I know Gnome has an option to mark a connection as metered, no idea what exactly that does though.

I use

• Vitals
• blur my shell

Blur my shell is make gnome look pretty good IMO.

Standard Debian packages have access to things like your home folder and other things that can be accessed without superuser level access. If you’re not okay with that, don’t install it.

If a flatpak package is available, it can have it’s permissions controlled by Flatseal, allowing you to restrict Spotify’s permissions.

I basically do exactly this, but I am running the reverse proxy on my home computer: the VPS is literally just acting as a proxy, for which I use wireguard to tunnel the connection. So far it’s worked great, though initial setup was a pain.

But you see, memes are art!

Yes. I’ve only tested it manually scanning to save battery life though.

There is also a FOSS app called Airguard on F-Droid that I found works well.

This would be very useful for offline installation.

Pure water, by itself, is non conductive IIRC. It only becomes conductive if there is stuff dissolved in it, like with tap water where there are small amounts of minerals in the water.

Fairphone’s support of PostmarketOs shows me that they actually care about their mission.

DivestOS is pretty awesome. It allows for bootloader locking, which Lineage can’t do IIRC and it runs very fast on my Pixel 2 xl.

Exactly this. I use Signal for people close to me and SMS or Email for those who don’t use signal, who I don’t have coversations with often anyways. Dispite it’s many, many flaws, I will use SMS before I use a Meta messenger.

This is my dream setup for messaging as well. My problem is that I would not trust 3rd parties to host this setup, but I also have not gotten around to setting it up myself lol.

Having a size cap does not make much sense since the increased pointer size is triggered intentionally, meaning if someone keeps shaking the pointer, they must want it bigger (whether for amusement or because they’re hella blind).

I seldom install windows, so I also have to relearn some things during the debloat. At 10 minutes, you are basically speedrunning the windows installation process lol.

Unfortunatly, that’s the reality of how computers are sold. If customers could try out both windows and Ubuntu at the store before buying and then got the variant with that OS preinstalled, I bet more people might use Linux, especially if they saved money by not paying for a windows license.

I would argue it takes even longer to get a windows install how I like it. Even using Chris Titus Tech’s tool, it probably takes 2 hours for me to install things like winget, steam, librewolf, libreoffice, blender and configure the task bar and lock screen. Not to mention how last time I checked, I could not rebind the windows key to trigger the app overview how I like it.

I don’t think so. The Jellyfin documentation still says it sucks lol.

I did not realize “spezit” was “spez” and “reddit” until I reread your commnt lol. I thought was some reddit privacy frontend with the German pronunciation of “z”.

I set up a RPI 2 at my parent’s house connected to a 15 year old printer and it works like magic. Basically any device can detect and use the printer using Samba as long as it’s on the network. No drivers or anything.