Revolve or die
I use GrapheneOS and NextDNS. And NoScript. There’s some overkill there but I figure why not.
To your question, GrapheneOS has put a lot of thought into features like sandboxing Google Play services so you can choose to use none/some/all depending on your preference. I would think that’s probably a smoother experience than trying to block google services selectively via NextDNS. GrapeheneOS also makes it easier to manage per-app permissions and security features.
The Mirror website is cancer. I use NoScript and it won’t load without allowing about 50 fuckkng scripts. MSN too. I avoid both but occasionally click on a link from elsewhere
I made a track for my game, yeah, but using UGEtracker which is built into GB Studio. It’s not the easiest to use tbh so it wasn’t that fun.
LSDJ sounds very cool, have you checked out the DirtyWave M8? I ran the cheap version (Anbernic console with a dongle) but I couldn’t get over the learning curve. Now I have a Polyend Tracker Mini which I really like
BTW I’m not really a programmer either, GB Studio simplifies things a lot and it’s free if you want to check it out
Make Gameboy games. Make music. Cook
I’ve been enjoying Kagi, although it also proxies google and others, and you have to pay for it, and I was dismayed to read on Lemmy recently that the CEO may be a sea lion. So yeah, the search for good search continues I suppose
I was pleasantly surpsied by how much audio has improved on Linux when I came back to it this year with Ubuntu studio. Reaper or Bitwig are the way to go. Plugins are the main problem, bridging works OK apparently, but there are some decent native options too
American companies have way more power over my life than the Chinese government
Yeah, you don’t even have to jailbreak it, you can just install it alongside the kobo software, then you can keep both. It’s a bit fiddly to set up but not too bad https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devices
Koreader is available from the Play store if you have an android phone, you can try it out first. Its very customisable, I spend hours tweaking the settings because that’s my idea of fun 😂
I’ve got a Hisense A5 and reading is surprisingly nice on it. Although this looks even smaller?
Also regarding the overall idea - just get a Kobo and put Koreader on it, then sideload any book format you like.
Hmm worrying. I switched to Fastmail too and use a lot of their ‘masked emails’. No problems so far, touch wood
In my personal experience, although I still struggle with this, things do get better. Both getting better at social interaction, and caring less about being bad at it
Yes! I tried a couple for Linux and they were shite 😂
To answer the ‘just use the browser’ comments - I don’t like the tiny image box for posts. I’d like a much larger display for image/video-based posts so I can enjoy them at a glance. I’ll only click into them if I especially want to read or post comments
Ah yes I remember this guy, they call him the Crystal Methodist
Also Renoise (also not FOSS,. but good)
Yeah I’ve been too lazy to install a custom ROM. I do use a different launcher (KISS) and am pretty happy with the phone overall. I do get the odd random crash, and the memory management is a bit aggressive
Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro and Brave.
Ars Technica
Also Italy colonized Ethiopia (albeit only for 5 years)
Honestly I’m not technically knowledgeable enough to answer, you can have a read of their FAQs. But my understanding is that the sandbox allows some google services to be used, but without privileged access to the rest of the system. As opposed to blocking them entirely, which would mean you couldn’t use those services at all. https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play