Librewolf my faithful friend always

Fairphone should focus on helping the Linux options move along, no need waste resources on GOS, just another android ROM

Long term android should die off in place of Linux but its a long road

Have UT running on a Nord phone, they have made good strides over the years, appreciate their dedication

Librewolf has done a great job and has a strong stance on disabling/removing AI pieces

But yeah, it's just sad to always be fighting against the tide

Had no idea. Did some research, very unfortunate. Appreciate the heads up. 

This is honeslty a shameful post. A personal rant with just a nasty agenda

People or projects attacking other privacy focused projects working on good faith intent to help us escape the duopoly are just sad. If a project doesn't fit your personal needs, so be it, move on

As a whole we need as many of these projects to succeed & elevate as possible. Shooting at others because you got your feelings hurt elsewhere is childish and self-defeating for all. Last thing we need is creating a monopoly of privacy focused options

Just ordered a cheap Nord N100 should arrive soon, just for purpose of testing/running UT. Tried UT little over a year ago, as someone else mentioned the VoLTE is/was a full stopper in USA, which sounds like progress made(?) based on user comments

I'll work around loss of apps, for example banking app if I have a good browser. Sure, more painful but I only need that in a pinch. Same for many other missing apps

Build around a solid browser experience I think would ease the transition, for people like myself who are slowly heading toward a more "dumb phone" experience and back to PC/laptop for most needs. I am likely a minority there though

Looks like uWolf browser and a new one (to me) called Merezhyvo Browser are having good success

In any case, look forward to seeing how it goes this time around :)

Legit concern & lots of good comments on the device side of things so I'll just toss in that another perhaps far easier approach for fascist regimes would be to force telcos, ISPs to permit online access only once registered, similar to a hotel guest WiFi. Only of course more rigidly enforced & monitored.

Thus removing the device itself from the equation, and using infrastructure as the chokepoint.

Future generations are largely doomed by the apathy of the "we have nothing to hide" folks of today, or those who buy into the its "for the children" movement.

Horrifying for the generations to come, as it all advances from multiple angles to 1984 reality 

Fedora Silverblue has been utterly fantastic for me. Only item layered is Opensnitch which is of course also amazing

When I look for new distros to try immutables are highest on my preferred list, Aeon & Kinoite, also very nice, can't go wrong with any of these IMO

Migrated to Keepass shortly before the price increase ( not because of it) just for the reason of wanting my vault fully offline. Seeing these changes at BW still makes me sad, was a long time paying user & truly enjoyed it

Keepass is fantastiic, my vault is pretty static so just manually copy to other device as needed. And of course, have your full backup plan in place as with all things

The e/os Advanced Privacy feature is very nice, great way to see which apps have tracker whilst blocking them. Same as running DNS filters but built in experience, easy to view

In itself LOS is fantastic but needs be combined with something like reThinkDNS or another DNS filtering option

Rethink on LOS is fantastic, in particular if you can do the whitelist method - block everything by default, and permit only that which you approve. Takes some time & effort but great control is the reward

I prefer layers, example LOS w/rethink DNS all going thru Control D or NextDNS with Hagezi lists enabled

Overkill? Perhaps , but I love the reporting , helps in learning what's going on, and apps/sites to be avoided

My preference for flatpaks is based upon I can further lock out network access for those apps that I don't want having network access. Just gives me another layer of network access prevention using flatseal. For the paranoid side of me :)

Have a couple apps can only use appimages, using with gear lever is just great & easy

Both work great though

Blg fan of fedora atomic Cosmic been my daily for awhile but ran into a show stopper bug (for me) with release 44

So as wait on that resolve thought I'd try KDE again, and it just felt so busy & cluttered lol

Back to Silverblue with few tweaks and it feels just like home. Simple, beautiful, elegant & snappy

Gnome is fantastic indeed, no hurry to leave

We each have our personal zen, options are good

Absolutely. My loyal friend keeping me safe foir years. The Wolf is the way.

This is the good news, thank you

Sadly it seems their lesson learned is to rehire only until they can assimilate those experts knowledge more thoroughly, then cut them once again

Lather, rinse, repeat throughout industries

Not the feel good story the headline would hope you would have read

Cannot hate AI enough

At the height those of us who weren't on there got mocked by f&f lol

Now we look like Nostradamus geniuses to them. For me it was just the trait of being a more private person in all things, no genius foresight,

Fully agree on your less is more stance

Similar. Just months ago moved from BW to KeePassXC and android equiv

Nothing bad say about Bitwarden its fantastic & served me well, but wanted to go fully offline

Manually updating the phone is not nearly the deal I thought would be, as my logins fairly static & use my phone as little as possible for most items where logins needed

Of course each of us has separate use cases, but +1 for KeePass really like it

Yeah its like those sports headlines where they try vibe you up for some trash talk

"Player A had a perfectly blunt statement about Player B"

Only to read & find out they said Player B was great, such drama lol

All just rage bait everywhere, AI or human that's the clicks plan

When I started my degoogle process some time back & researching options I literally laughed at loud at myself. Am I seriously going to hand over yet more money to the very beast I am trying to get away from? Talk about instant compromise of values

Years later, extremely proud of that decision. Just a non starter. Buying second hand also creates a market value for selling more google crap

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