Too much Proton for my taste.

I’m currently moving from Proton to Tuta. The fiasco with shutting off journalists accounts without recourse was one straw too far.

Missing Photoshop --> GNU Image Manipulation Program (doing business as GIMP)

For AI Language models, I have been happy with Mistral's Le Chat. For VPNs, use NordVPN. Both are great European alternatives for US-based tech giants.

Or how about instead of using a hallucinating misinformation bot you just think for yourself.

Also big tip. Don’t put your eggs in one basket. Andy from Proton has gladly licked the Trump boot and proton has repeatedly pumped out new products instead of taking the time to fix the existing ones like full Linux support already. They have also been accused of vibe coding and that’s a slippery slope to a large data breach.

Other alternatives:

Mail: Tuta, Mailbox.

Search Engines: SearXNG, Mullvad

Alternative to Signal: SimpleX Chat

AI: Ollama, Kobold.cpp, Llamafix

Browsers: LibreWolf, Tor, Mullvad

Navigation: OsmAnd, Organic Maps

Also, recommended for everyone regardless of threat model...

a paid VPN. And not one of the flagship ones either. Pay attention to the VPN's jurisdiction. If it's US-based or Swiss-based, it's imo a no-go.

Whatever goes on stock market can be discarded. If it's on stocks, it'll be far more profit-oriented and that's a problem.

There are a lot of EU emails providers not just proton.
Just to list some:
mailbox.org
posteo.de
soverin.com
tutanota.com
infomaniak.com
mailo.com

Also this https://european-alternatives.eu/

edit: general speaking, too much proton.

I'm not a fan. Proton Mail turns out to have some fundamental issues:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-intercept-proton-mail-says-it-s-politically-neutral-while-praising-republican-party/24456

Why'd you choose HERE WeGo over a FOSS option like CoMaps?

I feel like Google Photos -> TrueNAS is too vague, TrueNAS is just an operating system, and it's creator, iXsystems, is American so it doesn't fit here at all.

My solution is Immich running on a docker container in OpenMediaVault. OpenMediaVault is German and Immich is multinational FOSS.

How about from ChatGPT to nothing?

Would be nice if they added Social Media in there

aka.
Reddit --> PieFed

I used to search with Ecosia, but the Bing-sourced results were sometimes really poor quality. I've recently gave one more try to Karma Search. While it worked really poorly earlier this year, I am very positively surprised by the quality of the results! (Of course, the "quality" is my vibe at the moment, and idk if there are good ways to benchmark search engines)

I like it. Well done! Didn't even know proton has that many things.

I would strongly recommend moving as far away from Signal as possible. There’s heavy corruption by the U.S. in that area. It’s not fully encrypted, not to mention it can still be monitored on when and if someone’s sending a message, just not all the content.

Here’s a good essay by Dessalines on the matter, they’ve been dealing with cybersecurity for a while, though I don’t know anything about the other recommendations on the photo: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md

How good is here we go with non car locations? Also does it have trains and buses?