I use CalyxOS and will also suggest that people use GrapheneOS instead. I'm more comfortable with MicroG but I appreciate that Graphene is technologically the more impressive project of the two.
To your point about tinkering, GrapheneOS has an excellent web installer. CalyxOS has a fairly decent install procedure but is maybe slightly more involved.
If you want to make a move in favour of privacy you might want to ditch the smart watch you currently use if it's a proprietary system that also leverages Google play services, as your health and biometric data is also very valuable to these companies.
Regarding root, I feel as if root access has been more or less phased out in custom ROMs today, likely for attestation purposes but I suppose also to prevent end users from causing irreparable system damage.
It's valuable information that will help them improve the state of their software and drivers. The why should be obvious enough, though it's not nice to have it forced upon you.
Fully understand the problematic precedent set by default / always on telemetry, but do we have anything to suggest that this collects any form of PII? I would imagine the data they collect can be previewed on their ToS or something along those lines but I haven't been able to find it.
Furthermore, is it safe to presume this change is specific to beta Arc drivers on Windows, or is this likely to become the norm?
Adobe may never do this. You might have some luck looking into alternative apps to the ones you work with.
There are some very compelling, cross platform, FOSS alternatives to Photoshop (GIMP, Krita), Illustrator (Inkscape), InDesign (Scribus), maybe premier pro (Davinci Resolve isn't FOSS, but it is cross platform. You can also try shortcut, openshot, kdenlive but they're not as advanced).
One thing I miss, however, is the interoperability between Adobe apps. Like copying a vector from illustrator into an InDesign document. I couldn't do the same between Inkscape and Scribus
I would check the mice that are compatible with libratbag/Piper. I believe Logitech have a MMO style mouse with 12ish side buttons on the support list but I would need to double check.
With that said, Logitech have been known to use shitty switches in some of their G series mice. I had to resolder my G903 ones, and I took the opportunity to make other modifications (larger battery + glass skates).
I don't believe these mice support Bluetooth in addition to their proprietary 2.4 protocol either, so that might be a bit of a deal breaker, though I personally am not too keen on BT for wireless peripherals.
That's fair enough. I was under the impression that the all feed for Lemmy wasn't designed to behave like Reddits one, and that communities had equal discoverability regardless of topic or content.
I'm at this stage where I don't really know if my favorite tech communities have moved over yet, and to your point, I should really set aside some time to put out the relevant keywords of the ones that still come to mind. I get a pleasant surprise when I see an old favourite show up in all.
And whilst I do have very specific interests concerning sites like reddit (primarily tech food, pets, training), I am open to finding new things to be interested in, if that makes sense. I feel like the all feed on both Reddit and Lemmy has been helpful with that in the past. This is how I stumbled upon projects like qmk, coreboot, microg, super random stuff like that.
As an aside, I'm extremely thankful that Lemmy let's you block communities at the account level at all. I don't believe Reddit accommodated this, and I had to rely heavily on a third party mobile app for an 'optimal' experience
Attempting to do this will occasionally crash the app for me.
Pixel 7 android 13 Edit: has since been resolved