You’ll almost certainly want to disable some of the more extreme privacy settings. Specifically, enabling Canvas and WebGL will make it much more usable, at the cost of some reduced privacy.
I use Zen as my daily driver, and Firefox on mobile. I isolate different areas of my life with containers and profiles but you don’t necessarily need to do all that. It’s good and private out of the box
I fully agree with you. I use biometrics but if I’m in a situation where I think I might be pressured to unlock my phone for direct state surveillance, I.e. security or customs at the airport, I’ll just restart my phone then so it prompts for a password. Whatever suits your threat model
In the US at least, the law allows state actors to compel you to unlock your phone or computer using biometrics. They cannot demand the same with a password or PIN.
I use proton and it’s been solid
It’s more akin to clicking on every ad you see on the web. Sure you might not get a virus from lots of them but the risk is real and it’s good practice to just not do that. It’s a real and frequently exploited attack vector, it’s just good practice for anybody with a semblance of concern about digital security
There are tons of ways to exploit a computer via a flash drive like that. Lots of viruses exist that would immediately install themselves upon the drive getting recognized. Famously Iran had a nuclear power plant taken offline by a random flash drive somebody plugged in, but aside from state level threats they can also just steal your financial details and personal info
Comprador and capitulator
Yay glad that fixed it for you!
This comes from Canvas being blocked by default in librewolf. You can either enable it globally in the settings, or enable it per site by clicking the little picture icon in the URL bar and toggling it, then reloading
They aren’t running Google software, they’re using GrapheneOS. And the spyware they’re referring to on Samsung phones is very pubic knowledge, just as the data collection and surveillance in stock Pixel software is. But that’s not relevant
Because of rampant hallucinations, yet people taking them as gospel. Not to mention the energy cost for no real benefit
In the broadest sense of the term ”AI” yes, but people don’t mean general ML or NN approaches when they say that, it’s all LLMs and diffusion models. I hate the term for how meaningless it is
For keybinds, there is the project Toshy which redirects keys to emulate Mac bindings. It has some issues but works pretty well in my experience
Android is NOT open source. AOSP is, but the android distributions you get on a retail phone add proprietary and closed source features atop AOSP. It is at best open-core but even that is questionable given the release cadence of AOSP
The Mac ecosystem has its own set of tooling for this. It uses Apple’s Rosetta 2 for x86 to ARM translation, and their Game Porting Toolkit (GPTK) for DX12 to Metal (Apple’s proprietary graphics API) translation.
(Should note that Asahi doesn’t have full support for M4 Macs yet so I’m assuming they’re on MacOS)
That use case makes it sound like you’re looking for a vector editor, like Krita
Bring it but powered off in a faraday bag. If an emergency strikes you’ll be glad to have the option.
Fascist collaborators to their core
I’ve been on Linux for 14 years now and all the projects I’ve used as my daily driver are still kicking and doing great. Arch, Fedora, Debian, and NixOS. I’m on nix and I’d happily stay here ten more years if the governance stuff settles down, that concerns me. But from a technical and package availability perspective it’s amazing