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instances will get rate limited so you will have to hop around

I hope they FAFO the wrong McAfee type

Google did it too for a decade

Flush that turd.

Money Talks, Bullshit Walks.

I'm pretty sure my Arches with PipeWire audio don't have it if that's of any use to you.

I have used PulseAudio and PipeWire for years and the last few years have preffered the latter when installing all the optional dependencies.

Then again if it ain't broke 🤷‍♂️

I thought signing up for Signal required a phone number and phone app -- and all phones have IMEI besides many other nightmare anti-features.

For the normies it's fine but tbh I'm not sure it's as advertised.

What ever happened to that odd old app called tox?

Honestly I could see a version of DeltaChat + GPG make some gains in popularity but I would argue the email relay servers and spam lists are rigged for max surveillance.

Are we at the point where tech from 20 years ago may be the way lmao.

XMPP, IRC, ICQ /s

Matrix is probably the best bet but some of their apps and clients seem like dogshit. And I am saying that as someone who uses them daily. And the whole "server" thing is a PITA, or it used to be at least.

I guess we'll just have to use carrier pidgin and cypherto encrypt the cat gifs /s

It may be a little too late but if you have a chance to use a feature like btrfs snapshots (+time shift) it can be a game changer.

Any time you need to do something risky to the OS you can just snapshot before like installing 1000 packages, or Nvidia driver update, you can just revert to the old working version by swapping the names on the snapshot and is subvolume.

If you dislike telemetry,

Audacity => Tenacity

Firefox => LibreWolf or FireDragon (GraudaLinux default, good in telemetry respects IIRC)

You may like btop, Mission Control,

Avoid any terminals and editors that advertise as "AI" -- there were some big ones recently but the community thankfully overall was like nah.

Get some decent browser extensions, ublockorigin, privacy badger, libredirect

some people like to pihole their network, opensense/pfsense/ddwrt router is nice to have

AVAHI broadcasts your services on the LAN IIRC.

Obviously vscode has telemetry, if you use that try vscodium IIRC, personally I use neither but that's just me.

I still never understood how V equals "Paste"

Do either of you know of a great warrior by the name of loves2spooge?

PLZ Add Publisher Launcher, it's unfair that friends find me on steam and not my super favorite publisher fancy go clicky web 3.0 cloud store with digital lucrative dlc lootboxes for my simple consoomer satiation.

PLZ make it so if cheats r detect that GameApp.exe explodes the battery in their laptop.

Scratch that, explode the Solomonite.