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There are unfortunately going to be aspects of your life where you have to use Google. School, and later your job being major ones. If your teacher/boss says you have to use Google, you are going to use Google. With much love for the teachers, many are not good with technology and the convenience of Google makes their job easier.

Like many of us do at our jobs, just use Google to the minimum extent possible and try to minimize the personal information you give to Google. Then you can live the De-Google life in your free time.

This is probably not the answer you wanted, but it's the practical one. Sometimes being the one person going against the grain can put a target on your back and you don't want to get on the teacher's bad side.

Of course, if your teacher is open to allowing you to use other tools, that's great. I just wouldn't get your hopes up.

TIL about Block Select!

Have you tried using the Sessions feature in Kate? It allows you to pick up where you left off, even between multiple projects.

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Freetube is great. It accesses Youtube privately.

For Gmail -- I use Thunderbird for both Android and Desktop (linux) to access my Gmail. I'm sure they are still reading my emails on the server side, but at least the phone app isn't tracking me 🤣

Respectfully... if someone came here looking for a note-taking app, would you recommend pad and paper?

I am not looking for advice on my local issue advocacy, I am looking for a software solution to host a petition.

I think cryptpad will do the job.

Okay buddy, you are way overthinking this. I'm not trying to create the next change.org here. The scope of this is a petition to put a stop sign on main street and get maybe 50 people to sign on.

I could always use a Google Form or a Wordpress plugin for this, I thought there might be a more private way to go about it.

I did not expect all of this debate over a software recommendation, haha.

For your information, petitions can be quite effective at the local level. The problem is, if you sign a petition on Change.org or something like that, they start bombarding you with emails to sign other similar petitions (kind of like the recommendation algorithms on sites like Youtube or Facebook).

People who sign these things know full well what they are doing. Advocacy is not anonymous. I am guess the folks giving me grief about asking for a petition tool won't sign them, and that's fine. I just don't see why there is so much hate.

Another option I considered is a form to mail script. I thought that this is a common use case and something would already exist, haha.

All apps collect some information. Piefed requires your email to sign up.

I don't want the free petition websites online getting my personal network's info and sharing or selling it, hence the interest in self hosting.

I hear you. In New Hampshire we have a very high concentration of libertarians, but still not enough to beat the Republicans or Democrats.

As an alternative, many pro-liberty Republicans and Democrats have gotten elected in New Hampshire (about 80 of them) and they make up the Liberty Caucus. It’s similar to the position of Thomas Massie or Rand Paul in US Congress… both are registered Republican, but pro-liberty.

I'm guessing you are referring to Minneapolis? I am not sure how that's related, haha.

What about running for office is fascist? If anything, its democratic, right?

I use qBitController to manage downloads on my home computer from my Android device.

Do you want something to download onto your android device? I thought LibreTorrent was fine 🤷

I was agreeing with you 🙂

It has to be approved in both houses and be signed by the Governor to become law. So far it has passed the New Hampshire State House.

Okay bear with me here. So school budgets will still go up by the rate of inflation. Inflation is how much more expensive things have become, so in inflation-adjusted dollars, they will be getting the same amount of money. Does that make sense?

Not increasing funding is not a cut. In fact, the schools will still get more money every year. 🙂

In the period from 2001-2024, per pupil spending in New Hampshire has doubled on an inflation-adjusted basis, but test scores have remained the same... https://jbartlett.org/2025/06/per-pupil-spending-in-nh-nearly-doubles-from-2001-2024-as-district-public-schools-spend-1-25-billion-more-on-54000-fewer-students/