I rely on friends’ recommendations and local Telegram channels

Actually, it’s not OK to bother to breathe. Your body is supposed to rely on reflexes to do that, so you shouldn’t really notice.

They went as far here in Ukraine as making some services exclusive to those who have the app. The official government app for digital documents and services, Diia, also has stupid integrity check, which makes it unable to be installed from Aurora Store, which makes me cut out from such services, because I don’t have Google Services installed. By the way, there are Google trackers in the app.

Most of the cost from not moving from requiring phone to be connected to people’s accounts and not desiring for the central server to federate with others.

“It’s not censorship, it’s counter-disinformation measures!! 1!”

Yeah, the town mentioned in the quote is, in fact, Pripyat, my bad. Still, Chornobyl is another Ghost town and the exclusion Zone is named after it, so it’s the town people recognise more.

Chornobyl, Ukraine. “50 thousand people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town”

There are many more ghost towns now, due to the war. Adviivka, Bakhmut and many others, some small, some relatively big. Everyone has heard of those small cities.

Where the fuck did you get “about 20 friends”? I mean, holy shit, are you the extrovert guy from this meme?

I have a dedicated directory with subdirectories for each project and that’s it

I highly recommend checking out either Fedora KDE Spin or Fedora Kinoite! Both are great choices, especially if you want to leverage the power of Flatpak for app installation, as they both push the user towards it. Additionally, if you ever need to install .deb packages, you can easily do so using Ubuntu in toolbox.

Alternatively, EndeavourOS might also be a good fit for you, providing a user-friendly Arch installation with a rolling release system. You’ll have a modern and flexible environment while still being able to use Flatpak effortlessly. You can also install distrobox there to, again, use apt inside of an Ubuntu system.

Whichever you choose, you can’t go wrong! Happy tinkering and remember that the best way to choose a distro is to try it out.

I’m just using Arch in my toolbox. Can’t run into upgrade troubles if you run a rolling release system

ChatGPT does with extensions, but you need to buy the premium subscription

For those who don’t know about Escobar’s axiom: https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/escobars-axiom-of-choice-1

That’s a feature I didn’t know I needed. Too bad Connect is proprietary IIRC

Listening to Tik-Toks or other stuff like that on speakers in public.

Flatpak does NOT provide sandboxing. It containerises your applications. It’s better for permission management but by no means makes the system invulnerable to malware.

Mine too didnd’t notice. Non-tech savvy people don’t even know what an Internet browser is :)

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That’s a duckosaur!