BrilliantBadger

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

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Nice. Similar, I got the N100 off the bay to give a try. VoLTE now works good in USA with Tello /Tmobile, at least in my area, that was certainly a show stopper for some time, huge win!

Got OpenVPN working, uWolf runnng my NextDNS so can filter/watch the logs, MMS has some issues (only works with wifi disabled, but I think they have a fix coming), no RCS as you mention.

As you say, not quite there, but good progress overall. Hope for continued progress, and love to see the many more posts on it than ever before!

Using a privacy focused Android phone project for now, but long term the real answer is Linux or some other new project to tear away completely from Bigtechs dependency & stranglehold. Thanks for your adding development to the cause!

As an American I applaud this move

Absolutely. My loyal friend keeping me safe foir years. The Wolf is the way.

“Whoopsies! Sorry folks, turns out the opt-out of our baked in AI dung didn’t quite funciton poperly, and you’ve been feeding literally everything you’ve done over the past months to BigTech & your favorite government. Our bad.”

Not if, but how soon. Read: MS Copilot & emails

I prefer Silverblue & its minimalism. That said I just jumped back on Fedora Atomic Cosmic and is far enough along I will use it as the daily going forward & watch it develop. Its nice.

Since Google now has moved to quarterly updates for older devices, this seems to obliterate that good ol’ scare tactic used by some

Was good marketing though… for those who got caught up in it

Had no idea. Did some research, very unfortunate. Appreciate the heads up.

You do you. I stand by my principals and don’t feel the need to pretend I’m some sort of Jason Bourne.

Weird how now that Google went quarterly with their older device updates… it’s suddenly just not the big deal the GOS folks used as a hammer, with their ad nauseum attacks on other privacy projects. Back then I could smell their overhyped, overplayed security scare marketing tactics from a mile away. As it turns out, I was right.

Not having any google crap in my household? Absoltely priceless

e/OS is fantastic, IodeOS also IMO, plenty good choices. LineageOS with rethinkDNS in whitelist only mode is also amazing

And for extra goodness supporting open source apps without trackers

All without handing yet more $$$ to nasty google, imagine that

When I started my degoogle process some time back & researching options I literally laughed at loud at myself. Am I seriously going to hand over yet more money to the very beast I am trying to get away from? Talk about instant compromise of values

Years later, extremely proud of that decision. Just a non starter. Buying second hand also creates a market value for selling more google crap