I use Mull as well. I think it’s a bit more heavy-handed than Fennec as far as I understand, so I think it comes down to how much convenience you’re willing to give up for privacy/security. Both are a step in the right direction, though.
I’d love to get a physical keyboard again. I’d happily give up some screen size for it too. Phones have gotten much too big.
A smaller screen would limit the phone, though. Would probably become a phone calls and texting only device since most apps wouldn’t know what to do with the small screen and weird aspect ratio.
Never tried microG, so that’s good to know.
Yes it’s proprietary and depends on a lot of Google services. Usually if you want it on a custom ROM, you need to use the full GApps packages. No Android Auto on smaller GApps packages.
Exactly!
Because someone decided to do it.
You don’t always need a good reason other than it might be cool/fun. Sometimes it’s just because you can.
You’re not forced to use it, so if it’s not your cup of tea, that’s fine.
They’ve been easier to find from what I’ve read recently.
Try rpilocator.
This is actually a solid suggestion. If no one else wants to help, these guys just might be able to.
This rant has been posted before. I’ve seen it multiple times and I’m pretty sure they’ve posted on the piracy communities as well. They seem adamant on getting these files.
Edit: I just checked and it seems this is either a different user or an alternate account, because those previous posts aren’t on this profile.
Probably because QTile.
I don’t know if QTile has Wayland support, so my apologies if that’s wrong.
Then I’ll conseder it when I’m feeling productive. I am using an old netbook. Thanks for the answers.
Would it be worth switching if I’m already set up on Debian?
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
What advantages would this give over plain Debian or similar? I’m a total noob, so I’d love something that might help me get a little more out of my little netbook ‘server’.
I’ve got Pi-hole and Syncthing running on an old netbook with an Atom CPU and 2 GB RAM. It’s doing fine. Syncthing killed the little dual-core CPU while it was syncing all of the stuff I wanted, but now it idles along quietly on Debian. I doubt you’re going to get much out of the machine, but it’s perfectly fine for small, simple stuff like Pi-hole.
Distro-wise, I’d say Debian or similar if you want to set-and-forget (update once a week or month) or Arch/openSUSE Tumbleweed if you want it up-to-date (potentially more work needed).
Considering the hardware I’d also recommend whichever distro you go with without a GUI to keep the resource usage as low as possible.
It’s a solution. Sadly, it doesn’t solve the problem in a way that satisfies the OP. So, yeah. Not really a resonable solution for OP or most people.
Windows has a built-in screenshot tool that’s already been mentioned, but I’ve been using Greenshot for a while and it works well. Print Screen button as a shortcut and it freezes the screen while you draw a rectangle to screenshot, so if you want the mouse pointer in the shot you just put it in the right spot and hit Print Screen.
I know Windows has the option to shake a window and all other windows get minimised. Nothing like shaking the mouse to find the cursor, though.
One day when I’m all growed up I want to have a better setup. For now I’ve got what I absolutely need.
Sure, that wouldn’t be a bad thing to try. Probably a lot of interesting ways to go about it. Good luck getting a company to try something cool, though.