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Many subscribe to the “vote on comments based on how useful the information is” theory, myself included. Based on that your feeling, despite how valuable it is to you personally, isn’t particularly valuable to the discussion. Its not personal.

Why not just IronFox and LibreWolf?

I assume its over-the-top sarcasm

Care to elaborate?

Most but not all. Kagi doesn’t.

Snap is definitely what got me looking around again. I was content with Ubuntu’s ubiquity and support for a pretty long time. Ironically, after switching to Bazzite everything seems much much snappier.

I started with Slackware back in like 98, then RedHat, Gentoo, LFS, then a long stretch with Ubuntu. Now I’m on that immutable train with Bazzite and Aurora.

I would go as far as saying I know how some of Linux works. There’s a lot there.

I think Aurora is closer to Bazzite and Bluefin for KDE.

Its been a while since I directly compared them, but I found quik more feature rich without bringing any bloat.

Cryptpad? Or if you are up for a learning journey you could set up NextCloud and Collabora.

And this is why I only buy “smart” tech that can be used offline, and then put it on a separate vlan with extremely restricted access. Screw the cloud.

Supposedly its focused on the Dev experience rather than the gamer experience but I also do development on Bazzite without issue. So I guess the real answer is “not much”

I’m surprised Aurora is so low on the list. I’ve been loving it on my Dev laptop. Huuuuge improvement over Ubuntu. It feels so much snappier, ironically.

Too late 🥲

Before all this LLM nonsense that was AI and it still is. I guess they are just being overly transparent.

Have you found any good projects for meshtastic? I got some hardware to tinker with but have a little let down so far. I love the idea though.

If you are used to documentation like MS’s, then AI responses probably look more reasonable and useful. If AI results look better than your own docs you should feel really bad.

Can you cite something for that? I’m not disagreeing, I’m just disappointed by the revelation and would like to get my facts straight.

I try to use OsmAnd when I can. Its probably the best FOSS option. My Google alternative is Magic Earth, which is not FOSS, but is powered by OSM and more privacy friendly than Google.

I was happily impressed by how active the contributor community for OSM is. I got good feedback on my contributions. Its so satisfying to see the map improve based on your efforts.

GrapheneOS is still moving ahead albeit slower, as you said. They are also working on a deal with a phone manufacturer to bring a more secure phone to market. I dunno whether it will just meet the same security levels of the Pixels and ship with stock Android, or if it will be a full GrapheneOS Phone. I’m hoping for the latter, but it will more likely be the former. Fingers crossed.