Lka1988

Find a well-supported distro (Debian, or Debian-based like Ubuntu and Linux Mint, is ideal - highly stable). Then go through your applications and look for Linux equivalents, or see if the companies behind the apps offer a version for Linux.

I’ve been running Linux Mint Debian Edition (not Ubuntu-based) on my laptop for almost a year now. It’s now my go-to machine for pretty much anything I do outside of my gaming PC (which is also getting Linux Mint soon).

Yes, hence the “sheer dumb luck” comment.

But I understand what you’re saying.

And nowhere to be found is an actual list of affected apps - only a couple examples.

Great job, NCSC 🤨👍

F-Droid is my go-to for anything possible. If I find something I can selfhost and has an app, I make sure the app can be found in F-Droid (or even just an APK shipped in the repo that can be managed with Obtainium), or else I lose interest.

“Oh they’re at the highest level of leadership? They must be really smart”

Meanwhile anyone with a brain understands the Peter principle.

More like they’ll fire you for not babysitting it, then hire some “techy” dudebro at half the wage to keep babysitting it until they get the prompts right (by sheer dumb luck), then fire the dudebro.

Right?

“Oh you typed in a phone number/email address in a required field? Here’s some spam you never asked for that we want you to confirm so we can continue spamming you, please bro just confirm it bro, just type in the code we sent you bro”

I don’t disagree, however, there needs to be some form of security so the average Joe (or their kid) doesn’t accidentally press the wrong button and rm -rf the entire device (exaggerating of course, but you get the idea).

Exactly, and this also ties into my first point that the people who know, know what to look for.

I’ve rooted/jailbroken every single phone and tablet I’ve owned over the last 15 years. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I cannot stand the artificial “security” blocks out in place simply because a company thinks rooted users are somehow cheating or committing fraud or what have you - the people who do that are gonna do it no matter what.

True. Nintendo is extremely cutthroat with their IP, they like going after emulators and similar.

Sony shipped literal rootkits with their software years ago.

True.

email is starting to disappear

The fuck it is lol, do you have any idea how much email is used in literally everything? How old are you?

integrated FTP client

Why though? SFTP is leagues better.

Syncthing isn’t going anywhere. The Android app is the only thing that was dropped, and that was only because of Google’s increasingly-difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.

Syncthing-Fork is the spiritual successor to the original Android app and can be found on F-Droid.

That fork is what the Syncthing devs recommend. Pretty sure it’s fine.

Syncthing was only ever self-hosted…

You really need to clarify your comment, as it’s already causing confusion.

1. The official Syncthing project is going strong, and is not the same thing as the Android app.
2. The Android app was discontinued late last year due to Google’s increasingly difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.
3. Syncthing-Fork is now what Syncthing recommends for Android users.

"[…] This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy.”

That’s a lot of words to say “we made an AI that totally won’t suck up your data, trust me bro”

playstation

The game console, made by Sony, who famously keeps trying to fuck everyone else over?