By bloat I mean specifically those kde applications and games that almost all beginner friendly distros bundle in.

How debian is lightweight ? Isn’t it have too many bloats pre-installed ?

A distro i can build myself is actually lightweight. Like Arch or Void.

How can you trust their advertising claims. Research about “Don’t Be Evil” claim and what happened to it.

Even from the outside look it’s clear that this app is completely build using AI and all accounts inside it can also be AI bots.

Actually how many social media platforms people need nowadays :(

Don’t download and create accounts on random apps claiming privacy focused. Also your posts title is misleading. It’s not a privacy app, but mentioned as privacy-focused social media.

Absolutely, AI Slop.

Ad/Promotion ?

Not recently I think. It’s around in 2022. Acquired by Valnet Inc.

So XDA developers page too is affected by AI Slop.

Tumbleweed is good but everytime I debloat it via the myrlyn in installation window, it breaks and fail to boot. Have issues with ctrl+alt+f2. No built in recovery tools like fedora or maybe i can’t find it if it’s there.

The packages are updated as a group which means no matter how much i debloat, it will always return. I fear using addlock can cause any dependency issues also.

Not for modern hardware from my experience. Instead of suggesting one distribution, I would say Debian for some old hardware models and fedora is the sweet spot for modern hardware.

Adblocker is the minimum requirement for modern web.

Not me. But the author.

It has always been free on f-droid.

But with a always on VPN they constantly ask to verify our identity, even with passkey or phone number.

Even when I successfully verify my passkey, they will still sent a SMS code to my recovery number. It’s almost impossible to bypass that step and try another method button redirect again to the same phone verification page. If I didn’t give my number, then this message appears, “there is not enough information to prove this is your account. try again later.”

Maybe VPN is a factor that triggering their security system.

Because many services only have SMS as 2FA option. Especially government services.

Also it is impossible to use google without enabling the SMS 2FA option. No matter what, with only 2FA authenticator app or email, they will lock down the account by saying “unable to verify”.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.plexer0.nitter/

Thank you. I will correct it as soon as possible.

Yes. At the beginning I preferred distro’s specifically with a graphical software manager. Now i force uninstall it and use terminal for anything.

I’m planning to write a post on this!

Wi-Fi calling still gives your carrier your IP address and location so they can route the call, so it’s not totally private.

Getting around that usually means running a pretty stripped-down setup (no SIM, full VPN, etc.), which gets pretty inconvenient.

Fair point. I updated the about page to explain what this blog is for and how I write.

Yes.