You seem to be German, so your solution is a Tuxedo laptop or computer. A German Linux hardware company.

There is no point disabling the google app when the rest of the phone runs on Google services, and the rest of the google apps. The tracking will happen regardless. If you don’t want to be tracked by them, you need a de-googled version of Android, that doesn’t run their apps, or their services. I’m currently using /e/ OS, an Android de-googled fork, by Murena: https://murena.com/ on an older Motorola G7 Plus. No google apps, and I make a point of not installing any popular app that depends on google’s services. I only use open source apps found on the f-droid open source store. Yes, that means that you won’t have games, or FB or IG, or twitter (unless you use them via the browser). But I don’t need any of that. I now only use fediverse open source apps, plus the basic phone apps found on the Murena eOS, like email and notes.

Yes, I use feedly. Newsblur is restricting a lot of things in their free version, but I find Feedly more open.

Ok, but why not use Murena /e/ OS, that has MicroG pre-installed (and in fact, they’re the main developers of microG), and the ability to install google play apps if you want? They support even more phones than LineageOS at this point, and their codebase was originally from LineageOS. I installed e OS on my Moto G7 Plus, and it works great!

I found nothing weird about its design, in fact, it just looks like an iphone, that billions use at this point.

I think the guy is for real, because if you read the mod’s posts on his thread, you would see that something extremely fishy was happening with his accounts. Reddit had shadowbanned him, and after the mods explicitly green lit him, his replies were not showing up! And then he got his account deleted, and had to create a new one, only to get deleted again. Something fishy is happening over there, which by itself is a cause for concern for the guy/gal.

As long as the distro is stable anyone can use it to use a browser and browse the internet. I had put Ubuntu Linux for my mom on a laptop, back in 2010, she was using just the browser. She had it for 2 years, no problems. She did nothing else with that laptop though, because that was the first time she was using a computer. She was mostly facebooking.

I highly disagree with you, and several others who replied on that long article, and who also have understanding of molecular biology. They say the guy is legit. He even answered their questions on the comments, before his account got deleted mysteriously, with the mods not understanding why he was getting shadowbanned or by whom.

XMPP was better known as Jabber back in the day, and most of us used Pidgin to connect to it. I used it for about 10 years or so.

Love PixelFed, I just like chronological and tag based systems. This way every user gets an equal opportunity to be seen. Unlike what’s happening with recommendation systems, where only a few super stars are pushed by the algorithms. If anyone like traditional illustrations, here’s my profile: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/495699973550816234