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I was an Apple fan girl before Trump and the 51st state BS and Tim Apple giving him the golden Apple plack but I do not think you could pay me to go back to Closed source OS again. I have a subscription to Claude but only because I do not have the money to create a Ollama set up to help me with my homelabbing stuff.

My OS of choice now is Debian, because I started learning Linux on Raspberry pis. My collection of systems running open source things has grown. I planned on a 3 or 4 month homelabbing journey but it has taken many different turns and does so much more now than what I thought I would ever do. I am considering getting the HA smart thingies so I do not need to rely on my homepod mini’s not that anyone is making money or tracking me with them (thank you firewall, pihole, and whatever else I have running on my 10.66.6.0 vLAN to make all the IoT things on my LAN safe).

It's cool and all but Lineage OS doesn't support a hefty amount of newer phones. And Graphene OS not even supporting Motorola yet (I'm a moto owner). So, the best choice is to get a Fairphone.

Until there is a Linux phone OS that works with many modern phone brands and has no issues, you can't do much shit about not supporting Google.

There’s other ways, but if you can’t afford a trip to find them them… yeah.

I am saddly not in a place where invidious makes sense for me yet. I use Unwatched on my ipad and iphone, when it comes time to update my phone I will be changing the operating system when I have the money I will be replacing my ipad I will be finding something with preferably Debian with touch but I would be fine with ubuntu touch!

I have started to use Waterfox and uBlock on a pi5 on my TV to block youtube ads, I am hopefully getting a hand me down mac mini that I will install Debian on in a few weeks, as it is x86 I will be able to do more like sponser block. I have tried invidious before, but it did not work for me maybe I will try it again soon.

Thanks for that tip!

It's probably as confused as the Amazon algorithm that recommended Latin for Gardeners to me.

FYI - The algorithm is literally a profile built around you as a person, not the account itself. The account actually gets added to your profile.

So if your family shares an Amazon account, Amazon knows who each person is that accesses the account based on a whole load of other fingerprinting (device, location, metadata, etc). Then THAT data is shared with data brokers for the individual's algorithm across the internet.