Micromot

From what I read on their profile, they were complaining about posts being deleted by users while also deleting a lot of posts themselves.

It is just something needed for synching calendar and contact information between KDE services, if you have no application that does this, akonadi is not started in the first place… The calendar events in the default panel clock is one of these and can be disabled in its settings as another commenter mentioned

Yes and basically everywhere else you need it

On the same network with device discovery localsend can be a good alternative.

It works on most devices, even IOS IIRC

Seems like the same thing as they are both called alpha

https://lemmy.ca/comment/23163297

You can lurk without an account tho, doesn’t mean they are credible or not

Listening to music also gives more opportunities for selfhosting

Everything except nvidia is how I use it and it works very well. I have had a few issues with kde once but never again since then

Nobara is alright if you just want games to work without tinkering etc

A lot of stuff on the stores and repos is mostly made by individuals

You should try to avoid executing files that you downloaded from somewhere online, it’s best if you canget it either from the system package manager( i.e apt ) or get it from flatpak/snap. If you have to get it from a website it depends on what the website is and the usual suspicious features. If you are unsure if something from github or similar is safe you can always google it first to see reviews from other users. Antivirus software like on windows is not that common for linux and most of the time it is enough not to run software you don’t trust as sudo or admin as they don’t have permission to change files without those.