It’s the path of many of us here, now you will hate linux if you come from windows, give it a couple of months and you’ll ask yourself how the fuck you could be on windows till now.

I wonder why we don’t have AI browser extensions that can recognise and obscure possible ads / unwanted content yet

Hisense A9 with full root + microG

A minimalist eink anti addictive machine that brings smartphones back to an actually useful tool removing literally all the bullshits.

I like Debian with GNOME

Video editing softwares definetely, kdenlive is nothing compared to stuff like sony vegas.

There’s Bitcoin and lightning network :)

I simply backup the /home folder, where the important files are with duplicity on my home server with ftp once a week, keeping records of the last 6 months. But as that only restores the home folder i also take a snapshot (which takes way more disk space) every month with timeshift too, which stays on the pc. Would be great if i could take complete snapshots via ftp just like with duplicity, but timeshift doesn’t do that.

Debian with GNOME

If you search it online you can find that people have some issues with computer running amd ryzen processor and the adb and fastboot commands, i don’t know if it’s the case, but i couldn’t find any other reasons on why a TWRP nandroid backup that was completely fine when i took it and didn’t prompt any error couldn’t be restored.

It’s not a disk image, it is a particular type of compression that packs up different parts of the system (system, data, vendor etc…).

I also tried to enter the backup by using a tool that converts .ab backup in .tar, but i didn’t manage to do it.

Anyway i don’t really care if i lost that particular backup, i just want to avoid it to happen again

How do you sandbox google apps in android?

Yeah the web version is cool but it doesn’t give you the navigation and can’t find your position, usually i wouldsearch for a destination in webview and open it in another nav, but that doesn’t work well if you are by foot for example…

But that might actually be the case tho, because i don’t get any position without my cellphone data active (only with GPS it can’t find a position) that might explain why it gets so long sometimes.

Yeah but with graphene at least you can limit the permissions google maps has and treat the app like every other normal app, isolated and not able to grab informations if you’re not using it, i wonder if there’s a way to use it with an anonymous google account just like Aurora.

Yeah sure planning ahead helps, but it’s difficult when everyone else you are with has a different workflow or if something unexpected happens…

I will try osmand again for public transports, but the problem is sometimes with the mozilla geolocation services (default in lineage) you get your position after 10 minutes (or you just don’t get it sometimes) and it isn’t precise at all, in my experience it was working well with car but by foot it just can’t sort out where you are…

For the google phone it’s not just the thing of giving money to google, it’s also that i’m tired of phones you cannot unmount, change battery or other basic pieces like the screen, i would get a fairphone, but i’m not really sure the price is worth it.

That’s actually a good option, but i guess i would need to install Gapps and google geolocation service too, is it possible inside shelter?

It does work for maps, but doesn’t get your location so it’s not very good for navigation

If we’re talking about value as a monetary system: yeah crypto is, bitcoin isn’t

Yeah i have microg but some of the apps don’t work very well either

This sounds like a torture

Edge would ALWAYS get on the way with its stupid search bar widget. They tried to improve their shitty outdated piece of crap internet explorer that nobody was using and they ended up with a modern shitty piece of crap that is edge.

Debian with some low spec DE like xfce or Debian basic DE

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