I noticed a big jump from pixel 6 to 7 in cost, so the 6 is what I meant. Still very usable in 2024. I don't need all the newest features, just security upgrades. The battery is fine - I use a chargie to keep it between 35 and 85% to prolong the life.
You can pay more for a more modern phone, but if your only criterion is a usable pixel you don't have to spend more than about 200 if that.
Edit: I really appreciate your recommendations though -- I may try one of those out when I need to upgrade.
Matrix continues to be awful and weird. Discord is basically easy to use IRC -- too bad no one else has figured out an easy irc
Oh dude great idea! Also if you did it with hair ties you could keep extra hair ties that way! (Albeit stretched out)
In Lubuntu there's an autostart section of the session settings, and I had to put Nextcloud client AppImage in there because it wasn't starting automatically. But maybe LXQt is unusual? IDK.
Anyway, it wasn't that hard. I didn't even have to do a Web search or use the terminal, just opened the system settings and looked around for something that looked like autostart.
Instead of "Windows add app to startup" I would search "Ubuntu add app to startup" and limit it to articles posted in the past year. Maybe not obvious but not that different honestly.
On the other hand, no amount of searching got my laptop's volume up and down keys to work in Ubuntu :(
I hope this is not fallout from the 404 Media article
Oh, I get it
What open source stuff? Asking for a friend
To be fair IDK how to tell a Windows program how to start up automatically if it didn't have an option for that in it's own settings... I'd have to search for a Windows guide
Firefox has this feature too, just saying
Same. Hexchat + znc = peak of software development
Not too many unfortunately. I trust Proton bc I am not breaking any Swiss laws, and I know they leak recovery emails so I don't have one listed, but that's about it.
To be honest I'm not an expert in this, definitely haven't achieved de-googled life yet, but someday I dream I will. Even if they are not collecting usage data they're surely getting metadata