Altech Freedom Checklist

I am tracking my progress towards freedom here

Cloud (Alternative Google Drive, DropBox)

• Nextcloud (ownyourbits nextcloudpi is the best for this)

Web Browsers (Alternative to Chrome, Firefox)

• Brave (This is the worst browser you should even consider)
• Librewolf (Coming from Firefox)
• Ungoogled-Chromium (Coming from Chrome)

Search Engines

• Searx
• Startpage
• DuckDuckGo (Idk if I trust these guys)
• Brave has a new private search you can sign up for

Messaging

• Telegram (Absolute worst you should be using)
• Signal (Needs a phone number, not ideal)
• Matrix (Chad chat app, no need for number or email)
• Session (Also Chad but a bit newer)
• Brier (All on device, can be used with no net access)
• Nextcloud Talk (nextcloudpi works great for this)

Music

• Plex (This is the worst you should even consider)
• Jellyfin (Really for video, but can do music too)

VPS (Alternative to AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

• Filebase
• Vultr
• Linode

Password Manager

• MyKi (Interesting because no cloud, not sure if free tho)
• Bitwarden (Best with your own server)
• KeePass (or derivative e.g., KeePassXC)
• Keepassxc (This is the best, save password file to a thumbdrive)
• Pass (unix standard password manager, even better than keepass)

Phone (Alternative to iPhone, and other Android Phones)

• Graphene OS (This is the worst phone OS you should consider, can only load on Pixel)
• Pinephone (Not powerful enough yet)
• Librem5 (Not powerful enough yet, and is a absolute unit)
• /e/OS (Ungoogled OS has good support for a lot of Operating Systems)
• ubuntu touch (Full ubuntu distro for phone)

Laptop

Must at bare minimum be coreboot Ideally Libreboot

• Old Thinkpad (X220 and X220 Tablet is the best)
• System76 (core booted versions)
• Purism (why is the shift key on the right so small)
• PinebookPro
• Chromebook (Coreboot with mrchromebox and you get a rugged laptop for $60)

Video/Streaming Platforms

• Odysee
• Theta
• PeerTube
• LivePeer
• Bitchute (chringe but good idea)

Money (Alternative to the Dollar and other Fiat currencies)

• Bitcoin
• Lighting (built on Bitcoin but usable like cash)
• Monero
• Ethereum
• Cardano
• USDC and other stable coins (Send dollars over crypto)

Node (self host)

• RaspiBlitz (Lighting node on Pi)
• Umbrel (Lighting node on Pi marketed to be easy for anyone)

Savings accounts

Proprietary but better than bank returns with stablecoins

• BlockFi
• Celsius
• Voyager

Decentralized Finance

• AAVE
• Synthetix
• Saffron.finance
• Stacks
• Vesper
• Bisq

TV/Movies

• Plex (This is the worst you should even consider)
• Jellyfin (the best for streaming)
• Kodi

Maps

• OpenStreetMap
• OpenRouteService