I doesn’t matter, they’re supporting Google, they should do the best they can for more variety of models, even if it means not being “ultra super highly extreme private”.

Let’s congrats Graphene team for supporting the Google hardware for so long, they surely helped Google profit a lot given people buying Pixel just to use Graphene.

I’m still using Windows on dual-boot with Arch because of games, that’s the only reason. I’ve Windows 10 LTSC IoT, which is the most debloated version available, plus I ran a debloater script, so the OS is basically raw now, no Microsoft account linked.

Unfortunately Windows still gets more performance, at least on my experience, I’ve a Laptop 16GB RAM, Hybrid GPU (GeForce 1650 4VRAM + AMD).

I’m still not prepared to give up from this little extra performance just to switch to Linux, it really makes a difference, and I pass the whole day dealing with Linux so at the end of the day I just want to boot into something that just works without major tweaks.

I know it’s not Linux fault, but most games are made to run better on Windows. If and when W10 become unusable, I’ll switch to 100% Linux without any doubt, it’s my last Windows.

I’d say given the AMD contributions to Linux better to support them with your money instead of NVIDIA.

Facebook got my precise location just using my IP, I decided to create a fake account to use FB market place, they warned me about an “unknown login”, it’s the first time I’ve seen this, usually websites only know approximate location, but this time just by knowing my IP they hit exactly the small town where I live, instead of near towns which is the normal. I suspect they had my IP from other devices allowing location in the same network (same wifi), then they could safely associate that IP with my exact location even tho I didn’t enable any GPS any time.

You can use VSCodium, it’s VSCode without Microsoft telemetry

I don’t play EA games it’s being years. My Steam profile description is “#NoEAGames #NoUbisoftGames”.

There’s even some really good old games from EA but I just don’t play it, and that’s it.

No I think not, but reading the README of DNSNet they mention Rethink, I tried it here and I think it might work similar to AdGuard. https://rethinkdns.com/

Rethink DNS exclusively uses DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS to encrypt and secure your DNS queries.

I’m not sure but I suppose it does since it’s a local VPN, it log all requests being made, why wouldn’t it block https?

I think you still can have a Linux phone with GNOME, there’s a GNOME version for mobile.

After all, what is a smartphone? Just a convenient computer that can make calls.

Linux + GNOME will do that for you.

This is from 2022 and it looks pretty good to me: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/