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hellfire103

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Young humanoid in the UK. Proudly LGBT. Slava Ukraini! | they/them

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Ya think‽

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!2meirl4meirl

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Actually, I have. It gives me better tracking protection than vanilla Safari, it allows me to use SearXNG, and it means I can set a custom homepage. Also, for some reason, Safari has no private mode on my phone.

Not to mention that Mozilla is working on a Gecko-based version of the browser, as Apple is being forced by the EU to allow sideloading, third-party app stores, and third-party browser engines.

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It’s not my choice. I’m a 17-year-old in a family of Apple shills.

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I would if I could. In an ideal world, I’d be running postmarketOS with LibreWolf on a PINEPHONE; but that’s simply not the way things are.

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I would, but I’m sadly using iOS.

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It doesn’t. At least, it won’t work until Gecko-iOS becomes a thing.

In the mean time, though, I’ve set the tracker blocking to “Strict” and I’m blocking ads with NextDNS.

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I’ve made it work. I’ve set Tabliss as my homepage, and I’m using NextDNS to block ads and trackers.

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Thanks. However, it’s not a matter of cost. I get my phones second-hand from family, and they always go for iPhones.

I’ve asked for a Pixel or Fairphone and explained that I would be more than happy to buy it myself, but I’m always met with a long explanation on why iPhones are objectively better, and the idea is shut down.

Honestly, with only 229 days to go until I’m 18, and a year until I leave home for either university or a gap year, I’d may as well just wait this one out.

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Well, there is NextDNS (and other providers, such as AdGuard DNS, rethinkDNS, and AhaDNS). It’s not a VPN, and it’s what I’m currently using alongside ProtonVPN (through WireGuard).

You could also try a Pi-Hole.

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Not yet. Thankfully, I’ll be a legal adult in 229 days.

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My parents have never explicitly said this, but this seems like something my dad would think.

They don’t have to pay for it, though. I’ve asked to buy a Fairphone with my money that I earned from my job several times, but they wouldn’t budge and I eventually just gave up.

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I like Ecosia. It may use Bing’s results, but those are better than Google’s these days.

Personally, though, I prefer metasearch engines, like SearXNG.

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I’m not sure what would happen if I did that, and I don’t want to risk it.

I’ll wait until I’m a legal adult, and then I’ll do that.

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Would it be possible to blacklist Threads, but also whitelist specific accounts? I don’t want any more to do with Meta than I already do, but I’d also like some way of sending questions into The Last Leg.

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The logical song has got to be “Wake Me Up When September Ends” by Green Day.

I also normally pull out my Distillers and Death Cab for this time of year, but I’ve already been listening to them all year.

Don’t get me wrong, though. Autumn is the best.

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“Dividing By Zero/Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell” by The Offspring

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The first FOSS product I ever used would have been either Firefox or OpenOffice.org, back in ~2010. I also used to like VLC.

The product that got me to go almost exclusively FOSS, however, was Linux Mint. I installed it on an old ThinkPad that my uncle had given me in 2019, and I was immediately impressed that this twelve-year-old notebook with (at the time) 4GB of RAM and an Intel Centrino processor could now easily outperform my brand new HP (which ran Windows).

It was only about a year later when I installed Mint on my HP, followed by my old Acer (which had been on a shelf for the last two years), and most recently my 2007 MacBook (which I keep around because it’s the only thing that can operate my scanner).

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Mint was my first distro, too. Some videos from ExplainingComputers and Switched To Linux (before he was a bigot) got me interested in the distro, and then my uncle gave me an old ThinkPad and a DVD of Linux Mint 19.2 “Tessa”.

After that, I installed Linux on all of my computers. I switched to Debian, then Fedora, then distrohopped for a bit before landing on my current configuration:

  • Garnet: openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma
  • Amethyst: Arch Linux with Sway (possibly soon to be Void with Qtile)
  • Pearl: crunchbang++ 12 (32-bit) with Openbox
  • LapisLazuli: Fedora 38 with MATE
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Whoever said Linux was hard to use was either a Windows/macOS shill, a Gentoo noob, or said it back in the '90s or 2000s when Linux was mostly quite hard to use.

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Fair enough. I guess the hardware support can make it tricky.

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Use ADB to remove Google and Samsung bloatware and tracking. Ask around for help.

You should be able to use Heimdall to unlock the bootloader, but there isn’t currently a build of LineageOS or DivestOS for this phone, so unfortunately you cannot yet flash a custom ROM (AFAIK). However, rooting should work if you need this (although it can hurt your security a bit).

I’d recommend removing Google Play Services and replacing it with microG, although this may be complicated.

The best solution, however, is probably to exchange the phone for a more versatile model, such as a Google Pixel or a Fairphone.

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