During the Biden administration I should have gone to the US over 25 times, and 3 more during Trump’s new term, and not once have they asked me for anything other than “how long are you here for” and “what’s the purpose of your trip”.

I guess I’m lucky, because I don’t have a single mainstream social media account.

Last windows I used was 10,and I’ve always found it lacking in the screen capture arena. Full disclosure, I had no idea Flameshot had a windows version.

Gnome has an extension called GSConnect which is their re-implementation of KDE Connect. I have in my tablet and phone, and it’s flawless.

But don’t change yet, give me until the weekend, I’ll spin Fedora with KDE in my laptop, and come back with my experience with FlameShot.

No need to change if that’s what you like and it ends up working.

Flameshot does require some tweaking to work anyway, so I’ll need check if it’s the same in KDE.

I honestly haven’t tried on KDE, but I can give it a shot this coming weekend and report back. I’m up for a distro hopping round anyway.

But in Gnome, dual screens, it works like a charm, also on Wayland.

Yeah, but this is about self hosting and it’s costs, so the comparison is relevant.

FlameShot. In my opinion, the best and most versatile screen capture app for Linux distros, especially if you use Gnome as your DE.

If you’re referring to the com.android.adservices.api module, in the GrapheneOS discussion forums they clarify this: “This is an open source component of the Android Open Source Project providing an implementation of alternatives to tracking users for targeted advertising. It isn’t enabled by default, doesn’t use any Google services and is not a privacy issue in any way.”

They also mention that: “GrapheneOS isn’t going to enable these features since we don’t have any reason to enable targeted advertising.”

We all would love to be able to reset this, but we can’t, plus it appears to be irrelevant to our privacy as long as we don’t install Google Play Store and Google Play Services (which I have chosen to NOT install).

We can’t reset of disable it because, and I quote: “However, the systems it provides are much better than the approaches preceding them based on identifiers. Google Play provides an optional advertising ID which can be regenerated or disabled but most other SDKs don’t provide similar controls.”, so it seems that, because I don’t have the optional advertising ID that Google Play provides, I can’t, nor do I need to, reset or delete the ID.

This is the link to that discussion: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/2156-why-theres-a-package-named-android-adservices-installed-out-of-the-box/10

I get it, but GrapheneOS is meant to “disallow” those things precisely because they invade our privacy.

Genuinely curious here, I but what restrictions?

I do the exact same thing in my Chromecast w/GTV (yes, and also a firestick 4K).

These are android devices, and that’s how android works and competes with Crapple (full disclosure, I also hate Google).

He’s probably referring to just Chromecast without the Google TV module. Jellyfin works great for me as well on the Chromecast w/GTV

This is just the most recent example on how fucking so-called “investors” (who are no more than glorified and rich leaches) completely enshitify something that was lived by its users and clients.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-rLIz9XUo

This goes to show that most people will just adapt to ever-more-expensive shit services and products instead of fighting against them at the cost of some convenience.

Didn’t dig in too far into the options, but those prices are crazy low. Thanks for pointing us there.

Because it would have gone unnoticed if it was posted in a thread about how good windows is (those exist, right? Eh, right?) and wouldn’t have gotten all this attention.

I will never understand this need for being noticed.

Absolutely. Maybe I’m a bit biased. I can’t stick to anything immutable (other than my Steam Deck, and believe me, I’ve tried many times), and always come back to distros I can have absolute control over.

However, I have all my employees running Silverblue (mostly because none of them even know what CLI means 🤣).

Yeah, for MSO compatibility, OnlyOffice is a much better option, with some caveats.

Your logic is spot on, and it does apply to most power users, but not to all.

Everyone has a different use case and experience, I think we speak based on our own experiences.

I’m so used to libreoffice that I don’t understand excel that well anymore. But there was a pretty steep learning curve to get there, months.

There is web support, but it lacks most actually useful functions. Libreoffice is great, but is not 1:1 compatible with excel. Then there’s Onlyoffice, which is very compatible, but also lacks many functions.

Bottom line is, if you’re an excel power user, you’ll need to learn Libreoffice Calc, or you’re out of luck. If not, Onlyoffice should suffice.

Chances are that, if you do break something, it’ll be on the Windows side.

Bazzite is very solid for new users as it’s very convoluted to access and modify anything system related.

Having said that, if you have any intention to learn how to use Linux distros, and eventually remove Microsoft from your life, immutable distros like Bazzite will limit you dramatically, so I suggest you start with a regular “mutable” distro. Now, if your intention is just to have something that works, scape Windows every now and then, and come back to Windows, it’s hard to beat an immutable distro.