Finding anything FOSS with Spotify integration will be basically impossible. Clock You is a great clock/alarm app in general, of course no Spotify integration though. But you can choose custom music you have downloaded on your device.
Going back to a "normal" text editor after using Vim for a few years would be horrible
Life without qBittorrent would also be pretty difficult, hell no, I'm not paying for DRM content that requires proprietary software to watch
Corporations steal from us all the time, and they don't even let us buy their content, they only sell limited access that can be revoked at any time (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/9531016 or https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12904663). Under these circumstances, there are no ethical issues with piracy.
Personally I run everything behind a VPN. Browsing the web without one kinda feels like a bad idea, like why should I expose my approximate home location to every website I go to and every server I connect to? Why should I let my ISP see which websites I'm visiting? And why should I trust my government to have access to all of that data?
That's just my personal opinion, but centrists are often enablers of right-wing extremists/fascists. Since they don't really have their own opinion and political stance, they just kinda take the average of the left and the right-wing. This starts to become a big problem, when the right suddenly radicalizes, and the centrists now also move further to the right.
WriteFreely and Plume are based on ActivityPub and can be followed from the Fediverse (in addition to RSS of course)
That bad encryption was not cracked for now
There is no encryption by default if you haven't noticed. There only the pseudo-E2EE which has been proven to have critical weaknesses: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
can't be enabled by default
Yes it can, every proper E2EE messenger works like that. Signal, Threema, hell even WhatsApp uses E2EE by default.
no support for group chats
Signal has had group chats for many years now. WhatsApp uses the same encryption protocol and it also works just fine. Stop spreading misinformation, and use Signal if you want an actual secure, end-to-end encrypted, open and transparent messenger.
I tried Floorp and didn't like it either, I'm glad there's a more promising looking project out there now. Still great to see more development in the Firefox/Gecko ecosystem. We don't need more Chromium garbage.
Thunderbird is the best IMO. Mailspring is also pretty good.
It's great for offline, singleplayer games. Unfortunately some multiplayer games just refuse to work on Linux, because of the anti-cheat. But I mostly use my Steam Deck when I'm traveling and have a very poor or no internet connection, so I can only play singleplayer games anyway.
the only affected IPs are of Invidious instances
That's not true, I just got a "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" message on the official fucking YouTube website using Firefox behind Mullvad VPN. It's also very common to see this on Piped instances. The invidious team seems to have developed a fix though: https://github.com/iv-org/youtube-trusted-session-generator
No one ever said that this was a complete list of all shitty countries in the world.
I used to prefer Plume because it's written in Rust, but, well, it seems like it isn't maintained right now, so WriteFreely is currently the better option
I'd say Nix requires some experience, so if you are new to Linux, definitely go with Flatpak. I believe Flatpak also provides stronger sandboxing.
Countries I like in no particular order: Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, New Zealand
Mull
There are many open WriteFreely instances: https://writefreely.org/instances
Write.as is kinda the flagship instance
Well, you can change your IP as often as you want. You can go to a completely different ISP in a different country in a matter of seconds.
So if you are using one tool to access YouTube while being logged into Google on your browser, doesn't that defeat the purpose of the VPN?
Yeah, I didn't assume anyone in this community would log in to YouTube, but maybe I'm wrong
Hell yeah, fuck Nintendo, don't let them take away your right to emulate the games you paid for (hell, I don't mind if you emulate games you didn't pay for, Nintendo is a massive scumbag company, it's totally fine to pirate their stuff)
That's right, but it's not properly implemented in Telegram. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
I've been addicted to Unrailed recently, it's genuinely a great game that (at least for me) never gets boring. I'm desperately waiting for Unrailed 2. Even the multiplayer works really well on the Steam Deck/Linux in general.
For any Linux users, ANGRYsearch and Fsearch are pretty good alternatives to Everything, fd is great for the command line
Supports FF Sync.
LibreTube could do that like forever
Sure, CoreHunt is nice, but I still prefer ANGRYsearch or just good old fd or find from the command line
Great! Fuck the chromium monopoly
Tailscale might be the easiest and best solution for this. It's like Hamachi, but more modern and much better. They even have a guide on how to set it up on the Steam Deck: https://tailscale.com/blog/steam-deck
Not sure why so many people are downvoting
Nothing about the program itself is subscription based. All of the normal features of an email client (that you would also find in Thunderbird) are available for free. You only need to pay if you want to use their services like Send later, read receipts or link tracking, because these requires backend servers and actually costs the money.
I don't like the left-right political spectrum. It's not particularly good for explaining a more complicated political stance (e.g. like yours or mine). I see centrists as those who don't really have any opinion, not people who agree with some left-wing and some right-wing ideas. I would definitely describe myself as a leftist, because I agree with almost all basic leftist concepts, but there are other ones that I strongly disagree with. But I'm definitely nowhere near the political right wing, as even though I might agree with a few right-wing concepts, I absolutely despise of their fundamental ideas. But unfortunately I see various centrist parties in different countries that shift further and further to the right, because right-wing populists are gaining momentum and coming up with dumber and dumber, radical ideas.
Pixels are nice because of their hardware secure element and great Verified boot support, even with a custom OS. And those new Pixel 9's are really fire 🔥
If you want to use YouTube for that, it seems like ReVanced is your only option. But you can also create an account on a Piped instance, and have your playlists synced. LibreTube is the only app that supports this.
DivestOS is pretty good. I'd stay away from /e/OS, CalyxOS and LineageOS though, as they have some pretty serious security problems.
Fairphones aren't even anywhere close to meeting the security requirements of GrapheneOS. Daniel Micay explained this many times, most notably in this Reddit thread (before they left Reddit and switched to their own, self-hosted forum) https://redlib.nohost.network/r/GrapheneOS/comments/10b5x4n/has_anyone_managed_to_install_grapheneos_on_a/j67pbny
I just don't want any proprietary software on my devices (for many reasons, most importantly privacy and user freedom). I can use a VPN to privately connect to the YouTube backend, but things get much harder when the proprietary spyware is actually on my device.
There's a fork called Input Leap that is working on Wayland support. Most of the maintainers of Barrier have now moved on and are working on Input Leap.
You ssh into your phone? Or you use Termux on your phone to ssh into another machine?
OSS Document Scanner is great. It's also available in the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repository: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.akylas.documentscanner