Appreciate the info. Is there a nightly repo for Flatpak variant?

I disagree with the statement now a days. There are so many paid services that still sell your data. I use almost entirely all FOSS programs which are also monetarily free and none turn me into their product.

Agreed

Buy a used one then. GrapheneOS is by far the best mobile operating system. I have used Calyx and have a Lineage tablet. Neither of them compare to how well GrapheneOS works in and of itself as well as with sandboxed Play services

The best option is GrapheneOS on Pixel devices.

Here’s just one example https://kkc.com/blog/apple-whistleblower-details-intimate-data-spying-profiling-in-new-interviews/

That’s a nice thought. Thank you for sharing

You should abandon Apple for Linux anyways. Apple doesn’t care about you, your privacy, or anything but them making more money, from you. This has been proven time and time again by evidence and whistleblowers.

Yup. Keeping old cars going on fossil fuels is so much better than millions of new cars being built every year, and in order for them to be built they ship them around the world to seperate facilities. I could go on and on

Glad to hear you’re on Linux, living a more sovereign life and having an easy time with it. Mint does indeed work very well for me too. I put Mint XFCE on a ~2015 laptop that Windows was bloating down to dysfunctional. Now it works reasonably well.

You’ll hear other people say Linux works well until it doesn’t. Well so does Windows. It has many issues too that people tend to not mention. Don’t get discouraged by those people. Most of the time Linux is totally fine for normal users, it’s people trying to do abnormal things that then causes issues.

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Use a fork of Firefox that doesn’t do that. For example, Ironfox

A simple solution is Quad9 aka 9.9.9.9. NextDNS is fairly simple but allows customization.

I appreciate the clarification

Absolutely not. I have been voicing to people to care about this stuff for a number of years. I want people to understand that the majority of politicians are not on the people’s side. They are sold out/corrupt and do things that benefit the elite. The bipartisian-ship of society is holding back America from becoming a nation that looks after it’s people.