It's an entirely new standard, so no, it won't just be a firmware patch.
Removing the notifications permission doesn't prevent them from being sent. Source
Not sure how it hasn't been said yet, but I really like Helium314's OpenBoard fork. Can't recommend enough.
This list is a must.
They're mods of the proprietary Discord client, so yeah they don't meet the criteria. But the mods themselves are open source which is nice.
I 100% agree, its best to just stick to upstream Fedora imo. Glad you made this comment. The security issues of Nobara always put me off, especially since basically everything it does can just be applied to regular Fedora. I think Nobara would much better serve as a script or toolkit, similar to Brace, or something along those lines instead of an entire separate OS with the security issues it brings.
Didn't realize they had one, appears a lot of functionality requires an account to use. I'd be cautious overall based on the privacy practices they use in their mobile app, doesn't seem to be a big concern for them and I'd be careful giving them any trust. But if you do wish to use them, their mobile site with a good content blocker would definitely be the best option (preferably without an account if possible).
I like the concept of Ground News, but about the privacy...
According to Exodus, their mobile app contains 9 trackers:
- Amplitude
- AppsFlyer
- Facebook Analytics
- Facebook Login
- Facebook Share
- Google Analytics
- Google Crashlytics
- Google Firebase Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Also wants location, camera, phone state, and advertising ID access?!
No thanks.
Hard for me to understand how blocking valid email providers like Proton, Tutanota, and Skiff, would actually mitigate any abuse. All it's going to do is hurt the websites with this filter and prevent privacy-minded folks from signing up. Unfortunate to see, hopefully they get some common sense and don't block these for no reason.
If you don't have it on your Sony TV, I'd recommend installing another launcher like FLauncher which effectively does the same thing and gets rid of the garbage.
You can easily change launchers on the Shield, unlike the Fire TV for instance, which actively blocks it, to get rid of the advertising and garbage.
You can easily change launchers on the NVIDIA Shield and Chromecasts. Fire TV's are really the only devices that actively prevent changing launchers and try to force you to deal with their advertising.
Personally my recommendation is generally the Shield, or maybe an Apple TV depending on your use case. Expensive but well worth it imo, you really do get what you pay for.
If you need cheaper, then I'd probably go the Chromecast. Lesser of the two evils between like the Fire TV imo.
They said Chrome specifically, not Chromium as a whole.
different distros
Isn't that a benefit of Linux, having all kinds of different distros and different options available? There isn't a "one size fits all". Just find the one you like and go from there.
broken repositories
How often does this actually happen? I can't think of a time I encountered broken repositories within the last few years of using Linux as a daily driver, I feel like you're exaggerating this. I think the repository system in general is amazing and installing software on Linux is so much better than Windows in about every way really.
software that doesn't work on Linux
This is a fair point, it depends on your use case. If anything you need is only tied to Windows, then yeah you don't have many options unfortunately. But I think for average people its probably fine since basically everything is on Linux nowadays, I guess biggest exceptions are like Microsoft Office and Adobe's suite.
proprietary drivers
I assume you mean NVIDIA? You can just get a distro that includes them already installed and ready to go like Nobara, or just use one that makes them easier to set-up like Pop OS, if you're uncomfortable installing them on a regular distro. (Though it really isn't that difficult).
Overall Linux isn't for everyone, but I do think it's improving more and more and about at a point now where average users could probably get away with using it instead of Windows in a lot of cases. But it does depend on your use case for sure at the end of the day. Hopefully I'm not out of touch here though lol.
I agree yeah, I'd say in a lot of ways that Edge is much better than Chrome, due to its performance and also very good security, plus some tracking protection (though not a lot) vs. Chrome's none, etc. Between the 2, I'd probably always pick Edge.
But yeah just never use either tbh, Firefox ftw.
You don't even need to do that, all you have to do is hold shift when you right click, and it circumvents any hijacking.
Depends, but yes in most cases. Also just adds attack surface and consumes extra resources, so its generally a good practice to keep extensions to a minimum and only use what you need.
For microG (what I would recommend, since its much more private than regular GAPPS/full Play Services), you can just flash a LineageOS for microG build for your device instead of the official LineageOS. You can get them here. It covers the same devices that Lineage itself does. Same installation process, just using their files instead of Lineage's.
DivestOS added optional support for unprivileged microG fairly recently, so its definitely usable.