And why I replaced my phone with a Pixel and installed GrapheneOS straight away.

My single longest install of Linux was 6 years and only ended because I built a new PC. Windows I generally reinstalled at least every two years. I couldn’t stand how slow it got.

Now I’m imagining an angry Gentoo penguin snapping at fingers any time someone wants to use their PC 😅

Ironfox for Android

Long time Firefox user. Installed Librewolf today and so far so good. I used Firefox sync to get all my settings, bookmarks, open tabs, etc. back. At some point I will probably find an alternative yo Firefox sync but it’ll do for the time being.

I’ve switched to a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS as part of my continuing deGoogle. Thanks for this, its further ideas to work on. One recommendation I would add however is that people use Obtainium instead of F-droid. This article is a pretty goof summary of why: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

Its definitely more friction to get apps installed but once they are installed, I find Obtainium better for automatic updates than F-droid.

I started out on Cinnamon (via Mint). Although I have used Ubuntu many moons ago but despised Gnome and never touched it since. After Mint In went to Arch where I DE hopped for many years. I tried XFCE (didn’t like the visual inconsistences); Openbox - liked and loved for quite a while as a minimalist setup; Mate - too old looking so didn’t last; Deepin - lasted a very long time because I loved it so much but eventually stopped because they changed the design too much to be link Windows; Budgie which lasted a little while and was the next closest to what Deep in provided. Was too immature at the time to be enjoyed long term; Pantheon - I still love Pantheon. It’s consistent, polished and cohesive. To me a perfect blend of nice looking, minimal and functional. Stopped using because I got tired of having to fix it on Arch; Finally KDE. It’s what I’ve been using for several years now because it just works, it looks nice, it’s very customisable (I can make my desktop look similar to Pantheon), I like the integration and ecosystem of apps, it has great support and devs that listen… I’m yet to have a DE tempt me away from it. Not even Cosmic lol.

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

Or buy a Kobo instead and it just works. Bonus, no money to Amazon at all.

If that is the case, that’s a weird way to think. I mean, if I was using Windows and one app stopped working, I wouldn’t blame that on Windows, I would just assume an issue with that particular app being incompatible with an update. 🤷🏻‍♀️ At least, my definition of my system breaking is either it won’t boot at all, or it won’t boot into the DE. Even then, not booting could be a broken bootloader (not a broken system) which is usually straightforward to fix.

Its Xanavi. I don’t know if they’re still around as we did about 3-4 years ago now. There might be alternatives by now. I know its not as simple as just flashing an OS as unfortunately each head unit has a unique key that has to be preserved (else it stops working, I assume for anti-theft purposes)…

Almost a decade for me (on CachyOS currently) and I also have no idea how people are breaking their systems so much. In that decade, I think my system broke twice due to an update hiccup and both times were easy to fix.

Technology and servers can get messed up. You are relying on software and hardware to keep stuff safe when the reality is it could fall over tomorrow and all your chat will be gone. Important info should be recorded elsewhere and backed up if need be. Just like in the old days before online chat existed. We survived just fine then and we can survive again without having 14 years of chat history or whatever.

Personally I always turn disappearing messages on in Signal. If my phone or computer was ever broken into, in would rather the perpetrators not have years of personal info and photos shared between my friends and family to do the gods know what with.

Are you OK? The Thought Police haven’t made DISCUSSING or TALKING about piracy illegal yet.

My Japanese export 2016 doesn’t either. Aside from the fact that we flashed the head unit with custom software, there’s nothing for it to connect to in my country anyway.

I’ll be honest, I have no idea. Its a white round one and knowing that its a Chromecast is the extent of my knowledge because I tend to avoid anything Google like the plague so have next to no knowledge about them beyond going to battle with my parents Chromecast every time i visit 🤷🏻‍♀️

This comment brought to you with my secondhand Google Pixel rocking GrapheneOS 😅

Same, been using an AMD card since building a new PC a few years ago and its been completely smooth sailing. My spouse also built a new PC at the same time but decided to go nvidia instead and has had constant problems (now regrets not going AMD as well) and has yo regularly downgrade the driver and/or kernel just to have a working system or games that don’t have things like vertices explosions.

ElementaryOS (Pantheon desktop)

I dunno that’s entirely accurate - we have a Sony Bravia android TV (working on moving away from default OS but that’s another story) that is perfectly usable with Stremio and Jellyfin and doesn’t have massive invasive ads. One of my parents has a dumb TV with a Chromecast and it’s nothing but a PITA to use by comparison.