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After the last experience, very proudly homophobic.

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So it’s fully local right? That’s a really awesome system then. I’d probably recommend encrypting the data but that’s not really necessary

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I don’t understand why nobody did it in the past. It makes the experience so much better for normal users. I hope this becomes mainstream. Btw does it have any automatic analytics cache cleaning or something like that (so it doesn’t grow 20 gigs of it in a year)? If so, make sure it cleans it periodically and not immediately when a piece of data becomes unneeded. On low end devices frequent write/delete cycles can be an issue

Are there any maps apps that rip data from Google Maps?

I want to ungoogle myself as much as possible, but I’ve found that Google Maps is by far the best dataset for maps. I can search ‘fast food’ and it’ll pull up anything related to that near me. I’ve tried things like OrganicMaps, and while it is blazing fast and very private in comparison to Google Maps, it...

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Even if there are no proxied frontends already (like LibreTube for YouTube), it’s a great idea for FOSS developers. But afaik it requires a proprietary component from GMS to work so it may be hard to make a frontend for

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You can’t copyright ideas. You just have to make sure it doesn’t violate the real copyright (like characters and names and stuff). And a good open-source modern competitive game (classic games with graphics from 2007 are good but not for everyone) would indeed be a significant promotion of open-source, as well as a proof of it being a competitive development model

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For the laptop, you can leave it with Windows but don’t use it for anything except what requires Windows (e. g. don’t use social media or store private photos on it). If you use it very often, consider dualbooting.

For your phone, make sure you use a custom ROM. If you need Google apps, there’s stuff like microg (sandboxed Google apps that are either pre-installed in the ROM or you can add it to a ROM that doesn’t come with any Google apps by default). Regular Google apps are very invasive and stock ROMs are even worse because they have their own telemetry. But I wouldn’t recommend using obscure ROMs (especially unofficial builds).

There can be an issue with banking apps though. Recently Google replaced old SafetyNet system (which checked the system for root and unlocked bootloader) with a new one called Play Integrity. The problem with it is that 99% of custom ROMs can’t fully pass Play Integrity so apps which require it (mostly banking and government apps) won’t work. Also Snapchat and WhatsApp started banning custom ROM users recently. The only reliable way to avoid these issues is to have 2 phones: one on stock unmodified ROM (for banking apps and other things that require Play Integrity pass) and a degoogled phone with a nice reliable custom ROM (LineageOS and GrapheneOS are my recommendations but you can look at other ones like crDroid if you want more customization features). It can be a bit inconvenient but that’s what you probably need if you want really good privacy

18+ What are the differences between the 'base' of various Linux distributions?

I’ve been using linux desktop for a year or so now. One noteable thing i keep seeing is that one person will say I dont like XYZ distrobution because of its base. But I am still a little unsure what is meant by it. I am assuming the main difference between each base is the choice of package management(?). But what other...

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Also there’s reliability. If a base dies, everything based on it dies too or at least needs a colossal amount of work to fix. The point about philosophy is very close as well. The base can go closed source, prohibit usage of itself etc

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It is not FOSS so it shouldn’t be posted in this community. I think you can find a more suitable one to post it on

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There are a lot of projects like this (with Tiny11 being the most known) and people actually use them on older hardware or for hardcore gaming. Security is always a concern though

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Oh ok then it’s kinda FOSS indeed

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Well Matrix and Signal are not necessarily better but just more convenient and suitable for normal users

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There are still slight advantages to C that probably will make some devs stick to it in specific cases

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Hey that’s a great reason for many to move to Firefox, even for normal users

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Both have privacy and security enhancements that significantly affect performance and slightly convenience. Regular Firefox can be a better option for some of them. But the browsers you listed are still great

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I’ve never had too many issues with it. It’s not bad imo

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Man the performance hit really is there, especially on HDDs. Content blocker kind of stuff is the reason I think. It’s basically like a real-time scanner

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Why would Mozilla do that? I guess only if Google gave them an ultimatum because they do give Mozilla a lot of money

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Idk for me it’s crazy slow. There’s even like severe input lag and unresponsiveness sometimes

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Oh wow that’s much more than I thought

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Nice

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Yes.

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Librewolf indeed doesn’t have it enabled by default

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Highly disagree. Even though bloat may not matter much on your $10000 PC, it still gets worse over time and creates more and more ewaste for no reason.

EDIT: yep there are a lot of laziness and bloat supporters in this community for sure

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I’m not talking about OBS. I’m talking about the “bloat doesn’t matter. Just buy a new PC” philosophy

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Yes because atzanteol said it directly

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Sorry but I did not and still do not see that atzanteol’s comment was about web screen recorders. It can be my English or it can be your desire to “be like the crowd” and fight me. Idk

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May be

[QUESTION] Flatpak or AUR?

I’ve been using arch for a while now and I always used Flatpaks for proprietary software that might do some creepy shit because Flatpaks are supposed to be sandboxed (e.g. Steam). And Flatpaks always worked flawlessly OOTB for me. AUR for things I trust. I’ve read on the internet how people prefer AUR over Flatpaks. Why? And...

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This. Flatpak also provides additional privacy and security features to at least somewhat keep that proprietary garbage under control

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Vanilla GNOME because simplicity, very modern look and stability. Cinnamon is nice too but it’s just not for me. Its workflow is slower in my use cases

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ProfileMatch is usually a must

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Well this one is at least kinda pretty

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This fake reply error bug is kinda annoying ngl

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Well you do need paid subscriptions in such services. Nobody will buy hundreds of $2000 GPUs and give them for free

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Well Fediverse requires much much less money than cloud gaming in terms of dollars/users served

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Some people just want to do good things to others if they can. They get some donations and more importantly love and respect from the community. It’s enough for them, at least as long as the project doesn’t become very popular. Unfortunately many people now don’t care about anything except money so they can’t understand. And the problem with paid subscriptions is more about privacy I think

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Everything that accelerates our path to the future is terrible because the future is very dark. Bad decision from Mozilla here unfortunately

Are any important things crammed into the Google app?

I’m not sure about my phone, maybe I’d like to keep Google Lens, but on a TV box it seems completely unnecessary. Its identifier com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox also sounds like it shouldn’t contain anything important for the working of a device, but who knows with Google. Is there anything unexpected that would...

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Some links won’t open, Gemini won’t work and the quick search will become limited or unusable. Other than that I don’t remember anything important. That app is definitely worth disabling

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LTT has made some severe anti-FOSS videos in the past. I don’t really trust them. It looks like they’re doing things just for views

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The Linux gaming challenge series is the first thing that comes to mind

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Yes. It even interrupted a flashing procedure of a device of mine and almost bricked it

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Idk why it happened. Maybe the program uses that API to find new firmware versions. It was stuck at the beginning of the procedure

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The flashing app detected the device. The next step was downloading firmware and it was stuck on it for minutes (usually it takes a second or two). I almost ended up rebooting the device (which could absolutely brick it) but fortunately it found the firmware. Then I tested DDG to see if it was up. I don’t really remember if it was but I think it was working for a few seconds

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US is definitely worse than China, mister/miss

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US literally starts and supports wars, spends tax money on nothing except military and surveillance, creates propaganda to make the people more aggressive and “patriotic”. The first thing is worse than China’s because China hurts freedom when US hurts physically. Technically it is worse. You can say that there’s bad air quality in China but it’s not the same thing

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Well I think any limits on free speech are bad

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Free speech and freedom of creating parties are different things

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Sorry I hate your ideas way too much to continue this discussion without fighting

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I suggest that people should stop being toxic and excessively judgeful. I’m not saying that low effort posting is good. I’m trying to justify it

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