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she’s providing games for free, who cares if she’s a narcissist.

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Steam is the same. It’s just a license to play the game. GOG is better in this regard.

Librewolf but like... for chromium?

My main browser is Librewolf but I keep a chromium browser just in case. Previously used brave but their flatpak is shit. Ungoogled chromium seems ok but it looks like they don’t change much from upstream chromium. Any good chromium browsers which harden their browsers like librewolf does for more privacy?

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Which search engine do you use? If FOSS, which engine do it use? VPN?

There’s a relevant difference here. If the proprietary software runs on the server side and everything on the client side it’s free software, that’s very different than running a proprietary web browser on your own machine.

So as long as my search engine does not execute proprietary JavaScript and I can connect to my VPN using the OpenVPN or Wireguard client, it’s okay.

Nonetheless, it’s of course very much preferable that the server side is free software too.

I don’t care if the proprietary software comes from a mega corp or a small startup. It’s still proprietary.

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didn’t you read my comment? That whole post is marketing excuses for not being free software.

Try compiling the “source code” they release and tell me if you get a usable version of Vivaldi.

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Vivaldi is not private. A good browser? It surely is. But it’s not private.

It’s also proprietary software, which is unacceptable. And yeah, don’t repeat to me their marketing techniques. Yes, they release some partial source code. In practice, that’s the same as releasing nothing. Just a marketing trick.

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it’s more than enough for the very few sites not working in Librewolf.

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no, do not mistake yourself. they are not proprietary blobs. the whole browser is proprietary. they release a tarball with the chromium code + some changes. but the whole UI which are the main changes are proprietary (after all, like any Chromium browser, it’s mostly a re-skinned Chromium, they don’t make any changes to the engine).

It’s a proprietary browser. They just release a bunch of code for marketing purposes. Don’t believe me? Try compiling it, and tell me if what you get is Vivaldi minus some blobs.

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Not all what is proprietary soft is crap

You’re wrong. For privacy, being proprietary is one of the biggest red flags.

nor all FOSS is the panacea

That’s absolutely true tho.

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you decide to draw the line at GrayJay just because it’s only source available?

I draw the line at the firmware level, yes, because sadly it’s insanely difficult to get a device that can be 100% free software. But from the OS level and up, everything that runs in my devices is free software. That of course includes apps. And Grayjay is no exception to that.

Source available or proprietary is the same to me, it restricts my freedoms as a computer user to not be able to freely modify and distribute my programs as I please.

Actually, I’d prefer for the Grayjay devs just to make it fully proprietary instead of falsely claiming it to be “open source” and using it as marketing. I have no problem with people using proprietary or source available programs. What bothers me are the misleading claims of the creator calling Grayjay open source, when clearly it is not.

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you can keep your proprietary trash for yourself

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I run GNU/Linux on a Corebooted laptop. That’s my main device and the one I normally use to access Lemmy.

And FYI, I don’t run any proprietary app on my phone which runs a free software build of Android. Everything is installed from F-Droid.

It’s true that it runs proprietary firmware, but there’s currently no way around it. Unlike Grayjay, which is proprietary just because their greedy creators didn’t want people forking their app.

Fortunately, Invidious, Piped, Libretube and Newpipe all exist and work flawlessly so there’s no excuse to use proprietary trash like that.

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for OP. But there are multiple comments saying they are working normally.

I don’t use Piped a lot, but I can verify that Invidious and Newpipe are working as normal.

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And even beyond that, because any distro that ships Wayland by default does so because it has XWayland as a backup, which is essentially running an X server inside Wayland.

[SOLVED] Brave Browser not launching in LXQT in Debian 12 (lemmy.ml)

Hi folks. I have installed Debian 12 bullseye with the lxqt desktop environment. I have run lxqt sessions on it using xfwm4, as well as i3wm, as the window manager. However, for some weird reason brave browser would not launch - neither in xfwm4 nor in i3-wm. So I tried to run the command in the shell to see what output it would...

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If you really need Brave, install the Flatpak. Not official, but neither it is the one from the package manager.

I’d also recommend to just install Ungoogled Chromium instead of Brave and be done with it.

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Write an article.

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docker images have a ton of extra processes from the OS they were built in. Normally a light distro is used to build images, like Alpine Linux. but still, you’re executing a lot more processes than if you were installing things natively.

Of course the images does not contain the kernel, but still they contain a lot of extra processes that would be unnecessary if executing natively.

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honestly, it’s not worth it. hard drives are cheap, just plug one via USB 3 and make all the write operations there. that way your little SBC doesn’t suffer the performance overhead of using docker.

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after a day of messing with it I just wanted to thank you again. I love the 1 FPS mode, it’s more than enough for me and it isn’t wasting resources. I don’t need to refresh my battery percentage or disk space more than once per second.

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This looks great. Just what I wanted. I hate i3-status resource consumption.

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that’s very plausible, I didn’t stop to look into it further than a quick read.

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if you’re a developer, there’s a very easy and practical way of testing this without trusting anyone’s (not even Google’s) word:

compile the most basic of flutter apps or some demo and see if the app makes any kind of request to the internet.

edit: a single web search reveals that Flutter has indeed Google telemetry enabled by default. developing your web searching skills is a good habit for developers.

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How can I intercept this traffic quickly?

Assuming an Android app, this is the app that I use: www.f-droid.org/…/com.emanuelef.remote_capture/

If you’re building a program for desktop, Wireshark works great.

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in that case, you’d be better by not using Google Messages. According to the discussion I linked there seem to be a few other proprietary RCS clients in the Play Store, other than Google’s and Samsung. Not sure of this myself, but it’s worth looking into it.

If you don’t want to install Google Play services, your best bet is trying your luck with any RCS client other than Google’s. Even Samsung’s (if it even works outside of Samsung phones) has a bigger chance of working without Google Services installed.

Once you find one that works on a degoogled Android, just follow the usual recommendations: install it in a separated profile, give it as little permissions as possible, maybe a VPN if you don’t want them to get your IP (although given that your RCS provider will probably be your ISP this might prove pointless), etc.

And remember to assume that it is not private at all and they are harvesting all your metadata. The encryption is proprietary too, so there’s that.

Edit: I just remembered that encryption is probably exclusive to Google Messages. So you’re screwed, I highly doubt Google Messages will work without Google Services.

I’m guessing that in the near future when Apple launches RCS, we will have more options in Android too. So just keep up with the RCS news.

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Google’s implementation of RCS is proprietary and that’s what most providers use. Relevant discussion here:

forum.f-droid.org/t/…/13423

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yeah, that makes it look like a bot posted it

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