I mean most things are just timeserver checks or poking GitHub/flathub/repo servers. Not something you can fully prevent if you value seamless functionality. Fedora has an opt out telemetry ping just to see how many people are using each version, but it comes part of when you run an update and ping their servers for that anyways. If you want it all removed and still have good functionality I really recommend secureblue

a nightlight is my biggest peeve with it. also the lack of tabs and more dolphinesque features in its file browser. would be great to have file previews for less common files like .stls. runs great otherwise

i also think something like spectacle for kde but for cosmic would be fantastic, frankly spectacle is close to best in class. only competition it has is probably google’s android assistant with circle to search and other convenience features of that nature. and of course sharex on windows.

ive been considering writing up some accessibility software for cosmic, mostly stuff like screen readers, local llm based screen explainers (describes images automatically to a blind user) etc.

Can always just layer it with rpm-ostree install (.rpm file)

499? hahahhaa

what makes you think im in mexico

idk why you think its somehow a much more monumental task to support something that already works (re:gos and aosp) vs building something entirely from scratch

linux needs to focus on becoming as secure as aosp/gos first before even considering being on a phone

linux is not secure enough to be a phone lol

if cops arrest you and its not fully turned off and encrypted with luks youre boned, and look at all the current devices supported for linux, its basically just the very expensive pine or fair phone. older pixels are fairly easy to buy in poorer countries.

then theres postmarketos which has the far larger selection of devices but most of these are quite old at this point. not to mention it uses far more resources and will drain your battery 10-20% faster

flathub stays winning?

graphene is the way

The issue with it is how it operates in userspace and how any settings alterations makes the print unique

yes, but ideally via something built into the browser, not an extension

It’s better to silo things that require you to install an extension on browsers into a different app. Extensions alter browser fingerprints. So this let’s you sponsorblock and AdBlock YouTube without worrying about fingerprints on all other sites

Also has a nice way to handle subscriptions without login

Personally can’t wait until thundermail has a free tier

You could check redlib and put the links in it

https://reddit.com/comments/1u052qp there’s this thread on Reddit at least

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1u05xs2/comment/oqgihvq/

Here’s some of protons response

a browser written entirely in rust, should be fun on redoxos when it matures (all rust operating system with a mini kernel)

if it makes you feel better i know an employee there and theyre a communist and say a lot of mullvad employees are lefties too, idk if they have a union or anything. nym vpn has chelsea manning backing it. not really a traditional vpn though its basically unfree tor that is not slow as balls, has the benefit of really good server coverage and few people blocking it. coolest thing is you can use a seedbox to route traffic to pay it down.

Why

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_Linux_distributions

heres a pretty good resource, bit of a tangent but i got a ton of shithouse computers with very low ram and i think alpine/postmarketos is the best choice. ive gotten kde, cosmic, and so on running on tons of terribly old computers with it, typically with no more than 1-2gb of ram. its also good for computers with only 256mb or so. after a certain point you need to just load your OS into ram entirely in order to have any ability to handle modern applications on very old hardware, in this case you should consider buying ram for your very old hardware (it comes cheap for the top compatible tech when its 90s hardware) if you like to use it as a sort of display piece for visitors to use. there are a couple of distros in that list that can handle being stored in ram. but obviously youre a bit different because you can just run it all on a vps. still probably best to go with alpine despite the operational differences

of the mainline fully featured modern desktop environments i feel cosmic de works the smoothest on old hardware, strangely enough.

Shockingly high quality, wow