Yeah your right although in Australia at least, the number of non major party seats are steadily increasing, but again that might change since the current two major parties are pushing through as many laws as possible that make it harder for minorities to have a chance in an election.
Why us mobile data such a privacy concern and wifi is so much better? I understand using standard calls and text is bad but if you use mobile data and not your phone number whats the difference between that and public wifi?
The problem with American democracy is the voting system. A party that isn’t either thre democrats or the republicans will never win because people know if they vote for anything else there vote will be pointless.
America needs preferential voting but will never implement it because it would mean the two party system will be demolished (which is in neither of the two party’s best interest.)
I get the controversy about the CEO being controversial but the services that proton make are still very good for the most part. And since they’re open source and encrypted you don’t need to trust proton anyway (aside from the VPN).
I don’t recommend bazzite. I am using bazzite right now it is great for gaming. But it is a nightmare to install any software via the terminal often times you have to use a virtual environment and even that doesn’t work very well.
If your a little familiar with fedora then it is a very good distro still and it has a kde veriant. (take my advice with a grain of salt I am pretty new to linux as well)
After trying out many different app launchers on f-droid Kvaesito is what I found to be the best. Kvaesito is very good and is what I use it allows you to swipe down and eminently start searching for apps.
My biggest problem with it (and it’s a big one) is ocasionally it will just freeze and stop working until I lock the phone and turn it on again. (maybe you won’t have this problem just try it out)
I honestly don’t see the big deal with people hating on proton. It’s still open source it’s still encrypted and doesn’t mine your data that seams to check most of the boxes for me. The only problem I had with it was the default main client which shows upgrades to go unlimited all the time but I just use Thunderbird now.
Not sure, I’ve never used session but I think less tech savvy people would want to use signal because it is similar to Whatsapp, which they are used to.
Fare enough. I can finally get rid of one drive from my Samsung phone!
Cryptomator is open source.
Fair point actually. I didn’t think of that.
Is using app manager the same as jailbreaking? Could that be a security risk?
People who use alternative clients are just using add blockers on the main cite anyway so i don’t see why YouTube should even try to stop them.
From what i’ve heard if your not willing to use the nvidia proprietary drivers then DON’T go for nvidia you will get terrible performance and amd will always be significantly better.
If you consider the proprietary drivers then I think it depends on your use case. For example AMD is better value if your gaming without ray tracing if you want to play with ray tracing or do any kind of productivity Nvidia is generaly the better option. For machine learning Nvidia has much better compatibility with everything so you will have a better time and better performance, Although if you only care about running the largest models you can with the available vram then AMD gpu’s will have more vram for the price.
Intel arc is also always an option if you are aiming for a lower tire/mid range card. They have really price competitive cards and unlike amd they have very decent ray tracing and productivity capability’s. They also have lots more vram for the price compared to Nvidia.
Also I highly recommend buying a used graphics card, you help the environment, save a lot of money and if you don’t like the card you chose you can sell it for the same price your bought it and buy a different one.
Maybe if you could specify your use case and what cards you are currently looking at I could help you out more.
Been using searx for a while it’s awesome. When I finally set up my own home server I will self host it.
OpenAI, Google, and Meta, for example, can push back against most excessive government demands.
Sure they “can” but do they?
Sorry but there is no way I’m using imessages so many people I know have an android phone so that just won’t work. It’s closed source, has no encryption at all when contacting anyone who doesn’t have an iphone. And it’s apple, and apple sucks. iMessages is half the reason why I became anti capitalist it’s such a great example of the pitfalls of capitalism.
So true lol.
OK thanks for the point, I should probably try and use wifi networks wherever possible ig.