Just a suggestion if you haven't already try opening up the laptop and cleaning out the dust with compressed air. I have been given laptops before because they were "old and slow" and I just needed to clean out the dust and they all of a sudden became so much faster.
Although I know this doesn't help with the 8gb problem but maybe if you don't need 16gb right now you could keep that laptop and upgrade to another when you need 16gb.
I'm sorry for having this posted like 50 times there was a network error and I thought it wasn't posting.
I'm totally on engineeringgamings side. Both apple and Google are both bad companies imo but the Android operating system is probably the best thing Google has made and you have the ability to use it without any of the Google services.
I take advantage of side loading on a daily basis with repository's like f droid and accresent as well as obtanium for installing apps from the source. And for the few apps I need i can use the aurora store all with never signing in with a google account.
For me the main feature of Android is side loading and I can take full advantage of that with no google account. In my opinion the idea of an ecosystem is a negative, i want the ability to not be locked in to any specific hardware or software vendor.
That's an awesome story. If all your doing is browsing the Web or using applications that can easily and stably run on linux or have drop in replacements then linux would definitely be totally viable. On the other hand if you need to install specific proprietary applications and you have to rely on wine then maybe not.
That's the problem I don't log off. It would be good if lemmy could limit the amount of new posts you see each day to only include say the top 10 posts from your subscriptions because yeah... I spend more time here than I really should be.
That's an awesome story. And it really goes against what a lot of people talk about online who often say linux is harder than windows but it's not unless you need windows or macos specific programs.
I've heard of seafile but i remember something about it turned me off, ocis on the other hand sounds awesome, owncloud but written in go? I will definitely look into that and thanks for the recommendation.
That's right I need native drive mounting into dolphin and Macos finder. Seafile doesn't have it for any linux file Explorer which means it won't work for me.
It's the same situation with Linux just a simple login only has very basic protection you need to encrypt your disk if you want to make sure no one can read it.
I haven't used nextcloud but it seems frustrating that there isn't any really good selfhosted file cloud. Nextcloud is really chunky and inefficient but it seems to be the best option despite that.
I guess if it doesn't say they have permission to take screenshots then they don't and won't take screenshots. Or maybe exodus is wrong (i kinda doubt that) but I'm not knowledgeable to make any proper decision.
At any rate I would recommend not having any of those apps on your phone particularly facebook or temu. but if you still need to use them just use the website since that has much less permissions for your device and definitely won't take screenshots.
Checkout exodus privacy in case you didn't already know about it in order to check if any app you have has permissions to take screenshots or anything else.