Some things that happen when I go to duckduckgo.com that also go against that:

• Harvesting the third-party cookies it can (example: github.com)
• Attempting to enumerate browser extensions
• Attempting to enumerate crypto wallet addresses from extension wallets like MetaMask

It’s extremely nosy. They used to do canvas fingerprinting until browsers started prompting about it.

IDK about the claim of directly selling searches to IG and likely it’s a bit more convoluted than that (or OP has malware) but it’s a more believable idea than that of DDG actually being respectful of user privacy. There is absolutely no legitimate reason for DDG to gather this data for the purpose of providing their search service, yet they do.

Your initial instinct was right, you do want to auto-apply security fixes.

unattended-upgrades does allow you to configure this somewhat.

You could try this https://feddit.online/post/1359926#comment_6688858

Doesn’t sound like this is screen blanking as it happens during use but to rule it out you could temporarily disable that with xset -dpms and xset s off on X11. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_Power_Management_Signaling#Xorg

With your edit that yields a succinct proof that things are nuanced 😉

Right, there’s the immutable root aspect. Guessing the other answer you got fills in the missing piece there and that Silverblue perhaps mounts the system flatpaks on a different r/w filesystem than the read-only /. Check output of mount to see.

At the end of the day it’s up to you if you prefer to keep the system clean and run flatpak unprivileged, or centralize updates under root.

The one catch I can think of with flatpak --user is that it obviously won’t work if /home is mounted with noexec, which is otherwise a good security measure (and IMO not doing that defeats a lot of the security wins of immutable distros). Unless you apply the same mounting strategy to the flatpak xdg user dirs, which is certainly an option but not something everyone will bother with. But then again maybe that’s exactly what you want anyway to make your Flatpak installations smoothly portable across distros.

Without looking into it at all, there are plenty of possible valid reasons why someone would choose to pick a fresh pseudonym for a project like this. I think it’s important that we don’t lose that, socially.

Give it time and let them prove themselves if this is relevant to you.

You are not helping!

(But also not wrong)

BunDGiE LiNuxXx 🤪

There are some bug fixes that are relevant for installs and base images. For example, security update in GPG is probably not a big deal for you but might be for someone building and pushing things from these.
Kernel, firmware and microcode updates might only affect a small minority of users depending on hardware.

Internet should work if i disable the vpn app though, so idk what’s wrong there.

I don’t suppose you enabled the kill-switch feature?

https://mullvad.net/en/help/using-mullvad-vpn-app#temporarily-blocked-internet

And thank you for the refining exchange!

I also recognize that both the rave scene and free software are enabled in part by people with cushy high-paying jobs and what Lemmy would call rich kids who don’t mind sinking some money (and sometimes employer goodwill) into their passion without expecting any returns.

I haven’t dug into them deeper but Fossify have what seems to be decent basic options for all of the base Android apps: Phone, SMS, keyboard, camera, etc.

Just replacing all the stock apps with the Fossify suite looks like it could be an easy privacy win for someone stuck on a device with locked bootloader and dodgy stock apps from vendor or Google.

I’m involved with people organizing free rave parties of all sizes and production grades and it’s something I hold dear so your analogy hits close to home!

They all have income streams from outside the scene, including the ones responsible for events with thousands of attendants. While there are countless stories of people making industry connections promoting their careers and getting work there, a DJ or producer expecting they will be able to sustain a professional career purely through scene exposure or free parties is delusional.

That a few have been fortunate and resourceful enough to do so for a while is great but it’s not an indictement of the scene if one of them makes a “The Scene Is Dead” post on Instagram that they’re tired of the freeloaders and only doing paid gigs from now on. If they then continue publicly theorizing on how one could successfully financially exploit this community, they shouldn’t be surprised if the people who have been volunteering (usually a better characterization than charity IMO) for years feel rubbed the wrong way.

it’s bizarre to me to see the “fuck AI in every way” place turn around and attack this guy

Agreed in the mobbing of the wider thread but I hope you don’t see that going on here?

No errors or output from the add?

I don’t see anything wrong in what you are doing assuming you have permissions but if it’s just for your user you can flatpak --user to install in your homedir instead of system-wide.

Also convenient for distro-hoppers as you can just share or copy the flatpak dirs between home directories so you don’t even have to redownload for every reinstall.

Hex Launcher: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mrmannwood.hexlauncher

Pie Launcher: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.markusfisch.android.pielauncher

Similar approach in both of these

Best coupled with frequent refactoring and breaking of APIs so any community efforts at documentation are eternally outdated.

I’ve had good luck with finding perfectly working internal R/W drives on the local scrap market for cheap. I guess still lots of PCs from that era being junked by offices.

Sealed 25-50 GB BD RW media go for ~$1 per disc when they randomly show up in the surplus store.

It’s more like busking on the street and then feeling offended about not getting any money despite people liking your music. Maybe you’re even inadvertently part of some commercial ad shoot profiting of the city vibes. Or offering free trials of a service and then being upset when nobody converts.

I don’t think things you do become “charity” just because others benefit from it and you don’t get compensated. The bar is higher than that.

No reason to expect that everyone will be in a position to do that indefinitely, especially when it comes to massive projects that turn into full time jobs.

For sure. No strings attached goes both ways.

At least Brave is open source, in contrast to Orion.

I adored Budgie precisely because it was still on X11 🥲

Anyway, for a relatively simple and clean holistic GNOME-that’s-not-GNOME, it’s a very polished desktop. Worth checking out for your F&F.