Reorder9543

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[–] Reorder9543@social.fossware.space 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buy the phone second hand. Not a cent goes to Google. From my understanding, they only support the Pixel line because it's the most secure hardware or something. Someone more knowledgable will probably explain it better though.

[–] Reorder9543@social.fossware.space 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try Osmand or Organic Maps. Both available from F-droid. Magic Earth is an option if you're using Aurora Store or downloading APKs.

[–] Reorder9543@social.fossware.space 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, what I like about it started with the mascot. Otherwise, I like the fact that the rolling release has automatic testing to make sure it's mostly reliable. Many people will also tell you how amazing YaST, their "control panel", is. There's definitely some stuff to get used to, like patterns and zypper. But, for a set and forget system, it's hard to beat IMO.

[–] Reorder9543@social.fossware.space 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If you're looking for stable and up to date, give openSUSE Tumbleweed a shot.

I always made sure my laptops had tlp installed. Now it seems openSUSE has cpu power profiles daemon or something by default, which it says conflicts with tlp when I tried to install it. So, I'm giving that a shot.

I think they mean the fact that the development team has seen some shuffling and the project stagnated for a bit. I love Budgie, which comes from Solus, but I'd rather use it on a different distro than using Solus, which seems a bit off-balance at the moment. Give them time to stabilize before trying them.

[–] Reorder9543@social.fossware.space 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

AdAway is what I use on my rooted devices. It does have a rootless mode as well and if it's anywhere near as good as the root mode I would absolutely recommend it. I haven't tested it though so give it a shot.

No, apt usually gives you native .deb installs. Flatpak and Snap are two different container technologies for distributing apps.

[–] Reorder9543@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've heard that snaps are great for servers, which is where Ubuntu is focused these days. Also, they want people to use their homemade technology instead of Flatpaks, which are much better for desktop users from my understanding.

I'm holding out for Slide for Lemmy as another Android user. But, wefwef is pretty good so far.

[–] Reorder9543@social.fossware.space 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Middle-click might be an option for you too. One handed operation and I'm pretty sure it works on most browsers.

Middle-click might be an option for you too. One handed operation and I'm pretty sure it works on most browsers.

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