The only thing I did is setting up a forwarding rule to forward all mails to my actual mail address where I filter and sort the mails

Thus google knows your real email address and can use that for profiling etc.

When you run out of even decent logical arguments you attack the people. This really tells that the industry is afraid of this movement and will use all the dirty tricks they know to oppose it.

They'll continue to work just fine in Firefox.

In the EU this kind of automatic opting-in to marketing/data sharing is against the GDPR as it requires explicit consent from user/customer. I'm in the EU and have those settings but they were both toggled off, as expected.

If I read it correctly the "fuck off" level refers to some proprietary app for the selected login. The other two are standard code app and yubikey.

On Linux file systems you can use any character except NULL, and / is a reserved character.

E.g. on ext-4 "All characters and character sequences permitted, except for NULL ('\0'), '/', and the special file names "." and ".." which are reserved for indicating (respectively) current and parent directories."

People should stop using these ad and tracking apps disguised as some useful app.

https://codeberg.org/

Laughs in FreeTube.

One reason why you need to use a proper privacy respecting E2EE messaging e.g. Signal.

I'd say a good rule of thumb for a beginner is not to touch anything outside of their own home directory. Modifying or deleting files in other locations is an easy way to break your system.

You answer your question yourself with

in fear of breaking something and having to reinstall (and losing something in the process)

Version upgrades are a big thing and unexpected things can happen. Would you be a happy user if the system auto updated to the next version and something truly broke? By forcing manual upgrade they can better inform users about possible unexpected things, and e.g. advice to do backups first. Thus users would be more prepared for this. Also version upgrades take a lot longer time than normal updates since it has update all packages, do other changes to the system etc.

OpenSuse is already by itself a well rounded distro. It supports multiple desktops out-of-the-box, is highly customizable so it doesn't really need forks.

It is said in the development community that as a junior you write more code and think less, and when you become more senior you think more and write less code.

If developers want to make a desktop application they should use proper cross platform desktop frameworks like QT or GTK or even JavaFX instead of a webpage disguised as an application.

Laughs in GrapheneOS.

Also Aurora store. It's just a front-end to play store. One should also ditch all chromium based browsers for couple of reasons

1. Chromium is fully controlled by google
2. It enforces mono-culture in web browsers (it's the internet explorer of $currentYear).

The classical "think of the children" argument. They truly are desperate to keep their walled garden. The EU is doing the right thing.

It can't be removed. That info comes straight from the hardware itself (UEFI and individual devices).

The only reasonable option here is to switch to LibreOffice or some other FOSS product.