Privacy
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I discovered it when I found it was shipped with CalyxOS and honestly it's way better than anything else I've found.
I discovered breezy when I started using GadgetBridge since breezy can provide the weather for GB. So my Garmin gets its weather from Breezy.
Ouhh this has peaked my interest! Do you use GB instead of Garmin app? Which Garmin do u use? Whats the experience using GB been?
Yes, I use GB instead of Garmin Connect. I have been doing it for the last year (started Feb 2025). I have a Fenix 7X. It has been pretty great overall. GB shows a lot of information, and does everything I want, and nothing I don't... They recently added Health Connect functionality, which is really cool.
The only issue I've had was for a couple months I was having issues with my watch getting into a really bad state and needing a factory reset. It would reboot and then get stuck at "processing FIT files" (is something). I disabled auto syncing, since I theorized that maybe sometimes the sync would get interrupted or something, and Garmin firmware might freak out about it. Now I just occasionally manually sync, generally while sitting at my desk.
Besides that issue, I've loved GB. I finally donated last week, since I've gotten so much value from GB and they're doing such good work.
Breezy Weather, avaiable at Fdroid. Have been quite happy with it.
Yeah, this is what I've been using for the last, I guess 3 - 4 years. I try new ones every now and then, but always find myself coming back to Breeze.
Mainly breezy weather.
I also installed the KNMI (royal Dutch meteorological institute) weather app recently, because some other popular Dutch weather services tried to sue them for making their free app too good.
To add to this, make sure to get the one from Izzyondroid rather than F-Droid because the F-Droid one has a few features stripped out
Only allowable time to say you use windows.
It should come on all weather apps as a sort of health warning:
DONT FORGET TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
I use BOM, Australian government weather service.
It's funny that we complain about it, but it's completely free, unrestricted, and beats everything else hands-down.
I don't even complain about them, it's mostly accurate and I'm rural so temps are gonna be out anyway.
Some app wanted me to pay for weather and it's like.. bro that shits free?
Just like hospital care, amirite? 😆
WeatherCAN which is made and run by Environment Canada (government run). Many weather services and apps get their data from them anyway so might as well get it right from the source.
I just keep a shortcut to the NOAA 2day hourly forecast for my location on the home screen. If I need to see the radar it's a few clicks away.
But I've got an air quality and temperature sensor on my back porch, and am working on a rain detector as well, so the preference is towards local conditions
I love NOAA’s hourly graphs. It is a quick visual way to understand the expected forecast. I wish I could find a good iPhone app that does something similar. Carrot is pretty good, but has annoying popups asking you to subscribe to premium.
Breezy. Because AsteroidOS and Gadgetbridge.
Weawow. It's maintained by a lovely Japanese man who doesn't sell any of the data or user info. It is one of the best visualized weather applications I have ever seen and lets you pick from a bunch of different models.
It blows Breezy away.
I was going to try this, but...
Instant deal killer right there. I guess I'm staying on Breeze weather.
My dudes and dudettes , I’m blown away by the response. I’m going to be busy trying them all out. Thank you for the responses and I hope others found some good insight!
Yeah I have ADHD overload trying to process all the suggestions. Very cool lemmy
The best weather forecast is always the one from the official weather agency of your country
Wrote my own digest of NOAA text products. It's a URL: Gnashtooth's Weather. Needs US Zip Code. Then bookmark the details page to return. Also, there is a current-conditions page:
LAFAYETTE PURDUE UNIV AIRPORT (KLAF)
Temperature: 24.1°F
Dewpoint: 12.0°F
Wind: NNE at 3 mph
Visibility: Unlimited
Sky: Mostly clear
Barometer: 30.44 inHg
Recorded: Sat 07 Feb 2026 11:54 AM Etc/GMT+5 (Sat 07 Feb 2026 16:54 PM Etc/UTC)
en: https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLAF.TXT
And there is a one-liner. You can include the one-liner in your eMail sig if your mail user agent (MUA) allows a shell script. Just download and print:
24° — Wind NNE at 3 mph. Sky mostly clear.`I use Cirrus becau I love its ingenious widget: it shows the next 12 hours of weather (not temperature) in a tiny space that's super easy to read.
Yr.no
Aesthetically, one of my favorites is Zoom Earth. Visually its really impressive. Not the best for granular detail on a local area’s weather but still very cool
I maintain that close to you geographically is better, so I use the services provided by my country's metereological institute. They also provide human friendly data (much more than the web ui) as json or xml, and I scripted a little app around that. It's not hard.
I use "Windy" in the US. They have over 50 different map overlays.
For Germans: Deutscher Wetterdienst. Its free. But of you pay one time, you'll get a bigger functionality.
Also Kachelmannwetter for Website
Bura. But I am currently working on my own weather service and might use it more than Bura once it's done.
No JavaScript, no bullshit, focus on clean design and user experience and full focus on privacy. I publish updates on Mastodon under the hashtag serenum.
Weather Master: https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.pranshulgg.weather_master_app
It's good enough to tell me what I can see out of the window, and what I'll probably see out of the window for the next few days
I use yr.no. Made by Norwegian Meteorological Institute. I particularly like their detailed 10 day forcast.
On Mobile the widget from AEMET, the Spanish Meteorology Agency, on Desktop the inbuild weather widget in Vivaldi (home/new tab page)
Uses the US National Weather Service for data. The UI is basic but it has all the maps. Probably overkill and too complex for normal people but good for weather watchers, amateur meteorologists and pilots.
KNMI and Yr apps for me. Knmi is dutch and Yr norwegian i believe.
Yr is Norwegian, but afaics they're pretty good with nearby countries, too. It's a product of their metreological institute, which seems like a good option privacy-wise. Not that such institutes have to be ad or data ming free, but they usually are.
They are very good for us in the Netherlands!
I use https://f-droid.org/packages/co.prestosole.clima
Very simple and stupid name, but does its job pretty well.
I use Weawow on mobile and desktop since the UK Met Office created their "new design" for their website.
That's what I use. You can pick which weather service you use, too. I'm in Canada, but find that Norway meteorology service is good. When the wife and I are comparing forecasts she'll ask, "What do the Norwegians say".
Or later, "Your Norwegians never predicted this!".
I coded a OpenMateo weather call into my python router, so I can type >>weather (city, country) and get live updates.
Failing that, you can search or API this https://openweathermap.org/
Or if you wanna go ultra-minimalist (and super cool)
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
https://wttr.in/
^^ if you just type that, it will give you the weather matching your current IP address. Else use /cityname
eg: wttr.in/London