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I know it's officially for-hey-oe, but I always say forge + joe cause I find it easier. I used to say "forjo" (like "forge" ending in an "o", or "for joe" sped up) as well.

Last 4 or so phones have all been GrapheneOS (I'm not buying new phones all the time to be clear; I use phones till they break; I'm just a long-time user) and yeah I've really had no problems to speak of. I currently have a separate profile with Play services for certain apps, and also just to isolate non-privacy-respecting apps that I have to have installed for whatever reason.

Almost all the apps I use are FOSS apps who are aware that a significant amount of their userbase will be using various AOSP forks so I've not run into any app compatibility issues. Even back when I used banking apps, I'd used 4 different banks' apps on GrapheneOS and all of them worked completely fine. Now I don't have a banking app because I won't install proprietary software unless I actually have to for some reason, and I can bank on the web just fine.

Ah right, my bad. Well I'll check if Graphene has it when I have the time to look through my settings today

Thanks! I also have a Pixel but with Graphene not stock Pixel Android OS. I'll see if I have that setting :)

Edit: That link seems to suggest it's for Pixel 4 only, which is not my phone. Shame, but I'll check later to see if I have the setting anyway

I imagine these online portals would cotton on quite quick and start rejecting zero byte files. But good idea while it works

For example, my phone will limit it’s charging speed at night when I have an alarm set, because it assumes I won’t need it until my alarm goes off

Is this a setting I can use in Android/Graphene?

"datum" is the singular, but you're right that it's not really grammatically plural since you'd say "the data was stolen" not "the data were stolen". I think the latter would technically also be valid; my interpretation would be that the latter is "countable" plural, so there are specific discrete datums that were stolen.

I wouldn't say that I go to the effort of making myself unidentifiable, but my "defaults" are with relative anonymity and privacy in mind anyway, ie donations in Monero, anti-fingerprinting, VPN, lack of persistent browser storage, full disk encryption. So I guess I don't take steps because my regular browsing is already reasonably private, private enough that I don't feel the need to take extra steps for minor shit like buying drugs online or donating to things. I do take extra steps to make sure there's no simple way something can be traced to me for more serious stuff but I don't think making a donation to a piracy website is serious.

In terms of using paypal, unless it's illegal or criminalised to donate to piracy in your country, it should be fine too. Normally it's just actually pirating (or sometimes only distributing) that's illegal so donating shouldn't be prosecutable, again unless that actually is a law where you live.

I think "couldn't get past partitioning the drive" means they managed to partition the drive but couldn't get beyond it ie couldn't do any more after that.

Almost no one using Windows installed it.

I think Windows installs are really common, at least going off of the size of online gaming communities who generally build their own PCs.

You do not risk going to jail, come on lol. People are so dramatic about doing the most minor unenforced crimes I swear

Which one are you calling fringe? These are all popular distros, with the exception of maybe Gentoo but that's still very well known even if not that many people daily drive it. Also still makes sense in this context to include a well known distro that's also known for being relatively hard to install

Really? Never installed win11 but I remember win10 installs being similarly straightforward to e.g. a calamares install or something like that.

Yeah it's server-side with .ml. You can switch to a French instance, or I imagine many English-speaking instances don't block that word. I guess you can try view that comment from different instances to check.

If you want to paste into VMs, you can use spice, or if there's no graphical environment in the VM then SSH into it and paste into your terminal

I would say not enough info, because on Linux there's not one particular way to do "startup applications". It could be a service managed by your service manager (systemd in Manjaro's case), but unlikely if this is a graphical application you're talking about. It could be started by your ~/.bash_profile (or zsh equivalent). It could be started by your DE or Wayland compositor. If this is a graphical application (i.e. an actual window pops up when you log in) I'm guessing maybe ~/.bash_profile, since how would this AUR package know to add itself to startup programs in your DE or compositor or WM when there are so many options this could be?

What AUR package did you install?

It's fine to be paid for labour eg programming.

If you see a game you think you'd enjoy, go for it.

Personally I find that I'm not super into video games as an adult just because I don't have the time, and I don't find them very fun in short bursts. And when I do have the time I always think to myself I'd be better off spending it on a "productive" hobby like programming. That's an entirely personal thing for me, but it may be something you want to consider, ie if you want to learn a hobby that's also considered a real world skill so to speak, and one that could give you products of your hobby you can actually use and enjoy (eg programming, crochet, cooking, woodworking, etc—so creative hobbies).

Also, feel free to pirate a game if you don't know if it's worth the investment, especially since you won't have a reference point of games you do enjoy. I have no ethical quandary with pirating any game, but if you do, you can just buy the game if you like it, and that way you won't waste money on a game you only get 5% of the way through before getting bored.

It is legal but in any case why do you care. If it were illegal it's not something that would be enforceable or something they'd be likely to "catch" you for, and it's definitely not unethical. Everyone should be free to do whatever they want with published literature.

Yeah, I do miss that, but idk how much of it is nostalgia and how much is an absolute aesthetic preference. I think the main reason for the change though is Microsoft trying to make Windows work well on mobile devices though, meaning forgoing the aero and more expensive VFX.

Wish some DEs would make their default style more like a win7 era style. Would be nice to have the variety.