Not quite sure about the On by default aspect; on my non-Google phone running stock android, it keeps asking me to enable RCS.
I keep clicking no because there’s a lot of ads pushed through RCS. This is annoying on top of the usual telemarketing stuff you might get due to phone numbers being sold.
What is your threat model like ? Who are you intending to guard yourself against ?
Is it an assembled PC or a pre-built ? Pre-builts may come with some form of tracking. OS support also may be a concern on some pre-builts.
Maybe something like Debian 12 testing might be a good Linux option to consider, of course Windows or Mac are not recommended for the privacy conscious amongst us. Debian is not the most user friendly to get installer image of, but it has a fairly straightforward GUI based setup for a fresh install.
In case Windows is a requirement then probably look into the Tron script, helps automate a lot of things you might need as privacy settings (among other actions performed by the script).
Note: These are to be treated as opinions, not advice.
Any particular resources that you trust to share proper information?
Hasn’t VLC in general been forgotten by the devs ? I don’t remember last when I updated VLC (I don’t have automatic updates enabled).
Not that this is a concern for my usecase though, I’m okay as long as it is chugging along.
Edit: I meant to specify that I don’t just mean the android port, Windows and Linux as well.
Being in a highly technical field I agree with you in wondering the point of tablets, but I am seeing a couple of people in the local transport use it as a replacement for pen-paper with an added advantage of collaboration on a document with multiple people.
I’m not bothered to check, but tablets might be cheaper than 2-in-1 or otherwise touchscreen PC laptops.
To get governments interested in it… for tracking it’s own netizens… because just about everyone is dealing with CSAM!
Is this supposed to be a colourful e-ink display?
Is the Asus Zenfone available in your region ? If yes, its a pretty compact and feature rich phone.
They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.
User action is what will be the launcher.
I click on AC Origins in my Steam install should launch the game, not another launcher which has to then go and invoke the game.
Oh, KDE on Wayland seemed to have messed with something about display for my i5 6400 + RX 6600, because when I switched to GNOME on Xorg the problems went away.
Then I only needed to figure out how to get Ubisoft Launcher/Connect installed in the same prefix folder as Assassin’s Creed Origins. I despise whoever came up with the idea of launcher-launching-launcher, and for what ? Validating key ?
No problem mate !
Once you’re on Mint’s page, just have a look over the other desktop environments (DE) offered. Screenshots will not tell you the entire picture, but at least you can have a look at what you don’t find appealing.
But remember not to really worry about the DE, you can always install another one and remove the one you don’t like.
Mainly from a security standpoint PPAs are something I would want to avoid.
I’ve not used Snap since I tried it out a couple of years ago, it wasn’t as good as Flatpak in terms of performance, and there were concerns which got highlighted like it’s entirely proprietary and hosted by Canonical only, I heard Snap was being forced even when you would want through system packages, and something about forced updates.
I get why Flatpak is better in terms of sandboxing each application, but I personally prefer to use system packages wherever I can.
I just moved from Windows to Linux (currently, PopOS) this year around.
You can try out beginner friendly distributions like PopOS, Linux Mint, ZorinOS which are Ubuntu-Debian based or Fedora. Like others have mentioned, applications made on Linux are expected to be cross-compatible with all distributions so your choice will mainly come down to what desktop environment you like as there are many with different feel to the user experience.
To know what works for you try these out in a VM if possible before biting the bullet so you know what all packages are present in Linux, and what all of your usecase will need to be managed through WINE/Proton compatibility layers.
You would want to avoid Ubuntu, and installing anything through Snap or PPA repositories if it ever comes up in your searches.
I think card view in a native app mainly works well for communities with high image/video content, other communities are okay either way.
When I used to use Reddit on my desktop’s browser the styling would typically be list view, because that was something which I was used to.
I didn’t notice the 3 years part till I read in your comment.
Are there any privacy respecting CDN services though?
I won’t comment on what Session is/was doing with Cloudflare services, but say if I am using DoT on my device for encrypted DNS requests, and the traffic is also E2E encrypted, how much can such a provider really see ?
Tools that we have at my job won’t be effective if they receive an encrypted payload.
Could you elaborate on your point of them using Cloudflare ?
My understanding is that their websites would be behind Cloudflare for their CDN and anti-DDoS services, maybe WAF as well. Solely looking at CDN services essentially the options come down to Cloudflare or Akamai who have a global domination of the market.
I like the phrase “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
KOSA is not the only thing one should be worried about, illiterates from UK are bringing in an Online Safety Bill which needs all services with encryption to provide a backdoor for the UK government under the reasoning of “monitoring for CSAM content”.
This doesn’t just impact UK citizens, but will do for the world.
If I recall correctly, Australia did something similar.
Interesting to see how the 5-eyes try to push similar dumb ideas together.
I just use DDG, and I was told in a different post that it fetches results through Bing.
Much like what you said, Google is better than other engines with regional results being a non-US person.
Are you able to view YouTube at all with NoScript enabled ? When I tried it out last the page itself doesn’t load because everything is JS based.