Just an ad. It even has mistakes, such as GPC support and auto-redirect to HTTPS.

Yes.

Here's an actual FOSS cross-platform alternative with Windows, Mac and Linux (Need to be manually compiled and still experimental) https://screen-play.app https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay

If you believe Google is the most reliable, you can still use it in a private way via :

• Startpage

Startpage is a private search engine known for serving Google and Bing search results. One of Startpage's unique features is the Anonymous View, which puts forth efforts to standardize user activity to make it more difficult to be uniquely identified. The feature can be useful for hiding some network and browser properties.

https://www.startpage.com/

• SearxNG https://searxng.org/

SearXNG is an open-source, self-hostable, metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing any information itself.

There's plenty of public instances too https://searx.space/

• Whoogle https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Get Google search results, but without any ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file.

Couple of public instances too. Basically SearxNG with ONLY google as a source. https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances

Actually, it's far more limited than those options. The main advantage however, is the Manifest V3 support of it, meaning that such extension can be used on limited web browser that enforce it. Which isn't a lot.

Worthy actual open-source alternatives :

• YunoHost https://yunohost.org/ GPL3
• FreedomBox https://freedombox.org/ DFSG (Debian Project)
• Sandstorm https://sandstorm.org/ Apache V2
• CasaOS https://www.casaos.io/ Apache V2
• startOS https://start9.com/ MIT
• homelabOS https://homelabos.com/ MIT

However, I still use UmbrelOS as compared to all of those, It's the only one which seems to work well with my RPI4 and the connected drive with it, despite my modest Linux knowledge (Fedora and Arch on mobile user), and Umbrel being unsecure and retaining app versions compared to upstream.

You'll get plenty of answers with different suggestions, so I'll suggest checking in that community for plenty of previous answers. I would say to stick with "main" known distribution and to ditch specialized ones. https://linux-myths.pages.dev/Single-Maintainer https://linux-myths.pages.dev/Distros

I'm on Nobara but despite the fantastic work of GloriousEggRoll, it did had it's lot of breakage which made me want to switch to the suggested uBlue Fedora atomic builds, per those criterias.

Similarly, there's System Admin Girl★まんがでわかるLinux シス管系女子 Imported a physical edition just for the quirky factor of a Linux Admin manga, but it is pretty well made and does explain pretty well some bits (even if from the first episode, they explain how to do VNC if i remember, from a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop, so fairly easy and old) but it still on-going !

Try helping ScreenPlay support Linux, it's probably the closest alternative other than that kde-plasma reverse engineering port of Wallpaper Engine. You just need to compile it manually. https://screen-play.app/ https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay

Doesn't seems like it. Had some difficulties finding it, because it's mostly only on Telegram

https://t.me/s/rutheniumos https://blog.rutheniumos.ru/

Little note, the Borderlands 2 Linux & Mac port as been abandonned https://support.aspyr.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020727692-Borderlands-2-Linux-FAQ So, do consider switching to the Windows version version via Proton for co-op play, HD Texture pack support and that last DLC too.

First. Let me explain some bits about the Play Store. You are using the Google Play store, so of course, it stores the list of installed apps on your Google account. That's fairly obvious. However, the relation with the apps generally end there. Some apps might have Google account integration (Google Games for example, or just as a login method) but not more than that. There's also potential Google ads and Crashalytics, but it ain't "directly" connected to your Google account (It link your device through an unique ID, which Google could correlate with your logged Google account on this device)

That out of the way :

• ProtonMail android app doesn't use any of those Google stuff in it.
• You can download their app separately of the Google Play Store. Throught their website, source-code release or F-Droid (Depending of their project. Proton isn't consistency with those)
• ProtonMail don't care about your Google account, outside of importing your emails into your new Protonnail account if you choose to do so.

Also, there is still a privacy gain, from using an email address from Protonmail, but only when you use it. It is just a better and more private e-mail provider. If you keep using a Gmail and Outlook email, than you will still issues with those emails addresses be used and read, for ads and analytics.

Do note you can use your protonmail address on your Google and Microsoft account. Those services just tend to automatically create an email account on their respectice services by default (Gmail & Outlook) but they aren't required.

Oh no.

Anyway, glad that Mastodon isn't down due to it's decentralized nature. That's something bad actors (such as those who are doing that DDOS) and most users (which make the mstdn.social instance and a few other ones, the main ~80% of all Mastodon) fail to to understand, the beauty of it.

(Still feeling bad for the instance and it's users, despite the sarcastic tone)

GrapheneOS also made me give up my heterosexuality /j

Depending if they rely on the G Play Integrity API or SafetyNet Attestation API https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide There's a secure way to attest it, but if i understand it, it require the app devs to explicitly add support of grapheneOS via hardware attestation API

That's a client, not a service. Only help ever so slightly with Discord.

DivestOS was a fork of it for good reasons. LineageOS doesn't offer the same privacy or security features Divest had in the first place. https://divestos.org/index.html

Tell him to make sure to change the Connectivity check domains to GrapheneOS ones. Plenty of people im this thread explained you about those. In theory, ypu could disable it, but the main OS will assume you have no connection, despite actually able to connect, and some apps may break.

If you want something a little easier to install, and especially, allow fixing a couple of those issues safely, and automatically, you can try antidot .

xdg-ninja do already use the antidot rules natively, it's mostly for those who don't want to manually do the safest/easiest of fixes. It should be safe to use alongside xdg-ninja.

Well, i believe in all showcased cases from people here, they are NOT replacing sudo entirely (Except if some are from BSD or if I'm incorrect with this assumption). They are just replacing their user habit with doas and use that command instead. In the end, all unix scripts or apps expect using sudo (If not, su) so... ### What's even the need to ?

• Size : Installed on top of the already system present sudo.
• Security : Only perhaps if you made a sudo alias to doas (But since it isn't entirely 1:1 identical, if anyone have a cleaner way of implementing that, I'm all hear)
• Simplicity : You now have two tools. A easy to use keycard, and a key. The second is more complicated to use, so you use it rarely but it's still two tools instead of one.
• Less dependencies : Again, unless you can actually replace it ENTIRELY, it's just an added tool (Still almost dependency free)

Really looking to corrections if i do some