it really sucks tho, because most chromium forks still force you to use a google account in order to sync, and thats if they don’t strip google entirely. there’s brave, but I haven’t had the best of experiences with that browser.

I can still self host something like floccus to “sync” bookmarks, and use kde connect to send browser tabs from one device to another, but I still wish it was as convenient as firefox; which iirc, let’s you self host their sync service

Not sure if this will help, but find my device on F-Droid is awesome. You can use generic SMS and send “fmd locate” or you can use third party apps such as signal. This makes it so it’ll only trigger whenever you receive that text message rather it running 24/7

It allows you to setup a trusted set of contacts who can then send you a text message “fmd locate”, and it’ll reply with an openstreetmaps link showing where you are. It’s not real time tho

And you can disable it simply by turning off your location

When I was 13 and still watching LTT I had an extremely old dell optiplex with a 3rd or 4th gen i7 that was really starting to slow down on Windows; I just thought it was old hardware (partially true) but then LTT released a video about Pop_OS and was like “oo what’s Linux” and just deleted Windows and installed it. Never looked back! Everything was super snappy and I was really shocked.

brother I’m American and I didn’t even know you could buy waffle maker machines until a few months ago, I thought they were all frozen

greg just fucking cooked

bruh

as a linux user I am embarrassed they didn’t know

without software, what is hardware? same vice versa, you need good software and hardware to match for a good user experience.

stock android’s software is extremely shit, bloated, and slow. but I guess that goes for every out of the box os these days ¯_(ツ)_/¯

wdym condescension? sorry if I’m being rude that isn’t my intention

while I agree, signal is also on Linux and is a more polished alternative

nothing lesser about grapheneos or lineageos at all.

iirc there are problems with trying to use some mainstream apps on these operating systems. When I say lesser I don’t mean to demean them, I mean they’re the lesser used and not really known about alternative and thus not really supported unless you can live your life in f-droid which if so, kudos to you, you’re livin’ the dream.

but im all ears if you have a usable alternative for a foss phone.

https://postmarketos.org/

like I said I wish I lived where you lived

yeah, again, just like Chromium technically speaking.

Let’s use the lesser, Foss version of Google’s product so they can continue to have a monopoly, so then later they can force you to install a proprietary blob or account apps or services need.

Fanboys are not the same as people flaunting wealth.

while they are not the same, a lot of people who use either Apple or Samsung are both, and will constantly fight against right to repair when they don’t know what they’re even talking about, for very stupid reasons, and constantly fight against open standards that are just better, like using type-c for their products, etc etc. these people buy iPhones for the image of wealth, I agree, but these same people also argue about its apps and ecosystem’s and argue that rich, trillion dollar companies are fine and pose no threat, because it is completely fine to be a monopoly and choke hold the industry. they defend their status symbol in every opportunity they get, and often times I’ve seen them make it personal, probably because its personal for them.

sometimes I see these same people who buy Apple as a show of “wealth,” get into those political arguments when they just have no idea what they’re talking about, because for some reason they want to defend the status symbol Apple or Samsing is even if it kills people and the planet.

That’s just my observation over the years.

Foss ftw baby

its most definitely the lesser, but there are still many people who would suck off Samsung and Google if they had the opportunity to.

trust me I’ve met them

based asf

damn I wish I lived where you lived

yeah just like Chromium technically speaking

unless maybe it automatically restarted and put all my applications back on screen that I had running, not sure. but I know it didn’t shut down since I literally hit the power button and it was immediately on, it was asleep.