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  • I'm on mobile so can't see the sidebar...

    Then I recommend upgrading your mobile experience to one that does. I personally prefer Voyager, "an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too."

    Voyager PWA: https://vger.app/ Source code: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

  • Pixel 7 / pro (8 I think is too pricey, but that phone is my personal benchmark)

    8th generation Pixels provide a minimum guarantee of 7 years of support from launch instead of the previous 5 year minimum guarantee. 8th generation Pixels also bring support for the incredibly powerful hardware memory tagging security feature as part of moving to new ARMv9 CPU cores. GrapheneOS uses hardware memory tagging by default to protect the base OS and known compatible user installed apps against exploitation, with the option to use it for all apps and opt-out on a case-by-case basis for the few incompatible with it.

    https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices

  • will only hurt their attempts to make Apple interoperate...this will only hurt adoption on the long run.

    Any interoperating from Apple will be minimal and begrudging, at best. Google should not hold themselves/their tech and their users back for the distant hope that Apple will be cooperative (because Apple won't regardless).

    That said, Google really should open up the API.

  • Why does Kagi Search require an account? Kagi Search requires an account only because it is a paid service which requires an account for the transaction. Note that Kagi does not collect any personal information for billing and that you can even use an anonymous payment card such as Privacy if you want to.

    I'm not terribly thrilled with it, but a lot of VPNs do as well. Plus, this is their business model. If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. If they're caught double dipping (taking our money and lying about logging to sell), they'll be out of business shortly.

    They do claim to log practically nothing. https://kagi.com/privacy

  • Just call instead and explain you've sent them emails. Oh, you're not getting the email because of your government? That sounds like a you problem that you need to fix. I might be forced to take my business elsewhere.

  • If you search a lot, you should really look into Kagi Search, "a highly accurate, lightning-fast, user-centric, 100% privacy-respecting search engine with results augmented by non-commercial indexes and personalized searches." Much better than the ad-supported ones, or even DDG, in my experience.

  • I can confirm HP is still the WORST.

    Well, I haven't been in an HP in a long time, but them forcing proprietary ink in their printers or bricking it is enough for me to not buy their computers as well (laptops or desktops).

  • It literally doesn't. Please stop lying. Everybody can see you lying.

    We're done here, kiddie.

    Calling me a liar (when it's easily provable I'm not, I even included a screenshot for you) devolving to insults, calling me a kiddie and an idiot? If you can't even formulate an argument without insults and you fail twice to read a link, yep, we're done. Enjoy your day/night.

  • Nowhere in your link does it actually say that.

    It's hard for me to take you seriously when it does and I literally copy/pasted from the link. Even if you don't read the whole page, you can't even do a CTRL+F correctly.

  • I'm saying their source code is available to its users for auditing, changing, redistributing without risk of being sued for intellectual property violations.

    Closed source means computer programs whose source code is not published except to licensees.

    We're saying the same thing, you just refuse to attach "closed source" to its definition. So answer me this: can anyone freely use it? Can only licensees use it? If the answers are no and yes respectively, that's closed source.

    I'm saying nothing of the sort.

    You absolutely are. You're using the word's definition (source code available only to licensees), but won't say the actual word (closed source).

  • if I were to call anything about it weird, it would be the use of a derpy, chonky dinosaur

    Bluefin is a Deinonychus antirrhopus, a theropod dinosaur whose name means "terrible claw". Discovered in the 1960s, she revolutionized our understanding of dinosaurs. Before Deinonychus, dinosaurs were often seen as slow, dim-witted creatures. However, she shattered these misconceptions, offering insight into the dynamic world of hot-blooded, rapidly evolving animals that were masters of their domain. We aim for our desktop to embody a similar nimbleness. Power and adaptability.

  • No Molly, an independent Signal fork for Android, listing? Among other things, Molly handles data encryption at rest better and also has Tor support...which your spreadsheet doesn't even list Tor support.

    I can understand not wanting to including Molly due to it being only on Android (though I think/hope a lot of privacy enthusiasts run GrapheneOS on Pixels) even though it currently rides the Signal servers so in compatible with other Signal clients, but at least add Tor compatibility, please.

  • As of my understanding, immutable systems are useful for Devices that are more bound to change, like a Desktop...I do not see much benefit here for a stable server system.

    This logic is kind of backwards, or rather incomplete. Immutable typically means that the core system doesn't change outside of upgrades. I would prioritize putting an immutable OS on a server over a desktop if I was forced to pick one or the other (nothing wrong with immutable on both), simply because I don't want the server OS to change outside of very controlled and specific circumstances. An immutable server OS helps ensure that stability you speak of, not to mention it can thwart some malware. The consequences of losing a server is typically higher than losing a desktop, hence me prioritizing the server.

    In a perfect world, you're right, the server remains stable and doesn't need immutablitiy...but then so does the desktop.