When I first joined Reddit, it was so similar to Lemmy in its principles. Relatively progressive, open source, tons of interesting people having real convos about the nerdiest stuff and talking about the world. It was real, and the fediverse has absolutely nailed recreating that sense of community. What a beautiful safe haven we have

True. The OG GrapheneOS alternative was DivestOS, which actually pulled a lot of features from Graphene. Still so sad that project ended

I used to use a variety. I’d use Arch on my desktop/gaming machine, Fedora on my laptop, and Debian on my server. But I got the NixOS bug a few years back and now I use that everywhere. It’s great to have every change and configuration documented and available for easy review or modification, and built in generation rollbacks are a lifesaver.

Thinking of building an HTPC from some spare parts, and I think that’ll be the machine to buck the trend. Bazzite will be everything I need out of the box for that purpose without any effort for maintenance. It’s not getting customized or doing anything but games and media

Can also use mullvad’s DNS, it’s free

I’ve been on Linux for 14 years now and all the projects I’ve used as my daily driver are still kicking and doing great. Arch, Fedora, Debian, and NixOS. I’m on nix and I’d happily stay here ten more years if the governance stuff settles down, that concerns me. But from a technical and package availability perspective it’s amazing

You’ll almost certainly want to disable some of the more extreme privacy settings. Specifically, enabling Canvas and WebGL will make it much more usable, at the cost of some reduced privacy.

I use Zen as my daily driver, and Firefox on mobile. I isolate different areas of my life with containers and profiles but you don’t necessarily need to do all that. It’s good and private out of the box

I fully agree with you. I use biometrics but if I’m in a situation where I think I might be pressured to unlock my phone for direct state surveillance, I.e. security or customs at the airport, I’ll just restart my phone then so it prompts for a password. Whatever suits your threat model

In the US at least, the law allows state actors to compel you to unlock your phone or computer using biometrics. They cannot demand the same with a password or PIN.

Great post, also I love your about page 🚩✊

I use proton and it’s been solid

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Yay glad that fixed it for you!

This comes from Canvas being blocked by default in librewolf. You can either enable it globally in the settings, or enable it per site by clicking the little picture icon in the URL bar and toggling it, then reloading

They aren’t running Google software, they’re using GrapheneOS. And the spyware they’re referring to on Samsung phones is very pubic knowledge, just as the data collection and surveillance in stock Pixel software is. But that’s not relevant

Because of rampant hallucinations, yet people taking them as gospel. Not to mention the energy cost for no real benefit

For keybinds, there is the project Toshy which redirects keys to emulate Mac bindings. It has some issues but works pretty well in my experience

The Mac ecosystem has its own set of tooling for this. It uses Apple’s Rosetta 2 for x86 to ARM translation, and their Game Porting Toolkit (GPTK) for DX12 to Metal (Apple’s proprietary graphics API) translation.

(Should note that Asahi doesn’t have full support for M4 Macs yet so I’m assuming they’re on MacOS)

That use case makes it sound like you’re looking for a vector editor, like Krita

Bring it but powered off in a faraday bag. If an emergency strikes you’ll be glad to have the option.