I have no issues with Lineage, or Graphene, the enshitification is all Google and the shady “app” shilelrs who are after your data linking everything to Google Play Services which is a fucking plague.

Android is fine, Google has gone form “Don’t be Evil” to “How can we be more evil?” and needs to be purged from all devices.

Heck, I just demanded a data deletion of an account that was a legal adult because they demanded a copy of my driver’s license to watch a music video on YouTube.

Funny that doesn’t happen when I send a bot to scrape the webm file, without the spammy annoying AI generated ads playing constantly, and run ffmpeg on it to give me a proper offline copy of said video.

Nothing Google does is needed, they are a “convenience” that is only popular because it si free and already installed on everything. Kinda like Windows, no?

I mean, I guess it’s good to have more thigns, but isn’t this kinda playing in to the “You will own nothing and be happy” BS?

…and time to upgrade toa dumb phone.

Meanwhile they keep covering up that ranch in New Meico and hiding the list of all the murdering pedophile rapists.

They use CSAM as an excuse to attack the innocent, while protecting the people who are actually involved in it.

I use Trixie on Desktop, but Bookworm for server, I prefer the use of a root user instead of making the admin a sudoer, plus a lot of libraries that are needed for thigns were depreciated and removed from the Debian 13 repos. I’ve found it easier to add updates to Bookworm than to shove legacy stuff into Trixie.

The problem with being against guns is that the enforcers are defencers of the “elites” while we’re all just expected to deal with whatever violence is directed at us while we wait for them to show up and do nothing after we’re already a victim… Or if it’s masked kidanppers, rapists, and murderes attacking people in the streets they may, or may not, actually be the “Authorities.”

This was proven by how many people are shot daily, with them ignoring it or at best giving “Thoughts and Prayers”, but we have this MASSIVE manhunt for Luigi because it was a CEO (and a mass murderer, but all legal like) who died. Proven again my how there’s still no justice for the Epstein victims, or how many are sexually assaulted and then blamed for it.

They’ll never protect us, only punish us if we get out of line.

It seems a lot of the hopes are getting out of places like this. If it’s dangerous to be youself the closet claims many.

Waylad is technically a better idea, the progression of X11, more secure and should be faster and smoother when it’s ready…

But I run into so many incompatabilities still and often janky support via xWayland that I really don’t think Wayland is ready to be the default just yet.

It will be, I’m sure, but for now I spend more time fighting it than I do using it. A bit of snazz in KDE and Waydroid seem to be the only things that actually need it, for me, and so many legacy things just nope right out and crash without going back to x by force.

I will admit things “just work” a lot better with systemd than it did fighting with configs under various init systems, but it’s far too bloated and centralized.

Like how so many use flatpaks now, which has some great advantages like simple sandboxing and great fine control of permisions in a simple manner, but is has Flathub becoming an “app store” for Linux with all the issues that has elsewhere.

The more sstuff is consolidated, the more risk of one person fucking it all up.

Devuan has the easy repos like Debian, it’s a pretty straight forward fork, as is AntiX.

Void is great, but a bit more complicated, not LFS insane complicated but like Arch/Gentoo “Git good noob” complicated.

Really, any is good, and I’m looking at moving from Debian to AntiX.

Good choice, though…

Systemd is a mess, and the main guy is one of those obnoxious tech bro types who doesn’t listen to anyone and slaps crap in for no reason aside from his own ego. Everyone should be moving away from it, for many reasons.

There are so few sites that should leave a cookie I just set it to purge everything on browser close, and then make exceptions for the ones who actually should leave a cookie.

Pretty sure every browser now has the option to dump all the data when it closes.

Well, crap, now I can’t remember.

It’s a Scientology sleepover, so…

If a service requires it they are not worth using.

At least that one works, the one for Invidious keeps failing me on the bot checks.

They have already had people on them for not stopping scam ads, they get paid by their customers so they don;t care how many of their products are harmed.