Mostly LibreWolf, but I’ve been enjoying Zen Browser recently. It’s based on Firefox but with lots of cool extra functionality baked in. It is still in alpha though and I’ve experienced some bugs, including it crashing my whole system a couple of times, but it’s very promising

I’d recommend checking out Distrobox, which allows you to create containers of other Linux distros then export their applications as if they were native. Install a distrobox with one of the distros that this program works with, use the terminal to install the program within it, then if it isn’t immediately in your applications menu use the distrobox export feature to place it there.

You could also layer Nix onto your bazzite image and install it that way, but if you don’t know Nix it’ll be complicated

I’ve been into NixOS recently, not sure if I’m gonna stick with it long term but I’m trying to make it work. I love that it’s immutable while still allowing system packages, and declaratively configuring all of your common programs with home manager is super cool. Just have issues with scripts from the internet and trying to get nix-ld to cooperate

They’re agreeing with you…

On the topic of struggling to connect to self hosted services without a VPS or domain: check out mesh VPNs like ZeroTier or Tailscale. I access all my internal services over Tailscale these days and it’s super simple

By default Apple holds your iCloud encryption keys. So if you message somebody who uses iCloud without advanced data protection turned on then that encryption isn’t worth a whole lot, they can unlock it and have given up that data many times

As somebody who has used graphene for a long time, it certainly comes with sacrifices compared to stock android or iOS just by the nature of being a non-stock OS due to Google’s integrity stuff. The biggest thing I miss from my iPhone is putting my cards into my phone’s wallet and using tap to pay. Graphene can do concert tickets, boarding passes etc but not full GPay functionality. However that’s my biggest gripe. I still use iMessage for group chats that I’ve had for years where people won’t migrate; I host a BlueBubbles server at home and it forwards it all to my pixel. Never had a yubikey so I can’t speak to that issue unfortunately. I wish you the best of luck in finding workarounds or converting back, whatever is best for you. Remember that privacy is about balance; clarify your threat model and your social needs and work to find an appropriate compromise

I was using Nix but ran into some software compatibility issues so I’m back on Arch. It’s obviously not immutable and doesn’t have generations, but using btrfs + snapper + snap-pac + grub-btrfs has given me an automated system of snapshots that let me roll back to my system state before or after each package change (As well as weekly snapshots). It has been rock solid and reliable for me. On my Debian server I just use ZFS and snapshot it weekly, which isn’t as easy to roll back but it does everything I need

I use ntfy on graphene and it works just fine. I had to fully disable battery optimizations but that was it

It literally doesn’t do that

I mean yeah it does include data scraped from the web but that is all three years old at this point. Hardly a search engine by any metric

It’s not doing live queries at all, it just makes a statistically likely answer up from its training data

You should look into Gadgetbridge for your smart watch needs. I don’t think it’s compatible with that watch but if you get one that does work with it, it allows you to use it pretty much like normal but without any proprietary companion apps

Anybody use NixOS? I’m trying to run a regular Linux executable and I can’t figure out what packages to use in Nix-LD to make it work…

its open source and well audited, so no I don’t think they have it backdoored. they get all the info they want from people using google play services at a privileged level, running chrome, and using their other dozen services that come bundled with stock android

It’s definitely a rabbit hole and it took me a few tries to stick with it, but after getting off the ground I don’t think I could ever go back.

Here are some helpful resources for using NixOS:

This video helped me understand the basic setup of flakes and home manager, as well as general NixOS syntax.

This site from Nix lets you look up every package on the repository, and if you click options at the top you can also search through every option related to your system and packages as well.

If you decide to use home manager for declaring user packages and dotfiles, I have been using this site which is similar to the official Nix search but specifically for home manager stuff.

Hope it helps :)

Helix text editor has been in my rotation recently, I like it a lot as a regular nvim user.

Just migrated from Arch to NixOS recently. Nix+Flakes+Home-manager define my entire system, including config files and pinned package versions, using three files. My system has never felt more stable and reproducible. I even found a flake which lets you declaratively manage Flatpaks (nix-flatpak).

If you use signal, the fork Molly has UP support now