Once again I’m asking for a source on this.

Its nice and all until you forget to delete your 20 kernels + recovery

I like being able to debug stuff.

Windows nowadays does not provide any meaningful logs, so everyone in their forums and such is just guessing around why things won’t work.

DirectSound libraries are missing? Install them via a sub menu of a sub menu of a really small text in the settings, wait 20 minutes for a „loading bar” telling you nothing, and guess what problem it had when it just told you no.

Aside from all the bugs like the menu bar just not opening and preview updates being shown with the same size as regular updates (great because older people will just install those updates too)

Many say its really bad because they are complying with subpoeanas, but email itself is most often not encrypted anyway

But if youre using your acc for stuff that needs actual opsec, use something else

I personally prefer fastmail tho

Fedora

Used linux for 4 years now, I’ll list it and the reason why I switched

• Ubuntu (snaps, etc)

• arch (too much setup)

• opensuse (nvidia drivers don’t get checked for size, broke my GUI many times

• Gentoo (too much compile time)

• bazzite (a bit boring)

• fedora atomic (immutable, can’t get mullvad on it), still use on my htpc

• mint (cinnamon DE is shit)

• endeavour (its still arch)

• fedora regular

actions done collectively by SystemD

Nope. It only needs one maintainer to do the PR

It’ll discourage people from becoming open source developers

You know what will discourage Them more? Id verification

relatively inconsequential law

Give me your Id. Seriously, go and give me your ID with nothing blurred.

/e/ has Murena Services, which is a completely different can of worms

Its basically the replacement to Google Photos, drive, etc, and it advertises itself as private, yet it has no privacy benefits over google. The data is still stored unencrypted on a server with your email/number and name on it, and it can just be sold or given out or hacked at any time. Its google with a different name

Also, MicroG theoretically works, but its more like wine or a windows 11 TPM back than a replacement. It spoofs everything, which just means that besides the phone being insecure since there’s no way you can verify if someone tampered with it, because it just spoofs the values anyway, it can also be disabled by google at any time by an update which makes the values unspoofable.

If you ever wondered why enterprises don’t just use win 11 with no TPM, its because Microsoft (like google) can at any time decide to say fuck you and brick all your systems, since they don’t officially support it anyway

Banks cant trust every client device to be secure and not compromise their infra, therefore they are using a certificate from a software authority to make sure their apps only run on secure devices. Currently, this authority is Google.

But since everything is using google as their authority, google can at any time decide if they want to exclude any devices/manufacturers/whatever from running most banking apps.

For example, they are excluding everything that is not shipping their G services Spyware. (And to ship the G services, you need a license, so you can’t have most banking apps without paying google)

Now, volla, a maker of a Linux Phone is trying to make a new attestation API. This in no way mitigates any problem I mentioned in the paragraphs above. In that case, Volla is the Authority, and they can at any time exclude anyone for any reason.

There is already an adequate Attestation system that mitigates every issue I mentioned built into android. Since the system is present at any time, this will not only reduce the attack vector on a system, but allow any app to add any authority they want.

Every company will at some time become corrupt. This happened with google, this will happen with volla, every company will at some time become corrupt. Therefore, every software must be designed in a way that the company behind it dosent have total control over it.

If the original Lemmy.ml defederates, it will not kill every other instance. If volla/google decides to exclude a specific phone model/OS from running it, be it for purely ideological reasons, no one will have any access to it. There are no alternatives in a system with volla attestation.

If the app uses the android attestation api on the other hand, you simply add the OSs authority key. No rewrite required.

EOS is in no way better than Google or others. It is a Google replacement. Not a google services alternative.

They, with their services, still collect just as much info about you, in non-encrypted ways. The moment e decides to sell your info, or lock you out or share it with authorities (just like how google did it), you can do nothing against it.

The permanent solution to not having your data raped through any means is not giving anyone your data in the first place (for example, encrypting it with a key only you have access to, like proton enables you to), in which category Murena is just as bad as google or any other shady data hoster.

Theres this beautiful german word for it:

Lastschrift (Direct Bank transfer)

Ah yes

Because they are more private… You know, the banks that dont let you use GrapheneOS.

Just doing some TP math for you.

A xiamoi Redmi something something is about 130€. A pixel 8a is 370€ or a 9a 500€.

With the xiaomi, you are getting no security updates for more than a year. For a pixel 8a, you get 6 years and 7 with the 9a. Therefore, if you want to keep your phone up to date because your Banking app needs those to work, you are looking at about 65/71€ per year. Also, if you want to keep it longer, you can use it for longer, with the build quality and a battery change up to 10 years or so.

Also, anecdotally, those cheap phones are built like shit, run like shit, and you are genuinely better off buying a Samsung galaxy S7 and daily driving that. (Which I got when the S10 first came out, and BTW is still holding strong when I need a second phone in case I loose my pixel 7, after 6 years, unlike my huawei P30 which didn’t last a year until it started getting to 100°C when being on, and lagging to the point of being unusable.)

Just because Theres a subscription service dosent mean its hardened

Read what I wrote. Its not hardened LINAEGEOS. Its linaege OS with a subscription based DNS blocker you get for free via adbock.

Reminder that the IodeOS and such are simply LinaegeOS forks with a bunch of propriatery shitty subscription services thrown in, and literally hinder the progress on costum Roms VS if they simply just made a PR to add the phone to Linaege.

512MB of Ram

Arch does technically „„run”” on it™

Otherwise regarding the CPU, I would set up a gentoo with distcc on it, since you dont be daily driving the thing anyways

Education.

This is actually a pretty good parallel to programming

With an open source project, you gotta know how to clone a git repo and create a pull request

With such an advanced field as Physics, you need to have read other studies at a basic level. If you don’t know how to write a basic study, you clearly lack the intelligence to talk about such things at a professional level

Yep, thats it

Great, but when kbigscreen.

I need a decent Chromecast replacement

is the only difference the syntax ? How libraries interact? How disks are mounted ?

Ah, yes.

You know, the things you just mentioned ARE the basic differences. As long as both work on the same architecture, and none reinvent the wheel, everything is the same.

And as long as you don’t reinvent the computer and make a new assembly and binary, a kernel and libraries will be the most effective ways to work.

Its like saying „what is the difference between python and c++ anyway? If we just strip away everything differentiating the 2, we just get a programming lang.

And yes, I would prefer Linux, for the same reason a python Dev prefers python and a C++ Dev prefers C++: because I’m Used to the syntax and the quirks of Linux. I don’t want to jump back to the ungodly CLI of cmd, powershell and everything else. I have learned the ins and outs of Linux, and that’s how its gonna stay.