A funny way to describe Linus going from 0 to nuclear sub 1 second whether someone is being mildly obtuse.

Well, simply not possible. Might not be what you want to hear, but iOS simply isn’t for you if you’re not prepared to pay for pretty much everything.

Unlike Android there’s not a lot of good free stuff and you can’t pirate anything on iOS.

Well, that’s just a blog. WordPress comes to mind, though try not abusing it by installing too many plugins and transforming it to an abomination that takes 3 seconds to hack.

There are probably more modern alternatives, I personally wrote my own blog system that uses ActivityPub to synchronise with Lemmy and others.

Syncthing for files syncing, to replace stuff like OneDrive, Dropbox etc.

I use to sync files between my NAS, laptop, Steam Deck and phone, each with different dirs based on what I need synced there.

Congrats on the US defaultism! I’m not from the US, so stick your crack comment up your arse.

Because the government has all the fucking data it needs to just tell me how much I owe, but no they force me to calculate it myself every year. Or to pay an accountant because it’s a horrible mess of a form.

My main issue is with taxes in general. Well over half of my income (some sources suggest up to 70%) ends up being paid as some kind of tax.

They also force you to hand over all traffic, including https by MITMing it. Unless you have the enterprise license.

I know many, many people who don’t have a PC at all, phones are usually enough for most.

Seconding Plasma, it worked great with my touch screen.

Once you pick an app to open a certain type of files or as your default web browser, that is what the system will stick with. Plasma makes you the boss.

I wish this was true.

Note that Ubuntu is no longer just a Debian clone, not in the sense of, say, Linux Mint and Ubuntu. Many Debian apps are not installable on Ubuntu and vice versa, I’d personally consider Ubuntu a base (original as you call it) distribution nowadays.

1. You don’t have to use it for everything, though prepare that a lot of Linux tutorials will have you putting commands there, because it’s simply easier.

2. I use Proton VPN as well and though I don’t remember how I installed it, I run it using a GUI, not terminal. Additionally, whenever you read a guide for Ubuntu, there’s 99% chance it applies to derivates without any modifications. Both Kubuntu and Linux Mint.

3. Custom mouse pointer - yes

4. Updating distro - yes, easy. App updates are also easy, it can be automated, though I personally prefer running them manually. It’s a few button clicks away.

5. Use a beginner friendly distro, of those I’d recommend Linux Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora (or its derivate, Nobara). If I had to choose one, I’d go with Linux Mint.

6. Installing Linux is extremely easy nowadays. Definitely easier than installing Windows from scratch. Making the computer absolutely unusable is really hard, pretty much everything can be fixed.

I know what people mean when they say it, just wanted people to know that it’s incorrect.

What kind of arrogance is that? I honestly don’t know. Or are you saying that using correct diagnosis doesn’t matter?

I honestly did not expect that kind of reaction, I thought I was just helping others learn. So yeah, my staying ignorant comment is very apt and not ironically arrogant.

And your “barely on the fringe of being technically correct” is ridiculous because I’m not only technically correct, sociopath simply isn’t a diagnosis. If you tell that word to a psychologist, they’ll internally roll their eyes, because that term doesn’t exist in psychology.

Nah, my partner is a psychologist.

Sometimes.

Sociopathy doesn’t exist, psychology does not know such diagnosis.

Edit: I guess y’all really want to continue spreading cool sounding words and staying ignorant.

It literally does the same thing, except it’s self hosted?

I recommend caddy as a webserver, it’s very powerful, but the config is super simple compared to old school stuff like nginx or apache.

You can use frp to do the same thing a CloudFlare tunnel does without giving them your unencrypted data.

https://github.com/fatedier/frp

That’s true, but ISPs have logs. And if something happens that makes the police change their mind about enforcing the law, you might be fucked, retroactively.