I’ve been happy with my pixel. As much as it might be not ideal if you don’t want to support Google, ironically it’s like the only phone you can de-google and still have a locked bootloader and full features

Doesn’t that invalidate safety net?

Sorry I’m not 100% sure what your asking. If you’re asking about custom roms, I’d trust many custom roms (Graphene is my favorite) better than a lot of manufacturers’s roms. And a bootloader that can be re-locked is a big boost to security, since it requires that the OS be signed by the devs instead of making it easier for malicious code to be shimmed in and run at the OS level even if I install a custom operating system.

Ah, sorry, yeah potentially. I’ve heard that banking apps won’t work most of the time (but usually just use the web any way so can’t confirm). Though oddly if you wanted to use Google Play on Grapheme it works perfectly fine, so maybe not.

I have seemed to notice I don’t hear as much about Tiktok anymore, I do wonder if that’s just because it’s well known now or if it’s peaked. Although none of the big social media services seem to be doing relatively well in some way or another rn.

Glad to hear you like it :)

That’s disappointing. It wasn’t that case when I shared it (about two weeks ago on the original now broken community - I just cross posted it the other day and never thought to check if the link was broken), and unfortunately archive.org never grabbed a snapshot.

Usually. Proton by Steam (versions of wine tuned specifically for games) makes just about anything run flawlessly with one click to turn it on in the settings and occasionally some fine tuning for particular games like setting it to run a particular version of proton. This works on any Linux distro.

Outside of Steam, and when trying to mod Steam games, it’s a lot more hit or miss.

That, and like others mentioned their flexibility, plus the fact that they’re fairly reliable (maybe less than some good Iaas providers but a fair bit more than your consumer vps places). Moments ago I went to the hetzner site to check them out and got:

Status Code 504 Gateway Timeout

The upstream server failed to send a request in the time allowed by the server. If you are the Administrator of the Upstream, check your server logs for errors.

Annoying if it’s you nextloud instance down for a minutes, but a worthy trade off if you’re paying 1/4 of the price. Extremely costly for big business or even risking peoples’s lives for a few different very important systems.

I doubt they’re doing anything to secerative in the background. Not a fan of Bat or their affiliate link scamdle, but also not a fan of Firefox’s ads, telemetry, trademark claims against Firefox forks, and accepting Google money for bad defaults - as I’m not a fan of Vivaldi being closed source and their adblock that doesn’t block all ads.

Brave is great for somebody who doesn’t know/want to configure defaults beyond optionally disabling Bat. If you can then Firefox & derivatives might give a better experience.

Brave is also Chromium based, but being a heavy fork it doesn’t hold onto the worst parts, making it more alright.

I believe IOS was being forced to allow different browser engines by the EU so there may be more options soon