your username reveals a lot about you, BTW

it’s nothing for a GNU/Linux user

just like god intended. not as beautiful as templeos though

ikr! ancient desktop environment on unstable release

it(kde v1) was compiled along with qt v1.

then you mustn’t have seen LATAM memes! they are super uncanny.

thanks! it’s a result of many a personal experience. :p

yes, though if you can’t wait for lineageos to be available for you device, you can flash a GSI

that was my intention. thanks for putting it into words

yeah, the meme template I used is intentionally like that with the trollface and such. sorry if it bothered you. I had to recently interact with one of these dis-services and it made me think of this.

hey Dan, why don’t you post blogs now?

thanks for the insightful comment

costs me 100 dollars each year just so that I can push an app to their app store, even if I make zero bucks off of it(and if I did, they’d want an additional 30% share of it).
not to mention that I can’t develop an app without a mac – an artificial requirement created by them.

it is expensive for developers that aren’t in the west

Firefox’s inbuilt reader would cut some of the crap

i’m still angry about their initiatives on delicate phone bodies and non-removable batteries.

you don’t have to go all in at once, mate. you can start by getting most important things in your control: your browser and search engine.
if you like the interface of Google chrome and can’t part away with it: use brave. else highly recommended to use Firefox.
if you just like Google search results, use startpage, else use duckduckgo or brave search.

these two things alone would make a meaningful difference.

then for neutering most of third party tracking: use a private DNS(I’d suggest nextdns). it’s just a "add a URL and forget about it’. it’ll stop the tracking significantly.

then you can continue by replacing other inconsequential stuff like Google notes(use Joplin), Google assistant(don’t use any of this “smart” crap), Google fit(just exercise regularly. you don’t need to micromanage it).

then next step would be to start making some tough decisions: replace the keylogger that is Google keyboard with it’s open source equivalent heliboard.

then eventually you can go hardcore and use Facebook and other crap on browser only.

so, all in all, even if you do only the first two(or just first) step, you’re already 50% there.

let me know in case you got any questions. and happy journey.

what’s up, my G?

to those wondering: https://youtu.be/XxbJw8PrIkc

I stopped using it as soon as I ordered a takeout of my data and saw they saved my unfinished searches even after I deleted them

is this your car?