Darlene Sonalder
Just a random nerd & contributor. Privacy advocate who love to discover new things. Here to share the apps that I discover, like and use !
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Comments & Reviews
Reviewed MinIOMinIO was a good Open Source Software, published under the copyleft AGPLv3 licence. Last year they changed the licence of the GUI, many users were furious about these changes. Later, at the end of the year, they stopped providing official builds, the community had to build the software themselves or pay. And now they just archived the GitHub repository killing the Free Software in favor of their proprietary evolution.
Most ex-MinIO users seems to have chosen...
- Commented on Fully outside_US_jurisdiction, fully EU
It's sad that both Qwant and Ecosia are totally dependent over Microsoft Bing . Qwant had some very concerning data sharing with the american giant and got sanctionned from the CNIL, that's why I stopped recommend it to people. You didn't mentioned Startpage that is great but totally depedent...
- Commented on Discord alternative
There is also built-in Discord features directly into Steam I think it's worth mentioning in the list.
Commented on AirSyncThis is so under rated. Check the documentation if you sideload from GitHub on Android.
Reviewed SquooshOne of the best experience for compressing images to jpegs or even pngs. Fast, intuitive UI, reliable, multiple compression algorithmes to choose and rapidly see how it impact the final image.
Reviewed RegainUsed to be 100% free, now it try to sells you subscriptions...
Reviewed 0xchatAwesome NIP-29 Nostr messaging client!
- Commented on Alternative Networks.
What about Meshtastic and Reticulum ?
Commented on spotDLDid Anna's Archive used that to rip all of 2025 Spotify ?
- Commented on Game Stores
itch.io ?
Commented on Nonna.fmThis is vibe coded with Claude and only support Spotify and Apple Music yet.
- Commented on Public Benefit LLMs
Apertus ???
- Commented on DeMicrosoft Your Life
For Teams I would suggest: Zulip , Mattermost and Infomaniak kChat
Commented on LibrePodsAmazing, but does require root on Android...
- Commented on De-Proton your life
Hey, that's a great list here are some alternatives I could suggest to you for providing more choice and sometimes a better alternatives according to my preferences.
For Proton Mail I suggest adding Posteo and StartMail
For Proton VPN I think NymVPN could be a great addition.
For...
Commented on BrowserOSWhile I appreciate the open source and local approach remember that LLM can easily being hijack, poisoined and attack from hidden texts. AI browser are not a great idea in my opinion. We will see how it goes in the future!
Reviewed PrismLauncher CrackedThe project is often months late in following PRISM updates and doesn't do much, if you really need to circumvent the online account limitation download the official PRISM Launcher and follow this guide: https://rentry.co/Prism4Free
Commented on ChatGPT AtlasA proprietary web browser in 2025... what a distopic world.
Reviewed GameHub (Windows games emualtor)Ask unnecessary permissions for your device, is doing way more telemetry than needed! Use with caution, I would suggest trying GameNative first and if it doesn't fit your need take a look at the modded GameHub Lite that removes the unnecessary permissions and limit telemetry.
Commented on GameHub LiteWhile GameHub Lite mod is open source the original unmodded app isn't so it is NOT 100% FOSS. It's an open source mod to patch the closed source sketchy app.
- Commented on Alternative to Re-Getting Games Again
You should take a look at Kazeta it's a really unique Linux distro designed specificaly to make gaming simple like in the 90s
- Commented on PDF Converters
Take a look at PDF24 Tools , iLovePDF , PDFgear and PDF-XChange Editor . These are also really capable PDF tools!
- Commented on Bypass Censorship
You should take a look at i2p, NYM and InviZible Pro
GB Studio can be a good fit honestly
