𝕽𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑 𝕽𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖑

I hear those beautiful lyrics too, but I swear it’s actually in C#

There’s no transaction fees and the payment data can be anything you’d like… But I’m on the same page about an overhaul for sure

Even if it was a card, privacy.com for the win as it allows for any address and name to be used with their debit cards!

The amount of repos available to add to F-Droid makes the app selection pretty deep in my experience. Here’s a few:

Izzy Droid - https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo

Guardian Project - https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo

Ironfox - https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo

Futo - https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo

Fedilab - https://fdroid.fedilab.app/repo

Molly - https://molly.im/fdroid/repo

Briar - https://briarproject.org/fdroid/repo

Anonymous - https://anonymous.gratis/fdroid/repo

There’s a bunch more repos you can find online, but I’ve always enjoyed having these enabled. Additionally, there’s the Aurora Store from F-Droid, which allows anonymous access to the Play Store. There’s also Obtainium, which will directly access developer’s GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg/SourceHut repos as well.

I’d recommend KDE over GNOME, especially if you’re coming over from Windows. My take on Linus’s move is he’s tinkered with Linux 5+ days a week for ages, so GNOME makes more sense. But as a nerd who doesn’t work in tech, I love KDE as I can tinker until I’m content and changes are just made in settings. Either way, I’d say finding the Desktop Enviornment you like is more important than the distro!

I prefer Fedora over Bazzite as it gives you more control, but this also means it’s easier to break. Bazzite is an immutable distro, whereas Fedora uses the traditional mutable root filesystem. But despite the difference, Bazzite uses Fedora Atomic as it’s base OS.

Just as a fun little factoid, Linus Torvalds runs Fedora and while he was using KDE for a while, he switched to GNOME as he felt it required much less fiddling around with than KDE.

In pretty much all of life, the most consistent thing I’ve learned is that if it’s default anything, that off rip should make you reassess it

100% It’s just somehow way more blatant for me with mobile as it’s BEEN like this… which propbably helped make Google more confident in doing the same thing with PCs 🤯

This one rules!

Edit: Here’s the F-Droid repo for IronFox, it and it’s predecessor Mull have always been Librewolf mobile to me

https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo

The fact there’s extentions on FF & it’s forks for mobile makes me sooo blown away anyone ever choses anything else!

Well ya, you need at least two NICs to properly setup a firewall. Additionally, since NICs are the most crucial piece of hardware for routers and firewalls, it’ll only be as good as the hardware it runs on. Older NICs lead to regular crashes and/or slow network speeds. So swapping the original NIC out and adding another is VERY typical when repurposing old PCs as a router. The most common options for NICs I’ve seen are the Intel I350-T2 and I350-T4. Ironically, they cost about as much as a decent router, but going this route actually puts you in control of your home network!

Yep, but unfortunately it’s not always as straight forward as it may sound. Plus, with routers becoming more difficult to acquire, it’ll only get harder and harder to pull off. But there’s OpenWRT and dd-WRT that work with a pretty decent range of routers as well as ASUS Merlin for many ASUS routers. Then, if you want to get nerdy with it and build your own router from an old computer, there’s OPNsense and pfSense. Eventually it’ll come down to these two if the ban is longterm and you want any semblance of obfuscation online…