Yeah it’s really cool. Also works very well with an external Gpu.

Buy Framework laptops, these have amazing repairability and upgradability, as well as good Linux compatibility. They even offer ChromeOS options, if you ever need a Chromebook.

LIBREWOLF

Keep using adblockers and don’t surrender your digital freedom to big tech corporations. Also check out private frontends for YouTube (and other plattforms: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/

I always need

• LibreWolf (privacy-focused Firefox fork)
• Some nice terminal emulator like Alacritty or Kitty
• A torrent client
• Emacs
• Strawberry (the music player)

CLI:

• fish shell
• bat
• neovim
• fd
• fzf
• zoxide
• Some other Rust alternatives for GNU coreutils
• GPG
• fun stuff like neofetch, lolcat, asciiquarium, cmatrix, etc.

Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software

In other words, a Chinese rootkit. Wouldn’t want a Chinese backdoor in my kernel, but that’s just my personal opinion. If you want one, go ahead, install this garbage.

If you use “smart devices” cheap Chinese garbage that requires a 24/7 connection to some random insecure cloud server in your home, you’re a fucking moron. But there are some great solutions that run entirely locally and enable you to do some really cool home automation. Check out the !homeautomation@lemmy.world community, as well as !homeassistant@lemmy.world. Home Assistant is probably the best piece of software for building an actually smart home, that’s also sovereign and not reliant on an internet connection or some company and their infrastructure.

If you use a Google Pixel Tablet, you can install GrapheneOS and revoke Sensor permissions for all apps.

What part of Windows (or Microsoft software in general) is not a data collection service?