Did you try asking e.g. duck ai about this? Got some good pointers for my own boot setup from it. Also see the output of systemd-analyze critical-chain.

After some research I stand corrected.

You need to read that output as a timeline from when the kernel starts pid 1 aka systemd.

Yet the MS store has plenty of malware too.

Nothing new here. This has been the case forever.

The problem is that reddit and others can instantaneously put your years-long effort behind a paywall. I’m not joking. Look at these:

Those aren’t paywalls.

They are. You pay with you being tracked, profiled, your data etc for advertisement and other uses. That’s what these “free” services use to monetise the user.

Should have checked all the repos beforehand 🤦‍♂️. I use Aurora Store when Play Store is the only option (available in F-Droid). With the anonymous option of course.

How about Filen? They are a zero knowledge E2EE service. I use them personally. They have a pay once option as well. Their clients are open source. Source available in GitHub.

For Meta it’s just another cost of doing business, unfortunately.

Such ai slop this and the site they link to. Link doesn’t even lead to what is promised.

They’ll continue to work just fine in Firefox.

From the post description this made it obvious it’s an ad for something. Otherwise it sounded like someone actually made reasearch on the subject.

This came out of building a monitor for exactly these repo-setting changes.

Use Mullvad’s dns servers https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#android. Their vpn also has dns blocking capabilities.

What’s the canvas graphic thing (item 2) you are explaining here?

Canvas is a special “place”/way of drawing images on a website. It can be used for fingerprinting since different gpus/drivers etc draw things a little differently. Basically a script on a page draws thousands of shapes, pictures whatnot on a canvas you can’t see i.e. is placed somewhere out of the standard view area. Then the script calculates some kind of hash or checksum. Combine that with other fingerprinting characteristics you’ll get pretty nicely unique browsers.

For example LibreWolf blocks canvas by default for everyone and randomizes the canvas data on every read. If you happen to use a site that uses the canvas for legitimate purposes you won’t ever see what’s supposed to be there by the original design.

In contrast, GrapheneOS, a security-focused Android-based OS, quickly patched the issue in its codebase.

Good that I use GrapheneOS.

That’s actually a very poor example because the US and Europe have very different regulatory frameworks. The US actually requires more details when listing ingredients than Europea does.

In the EU you must list all ingredients in your product. Ordered by what it has the most.

It has a mac build but last I checked only nightly build were available for mac.

Nokia is doing just fine. They’re mostly focused on networking stuff nowadays. They left the phone business when MS bought it.

Once you play it thru once check out the community version. It’s officially sanctioned by the developers and I think they even had access to the source code.

It’s very nice game. Excellent spiritual successor to the original xcom.