Nextcloud or Cryptpad

LibreOffice is a good productivity suite in its own right. And there’s a fair amount of Mac-specific FOSS. Some people just like the Apple ecosystem I guess.

The default. I know I can change it but idc what my ringtone is. As long as it alerts me to calls it’s fine.

Maybe you shouldn’t be chomping at the bit to kidnap people and lock them in cages.

I’ve never experienced that tbh but I use WASD, occasionally mouse scrolling as in when the screen moves when your cursor is near the edge of the screen. Unless you mean that kind of mouse scrolling causes the bug, in which case it doesn’t seem to happen for me. Glad there’s a fix though

You wouldn’t see it if you’re not on .ml. The removed censoring is clientside so I’d see it using the .ml hosted web client.

Games mostly work. If they have a native Linux version they work (and more games have a native Linux version than you may expect). For Windows-only games, there’s a compatibility layer called Proton (which is a gaming-focused fork of a more general compatibility layer called Wine) that lets you run Windows executables on Linux. IME most Windows games run flawlessly with Proton. You can check games on https://www.protondb.com/ to see how well they run on Proton.

Rimworld has a native Linux version, and I’ve not had any problems with Rimworld mods from Steam workshop on Linux. Never tried modding Skyrim so can’t say on that.

You only need to overwrite the drive with random data once. Then, as long as every OS install uses FDE, there’s no need to repeat the process.

The reasons why you do the full disk wipe are:

1. To hide the size of the encrypted data by making encrypted data indistinguishable from empty space
2. To erase unencrypted data previously stored on the drive

Both of which only need to be dealt with once, so long as you don’t write unencrypted data to the drive after doing the wipe.

Pornhub? I don’t think .ml censors “porn” (I can see your comment just fine), just some slurs/offensive words afaik.

Edit: And I can see my own comment just fine.

Thank god someone scratched out a letter in that mysterious word. Otherwise I may have seen something obscene. Now I have no idea what is meant to be written on that block 🤔

A lot of Linux distros are set it and forget it these days. Nvidia can be finicky though, so i suggest a distro that installs proprietary nvidia drivers for you—I think Linux Mint and Bazzite do that, though I’m not personally familiar with either.

The other thing is music prod which I am not familiar with. I’ve heard that there’s a lack of Linux software for music prod but hopefully some other users who know more can explain what the situation is like on Linux these days.

Steam won’t pose a problem. Steam does something called Proton, a compatibility layer allowing Linux users to run Windows game, and the vast majority of Windows games run flawlessly with Proton. Similarly, you shouldn’t have to worry about losing saves, as Steam Cloud should save and transfer them all automatically.

Tbh I find strict scheduling and the like to be too much of a time drain to be effective. I just plan my day in my head, e.g. before lunch I will work on X then between lunch and dinner I will work on Y then after dinner I will work on Z is a common “schedule” on an off day. Occasionally I write down a todo list just to keep track of tasks but that’s about it.

It sounds like you may want to get an air fryer. I’ve not tried pan frying tomatoes without oil but I don’t think frying pans are designed for oil-less cooking. You could also go for stuff that’s more like a soup or stew or curry if you want hot food with not too much (or no) oil.

I also have Pixel 8a and have no issues with the camera. I’m by no means a photographer though and I don’t think I have much of an eye for that sort of thing, but it works perfectly fine for my purposes, ie snapping a photo of anything interesting I see in my daily life, or if I want to show something to my friends by taking a picture of it. iirc the FOSS options don’t give as high quality of a result as Google’s proprietary camera app but all I need is photos to be legible so it’s more than sufficient for me. If photo quality is very important to you then maybe you could use Google’s camera app with sandboxed google play? I’ve never tried doing that before so I dunno if it works.

(you may want to post this to !privacy@lemmy.ml or a similar community… I suppose GOS uses the Linux kernel technically but I think this community is for desktop Linux lol)

GOS is really nice. It’s very seamless and user-friendly, whilst still being very unbloated and minimal. You still have everything you’d expect to have on a phone but the environment is nicely minimal and lets you only install the software you want.

I’ve been using GOS as my exclusive mobile OS for many years, never had any technical problems with it.

You can use bluetooth headphones or usb-c headphones. Including the bluetooth headphones google sells. Afaik they are still just bluetooth headphones.

How easy is to transfer data from GrapheneOS to debian and the other way round?

Easy: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Media_Transfer_Protocol

You don’t even have to do it with pen and paper. You can install whatever operating system and software you want on your computer. If blocking certain resources on the internet is an issue, you could torrent public keys, use tor, use i2p, or worst case scenario deliver a USB drive to your friend’s door.

What saying?

Alpine with a cronjob to apk -U upgrade or auto-updating Debian Stable

I imagine people who are into gardening would be interested in if the head of a popular fertiliser company was a massive bigot yeah

It’s also not even a dogwhistle? Dogwhistles are meant to provide plausible deniability over what you’re really signalling. “Decolonize Palestine from the river to the sea” is an extremely straightforward and explicit demand that already says what it means.