Ullebe1

Please elaborate.

Do you have a source for the claim that collecting userdata is ultimately what funds Matrix?

For the multiplexing, as I mentioned.

A V4L2 camera can only be opened by a single application at a time, but if that application is Pipewire, then Pipewire can allow multiple applications to make use of it simultaneously. Same thing with ALSA, it’s the reason sound servers exist at all, though I suspect you’re already familiar with that.

I also hear that ALSA has some support for multiple applications per device nowadays, though I understand it is much less pleasant to use than a fully featured sound server.

Won’t most of those pieces of software work on xwayland?

What do you do on your machine that requires you to completely disable a fundamental security feature of your distro? I haven’t had SELinux cause any issues for years.

That seems like a shortcoming in those tools, that I’d expect them to fix as Flatpaks are pretty commonplace.

I guess that depends on which power your agenda aligns with. That power is generally a safe choice, compared to services from a power where your agenda is orthogonal.

I mean most things are implemented as plugins, so you can just disable the ones with features you consider bloat.

Because Pipewire only handles and understands media streams, so it can stream the output of a window or the whole desktop, but only because the Wayland compositor has already composed the windows and other data it gets from the application to a visual and hands the final result to Pipewire.

Ordinary DNS requests are always plaintext and readable to anyone between you and the DNS server. So regardless of which DNS server you use, your ISP can see all your DNS lookups. For any amount of privacy for DNS, the minimum is something like DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS, the latter of which Firefox uses by default in some countries and supports everywhere.