I’m interested in the bubbles thing. I can’t figure out of it’s true floating windows support on foldables or just for chats like Facebook Messenger does though.

Whoa no flatpak support is a problem. Thanks for the heads up.

Is there a reason you use both waterfox and zen? I’ve been liking waterfox.

I read this as “broken sphincter?” for some reason

Appreciate the link! I sifted through several posts about this but hadn’t run across Proton’s reply.

Oh really? I’m trying not to get swept up in the hivemind of Reddit, but the consensus over there seems to be that this kind of partnership is even worse than a simple ad read? I don’t really know.

I haven’t heard of Zen and just checked out the wiki on it.

There are so many browsers! It’s hard to decide. I’ve tried quite a few over the years. Been running Brave as primary for 3-4 years.

I appreciate the Reddit link. Yikes. I’ve noticed the enshittification of Brave but didn’t know all the bad stuff they’ve done.

I do like that Brave works well on all my devices and sync is reliable. I don’t like running different browsers on diff platforms.

Time to do some testing and research…

It’s so hard to find good things as it is. Adding in politics of devs adds yet another layer to it!

I recently started using FUTO keyboard and then learned someone they associate with is a bad dude.

It’s like, come on guys. I’m trying to degoogle, avoid enshittification, and be privacy and security aware… and then there’s this curveball that I have to factor in too.

I’m using waterfox as my dedicated porn browser and have found few faults. Maybe I’ll go that direction for my main browser.

I tried LibreWolf and had issues that I can’t remember now.

I read the article.

But also I’m out of the loop on why ppl hate Brave. Can someone clue me in?

Is there a better cross-platform browser? I like to use the same one across devices.

How does this affect battery life? Seems like a lot of background activities going on. But the concept is fantastic.

Thanks for the guidance! Proton relying on Google Play Services for push is already throwing a wrench in my profile plans. It will be fun to tinker with regardless and I’ll figure something out.

Appreciate your reply!

My plan is to do one profile for now.

My concern with separate profiles was media playback stopping or being unavailable in the other profile.

I was under the impression that if an app was downloaded from the Play Store (not just banking apps) then it’s basically reliant on Google services and should live in the same profile. Is that right? Or can Spotify and Whatsapp, for example, live in another profile from where Google services is installed and still get notifications and survive okay?

If that’s the case and Google services only needs to be in a profile with banking apps, then that sure does change my mental model on how to set things up.

I hear you on “black and white” or “all or nothing” thinking.

But I literally don’t even know what’s guiding my decision to pick an app on Play Store vs F-Droid now.

Play Store = More trust but more tracking

Foss = Less trust but less tracking

Self-hosting has been really satisfying, but still, I’m moving my trust model to myself in how I’ve set things up as well as the apps that facilitate it.

It just feels like floundering in this pursuit if the concepts of privacy and security have so many different perspectives and gotchas.

It really surprised me how many services I was relying on from Google when I really took stock. I’ve been weaning off for a few weeks and I expect the process to take some weeks/months still.

I just bought a Pixel to use GrapheneOS because I share your same opinion.

It took about 2 days of using nextcloud files across devices to experience unreliable syncing from Nextcloud on Android.

I installed folder sync pro on android and that has helped a lot, but it still irks me to use 2 tools when 1 should do the job.

I tried a super lightweight model on my CPU-only laptop as recommended by whichllm.

The response to a basic question spit out a word every 1-3 seconds and was laughable.

Not that this was a huge surprise, but it wasn’t even in the neighborhood of usable if anyone out there is considering trying it on their underpowered system.

This is a legit problem we should all be concerned about. Doctors do not sign off on this inaccurate notes and they live in your file unless/until corrected.

Add it to the pile of things that suck.