BrilliantBadger

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

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

Posteo has been fantastic for me, but no bring your own domain as some have mentioned a deal breaker if that’s your bag

Super cheap, unsure on any political stances but they embrace being green / sustainable so that’s usually a give away :)

Use it with betterbird and Thunderbird android just works great

Windscribe has Anonymous Account (Hashed Login)

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

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

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

Love my Fedora Atomic Cosmic, but absolutely we all be watching to see where they go, and if needed will play the distro-hop game in attempt to stay in the AI free zone

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

A good read, and yeah along with others comments, I’ll just stick to Opensnitch which really has truly been fantastic for years now

Just got curious when saw the announcement. No need to change anything :)

Years ago as I started research I literally laughed at loud at the thought of buying a google phone to… Degoogle!

Talk about an instant compromise of values! Haha!

Then I saw the toxicity of the GOS devs & their fanz & that sealed the deal

Best decision ever to run away from that group of nasties

Ahhhhhh, the zen life

Niagara was my fav for long time, love text launchers,

Olauncher  & YAM are nice similar open source alternative with no trackers  less permissions on fdroid.  :)

I use only atomic distros now and could not be happier.

Presently using Fedora Atomic Cosmic, it’s minimal, stable, quite beauttiful and does everytihng I need it to. Just as Silverblue did for a long time, just thought I’d switch it up and trial Cosmic long use. I imagine my needs are less than some, am not a gamer

The only package I layer is Opensnitch. Flatpaks and a couple appimages covers all else,

I have no idea what customization or anything else I am told I’m missing out on, and that’s fine by me, guess better I can’t miss what I don’t need ;) For me personally, 100% feature complete. Though I would guess gaming needs would be a different situtation/needs, so cannot comment on that

Clippy

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

Fantastic love to see it. No recommendations as you will find what suits your zen, Mint is loved by many

I comment to add a cheers for bailing on Amazon & not paying for streaming services. Did so also years ago, its a great feeling. Good luck!

Sure is. And if you ain’t surfing nasty sites, loading ‘free’ VPN spyware, crap AI dung & scammy apps it’s all good

Android OS is a very secure OS. Google recently moved their older devices to quarterly updates versus monthly. Are we now saying those older pixels (still in support life) are insecure because they could go 3 months w/o an update? In itself that move is telling & obliterates the marketing scare tactics used by some & some projects. It’s sad really.

Common sense and good online habits will take you further than all else

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

Very cool indeed. Librewolf user and love it, but always need good options because you never know the future.

Definitely be checking this one out. Cheers!

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