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The goal is to be distro-agnostic, but I find that Flatpak and Snap both add more bloat than is worth it. Either just use distro packages, or, if you really want cross-platform, get an AppImage and be done with it.

> I would pay hundreds of dollars to be able to put my Linux on MBP with everything working.

If you want to pay for Linux on Mac, the Asahi project could always use some support: https://asahilinux.org/support/

With at least a billion baseband exploits. Smartphones are bad, but switching back to feature phones is arguably worse in these regards.

While that's in theory, reality is much more harsh. Treble implementations vary greatly between OEMs. For example, Samsung phones don't have mobile data working because of proprietary RIL used by Samsung. Also, Treble compatibility often breaks on newer versions of Android, especially for Pixels (which is quite ironic). Treble is really meant to make the job easier for OEMs and ROM devs to continue supporting a device. The GSI is really meant as a way to certify Treble.

Yeah, I like the idea of having a Meta/Command key for common GUI shortcuts, rather than reassigning Control key shortcuts like Windows does.

I really like the idea of Étoilé, but a lot of the docs are outdated because of the death of Gna!, and right now the focus is more on the CoreObject framework rather than the UI.

That's less of macOS itself and more how it fares on Intel hardware. My M1 Pro hasn't really had that.

Plus, both Corellium and Asahi Linux are porting Linux to the M1 MacBooks. I have Ubuntu installed in a separate partition and boot into it occasionally. The main issues right now are audio and graphics support.

I'd recommend to disable iCloud for the offending apps in System Preferences -> Apple ID -> iCloud. I like macOS, but I don't like iCloud at all.

Yup, it's a Unix thing.

Étoilé showed some signs of life recently. They've moved to GitHub since Gna! is dead now.

Well, they switched to zsh, but yeah.

Exactly why I prefer Seaglass over Element for Matrix chat, even though Seaglass hasn't been updated in a while. Same with Telegram Desktop and Telegram for macOS.

I don't want the same to happen to Android. Basically every single non-Pixel phone these days ships bloatware with it.

The Pixel is more of the Surface of Google devices. Devices made by the software company to showcase their platforms.

Then there's Android One, but that is an absolute disaster at this point, with unoptimized software and updates that brick phones. Google themselves haven't been doing too good on software reliability this year; just look at Android 11, especially on the Pixel 2 and 4a. Both have huge bugs and in the 2's case, they will never be fixed. And some Android 11 bugs won't be fixed until Android 12 comes out.

I'm seriously considering a switch to iOS at this point.

I think the 12" MacBook is going to make a comeback.

Telegram is surprisingly good. My entry point to the Telegram rabbit hole was the Android development community, and I've found quite a few people who are willing to discuss stuff. We also have a lot of fun.

I remember at one point the moderators turned r/linux into a place where you could only post Linux news. That's when I left the subreddit, and I haven't really gone back since.

Brave does seem like a nice option. I used it a while back but haven't really touched it since. I also like the Tor integration. I just really kind of hate the iconography.

I've been looking at all the options and it looks like Firefox really is my best bet. I use Tor Browser for private browsing when I need to, anyway, so I don't see any other alternative that's good enough.

And i386 support was removed in macOS Mojave anyway.

Payments on Google Play require password or biometric authentication for completion. It's a very weird design inconsistency, since the login prompt looks nothing like a typical Google login prompt.

My 9 year old brother plays Roblox and discusses the trade values of pets in the games Bubblegum Simulator and Adopt Me on Fandom all the time, but doesn't spend actual money on any microtransactions in the game. Still, I'm surprised to see that there are people that will charge and pay huge amounts of money for rare digital pets in the game.

Apple really likes being on the bleeding edge of computers, and it often comes at the cost of older programs and features being killed off in that process.

For me, the issue with forums is not being able to discover them that easily. I'm still in my teens and I simply haven't been able to find forums as easily as I have been able to find people on platforms like Twitter or Telegram.

Once I get mine, I plan on building AOSP and seeing what limits I can push the hardware to.

The funny part is that when I tried the latest version on Chrome on Android 11 back in September, whenever I clicked on an AMP link, it would think Google's AMP domain was a phishing site.