Pretty sure they blocked that no internet option too, though Rufus has a checkbox to re-enable it.

The FOSS launcher Lawnchair is actually pretty great. Took some setting up, but now it does everything nova did for me.

Sideloading though, yeah I really hope that doesn’t go through. Fun fact even now I can’t use a local gov’t because I have an accessibility service running that was ‘sideloaded’ (it’s from Lawnchair, if you want double tap to lock you need it)

Just about every piece of text on the photo actually, the brand, the seal of approval thing etc

Did you maybe respond to the wrong comment? I was just making a joke about a user here “dragonfucker” or smt, with pronouns drag/dragself. Idk if they’re still active, I blocked em ages ago

Yes, before long there will be people basing their entire identity on wanting to be fucked by drago… Oh wait

You (the end user) decide how you want to use the internet. The forks you’re probably angry about are the ‘hardened forks’, but whether or not you care about their goals and want to use those is a choice only you can make. Most of what they do is basically change some default configs and remove some ‘bad’(according to the maintainers and the users) features.

There’s also forks like zen that under the hood use firefox, but customize the user experience significantly.

A bunch of forks just add extra functions, patches or defaults on top of firefox. It’s not a hard fork as in they maintain everything themselves, they’re still based on the latest official firefox releases.

Removing AI is one of those patches yes.

The EU actually was working on a system described above based on some sort of zero knowledge proof (so verification via your gov’t id, but without the verifying party being able to assert anything other than age > 18 or whatever data you want to verify)

Unless you are talking about a future where the surveillance state has outlawed basic privacy your statement is just straight false. Sure they are getting there with backdoors in encryption etc, but we’re not quite there yet.

For getting things done it is indeed the best that’s not even a controversial take. For relaxing activities though… The sun is a major improvement in mood and general feeling.

And here I don’t even like python for its uncertainty. (I’m mostly a C#/ts developer at work, but dabble)

Just because criminals value their privacy doesn’t mean that everyone that values their privacy is a criminal.

Are you open to try or are you open to try

And it’s not a bad feature to have for the functionality of some sites. It’s just that as with any feature/rule/etc it can be abused. So a toggle like (according to a comment above) some plugins add is an unfortunate necessity.

I’m curious on how you plan to retire at 50. Doing that where I live means you basically get no pension so you’d have to have saved up enough to live the rest of your life during those 27 years, so a bit over half your income would need to go into a savings account.