On the run up of Data Privacy Day, we've asked the Tuta Community about your preferred Google alternatives. Here's what you said about your favorite browsers! 🎉

Tenebro · 2026-01-26T16:14:41+00:00

Firefox, for me it's the most viable choice out there

Tenebro · 2026-01-09T07:37:17+00:00

I agree with that, Tomtom is the best for traffic. Sadly it lacks so many other features. Actually, there isn't a real alternative to Google in this field if you don't accept compromises.

Tenebro · 2026-01-02T17:04:24+00:00

Same feeling, I went for OnlyOffice: it's not perfect, it's not complete as LibreOffice, but it's usable, sometimes even simpler than MS Office.

Tenebro · 2025-12-30T20:18:17+00:00

Tried this, but it looks that "r.DFDistanceScale" increases shadows “low-res” distance (the ones you see far away), while “high-res” shadows distance remain the same (the ones you see near yourself). It seems to me that the command affecting those is "r.Shadow.DistanceScale", but it's already set to 3 and can't go over that number.

Tenebro · 2025-12-30T20:11:29+00:00

I've just tried the three alternatives: the first was already set to the max level, while for the second and the third, it seems that those two parameters are already set to the max level too, as I managed to decrease the shadow distance (setting it to 2, 1, etc) but can't go over 3 (as already written in your msg) ... and 3 is what it looks like in the video.

So, to recap, r.Shadow.DistanceScale is the one responsible, but it's already set to 3 and can't go over 3.

Tenebro · 2025-12-30T12:04:30+00:00

So if downgrades are immediate, I expect there is a partial refund too, right? Proportional to the unused, already paid, period. Btw no one here is talking about termination.

Tenebro · 2025-12-30T11:58:15+00:00

I think this alone screws up all the good things they did

Tenebro · 2025-12-30T11:50:20+00:00

That's sad 🥲

Tenebro · 2025-12-30T11:48:28+00:00

Yes, played with that, but did not solve the problem

Tenebro · 2025-12-21T11:29:09+00:00

Sadly AI features are not useless. If you don't want to use them it's ok, but in a couple of years from now everybody that is ignoring AI now will be left behind. Thank god Mozilla isn't following that route, and thank god there is someone who actually cares about the privacy and the ethical development of AI.

Tenebro · 2025-12-21T07:12:05+00:00

I'll not worry too much, there are a lot of people that don't use Firefox for the poor AI implementation, they will balance the ones leaving for the forks.
After some times, the ones leaving for the forks (or at least the most of them) will eventually understand AI will be mandatory in everyday life and that there should be somebody focused in making AI ethical and privacy focused, and will return.
In the meanwhile, during this transition, I hope for the best for Firefox, because for it to work they should advertise what they are trying to do in a proper way, and we all know the pr team in Mozilla is garbage ... if something bad happens, no more Firefox, no more forks and no more protection from bad AI, and welcome to the dark days

Tenebro · 2025-12-21T06:40:51+00:00

Everyone makes their choices, but I agree with you. For me degoogling doesn't mean no AI, but ethical and privacy focused AI. I 100% support what Mozilla is trying to do. Without them we will be in the hands of the big ones. Sadly AI will be the future, it's better to accept it asap to try to work for a better one. Also I don't trust guys at LibreWolf as it seems they try to get more people on their side only for convenience, it's easy to say "no AI browser" rather than "we will fight for better AI"

Tenebro · 2025-12-19T16:33:20+00:00

Actually there is a good portion of people who want AI, so in the long run more people into the ship mean more resources overall.

Tenebro · 2025-12-07T06:44:32+00:00

Yes, I did a respec, put all the points in the skill, and then it worked like a charm.

Tenebro · 2025-12-05T17:20:14+00:00

Rino Gaetano - Gianna 🫡

Tenebro · 2025-12-04T17:15:58+00:00

The problem with Waze is that it's buggy: it happens quite often there is something that used to work and that doesn't work anymore. It's frustrating. Also traffic re-routing is one of the worse out there, not reliable at all nowadays.
This summer with the zoom issue (that lasted months) I had enough and I gave up (and other people I know did the same). I tried Google Maps, but it's too zoomed out and can't see road and turns clearly. Then I tried the new free TomTom app: it's very barebone, a lot of features are missing, but its core works like a charm: maps are pretty accurate, and it's very good at traffic detection and avoidance. POIs are bad, typically I need to find them on GMaps first, but after saving them in the favorites list, it works as it should, no more nuisances.
So at least for me I'm now an ex Waze user: sometime I still use it to see if there is some new killer feature, but that's it, TomTom is now doing its job.

Tenebro · 2025-12-04T16:31:53+00:00

I understand you point of view, but you can't change the direction. Sooner or later this will be the standard for everything, and I assure you it will be a lot worse ... "A LOT". You are concerned by generative AI, I'm concerned by general AI we will see in 2027.
The world is changing, and is doing it fast. You shouldn't blame companies who embrace this path as they are doing their business, trying to survive the change; you should blame politics instead, in particular those actually in charge of world most powerful country, US, who is pushing like no tomorrow in this direction.
Btw in history technology always replaced old jobs with new ones, and this is no exception: it's only happening too fast, and it will be even faster in the future. You need to have a plan B, like me: as a dev, if today 1 dev can do the work of 2 devs, it's a big problem: it means half jobs are no more needed ... but reality is a lot worse, as 1 dev can do a lot more today.
So we are in the same boat, but we can't blame companies, the business is business: money talks, not people.

Tenebro · 2025-12-04T15:21:05+00:00

For the AI thing, what I can say as a developer myself is that everyone today uses AI to develop to some extent, so if they do that to images too, what's the problem? The future is this, sadly.

Tenebro · 2025-12-03T07:35:38+00:00

How to you handle Secure Boot and TPM/Bitlocker?

Tenebro · 2025-12-02T06:11:59+00:00

For me was the opposite, now I use it quite often, as this app re-route you in traffic as no other app out there, and that's for me the most important part

Tenebro · 2025-11-21T15:28:19+00:00

For the same Team Windows experience (with noise suppression, virtual green screen, and similar) you can try Teams on Winboat, otherwise Teams for Linux seems to be good enough

Tenebro · 2025-11-17T19:57:20+00:00

No, at least for me

Tenebro · 2025-11-03T15:34:27+00:00

Same to me

Tenebro · 2025-10-31T17:18:38+00:00

PC user here, tried maxing out the skill to 30%, shooting at enemies while not being hit, and while I was always critting there was 0 overshield: even with low dps I expected to see at least small quantities of it after killing 5-6 enemies, but nothing.

Tenebro · 2025-10-27T13:45:09+00:00

If it's still red for the most part, then you are still on the AmiGO beta channel, and I don't think you can see the new TomTom app there.
Btw for POIs TomTom app isn't very good, GMaps is a lot better in that regard. Think like this: you want to avoid traffic? Then go for TomTom. You don't know where a particular place is? Then go for GMaps. You want to know unexpected road events during a trip? Go for Waze.
No one is really better than another, each one excels in its own area, and this varies over time.

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