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  • I think the main problem is that Wayland is not a drop in replacement.

    Every software needs to support Wayland, new environment flags need to be created, flags must be used with electron apps...

    Nvidia support has been spotty and some functionality has not yet been implemented. I use a custom .xcompose file, which doesn't work on electron apps. Let me know if there's a better way to mimic window's dead keys.

    Overall, it's hard for an end user to change from a solution that is working perfectly to a solution that requires a ton of work and doesn't yet have the same functionality.

    Everyone can understand that Wayland is the future but depending on your needs and hardware the current experience can be great or terrible.

  • The cost of making a new request for the rest of the news is higher than just returning the full news. The only use case where this makes sense is where news are behind a paywall and you just want to show a teaser to Anonymous readers.

  • Any exciting features coming up with plasma 6?

  • Tofi is so ugly tho. Do you have any cool dotfiles to share? :D

  • I installed Linux on my personal computer about 3 months ago. I have been running EndeavourOS and recommend it.

    It all started when every browser dropped support on my old MacBook. I installed arch Linux and was completely blown away by the increase in performance. It's insane how much MacOS was holding me back. Insane. Decided to buy a new drive for my desktop computer and installed Manjaro on a trial basis, leaving windows as a fallback option if needed. A week later I installed EndeavourOS and got rid of windows altogether.

    It has been a bumpy road, lots of small little problems. Nvidia GPU certainly doesn't help.

  • Firefox on Android allows you to install uBlock Origin. That alone is a major improvement over Chrome.

    You can also try out Vivaldi, which is based on Chrome and also has a built in ad blocker. I don't think you can install uBlock Origin on Android tho...

  • Our automation tests run on Firefox on odd days and on Chrome on even days. I don't think it ever made a difference, tho. It's getting harder to create bugs that are specific to Firefox or Chrome. Safari, on the other hand, is a fucking mess.

  • Try the startpage search engine. It has been much better for me than DDG.

    Firefox allows you to select a home page, tho? Not sure what your problem with Firefox is.

  • I can't go back to cheap headphones, really. It makes a BIG difference.

  • If you just use the VPN consider moving to Mullvad! I really loved their service but ended up moving to Proton because I use all their services.

  • I have premium and I have received emails regarding the family plan, not popups. And honestly I want those emails because the family is a fantastic value proposition. Too bad you only get 3 custom domains to share with 5 other people, that is really not enough :/

    If they ever change it to at least a domain per person I want them to email me about it.

  • That reminds me, I do own a pine64 device! It was the first thing I got on Kickstarter.

    It's a Pine A64, with 2gb RAM. I wonder if it has enough power to run all those things. It's a budget device from 8 years ago, probably gonna have a hard time but I'll give it a try if I manage to find it!

  • Raspberry Pi was my first choice, but apparently I can't even back order it :/

  • My first attempt was to flash the stock LineageOS and then install the microg packages from the fdroid store. I didn't manage to get that fully working, the microg self-check would have a lot of fails due to version mismatches. I never figured out why. A lot of applications complained about the lack of play services and warned me they wouldn't work, microg was clearly not installed properly.

    Then, I flashed the "LineageOS for MicroG" ROM, which is a LineageOS fork with microg already installed. I had to enable all microg services but the self-check was 100% successful out of the box. No warnings about the lack of play services, everything was mostly working. I installed all software from Fdroid when possible and Aurora Store when not possible.

    Push notifications were a bit of a struggle at first but they did work. I still didn't get notifications to work on Telegram, but "Telegram FOSS" fork seemed to work okay. For GPS/Maps I used Waze (which is technically owned by Google) and it worked flawlessly. I assume you can use other GPS application, I just didn't do my research on this one. For email I am using Proton Mail, which worked as expected.

    The problematic apps were banking/financial apps, which I guess most people can live without. I'm confident the apps would work with microg but simply refused to even start. In Portugal our interbank network developed an application called "MBWAY", which is really ingrained in the portuguese population. Most people use it. It has a ton of cool functiontionality such as sending money to other people just by using the phone number (instantly and without fees), replacing your ATM/food cards for payments and generating virtual credit cards for online shopping.

    I use MBWAY way too much (pun intended), and just decided I didn't want to live without it. I ended up flashing stock LineageOS and their GAPPS package, which contains the play services and play store app. I still install most stuff from the Aurora and Fdroid store. The banking/financial apps are now working.

  • I think the apps would work without Google Play services but they refuse to boot without it. Unfortunately since these are banking and finance apps the only alternative is not to use them.

    I own a Poco F2 Pro, ROM support is somewhat limited. CalyxOS is insupported, it seems. When this phones starts dying I'll probably give GrapheneOS a shot!

  • I'd love to run a system without Google but it's hard. I tried to run LineageOS with microg for a week or two but eventually had to install Google Play Services. Lots of hurdles with push notifications and unfortunately some apps really refused to work when they detected no play services installed. It really sadden me, to be honest. Really wanted to make it work.

    Never gave Linux phones a chance, I rely too much on apps that wouldn't be available.

  • It's not shitty, it's fair. If damage is caused by the overclock why should the manufacturer foot the bill? You modified the product to run outside the specs!