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Still feels crazy though how aware you’re forced to be about ads lurking in every corner. I check many of these boxes plus some others, use independent OSs, 3rd party apps etc. And still, although I hardly see any ads, they are so present just lurking under the surface.

Good example are sponsor comments in yt videos/podcasts. Some I can filter out with Sponsorblock, but the little video glitch reminds you every time that you have to stay safe. Podcast ads can easily be slipped with the fast forward button, but if you’re washing the dishes etc., sometimes you can’t react directly.

It’s really insane how ads are just everywhere these days.

That joy when half the content of the page is in an embedded .png file that you can neither read with a screen reader nor select/translate…

Nah, my village just had the bin

A full potato? Lol, when I was young I had nothing but a french fry, scavenged from a McDonald’s bin.

Great move in these times where RAM is cheap and widely available

I found this video helpful but it’s a few months old already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPN3Zpzusg

Depending on your goals, you could try to find used components that are incompatible with windows 11 but still perhaps powerful enough as this guy explains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtMGnpdqBKw

Hard to say without more context. I’d check the existing distributions and pick one that suits you. Their websites usually have lists with compatible devices.

PostmarketOS is interesting for tinkering, grapheneOS just works reliably. Everything else in between

But I’m level 3 genius!

Consider yourself lucky if you haven’t been there in the times before systemd. It streamlined a lot of things under the hood that were stupidly varied among distros, like where certain configurations were placed. Really, nobody needed that and it broke a lot. Systems also introduced some sanity through service dependency awareness, e.g., which service needs to be running before the next can be started. You might find that obvious, but Linux was still stuck in the 80s on that level and essentially a guessing game.

That said, if you want to try something else, the most reasonable but quite involved alternative is probably guix with shepherd.

Okay, but why not create more work for yourself by rebuilding everything from scratch?

Can’t believe nobody here mentioned nixOS so far? How about moving all of your configs in a flake and manage all of your systems with it?

Couple it to your smart watch, backup every 10 seconds, and make it vibrate when successful

GDPR already exists, but there is no such thing as permanence in politics. Constant struggle

Meanwhile, big AI vacuums up the entirety of music produced by everyone from piracy sites for profit and noone bats an eye

Sounds a lot like a license troll. Probably the specific court and potential violation of a law were picked with care. Perhaps they looked through valve’s terms in advance to find a loophole, design their own terms to exploit that etc.

Agree and this is very informative about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA9Xq7hb6Q0

He also has another video somewhere to stress test some of the disk types I think

Recently took the leap to try it out and it’s surprisingly nice. Especially thanks to the automatic rollbacks, in case something breaks. Only took me a few years of getting nagged and learning about it, and multiple attempts at reading through the documentation.

But for a beginner? No way. NixOS has a serious documentation issue. Also the community structure is a big plus in Debian.

Curiously people seem much more privacy aware with these

Now what does that tell us about the sanity and safety?