I’m not a programmer or coder and I’ve been using Linux for about a year. It’s been really user friendly after I figured out what distros are and which one to choose. I highly recommend Linux Mint Debian Edition. It’s worked quite well for me and was not a huge jump from windows because the user interface is similar. All you need to install it is a thumb drive.

I like playing games on steam and haven’t had any issues. There’s this really cool website called protondb where you can search steam game compatibility with Linux. For the few that aren’t compatible, oftentimes people share fixes which usually consists of copy pasting stuff on there.

LMDE is rock solid. I’ve been using it for a while and It Just Works.

Do you know if there’s a difference in the frequency of releases of the f-droid version and the play store version?

I’m in the US. I wonder if there’s any drawback to using an Australian provider. Like, will it get flagged or something?

I don’t get why they don’t just make it a paid service entirely. Seems odd that email providers like to do that.

Do they compare similarly in regards to privacy?

Care to elaborate?

You can get a used thinkpad T480 off eBay for ~$150. I’ve dropped it multiple times and spilled orange juice on it and it works perfectly fine. No issues running Linux mint Debian edition. Main drawback is the fan which isn’t the most efficient at cooling, but it is upgradeable.

I’ve noticed at least among my peers that the Meta policy change relating to Queer people and Immigrants was the final nail in the coffin.

Unfortunately they will most likely migrate to Instagram as a result, which isn’t good at all especially considering their recently hate speech policy changes targeted towards LGBTQ people and immigrants.

Assuming this email is legit, the best thing that you can do is change as many of your passwords as possible to be unique and complex. You may also want to consider deleting old email addresses and getting new ones. Alternatively you can separate your emails addresses by having one for signing up for spammy services, one for personal stuff, one for work/school, etc. Try not to have much overlap between them all.

Edit: I also highly recommended using a temporary email for signing up for stuff whenever possible. I always use this one , but there are plenty of others too.

I’ve heard of ironfox but it doesn’t look easy to install on Android right now

I wonder if it’ll be added to fdroid or not.

Hm…what’s the best choice to switch to then? I was under the impression that fennec is less private and secure than mull.

Thank you for the tip. Hopefully that’ll fix the issues I’ve been having.

I’ve used freetube for a while and it seems like it’s expierencing the same issues since I’ve been getting a lot of error messages lately.

Yeah, but you can get movie rips off other places like archive.org. Also, in the US at least there’s not much of a penalty for consuming pirated content, only if you distribute it. The chance of that even happening is greatly reduced if you use a VPN.

At this point we should just ditch YouTube entirely, but alas.

Hell, I’m having issues using the plain old YouTube website. It tries to make me sign in.

Is it? I haven’t heard much about mullvad browser.