I mostly use Shizuku + Termux to run adb commands on device, but this looks easier and nicer

Signal uses AWS.

I didn’t know cobalt.tools was OSS. cool!

Mint is lovely! I started out with it years ago and still use it today.

FOSS developers should be paid.

for some reason Dark Reader slows down page loading by a lot for me, especially on slow connections

Just like we drew it up.

the three I know of are ConnectYou, Fossify SMS, and QuikSMS

Voyager and Thunder are the best imo

Symfonium. Don’t get me wrong, I like Finamp, but it just does not come close to the amount of features that Symfonium has.

Shizuku, Symphony for playing local music (jellyfin for streaming), and most of all Termux. Without Termux I wouldn’t be able to use some CLI-only stuff on the go, use neovim, or SSH into my server to perform some quick task.

I’ve set up Vaultwarden as I used Bitwarden before that and it made switching very easy. Doesn’t get easier than that, synced passwords across all your devices/browsers.

then remove that “colossal attack surface” by compiling a custom kernel and utilities that only includes the features the product needs. create a system tuned to the exact product to make it extremely reliable. almost everything electronic you see in commercial use is Linux because of this very fact.

Many medical devices run Linux.

Toyota, Tesla, Audi, Mercedes, and Hyundai vehicles use Linux.

you certainly can rely on it for your life and nearly every electronic device you use will use some derivative of it.

this. after i set different zsh themes on my servers + my main machine i now know exactly what machine i’m running commands to

fyi, you can add cookie exceptions for individual sites that you want to retain your login information

I’d say that bloat is whatever you define it to be and can vary depending on the power of your system.

I care less about how much resources apps are taking up on my desktop (32GB RAM, Ryzen 7700X), but I do bring my concerns over to my laptop (8GB RAM, Ryzen 4500U).

the one thing I cannot stand are electron apps and anything similar. they are a whole browser bundled with an unoptimized interface, and will eat up what used to be a decent amount of RAM for a laptop back then, as well as my battery life. for this reason I always try to find native apps that use less power and less RAM, which in turn improve my battery life.

this is just one example of where you can draw the line for bloat, although you are completely correct in saying that it is subjective.

yeah none do. dev behind opencord tried to do it but it’s been on hiatus ever since

Aliucord is a good client mod, not of the new react native version, but the old 126.21 version. much faster than the laggy react garbage

in my personal experience of using it, it doesn’t feel very polished in most places + strange bugs like being unable to install certain packages. doesn’t have the comforts of a distro like Pop OS or Mint (i.e. automatic timeshift setup on first time boot, checking for missing dependencies for other packages). that’s just my personal opinion on it.

I still don’t care about cookies