Congrats!

Depending on your situation, most of your issues can be avoided by not owning a smartphone. It’s extreme (by today’s standards, at least), but it does work. I ditched my smartphone back in 2017 for a cheap flip phone. I can find spare parts on eBay easily. My car is older, so there is no SaaS crap in it. If I need to keep in touch with someone, we can use SMS, call each other or meet in real life. I use a Linux laptop for banking/browsing the web and I keep a physical GPS in my car in case of emergency.

and I agree with you. Privacy is pretty much gone already.

#mp3z

I keep a GPS in my car in case of emergency, but I try to plan my trips ahead by memorising landmarks on OSM. As a species, we are losing our navigation skills.

How much of a PIA is it to install Linux on a Chromebook? I’m looking for a small laptop and Chromebooks are the perfect size.

Linux Mint’s software manager is not bad.

Same here. Mandrake 8.2 was a buggy mess, but I have fond memories of it.

How do you close/minimise the windows?

The solution is to ditch Reddit altogether.

I use rtorrent and it’s pretty straightforward.

This is old school! Great guide, thank you.

FOSS has come such a long way that I don’t need proprietary software anymore for most tasks. The commercial software I use for work is ‘free’ anyway.

At the end of the day, they may be the safest privacy-focused company out there, but they still own my data. Never trust anyone.

I’m pretty sure the app is great, but I am not a fan of putting all my eggs in the same basket. I will keep using Bitwarden for the time being.

It’s horrible. I’ve had to hack together a shell script to switch between countries using a bunch of openvpn config files. The official app broke my Linux Mint network setup.

As an old fart, I’m happy to see that Debian is still cool. All of this arch-manjaro-nix-os-awesome-bspwm-i3-xmonad-flatsnap whippersnapper stuff is over my head.

I think the last time I felt excited about the Internet was when Firefox was released.

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but someone wrote a TUI for Lemmy: https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem

Someone would need to make a request on news.groups.proposals if you want it to be under the big-8. Otherwise, there is alt.*.

Do you mean a BBS that could communicate with the Fediverse via the Activitypub protocol?