Indeed. They offer up the original .apks from their respective github sources, so generally don’t include trackers etc as you’d find on the Google store versions, or even f-droid at times.

Same can be achieved with Proton, which accept Bitcoin. Bitcoin is pseudonymous, so just buy on a DEX/P2P, and transact, there will be no link to your PII. Buying on a CEX links to PII.

Use Obtanium or Zapstore to get the non-Google and non-F-Droid .apk, as those contain trackers for the notification system to work.

Metal Gear (Solid) series, Legacy of Kain series.

Also Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, and Sacred (1&2).

I revisit all these on a rotating basis from time to time.

It’s not centralised though. It’s quite decentralised actually.

As for your “nazi bar problem”, I’d suggest you review the relays you connect to. That’s the beauty of free speech, and power of choice.

A solution to this is Nostr. One identity across the entire network.

Twitter-like Platform/client dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.

Reddit-like platform/client dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.

PC dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.

Data is sync’d across multiple relays, you can run your own, and clients are interoperable.

It’s my go-to now, for everything. A person’s posts, their followers/audience, chats, etc never needs to be migrated.

Media is stored using the Blossom protocol which was created for Nostr.

V4V(Value 4 Value) is also a thing, so instead of just Likes/Reactions you can tip/Zap Sats (Bitcoin over Lightning) but that’s optional.

While this is true, it’s worth clarifying that GrapheneOS in particular is able to run apps sandboxed, so they can’t communicate with eachother as they can on a stock OS.

Having said that, no one should expect that their right to privacy is given (or fought for), unless they take it first. Yes, laws and all, but user education is the bigger issue.

Users were onboarded onto the Internet before they had an understanding of the differences between cyberspace and meatspace, and how that could affect them. Placing the blame (and solutions) solely on third-parties is a dangerous mistake.

Skill issue.

Fix it.

Go Fedora for Gaming with new hardware. If you’re a couple generations behind in hardware, Mint will do just fine.

Fedora gets new hardware support faster along with newer drivers, same with Arch and Arch-based distros (like EndeavourOS, BazziteOS)

What is it with these people that when thinking of Linux base their decisions on decade-old knowledge and go straight for Ubuntu. Ubuntu isn’t what it used to be, competition actually happened and we’re all the better for it. In the meantime, Canonical F’d up, and Ubuntu should not be anywhere near the top of the recommended distros list.

Want something that actually works, go Linux Mint. Have much newer hardware and want to game, go with Fedora or an arch-based distro like EndeavourOS.

Don’t go Ubuntu. You never go Ubuntu.

Switch to an open source alternative so you don’t have to deal with services shutting down the same way. Some alternatives include Wallabag, Karakeep, Floccus, Otter.

Element X is quite good now (note the X, not the classic ‘Element’). Fluffychat’s good too but missing some features.

Incorrect. Technically Matrix is a protocol, and a forum client can be made. You already have some PoC social media ones. It just so happens that most well known clients at this time and for instant messaging. But it can be much more.

In the current pseudo-capitalist world economy, the rich do help in pushing a circular economy, in a variety of industries. If the rich are too taxed they’ll more easily leave the country and move elsewhere. Your country loses a lot of its GDP. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but it’s also how the government of today runs, where everything is run on credit and paid for later.

Lean-governments are possible, but in such a case a government can never spend more than its GDP produces. No government would go that way right now, mainly because people aren’t educated enough to make a decent argument for it, verbally or otherwise.

Your country either welcomes the rich, or answers to the IMF.

In summary//TL;DR: In a credit-based, credit-ran, loan-promised economy, greatly successful small and medium businesses are not enough to keep GDP high enough to pay off national debt.

There are some good Matrix community, on matrix.org as well as individually run homeservers (federated).

Use GrapheneOS and switch to PIN authentication didabling fingerprint auth, especially when travelling abroad.

Leaving a comment here on behalf of HIMYM: Bowl.

Edit: Pycharm works well too.

Py-Charm isn’t a Python interpreter, it’s an IDE. It has a purpose.

over to Linux full-time back in ~3.15. I recommend you join the LUG Org (Linux User Group), as they have a load of resources in case you get stuck and have some people working on specialised Wine runners. They also run a Matrix Space that’s worth joining.

For email and VPN, I recommend Proton. Even their free tier works well.