Privacy Tools for Everyone

• Startpage Performs a Google search on your behalf, without sharing your information with Google
• Signal A modern, cross-platform messaging app run by a privacy-oriented nonprofit
• Proton Mail Private and secure email that encrypts messages whenever possible
• Firefox An open-source browser with powerful privacy tools
• Murena Cloud A private and feature-rich cloud drive and online office suite
• UBlock Origin The best adblocker extension for every browser
• Bitwarden A highly secure open-source password manager

Useful FOSS Apps

• OnlyOffice A free office suite that is fully compatible with MS Office
• Inkscape An excellent vector illustration app, I've been happily using Inkscape for over ten years
• Krita An efficient and fun digital illustration app
• Thunderbird A powerful email client that just works with all your accounts
• GIMP An image manipulation program with tons of tools and features
• RawTherapee A post-processing app for the digital photographers out there
• PyCharm A lovely IDE for Python
• OBS Studio The best streaming and video recording software

Federated Social Media

• Mastodon A Twitter-like platform based on the open source ActivityPub protocol
• Pixelfed An ActivityPub-based alternative to Instagram
• PeerTube A federated alternative to YouTube that uses peer-to-peer filesharing

Reading Material

• The Convivial Society Writings on philosophy of technology
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The authoritative text on the theory of surveillance capitalism
• Internet for the People A constructive look at how the internet can be democratized
• Logic Magazine Forward-thinking writing on how technology impacts our lives

Cool Hardware

• Fairphone A repairable smartphone made with more-sustainable materials and labor
• Framework A modular laptop with an ecosystem of upgradeable parts
• Zima Board A tiny computer with good power and port selection

TechTubers I Like

• The Linux Experiment An excellent resource for keeping up-to-date on Linux and everything FOSS
• TechHut A friendly guy who wants to help you learn about computers
• NetworkChuck A fun personality who will teach you about network technology
• The Digital Life I learned how to make YuruPath mostly from this guy

Feeling Adventurous?

• Fedora The best desktop Linux distro for general use
• Jellyfin Run your own media server for music, movies and TV shows, it's easier than it sounds
• Linode The easiest way to get started with running a web server
• W3Schools I learned HTML, CSS and Python on here
• Windows Subsystem for Linux The best way to learn BASH on Windows, if you have a Mac just open Terminal lol