Yeah, IOS and stock android are not acceptable if you care about this stuff

On graphene my bluetooth and wifi turn themselves OFF if I haven’t been connected for a few minutes

That’s the issue with the patriot act, they’ve been allowed to do warrantless searches for a long time now.

FISA court if they run into any friction

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While that does fool many websites now, it’s trivial to see through if they have any level of competence.

Since they use totally different engines, there’s no way to make gecko look like chromium

Librewolf / Ungoogled Chromium

Search: SearXNG, DDG

Yeah my steam input configs are crazy

I have a whole system for desktop navigation which I’ve grown to really like

I’ve recently taken to using touchpad touch as a button chord modifier and it is soo nice.

Yeah, that’s really the most straightforward solution unfortunately.

In case you’re not already familiar look into sunshine/moonlight for quick access to the windows machine

If you need to use abusive windows software while retaining some privacy you really have 2 options:

1. Have a separate PC with windows and your games installed. Isolate your activities so all your normal work and personal stuff is on linux, and then you switch input on your display, or use sunshine/moonlight to access windows when you want to.

2. Use linux and do all your gaming etc. in a windows VM. This is what I do but it is not easy to set up, if you’re interested in this idea keep it in mind and come back to it later.

If you’re using VM hostile software though which it sounds like you are, #2 becomes even more complicated so I say bite the bullet and do #1.

Dualboot is pretty ass and breaks all the time. I strongly suspect that was part of your issue

I am baffled to read you had to troubleshoot your linux installation every day, what kind of distro were you using?

Sorry you didn’t have a good time.

If you know what you’re doing yes (not guaranteed to work in all games), but you’re always at constant threat of being potentially banned.

The info is hard to find but I assure you tons of people play anticheat games in VMs all the time. I personally avoid those games so I don’t know the specifics of all the tricks they do to hide the VM.

Being it’s a VM I could see some people just restoring from a template if they get banned and not really caring. No way to be hardware banned afaik.

This VM detection and VM anti detection is a reguarly evolving arms race, and some games invest a LOT more effort into staying on top of it than others.

Huh? You mean manifest v3?

Wow I didn’t know about this, very blatant.

Since you asked

It’s a proprietary closed source flavor of chrome which supports google’s monopoly and does not respect your privacy or freedom.

Here is some quick info if you’re interested: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/opera

https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml

https://digdeeper.club/articles/liftingtheveil.xhtml

If you don’t like that I’d suggest looking at librewolf (firefox/gecko based) or ungoogled chromium (chromium based)

ya the desktop gui is pretty ram hungry as well. It’s not perfect but weighing the pros and cons of all available options I have come to like and appreciate simplex quite a bit. The client has also gotten a lot better recently.

The main downside on android for me is the battery drain but I think that is a consequence of me not using google push notifications

Simplex is an option, you can host your own servers and it has crossplatform GUI + CLI

I think it’s pretty cool, and it’s pretty easy to set up (there are a lot of options you may wanna look at though)

https://simplex.chat/

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat

You don’t have to download a cracked .iso, you can download legit windows from microsoft’s website, and then use massgrave MAS (Microsoft Activation Script) On github to activate it

Interesting, thank you for letting me know about that.

I wish KDE Connect was able to integrate this feature but I’m sure if it was easy it would already have been done

EDIT: Got GrayJay Fcast set up, pretty cool! Thanks.

As far as the HDMI cord I use that all the time and young people ask “is that aircast?” lol

The category is people who annoy you

the terminal is just an easy gui if you really think about it

How does this work with for example the Titan-M in pixels with graphene?

I believe newer iphones have something similar (?)