Your article neither lists what it deems as good alternatives to Linux; nor does it specifically say that what advice I gave was bad. It also lists people at the end as credible views of which half work for Google. Overall I don't view your article as able to be trustworthy or really changes any views I have.
PublicLewdness
joined 1 year ago
I don't use Youtube; Chrome; or Google Search. I use Abrowser which doesn't play with DRM so I don't visit those sites. I use Ublock origin; Jshelter; Privacy Badger; and LibReDirect. I did this for years before even coming to this thread. It's as simple as making choices which support your values. Google and the like will never change to support your values. Just ditch them and change your behavior.
Quitting from sites you despise is a better option than hopping from frontend to frontend in my view.
I already have enough content to watch between Peertube and Odysee. Youtube is dead to me.
This seems more like a good reason to not use default options than a reason to not use Garuda. Many distros have worse defaults than this.
I use Simple Dialer myself. It's available on F-Droid.
I have been a happy Proton VPN user for years.
I didn't know they even had a VPN but I doubt I would trust them over Mullvad or Proton. Even if what other posters are saying is true and it is just a reskinned Mullvad i'd rather give Mullvad money over Mozilla.
Age is only part of the equation. Older ones can be more secure but you have to go further back and think of more than just the hardware. The big thing is to try to get a laptop that is sold using a non stock BIOS or be comfortable doing the work yourself. Libreboot; Coreboot; or something like it. After that try to use as free as an OS as you can such as Trisquel; Guix; Hyperbola; etc. There are lots of stores that sell laptops that are more secure out of the gate:
https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
https://configurelaptop.eu/nv40-series/
https://store.thonkpeasant.xyz/
https://store.vikings.net/en/?route=common%2Fhome
Basically a computer is only as secure as you are willing to make it. You are limited by the hardware but you choose the hardware so you're only really limited by yourself.
I loved the demo. Just noticed it releases in about an hour which is awesome.
If these people think they deserve privacy then they won't use something that by design invades their privacy. It is the users saying that their privacy doesn't matter by using the software that doesn't care about their privacy. You can think they deserve privacy but sadly they aren't agreeing with you.
I use both Tutanota and Protonmail and love both. Protonmail is based out of Switzerland where Tutanota is based out of Germany. Germany is part of fourteen eyes so I give the win to Proton there. Tutanota has lower prices. Tutanota has apps available in App Image and Flatpak for Linux where Proton is only in the AUR and as a .deb. Tutanota has an Android app on F-Droid where Protonmail you have to navigate their site to find a standalone apk. Both are on the Fediverse but Proton did leave for a while where Tutanota stayed and was more active. Overall both are good choices.