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Simple SMS is what I use, I use almost their whole suite of apps. The ones on the Play Store are limited, but the ones they put on F-Droid are full-featured (It’s an open source app suite, but the play store versions are that freemium donation style kinda thing).

Here’s the link to their whole app suite on F-Droid, has all the essentials like file manager, camera, dialer, calendar, contacts, calculator, etc. The “Simple Thank You” app (also on F-droid) works as a theme manager for all the app suite, so you can set a theme you like and then pick “shared” as the theme in all the other apps https://search.f-droid.org/?q=simplemobiletools&lang=en

Most importantly, they actually seem to get updates unlike a lot of these style of apps sadly, I wish there were more options available that weren’t abandoned.

Shouldn’t be a linux thing, I use it on Linux and Firefox myself, not sure what could be causing the issue for you though

Welcome to PC! One thing I wish I knew back when I started on PC was https://isthereanydeal.com, checks a bunch of safe sites to buy games from (most in Steam key form, some just for other stores in general) and can email you when any of them go on sale.

Also, the Augmented Steam browser extension (Chrome/etc) (Firefox) is really nice, sadly no version of it to work in the Steam client itself that I know of, but it adds a ton of QOL to the store.

I guess that’s fair, still worth the warning though

Check if your switch is a V1 model or a V2. If it is a switch V2, Lite, or Oled, you need a modchip. If it is a V1, you only need an RCM jig for like $3-7 (or some tin foil if you’re risky, extremely not recommended, do you prefer to save $3-7 but chance frying your $300+ switch) and a usb cable.

If your Switch model number starts with XAW, you have a switch V1, in which case just follow this guide https://rentry.co/SwitchHackingIsEasy

If you have a V2, you need to get ahold of a PicoFly modchip, which is a Rasperry Pi Pico RP2040 flashed with https://github.com/Ansem-SoD/Picofly which you can DIY (or there are other ones, but they’re expensive or hard to find) and solder it into the motherboard, and then follow the guide.

They didn’t act like a dick until the employer started getting power trippy though, they didn’t say anything rude before that, just told them what the contract stated. The rudeness was definitely justified here after that though

When you do that sometimes there’s another invisible element covering the page that when deleted lets you scroll down again.

Also, try the element dropper/picker icon beside the element zapper, it does the same thing, except it sticks it into a list to do it automatically every time the page loads, also great for uncluttering needless crap on websites permanently.

They’re on one of the tabs for your lists if you need to undo one

The funny thing is I wouldn’t mind watching their ads if they weren’t annoying with them. If the ads were only at the start of a video, not during, and no still image banner at the bottom I have to click X on on desktop. I don’t want to actively dismiss anything while I’m watching the video, I want to relax and watch it.

They don’t allow me to sit and enjoy the videos without babysitting them to skip after the timer, so that’s why I block their ads with absolutely no compromise anymore.

The only ones I’ve really ended up liking are KDE Plasma, and Cosmic (both the modified Gnome version, and hopefully the Rust version in the future too. Right now I’m enjoying Cosmic more than KDE Plasma so I have high hopes for it, both are great though.

They’re not really asking for ultimate max privacy, just better privacy than they currently have.

I guess that’s fair since most of these tend to be clickbait, but in this case these proposals are genuinely extremely bad, because adding client side scanning to E2E messaging and photos is only one overreaching policy away from being a full backdoor for other purposes in the name of “public safety” since the technology would already be implemented, which would absolutely be the end of private messaging and secure encryption.

“I have done 0 research on the issue, here is my reasoning on why it is a non-issue.”

LanguageTool, a mostly¹ open source Grammarly alternative, has a Libreoffice Extension. Their LibreOffice extension runs locally instead of using their servers so that’s a plus too https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/languagetool

¹ the browser extension is proprietary, but their extension for LibreOffice and standalone app are open source under the LGPL

No fan of all the constant Brave threads myself but the calling everyone who isn’t against Brave a Brave Employee is very tinfoil hat, not sure if it was meant ironically or not but can we stop this “everyone who doesn’t agree with me is a paid shill” nonsense. I despise Brave, and hate the CEO, but I don’t think everyone who doesn’t is getting paid for it. 3 of OP’s 35 posts and 21 comments are even about Brave at all.

Pretty sure most people just use sudo for everything if they aren’t a sysadmin, I use sudo and almost never touch su unless I’m recovering from a major screwup

I had to do some digging on the name since almost every search engine was just throwing articles like this when trying to find a voice clip of him, he voices the statue “Arnold” in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myZz37olVf I think his voice will be pretty good to adapt to Mario. Here’s his IMDb page https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12041073/

Recently moved to PopOS and while I’ve been generally aware of Cosmic I’ve been looking into it a lot recently, don’t know much about programming languages but from what I understand Rust is supposed to be really fast for this stuff.

Will using Rust cause the desktop to feel really responsive/snappy compared to other ones like Gnome or KDE Plasma (not that they’re slow), or is it more like an efficiency thing, less CPU/RAM use, etc? If this has already been answered can someone link me because I haven’t been able to find much on it

I mean, there’s good reason to hate the guy, but there’s plenty of controversies the browser has had as well that should ward anyone who cares about privacy away from it, they’ve proven they will do shady stuff without users knowing like affiliate link injection, and then just “apologize” when caught.

Google would be crucified for doing that yet when a shady crypto browser does it it gets a pass.

btw its not actually fully private when watching them from DuckDuckGo, they give a warning that the video provider can still track you when watching from ddg. Likely much less, but they still have their ways

Interesting to know that it doesn’t have ads from there though

It actually is like that or at least close to that but it’s a bit hard to find in the settings, looks like you can’t just add them directly and have to do it when the popup shows which is a bit awkward though