That is fantastic news! Thanks for the update!

I’ve moved to Floccus (which can sync browser tabs and bookmarks via Nextcloud Bookmarks). Does the essential parts for me.

Oh, is this a thing again? Two years ago, they were doing a Rust rewrite; the rewrite had hardly any documentation, so self-hosted FF sync was essentially dead. Is this the new thing?

Meta: “That’s the point!”

WDYM by “browsing through”? As in, you get different search results? Or a different start page with suggested videos?

Maybe I’m weird, but I never use that. Either I have a specific need (an instruction video, a specific song or video episode). Then I use the search. Or I want to see what’s new. Then I check the channels of creators I like.

If you use the platform like that (which is basically like Lemmy), it’s a lot harder to algorithmically lock you in. (I only use third-party clients like FreeTube and Newpipe though, which block most types of tracking and don’t require a Google account).

Do you think it’s possible for companies or individuals to not comply with court ordered surveillance and search warrants?

Companies can’t, no. That’s precisely my point. Hence your argument that iOS is more “secure” than any other bar Graphene is disingenuous. iOS is developed by a company which can be (and likely already has been) pressured into compromising its users on behalf of three-letter agencies. The NSA slides are strong evidence of that.

Large collectives of devs spread out all over the world, however, can withstand such pressures since they’re hard to get a hold of. The developers of OSs such as Graphene, Debian or Lineage could easily resist such attempts, simply because they’re not a legal entity incorporated inside a single jurisdiction.

You’re correct in saying that Apple is “selling” privacy and security (as in: marketing, pinky-promising). They may be selling that story, but I ain’t buying it.

There’s good reason to suspect that it’s very terrible from its privacy and security perspective.

If you remember you remember I guess.

I haven’t used swap or hibernation in years. My machines have plenty of RAM for even demanding workloads, so why risk faster disk degradation?

As for hibernation, I just use suspend to RAM if I know that I’ll need the machine again that day, or shut it down if I don’t. With modern SSDs, I feel there’s not much of a perceptible difference between a ‘cold’ boot and a wake-up from suspend-to-disk - at least none that would be worth spending more write cycles on.

How is iOS - a proprietary OS owned by a big tech company - second in your list?

Mint has worked well (although because it does seem to want gets updates every day).

FTFY. It’s how you keep your machine secure.

so I guess they are actually noticing the migration away from their OS

Not really. It’s only for another year and then they’ll pull the plug (but they’ve now got you hooked on a Microsoft account). If things work for you on Linux: kill that Win10 partition for good and add it to your storage.

IPv6 can be “understood”, but there’s only a limited number of dead:beef:cafe:… addresses you can make.

Congrats, you’ve found a way of having your cake and eating it too… though by eating it and vomiting it back into your hands.

There’s no fun in forking this thing if you cannot submit a pull request.

Started out on Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon ten years ago. Looked around, got into other distros and DEs, window managers, file systems, bash scripting and server administration. Yet here I am, still on Linux Mint. It just works extremely well for me, never broke down (unless I broke it) and stayed out of my way to let me focus on my actual work.

All of your links (apart from the PDF) are broken, mate.

Like others have said, it’s mostly about the DE, with Plasma and GNOME being the front runners. As much as I love it, but steer clear of Cinnamon DE. It’s developed with desktop use in mind, and no fun if you use it through touch.

The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human.

Bullshit. Social networks track the living shit out of everyone and know exactly what’s human traffic and what isn’t. Device identifiers (user agent, IP ranges, browser fingerprint, (lack of) ad id, etc.) and behavioral patterns (including purchase history) differ wildly.

Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something,

Bullshit. Even advertising to kids were outlawed (it isn’t), politicians could be just bought off by advertisers to turn a blind eye. This is particularly true for the land of their formerly free and home of the formerly brave where corruption is now an above-the-counter item, practiced out in the open by the president himself.

“Thou shalt not use the Chrome, unless thou wantst be hung from yonder tree by thine ballsack!”

Leviticus 13:37

More generally: driver support on par with Windows. To be fair, Linux has come a long way and driver support is pretty good most of the time. But if you happen upon a piece of hardware that does have driver issues, you’re still in a world of shit, with no or no easy fix.

Case in point, I have been battling with a weird S3 sleep bug on Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen 2 notebooks recently. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not even a kernel error, but something in Lenovo’s mainboard/BIOS firmware. Fix: write Lenovo an email and hope they’ll fix the firmware of a 5-years-old just for desktop Linux use. (And, no, I’m not under the illusion that this is going to happen.)

Not true. If you happen to be a pedophile billionaire, the U.S. is a safe haven for people like you.