development on ARM processors, there should be plenty of software available for it. The PineTab-V runs a newer RISC-V open-source hardware processor, so it ships without software, and there is very limited software available for it. You can order them here: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinetab/ #PineTab2 #PineTab_V

. There are a few cookbook apps for Linux, but the Nextcloud Cookbook app is one that synchronizes your recipes across all devices and operating systems. Here are some of the features Cookbook offers: - Adds recipes automatically, all you do is paste in the URL of the web page with the recipe. (sometimes doesn't work) - Ingredients can be checked off, like a shopping list. - Timers for cook times. - Instruction steps can be checked off. - Work in browser, good for Linux phones. There are also features planned to integrate Cookbook into your Nextcloud Calendar for meal planning, and a shopping list feature coming to help with future meals, as discussed in this GitHub issue. You can install Cookbook on you Nextcloud in the apps section, and the Nextcloud Cookbook app for Android is available on F-Droid. #Cookbook_Nextcloud #Cookbook_Apps

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. You don't need to use Google Maps or any other Big Tech navigation app. instead you can use the open source navigation app call OsmAnd, which uses OpenStreetMap.org. Here are a few tips to help make the OsmAnd experience nice and pleasant. 1. OpenStreetMap doesn't have many addresses yet, so use the "GMaps WV" app from F-Droid to get the address coordinates, which you can then share to OsmAnd. 2. Put OsmAnd into a more friendly navigation mode. - Tap the transportation mode icon (car/bike/walk/bus/globe), then double-tap the compass icon in the upper right to toggle between navigation modes. "Compass direction" is probably the most useful. 3. Tilt the map into 3D mode by swiping two fingers on map. 4. install eSpeak for text-to-speech (TTS). Select eSpeak it in your Android settings. ->System->Language & input->Text-to-speech-engine-Preferred engine #OsmAnd_Tips_Trick

. You don't need to use Google Maps or any other Big Tech navigation app. instead of feeding the beast that bites, you can use the open source navigation app call OsmAnd, which uses OpenStreetMap.org. Here are a few tips to help make the OsmAnd experience nice and pleasant. 1. OpenStreetMap doesn't have very many addresses yet, so use the "GMaps WV" app from F-Droid to get the address coordinates from Google Maps, which you can then share to OsmAnd. 2. Put OsmAnd into a more friendly navigation mode. - You can tap the transportation mode icon (car/bike/walk/bus/globe), and then double-tap the compass icon in the upper right to toggle between navigation modes. - Fixed (north is up) - Movement direction

. The Cinnamon desktop environment is maturing, and as a result it is gaining popularity amongst main stream distros. Cinnamon is officially developed by Linux Mint, and so of course thy have always offered it as their main flavor. Recent;y Fedora added a Cinnamon "Spin" as they call it, and Ubuntu is currently offering a daily build Cinnamon "Flavor" which is said to become officially available when they release the next Ubuntu on April 20th. You can get the Fedora Cinnamon Spin here: (scroll down) https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/ The Ubuntu daily build version of Cinnamon can be found here: (the web page doesn't mention cinnamon but the URL has it in the name) https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntucinnamon/daily-live/current/ #Cinnamon_Flavors