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MagneticFusion, to asklemmy in What phone do you sugest for your grandparents?

it is basic but you rum into compatibility issues every once in a while which they will not be able to figure out. And also, if you don’t agree with the Foss apps, it means you will just install the regular familiar google apps, which if you do that, does not make much of a difference if you are on GOS or stock Android

MagneticFusion, to asklemmy in What phone do you sugest for your grandparents?

probably the worst thing for elderly considering how many very minor for us but very difficult for older folks issues you will come across

MagneticFusion, to asklemmy in What Linux OS & Desktop Environment (DE) or Windows Manager (WM) do you use?

Mint XFCE but soon switching to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed with Gnome

MagneticFusion, to asklemmy in What Linux distro should I choose?

If this is your first time using Linux, just use Linux Mint. Stable, popular, good package support, etc. Once u feel more ready you can dip your hands in other distros.

MagneticFusion, to linux in Switching from Linux Mint to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed very soon. Any advice?

Do you use Arch btw?

MagneticFusion, to asklemmy in I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

you are being wildly optimistic. AI confidently lies to you about purely objective things such as asking it to write a program and it confidently writes it wrong and tells you that it is correct over and over. Something like psychology and mental health is far from objective and is constantly evolving, and also differs from person to person based on a gazillion different variables, the most important of them being emotion, something a robot will most likely never have. Even some living animals do not have a wide range of emotions such as snakes that only feel fear and anger, they don’t feel sadness or happiness or anything. What would make you think that artificially created robots would have enough emotional intelligence to replace human psychologists within 5 years?

MagneticFusion, to privacy in How to use RCS on Android while giving minimal data to Google?

I understand all the downsides of RCS. I am not saying I will drop everything and proudly use RCS, but the fact of the matter is it is a massive improvement over SMS in terms of privacy and security and just quality. I want to know how I will be able to do this using Google’s Messages app on a currently deGoogled phone running GrapheneOS, while providing the least amount of data possible (ideally would like to avoid installing sandboxed Google Play services)

MagneticFusion, to linux in what caused you to get into Linux?

Privacy

MagneticFusion, to privacy in Privacy benefits of Custom roms

not having gapps is a MASSIVE privacy improvement as it is

MagneticFusion, to linux in Linux Mint XCFE -> Gnome?

I do eventually plan on switching over to OpenSUSE when I have more free time on my hands for a full fresh setup and to learn a new distro, but as of now I am a busy college student so I am not looking to switch until the summer

MagneticFusion, to linuxmemes in It's (usually) already installed

Vivaldi is a great power user browser, which is generally what the Linux audience is. Firefox is pretty good for power users too and it takes the cake when it comes to privacy and security, but Vivaldi just has those exclusive features that you just can not replicate on Firefox.

MagneticFusion, to asklemmy in I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

A computer will never have emotions the same way a human has emotions. It is not a living creature. True and genuine human connection is something that will only become more invaluable with the rise of AI

MagneticFusion, (edited ) to privacy in Is brave the only browser with fingerprint randomization?

I believe no. I’m running Firefox with arkenfox user.js and when I take this test www.bromite.org/detect it shows a new and different fingerprint if everytime i close and reopen the browser. Feel free to try it for yourself.

And while Brave may be private from outsiders, it is far from private from Brave Software themselves and I wouldn’t trust them if I was honest with you. If you want an alternative chromium based browser, check out Vivaldi. They don’t have aaaas many privacy features built in as Brave does but you can still get very private and obviously tack on Ublock origin and a customized DNS block list like you normally would with any other browser. And they are significantly more trustworthy than Brave

MagneticFusion, to linux in I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

KiCAD is a gem

MagneticFusion, to asklemmy in I use Brave to test whether my websites work on Chromium browsers, but their scummy actions lately make me want to find a new Chromium browser to test with. What's the best Chromium based browser?

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