All very good points.

No google on device no tracking, and I don’t use google services anyhow (with first party clients anyhow). I do have google play services installed but no google account so they don’t have an identity to connect the data they might be able to collect from the phone. Only google service I use is youtube but that’s with third party clients only (FreeTube & NewPipe) over vpn of course.

Laughs in GrapheneOS.

Perhaps it’s best to assume my social graph is already known by Google?

If your contacts have your info then definitely yes (plus all other big tech services they might be using).

As you seem to be privacy aware I’d recommend checking out this channel and this channel.

+1 for grapheneos.

Have a look at Grayjay for youtube and other video sites.

If it’s a matroska (mkv) file you can use mktoolnix (use the header editor) to set default tracks.

If developers want to make a desktop application they should use proper cross platform desktop frameworks like QT or GTK or even JavaFX instead of a webpage disguised as an application.

Can’t they be both? Potato potahto.

It will destroy the Universe if we do that. /s

? is the start of the suffixes, & denotes a change in suffix

Technically speaking they are query parameters not suffixes.

+1 for Kagi.

For phone and contacts check the Fossify phone and Fossify contact. Also all the other Fossify apps.

Windows update, at least since the inception of the concept has never required me to go to a browser

In xp it still was an website which required IE due to activex used to do the updates.

Can you give more details? What apps do you use? Anything worth noting? Thinking about doing this myself as well.

Second this. Tumbleweed is a great distro. Nearly everything you’ll need can be found in default repos. Then there are several endorsed (semi) official add-on repos, and if that fails there’s always OBS (opi is your friend for searching those).

Daily rsync to a local nas and weekly backups to offsite with pika-backup.

What would you call it instead?

We already have (had) Iceweasel, IceCat and Waterfox among others. All nice word plays on the original Firefox name. LibreWolf follows along the same path.

Wikpedia puts it nicely:

"The concept of concurrent computing is frequently confused with the related but distinct concept of parallel computing,[3][4] although both can be described as “multiple processes executing during the same period of time”. In parallel computing, execution occurs at the same physical instant: for example, on separate processors of a multi-processor machine, with the goal of speeding up computations—parallel computing is impossible on a (one-core) single processor, as only one computation can occur at any instant (during any single clock cycle).[a] By contrast, concurrent computing consists of process lifetimes overlapping, but execution does not happen at the same instant. "

A cpu (core) can only do one thing at a time. When you have multiple cores you can do multiple things at the same time. Multitasking in programming sense is a bad term, it’s a term more for the masses.

Bit simplified:

• concurrency: you seem to be doing multiple things at the same time. In reality they are run little by little one after another. Doesn’t really speed things up.
• parallelism: you actually run multiple things at the same time (multiple cpus/cpu cores required). If the code scales properly or is designed to truly run in parallel the speed up is relative to the number of cpus available.

Edit: It’s much more complex subject then I’ve presented here.

Excellent article. That’s why I use OSS first and foremost as they don’t have the incentive to bring in € instead they are more focused on a quality product.