If I’m sending encrypted mail to gmail, only that one mail is compromised once decrypted on gmail’s servers.

What? How? Most private email providers only support encryption like Proton to Proton or Tuta to Tuta. Emails sended to anything else stay unencrypted. And there’s no way you’re going to use this stupid password protection everytime, because if you do, then why would you even use email?

Do you only send mail to gmail users or something?

Almost everyone uses Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo or whatever. Unfortunately, not everyone are privacy concious like you and me.

smtp is no better or worse than xmpp, irc or whatever else if you have end to end encryption.

No, it’s not. Emails should not be used by political activists to communicate. Even the best email providers like Proton or Tuta can’t give you 100% protection and this activist arrest is the perfect example.
Email is the obsolete protocol, that should only be used to register on random websites and get authorization codes. For everything else you should use secure messaging apps.

Trusting law-abiding corporations to protect your privacy is fundamentally a bad idea, and as such, promoting Proton as a private alternative to Google

You can’t trust anyone, that’s true. But self-hosting your own 100% bulletproof MailCow server on 1984 VPS, which you pay for in Monero won’t make you any more private, because emails you send still end up on Gmail inboxes.
It’s simply unneccesary for normal user with not so high threat model. And if you’re a political activist, then why even using email instead of normal privacy communication solutions like SimpleX, Session or Briar?

I think that you should look at our world realistically. You can’t just go “fuck the goverment” mode and remain active as a corporation. Proton shared as less info as possible, but they couldn’t refuse to share it at all.

lol, lmao

I assume you don’t understand how law and authorities work, if this is funny for you. Proton is still one of the best private email providers. Period.

What’s the difference between this and Sapio?

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.klee.sapio/

Amazing, thank you!

Guix is interesting, but I need to use proprietary Nvidia drivers to play games and it goes against Guix nature.

It’s complicated and I have a few reasons.

1. Last time I used it, Fedora’s updates were too unstable. I twice got updates breaking my system setup. For example, with openSUSE it happened only once (recent broken Mesa update). Also openSUSE updates surprisingly feel more stable than Fedora ones.
2. I don’t like Red Hat. Even though I understand that open-source projects are complex and I should separate developers from their software, that doesn’t change my opinion on Red Hat.
3. This problem stems from the previous ones. Using Fedora I feel like a beta-tester for future Red Hat projects and especially RHEL.

Keep in mind, that I last used Fedora on versions 37–38 and things might have changed since.

From OpenSUSE there’s also leap micro. Never used it, but maybe worth looking at.

I heard of it, but it seems more server/development focused, rather than desktop.

For instance, I could never get used to dnf, but it’s largely irrelevant on an atomic distro anyways.

100% agree, dnf is a bummer. Maybe I’ll give Kinoite a shot, as it has many differences with “vanilla” Fedora.

That’s a shame. I hope they’ll add support for more DEs in the future.

Does it support any DE other than Gnome? For the rest, looks cool!

Don’t use NixOS.

I don’t like NixOS very much. This whole governance scandal has turned me away from it even more, tbh.

Bazzite is cool, but it is part of UBlue family, which I excluded in my post. I’m not a huge fan of Fedora, no offense to anyone using it, tho!

And also proprietary, as it’s distributed under source-available license:

https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard?tab=License-1-ov-file

AyuGram is ad-free and also has a little more TOS-breaking features. Use at your own risk!

Mobile: https://github.com/AyuGram/AyuGram4A
Desktop: https://github.com/AyuGram/AyuGramDesktop

From their website:

Why build a new browser in C++ when safer and more modern languages are available?

Ladybird started as a component of the SerenityOS hobby project, which only allows C++. The choice of language was not so much a technical decision, but more one of personal convenience. Andreas was most comfortable with C++ when creating SerenityOS, and now we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain.
However, now that Ladybird has forked and become its own independent project, all constraints previously imposed by SerenityOS are no longer in effect. We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages.

Because These Things Shouldn’t Hide in Closed Git Conversations

Ironic, because the previous post about the toxicity of LadyBird dev in this community was also closed.

Why should I even care about devs attitude or toxicity at all? People have to learn to separate developer from their software.

You can easily self-host it:
https://help.ente.io/self-hosting

Ente Auth
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.ente.auth/