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The sad truth is that Apple Silicon, especially Ultra chip are champion of local inference. Using oMLX instead of ollama take the most out of it.

In my region older Mac Studio are hard to find but maybe you will be more lucky than I am.

The full Wikipedia is saved on my mobile phone thanks to Kiwix

Didn’t they just abandon the FOSS edition recently?

They don’t recommand it because if bought today you won’t have much support in the comming years. So if you are already on Pixel 6 Pro you can install GOS it’s just that once Google stop supporting it Graphene will do the same.

Sorry ,but have you basic understanding about software? Vulnerabilities is part of the experience, especially for such complex ones.

Most of the time I use MarkDown and export as PDF, if I need more complex layouts I’ll use Libre Office

DRM-free games is the main reason why I buy on GOG. Preservation is nice to have and donate to round up the price of purchase but I don’t have money to become a patron. This feels important enough for me to care but not enough for me to put money every month in it. I’m glad people are doing it and that GOG exist.

The thing that they don’t show a code Licence in their comparison is a bit off. It’s proprietary software comparing to FOSS or Open Source competitor without any mention to this… But maybe it’s decent.

While I agree to avoid using Sandboxed GMS I strongly disagree with do NOT use statement.

My personal case

My main profile doesn’t have them, I get some proprietary apps through AuroraStore which grabs the APKs directly from Google Play Store without using my Google account and most of the time it works (Aurora Store is a bit buggy at time).

There is some apps that I can’t use without Play Services or if they are not installed from Play Store itself (FUCK DRMs!). For them I have setup a user profile with the Sandboxed Play Services, it stopped when I leave the profile and let me use these apps that I NEED more than absolute privacy or anonymity.

My recommendations

I strongly recommend to anyone to try using GrapheneOS without them, especially if you’re already into multiple FOSS apps. The Plexus app could help you identify which apps would cause issues for you without the Google shit. Then if needed for some apps with no alternative that suits you, setting up either a seperated user profile or, if it’s too unconveniant for you, a Private Space with the Sansboxed Play Store and Services installed. And if these two are still not conveninant for you just install them on your main profile, that sucks but that’s the sad reality of Android. As stated by the GrapheneOS Team it will still be way better than stock Google OS or any other manufacturer flavour of Android.

Not everybody have the same threat model and using GrapheneOS will improve your security, privacy and control over your device even with these proprietary background services from Google. Maybe for your threat model (or ideaology) you shouldn’t use them but that doesn’t mean everybody should do the same. Privacy shouldn’t be all or nothing, it’s about power and control over your personal informations, and GrapheneOS is a wonderful tool to take back some of that from your phone, having Sandboxed Play Store is okay even if not desired and you can choose how you want it thus having control and power over them.

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The Steam Frame will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon arm CPU with Full SteamOS support, so I guess if Valve goes for it it’s good enough and will improve faster.

But I’ve never installed any Linux distro on an arm device myself.

Honestly I fined macOS fine feature-wide but the defaults aren’t great for me so I tweaked many things and the annoying part of this is that I rely on multiple third party tools for what I consider should be native settings to change.

Maybe I don’t remember the defaults on macOS and assume my setup is macOS UX but it’s quite tweaked yeah. I find my config closer to Gnome than my memories of Windows. But I agree that Gnome is radially different and that’s what I’ve write in my comment.

Isn’t Cosmic based on Gnome? I have to try it, I was hyped when they announced it and now it’s realeased.

What about the DE used in ElementaryOS? ZorinOS Pro has some macOS themes and KDE is heavily flexible to replicate macOS’s UX.

• ZorinOS (especially for Windows users)
• LinuxMint (especially for Windows users)
• Fedora (if users want something radically different than Windows or macOS, it’s closer to macOS than Windows tho)
• Bazzite (Fedora-based atomic distro, if most of usage is gaming)

ZorinOS is doing awesome for begginers, LinuxMint is also a reliable option that might makes you learn more about GNU/Linux OSes

Yes, sorry I was too lazy to provide any sources here are a few (mostly in french sorry). It was called the 8 December case or “L’Affaire du 8 décembre” in french.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_case
• https://lundi.am/Affaire-du-8-decembre-recit-d-une-mise-en-examen-pour-association-de
• https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/12/11/sept-militants-de-l-ultragauche-deferes-devant-un-juge-antiterroriste_6063103_3224.html
• https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/10/02/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-droit-au-chiffrement-et-a-la-vie-privee-en-proces/
• https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-chiffrement-des-communications-assimile-a-un-comportement-terroriste/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230607132838/https://soutien812.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1922/2023/03/ArticleCamille_RevueZ.pdf

Edit:

• https://archive.is/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/10/05/le-proces-de-l-affaire-du-8-decembre-2020-debute-dans-une-ambiance-tendue_6192573_3224.html

You forgot that french juges have used the facts that people installed Linux, Signal, /e/OS and GrapheneOS has evidence to charge them!

I think they were leftists activists charged for eco-terrorism but I don’t remember all the details but you should take a look. La Quadrature du Net has done some blogging and court things over this events of dark times.

If you’re comming from Windows and don’t want to be too much distabilized ZorinOS is probably one of the best.

Other great choice are:

• bazzite
• Linux Mint
• Pop_OS!

However CAD on Linux is not great, there is some free tools but they are so much more limited than the proprietary windows suite of tools. Maybe WinBoat could make your software run good enough.

I mean you cannot fit Monero in the same bucket as the rest of the cryptocurrencies. No foundation, no company, no VCs, no pre-mined, CPU-based PoW, no major on/off ramp accepting it but still a strong currency with real usage outside speculation made by a community of builders. Can be life saving for some high risks profiles and honestly is the complete opposite of the cryptocurrency market, I’m thankful it exists.

Monero is based though