lemmyreader

but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE.

Probably because most of the openSUSE users talk in German elsewhere.

With some phones you need to go through extra steps to be able to do OEM unlocking. Looks like it is the case here, see the steps in the FAQ linked here : https://en.miui.com/unlock/download_en.html

This is worth mentioning :

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsnap
• https://www.tarsnap.com

This appears to have solved the same problem for others :

• https://rileymacdonald.ca/2018/04/02/ubuntu-resolved-e-package-cache-file-corrupted/

• sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

• sudo apt update

While toolbox and distrobox seem very similar, distrobox comes with a slight warning :

• https://distrobox.it/#security-implications
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Distrobox#Security_implications

I don’t consider MAC OSX as part of BSD, just like Android isn’t part of Linux Desktop, but only uses the Linux kernel. OSX took parts of BSD and shielded it behind a proprietary wall, because the BSD license offer no protection from that. So they become separate projects the moment they enter the Apple domain.

Check : What happened to the open source Apple Darwin OS then ?

tl;dr : Darwin OS is kind of obsoleted.

Up to Darwin 8.0.1, released in April 2005, Apple released a binary installer (as an ISO image) after each major Mac OS X release that allowed one to install Darwin on PowerPC and Intel x86 systems as a standalone operating system.[12] Minor updates were released as packages that were installed separately. Darwin is now only available as source code. As of January 2023, Apple no longer mentions Darwin by name on its Open Source website and only publishes an incomplete collection of open-source projects relating to macOS and iOS.

Kernel is 6.1.0-21-amd64 but I don’t know has the kernel been updated recently.

zgrep linux-image /var/log/dpkg.log* can tell you more.

There was. Last update 2019.

• https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dfa.hubzilla_android/

Sorry about that.

No worries. The archive.ph link gave me a Google reCAPTCHA to solve 😱 but the original link was perfectly readable for me. What were the paywall comments about, was it a non EU thing ?

To extend the link collection here's a WayBackMachine one :

• https://web.archive.org/web/20240604182700/https://fortune.com/2024/06/03/sunsetting-section-230-congress-break-internet-tech-politics/

I believe NetGuard will act as a VPN.

Yes, correct.

This will prevent you from using an actual VPN.

It is indeed a drawback I forgot about (but a VPN connection can also be made on a local router at home).

If you cannot use another OS yet, install F-Droid and then install NetGuard. In NetGuard enable blocking of system apps in the settings and continue and block all apps. Then allow only the apps you need.

• https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard

That howto uses sudo modprobe wl whereas you use sudo modprobe -v b43 Is it possible that the wl kernel module gets loaded ? You should be able to check with lsmod after a reboot.