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If you’re very technical and understand Linux, security, etc in great lengths (such as how to setup your own iptables rules with looking for help or creating your own scripts), and really know what your doing, a rooted non-gapps lineageos (optionally microg) is a great choice, as long as you install things like AFWall+ and such to lock it down a ton. Heavy emphasis on “understanding” what you’re doing here, since if you don’t, a rooted device could be bad on security.

If you’re not at that comfort level or have the time for that kind of stuff, GrapheneOS (unfortunately on pixel) is the best option.

If you don’t want to give Google any of your money, and you don’t want to go into the super low level system control with root, the best option is probably still lineageos with microg (or without if you don’t need push notifications for anything).

96% but it’s not accurate. Verified on my DNS logs that the two it claimed weren’t blocked, actually resolved to 0.0.0.0 correctly, so I’m actually at 100%

Probably already said here, but it’s going to just come down to your end goal to know what distro fits what you’re looking for.

I am personally a huge fan of Gentoo, another distro that’s all about “from the ground up” approach. It’s actually where I started with Linux and is how I became as proficient in it as I am today. In fact my internal server that does everything is running Gentoo as it’s OS… Has never had any problems in the last decade that would require a reinstall or anything crazy like that.

But even as much love as I have for Gentoo, I have Linux Mint installed on my laptop. Why? Because it’s just more convenient when I need my full focus on the 10 other personal projects I’m working on… Also amazing on the gaming front. Doesn’t have nearly as much bloat as some other Ubuntu-based distros on first install, has a huge community support, and is just great all around to have.

Ah, I misunderstood you mounting the system in as your main, not a backup. Gotcha!

Why not just self host? What happens when/if their service goes down without any warning? You lose everything?

Got my things all on a server with RAID for redundancy and backup weekly to an external (encrypted) device, monthly to another that doesn’t stay at home. Also means I don’t have to rely on the Internet to use all my services if the ISP goes down, the firewall explodes, etc. Self hosting is the way to go!

Edit: autocorrect being annoying

Again, no Ubuntu expert here, so do this at your own risk (someone jump in and say this is a bad idea if it is). Not irreversible as you can just revert what I’m telling you via live CD, but just wanted to leave the warning.

If uname -r shows the old kernel *-24, and grub update is choosing that instead of *-25, perhaps Ubuntu relies on the last change/created date or something weird. What you can check is if *-24 AND *-25 show up in /usr/src. If both are there, do (as root/sudo): mv /usr/src/*6.2.0-24* /root. Now run grub-update again. I think it should tell you which version it chose for the boot menu.

Next try: grep 6.2.0 /boot/grub/grub.cfg to verify you see the new version.

• If you see it, reboot and see if it starts with it. If you can’t boot, go through the liveCD and move that directory back to /usr/src, chroot to the drive (see https://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/chroot-to-repair-system for how to do this properly), and after chrooting, run grub-update again.
• If you don’t see it or get nothing back from grep, move the directory back and re-run grub-update to avoid not being able to boot back in. This wasn’t the fix we were hoping for.

^ this is all assuming Ubuntu puts its kernels in /usr/src and uses that location as reference to what’s available/installed. If you see nothing there, then something else will need to be attempted

Have you tried a normal “grub-update” command to make sure it gets the right kernel to boot up for you? Not 100% familiar with Ubuntu, but perhaps that’s all you’d need to run to get it booting to the right version.

Lmao I’ve unfortunately seen stuff like this, where other parts of code that looked like just made up stuff had zero comments. Basically comments only where they weren’t needed and lacking where they’re needed

You have comments in your legacy codebases?? Luckyyyyy

I like having the internet and technology. It’s the abusive use of it that I don’t like.I am also one who wishes phones were of no necessary use. Why do I need a phone number to sign up to an online service? Why must I have an email address and internet access just to see what lab results came in from the doctor’s office? What use is my email address being “real” to some online community and services? I would be okay in a world where the phone and emails were just a nice thing to have and not required. I understand that everyone is saying “just turn off the phone, watch tv, unplug the computer”… But with how just about every company in the world requires this to even function, it’s a lot easier said than done. I think the real thing folks on surveys like this are looking for is a world where the internet, phones, computers, etc are nice to have but not needed to live a life. Or maybe I’m just unique in how I feel, dunno, just had to share my thoughts lol.

Been using rss for years now. It’s always been the best way for me to filter into only the news I care about, way Lee political drama. That being said, I use nextcloud news so I can read and sync on multiple devices, as well as listen to podcasts that use rss feeds.